The Saga of Diaxophas
The Last Days of Diaxophas
Book One of the Saga of Diaxophas
For millennia, the medieval world of Diaxophas has lived in peace. But when a scientist named Dyven shares his discovery with the High Council of Diaxophas, he and all its members soon turn up either dead or missing. What did Dyven discover and why was he silenced? Who is behind this treachery and why are they targeting the Royal Family itself for blame and scandal? Why is a haunting children’s nursery rhyme suddenly on everyone’s mind? There are few clues to go on other than whispers of a mythical race of shape shifters and Dyven’s hand scribbled drawing of a goat’s eye. Aglar, the High King of Diaxophas, must solve this mystery and find his missing daughter in order to save a people on the brink of civil war. Welcome to the last days of Diaxophas!
The Legend of the Nysterion
Book Two of the Saga of Diaxophas
When a renegade explorer named Korvlos turns up missing at sea, Dyven and friends uncover evidence that he might be a Zyx. Worse yet, Dyven and friends suspect that he might be the leader of a shadow organization called the Nysterion who are plotting treachery against Aglar, the High King. As our heroes spiral further into peril on the high seas, forgotten secrets and disturbed pasts come to light as a troubling connection is made between the Nysterion, the Zyx, and the Royal Family itself.
Parallax
Book Three of the Saga of Diaxophas
Two parallel storylines go across time to compare the fall of ancient Tarthalla with the apparent imminent fall of Diaxophas. Both worlds struggle with the moral dilemmas of power and authority: the unworthy who thirst for it versus the worthy who long to avoid it. Dyven and friends survive a whirlwind of political intrigue, prison breaks, technological gadgetry, and espionage as both timelines hurtle toward very startling conclusions.
The Lost Treasure of Trankora
Book Four of the Saga of Diaxophas
Zyx and humans alike pursue a dead civilization’s fabled treasure – a cache of unknown contents believed to have caused the destruction of Old Tarthalla. To avoid history repeating such cataclysmic events, Dyven and friends will have to make strange alliances, race to gather mysterious artifacts, and prepare for a war that threatens to destroy Diaxophas once and for all.
More from Diaxophas
Descent into the Maelstrom
The raw, dark inclination of humanity is for a person to elevate himself at the expense of another human being. Diaxophas is a dog-eat-dog world in which everyone is trying to claw their way to the top for his own purpose. One man’s fate often rests in the hands of those whose actions may have wide-reaching and unforeseen ramifications. In this collection of stories, the fate of the Tempests is delicately intertwined with the actions of Sharpknife, King Aglar, Tasch, Malef, and Xeveryn. Come wallow in that gray area where wrong looks right, right looks wrong, and heroes and villains dance with similar cadences. Come experience the comedy, adventure, and intrigue of the Tempests. Come descend into the maelstrom.
The Last Conqueror
An unusual coin. A manuscript of questionable credibility. A bronze statue memorializing an unknown lady. A lost city swallowed by a rainforest. A jewel-encrusted candelabra. A series of journals. Ular, hero of The Saga of Diaxophas books, uses these relics to piece together stories from Diaxophas’ long-forgotten past. Five novellas tell stories from ancient Diaxophas. Discover the truth behind the first days of Diaxophas. Find out the connection between Vayle Forest’s initial enchantment and the divisions of the Four Kingdoms. Witness four ruthless rulers battling for dominance. Learn why the divided kingdoms reunited. Explore the truth behind the Sopher Six. Uncover Diaxophan history in The Last Conqueror.
Other Realms
Ular walked away from the two lovers, suddenly contemplating his own life choices. He had worked all his life for other people. He had given himself over to full-time service to several kings, the military, history, exploration and preservation, international diplomacy, and scientific reasearch. He had spent so many years in the service of others that he had never thought of pursuing anything for himself. He had spent so many years discovering other places that he had never really discovered himself. With a sigh, Ular looked out at his ship. Deep down, he suspected that this voyage of discovery at Martosilla would be his final one.
