The Daughters of Agendale series is one of my oldest works, and its first book, The Legend of Eloeen is what started it all. The manuscript for Eloeen was written in college, and through a host of difficult edits, cuts, and rewrites, came through to publication through the self-publishing firm Xulon Press. A few of these old manuscripts are doubtless drifting in the ether, but due to various issues I have had to pull it from the market. The reason for this is that when I wrote the sequel to Eloeen, titled Heir of the Ash Lord, I refined and reordered much of the world-building that I had established in Eloeen. Thus, I had to go back to Eloeen and rewrite it to bring it up-to-date, as it were, especially since Worthy, the first novel in the Prince of the North series preserved the worldbuilding I had established in Heir of the Ash Lord. I hope to finish rewriting Eloeen and be ready to republish it in the near future, especially considering that Heir of the Ash Lord is effectively ready for publishing and is simply awaiting the correction of its predecessor. Each of these three books is of such length that I have been obliged to split them each into more manageable trilogies. Click on each to get a breakdown of the titles in each trilogy!
The Daughters of Agendale as a series follows events set into motion during the prequel series, Prince of the North. Eldemel, the great King of the United Kingdom of Alest Eranon, is no more. His line failed to maintain the kingdom as he had, and thus it fractured into the various sub-kingdoms and various races that were once united by its fair banners. While vestiges of Eldemel’s glorious realm remain, the kingdoms of Abynàea have essentially forgotten the unity they once shared under Eldemel, especially since peace reigns in Àea. But Eldemel’s wife was given a prophecy of things to come: three great evils would rise to unmake the world as it is known, each one successively bolder, stronger, and more insidious. In response, Eldemel and his wife were promised that their line would only have three daughters, born into the royal line of the human kingdom of Agendale. Each one would face these Great Evils in turn, and through faith in the Creator and his champions, the Keepers, as well as a host of heroes and heroines, would turn the evils back. But at what cost? And what if they should fail? Join these three very different women on their journey into a world far more perilous than they ever dreamt possible.
The only daughter born to the King of Agendale, himself a distant descendant of Eldemel the Great, Princess Eloeen never even knew of powers beyond the world, or magic. But when her family and her kingdom if fractured by the Dread Witches, she will find herself on the run through misty woods, dark caverns, foreign cities, chasing after a destiny she fears to face: to bring about the second and final end of the Fire King, or fail and watch everything she loves burn.
Ghaen grew up in the ancient realm of Vanlavel, in a time when the heroic and angelic Keepers have disappeared, their power given over to mysterious heroes called Wielders, bearing weapons of terrible might, and dark Wielders oppose them. But when a second daughter of Agendale comes into the picture, the truth becomes obvious: a sinister and ancient evil is behind these evil Wielders and their terrible leader, a vile sorcerer who serves an evil from beyond the stars.
Far across the West Sea, on the continent of Atalia, the human Kingdoms and Dovdoms of that land believe there is no great law but science. Their engines and machines can solve all of their problems, until it becomes clear through the arrival of the final Daughter of Agendale that Atalia will be the nexus of the Final Evil, the First Evil, a being so insidious and fundamental, it will threaten to claim the souls of all sentient beings, in all lands, and leave Àea itself an uninhabitable wasteland, devoid of all life.
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