Publisher's Synopsis
Imagine if The Sacketts were set in a medieval epic fantasy.
A family saga tracing the first few generations of Rehavan's immortals, First Immortals introduces the House of Euel, tracing their bloodline from its humble origins among frontier settlers to its eventual role providing generals, court nobles, and regional rulers to the empire of Salinor.
Prepare yourself for court intrigue, poison, and assassination; gods and monsters; goblins, fairies, dragons, minotaurs, and elves; quests undertaken to spite the gods; and civil wars fought between empires and vassal states.
The House of Euel moves through it all. Watch their souls buckle beneath the weight of power, watch as a father's ideals bend and shift when lifted by his children. Watch as power controls and alters those who wield it.
* * *Nearly a hundred years have passed since Reheuel retrieved the magic gem Ariel's Tear and earned his family immortality. While he rules in Gath Odrenoch, now a bustling metropolis, his children each pursue a separate path.Geuel serves as both a senator in the capital Nandeithe and as an officer in the roving military order known as the Guards, his tongue at court as sharp as his sword in the field. Accompanied always by the fairy Randiriel, with whom he has developed a bond as close as siblings, he and the fallen fairy live lives fit for songs, legends in their own time.
Hefthon has helped establish a human settlement encircling the Fairy City of Elicathaliss and leads a religious and military order known as the Keepers, sworn to safeguarding the vulnerable fairies.
Veil leads an order of surgeons and apothecaries known as the Healers.
When Geuel and Randiriel travel to the mining village of Candeline in the backwaters of Serendin, hunting a rumored sand dragon for the roving Guards, they meet with Belisari, a strange man nearly as old as Geuel yet looking even younger.Belisari claims to be a demigod, born of a god who broke his oath of noninterference. He is intent on reuniting with his father, no matter how the other gods of Saol may oppose him.
Weary of the moral grays of the court and the endless bickering of the senate, weary of a life that has stretched on far too long, Geuel leaps at this chance to tangle with the fantastic and the magical, to challenge gods whom he has long ago grown to resent and condemn.
He and Randiriel join Belisari on a quest to spite the gods and reunite with Belisari's father, bringing with them a ragtag band of relatives and friends from the Guards.
What follows is a journey filled with gods and monsters, magic, deception, and loss. Plagued by the god Luck and aided by the Goddess Mercy, beset by goblins, sand dragons, and nameless monsters, they travel to the farthest reaches of Rehavan's Northern Wastes, to a place where the sea itself boils and gods are bound on earth.
