Tales of Bastunia

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>About The Return:</strong></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Nothing will ever be the same for Joan Daniels. She wouldn't say she loved her old life but she had gotten used to it. She had found a way to make being a No-Beast work. But now Joan has become the very thing she hates most: a Beastborn. To complicate matters further this one is no ordinary Calling. This one comes with a history that threatens the safety of the entire world. As Joan struggles to wrap her mind around what has happened her father takes the lead. Joan quickly begins to wonder if he has her best interests at heart...</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>About the Tales of Bastunia series:</strong></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>For all of history the god of Bastunia has bestowed upon the people a gift: a spiritual beast-companion that helps them on their life's Path. In the span of a couple hundred years they have turned from barbarians into high society. But when the god vanishes leaving people to find their own way their civilized world begins to fall apart.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>First there was </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Discovery</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> a period of history that emerged out of an unknown past. Time began here with the first scrawlings of the Record. Next a gifted god with his deific ingenuities and the help of a few chosen Bastunians created </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Order</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>. It was a time of enlightenment achievement and great expansion. The people were certain that </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Order</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> was an epoch that would never end. But the darkness of the cosmos hid chaos-spawn whose lives were devoted to destruction. </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Order</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> lasted barely one hundred years. At the eve of the second century the god's impressive creation began to show cracks. It was an era marked by apparent neglect by abandonment by turmoil and it was aptly named the </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Crumble</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>. Now the god has been completely missing for sixteen years and Bastunia is well into the modern era: the </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Fall</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>But things are about to change in a big way. Bastunia after an exhaustingly streak of setbacks is about to get a win that could change their fortune. Or it might accelerate them toward extinction...</span></p><p></p>