Now in his sixties, a tired and weary Ular finds himself to be the last surviving member of a heroic generation. Lonely and struggling with his own mortality, he decides to journal his strange dreams of a superior race of humans and bizarre visions of other worlds in the hopes of discovering himself.
The Hidden Empire
“Where did you find this bottle with a note from Amonwulf?” Ular asked, wide-eyed. "I found it washed up on the shore while fishing at the ocean,” Sofronius said. “It’s meaningless, though.” “Before you Tempests get all excited,” Talura warned, “You should know that these things pop up all over Diaxophas these days. You guys are celebrities. That note was probably written by a kid.” “You said that the bottle is meaningless, but you were wrong,” Ular said. “This bottle is the key.” “The key to what?” Grazio asked. “To Amonwulf being alive,” Ular said.
When a message in a bottle is found by the Nysterion, the Tempests believe that it is from their friend, Amonwulf, who was believed to have died years ago. Tracing Amonwulf’s movements through multiple countries, disguises, prison breaks, lost cities, secret societies, and conspiracies, the Tempests and Nysterion join forces to find out what really happened to their long lost friend.
Dead Whisperings
When Ular is given the lost journal of Korvlos the Usurper, he is surprised to read descriptions of the tragic accounts of the decline and fall of Old Tarthalla and prophecies of the future destruction of mankind. Each tale is more outrageous than the next, filled with information that Ular initially dismisses as the fanciful imagination of a twisted, broken mind. More disturbing is the fact that Korvlos claimed to have received these tales from listening to the dead whisper their tales to him. However, when Ular makes startling connections between Korvlos’ tales and his own life, he is forced to reevaluate whether or not Korvlos was telling the truth... or whether or not he himself is going insane.
Retribution
When Pyotor experiences personal tragedy, he chooses to leave Diaxophas for the distant island of Vergelding, hoping to outrun his pain. Determined to reinvent himself there as an author, he befriends the locals and spends his days writing about the culture of his new island paradise. However, he soon finds himself caught up in a web of murder, deception, greed, and corruption that causes him to question the true meaning of life, death, retribution, and redemption.
Where All Points Converge
Six individuals who have had the same dream are thrust together by what appears to be supernatural means. They must go on an impossible journey into the place where all points converge to destroy Zrol, one of the last of an ancient human race, before he destroys all life in the universe.
The Adventures of Pertinax Crisp
With great brilliance sometimes comes great eccentricity. Meet Pertinax Crisp, one of the most acclaimed detectives in all of Vuldokos, and perhaps in all of Old Tarthalla. Along with his best friend and partner, Captain Thane Ryder, Pertinax Crisp solves crimes that the police department has deemed unsolvable. How was a rich old author murdered in a house surrounded by servants and family when the floors are so creaky that every footstep would have given away the murderer’s presence? Who would stand to gain from a series of murders that threatens to bankrupt an entire town? How do you solve a murder in which nobody liked the victim, and everyone seemed to have a motive? Is a killer created by nature or shaped by society? How did a two-millennia-old coup d’etat get recorded by history as a success and a failure at the same time? Follow the adventures of the quirky detective Pertinax Crisp and the ever-steady police captain Thane Ryder as they solve these mysteries.
The Jinn's Lure
Captain Surov is a career Diaxophan navy man. He is a man with nerves of steel, and is capable of calming an angry crowd with his stoic presence. He is a man skilled at negotiating peace between the most hostile of peoples. And he has just been selected for the mission of a lifetime. He has been asked to explore Prazdny – an unexplored continent with a reputation for dark practices, mythological creatures, and death. Surov is a man of ambition who is determined to do what nobody believes can be done. But as the expedition spirals further and further into peril, Surov insists on moving ahead at all costs, causing his crew to rightly wonder… has his ambition become blind arrogance?