Song Against Shadow

How can you save the world with nothing but a borrowed harp? The people moved without emotion without awareness of their own emptiness. They hurried without purpose spoke without knowing what they said fought over things they did not want and then forgot they had won them. It was as though habits had shed the people who used them and now lived on their own. This was the Death. This is the story of Svarnil an apprentice bard chosen by the immortal Cumarún to travel to the land of the Deerfolk and rescue them from a shadowy warrior king and the mysterious Death that follows him. But in a world of warriors and magic not everyone is a warrior or a mage. Svarnil has never learned sword fighting cannot perform magic and seems to have no heroic powers. She is not even sure she wants to become a bard. But what other ways can there be of meeting the dangers and conflicts she faces? As her adventures among mages monsters and spirits unfold Svarnil learns what it means to be a true bard. She must also discover whether the gifts she has will be enough to bring her through the challenges before her.This is an adventure about doing right even when the effect seems small and following your leadings even when you don't know where they will take you.