The Silver Sword - Aethelgard's Promise

AI, Josha Benton

Summary

The world ended not with fire, but with a choked gasp.  New Camelot, once a beacon of technological prowess, is now a skeletal husk against an ash-grey sky.  Nineteen-year-old Caspian Arthur, heir to a legacy he barely understands, unearths the Silver Sword, a relic of a bygone era that whispers of both hope and destruction.  Haunted by fragmented memories of the Cataclysm, he carries the weight of his lineage and the burden of a broken world.Caspian is not alone.  Eleanor Vance, a brilliant but embittered engineer, sees the Silver Sword as a key to unlocking the secrets of the lost technology that consumed her family.  Silas Quinn, a blind librarian, navigates the ruined world through sound and touch, clinging to the tattered remnants of knowledge as a path to rebuilding.  Together, they embark on a perilous journey to Aethelgard, a mythical oasis rumored to hold the key to ecological restoration.Their path is shadowed by Kai, a charismatic warlord who sees the Cataclysm as a necessary cleansing.  He covets the Silver Sword and the power it represents, his technologically augmented hunters stalking Caspian’s every move.Aethelgard, when they finally reach it, is not the paradise they envisioned.  It is a biodome, a pre-Cataclysm project harboring a dangerous secret: the very technology that caused their downfall.  This discovery fractures their fragile alliance. Eleanor, consumed by her desire to understand the past, is drawn to the technology's seductive promises. Silas, horrified by the implications, warns against repeating history’s mistakes. Caspian, torn between hope and fear, must choose his path.As Kai lays siege to Aethelgard, Caspian faces an impossible decision: unleash the technology and risk another cataclysm, or surrender and condemn the world to Kai’s tyrannical rule.  He discovers that the Silver Sword is not a weapon, but a conduit, a tool for channeling the life force of Aethelgard. The battle for the oasis becomes a battle for the soul of their world, a clash of ideologies that will determine the fate of humanity.  Can Caspian harness the power of the Silver Sword, not to conquer, but to heal?  Or will the whispers of the past condemn them to repeat their tragic history?

Available since: 11/08/2024.

Print length: 247 pages.

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