The Ascendant Path

<p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)><u>Anchors can stop magic. That makes them the most needed and hated people in all the Northern lands.</u></strong></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Shunned for their connection to the evil that is magic Anchors are not welcome anywhere in north for long. The ability to absorb magic to destroy magical creatures and even 'see' magic will eventually drive them mad and lead to their entering the descent a place where they all eventually must go.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Layten Grayread separated from his friends after the folly of Blood Point now finds himself inside the Anchorhold. An ancient location in Ture itself the Anchorhold is the one place an Anchor is always welcome. For Layten is an Anchor and a strong one.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Elsewhere Hopwell and Wix hope their friend is alive and resolve to find him one way or another. But when Calmar the southern caster who nearly killed Layten at Blood Point uses his new abilities to strike the north directly he shatters the stability of the free lands and heart of Hopwell Lewin.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>And above it all Vilom the Voice of Sartum plots and schemes only having one question he can't answer.</span></p><p><br></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)><em>Who is Layten Grayread?</em></strong></p>