Name: The Beaconfire Era
Author: Fish Tears Fill the River

Synopsis

A lonely boy from a desolate village grows up under the care of an ironworking old man whose origins are mysterious and whose temper is exceedingly strange.

Along his path to adulthood, a bizarre village chief doubles as his teacher, while a cunning, sly, and sinister old man becomes his mischievous older friend. They shape him profoundly and make him who he is.

Scorpion Mountain in the Yagoris Desert, the undead of the Sea of the Dead, the mysteries of the Land of Eternal Sleep, the elven lands of the Great South Chuer Forest... The boy's footprints are left in every place he visits, and he becomes the subject of all kinds of legends.

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