Edge ofChaos
Book 3 of theDivinity Seeds Series
Copyright Des Pensable2017
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A divinity seed is asmall piece of divine knowledge forbidden to mortals.
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Tableof Contents
Overview of previousbook
Chapter 1 M’LadyWarden
Chapter 2 Glammer’sSecret
Chapter 3 The Remaking ofGlammer
Chapter 4 Miranda’sPain
Chapter 5 SecretRevelations
Chapter 6 Butterflies andBats
Chapter 7 Granddad’sProblem
Chapter 8 Miranda’sEscape
Chapter 9 Real orIllusion?
Chapter 10 The Dogs ofWar
Chapter 11 Darkmantle’sStronghold
Chapter 12 FamilyReunion
Chapter 13 The TempestAwakes
Chapter 14 PuzzlePieces
Chapter 15 The HiddenOnes.
Chapter 16 Gizel’sStory
Chapter 17 A Taste ofAmbrosia
Chapter 18 ChasingSnowbelle
Chapter 19 Mothers Lostand Found
Chapter 20 PledgingPresents
Chapter 21 The BackDoor
Chapter 22 The Troublewith Helix
Chapter 23 The InitialAttack
Chapter 24Evacuation
Chapter 25 Run DragonRun
Chapter 26 Arrogance andVanity
Chapter 27 Return toAstaria
Chapter 28 Twice theConfusion
Chapter 29 Problems ,Problems
Chapter 30 The LadySmiled
Chapter 31 Astaria’sSecrets
Chapter 32 ElementalOasis
Chapter 33 Miranda GrowsUp.
Chapter 34 Miranda’sDowry
Chapter 35 Skeletons inthe Closet
Chapter 36 Puppets of theGods
Chapter 37 The DragonDen
Chapter 38 It’s All inthe Mind
Chapter 39 Mothers andFathers
Chapter 40 A Chat WithGranite
Chapter 41 Taking theInitiative
Chapter 42 Rori’sSurprise
Chapter 43 HiddenAgendas
Chapter 44 Friends andEnemies
Chapter 45 PlotRevealed
Chapter 46 Plans WithinPlans
Chapter 47Confrontations
Chapter 48Epilogue
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Overview of Book2 - Agents of Chaos
Aquitain wakes up in a Llanllean spider bodywithin a protective circle of candles that provided aprotective shieldagainst being scryed. He remembers that he had been killed andreincarnated by the Lady at Miranda’s request after being attackedby renegade druids in Quab’s sanctuary.
He attends a celebration with a little peopletribe in the shape of a yellow scaled little person, gets drunk andis seduced by Shastritara a red scaled little person with a hiddenagenda while Miranda is absent.
Miranda is full of doubt about her own Newmanidentity believing that she might actually be a Llanllean sotravels to the portal to her mother’s world intent on questioningher mother. Her mother is absent. Her childhood nanny greets herbut refuses to tell her whether her doubts are true or false.
On returning to Aquitain she is captured bysome of her druid colleagues and put on trial for murdering thedruids at Quab’s sanctuary. She is sentenced to death but beforethe sentence can be carried out she is rescued by her mother.
Aquitain visits Queen Snowbelle’sGateworld searching for Miranda where he is entertained bySnowbelle pretending to be Miranda. He realizes that she is a fakebut gets some interesting information out of her about the littlepeople before the real Miranda shows up.
They flee with Miranda’s nanny Allalanlleawho has betrayed the queen by tipping off Miranda about hermother’s deception.
Allalanllea answers Miranda’s question abouther past but reveals that the Lady has made unknown changes to thetattoo that seriously complicates its removal. Aquitain discoversthat Miranda has sorcerous powers as well as her druid abilities.They get calls for help from both the little people and the waterelementals and decide to split up to investigate them.
Miranda travels to the Wolf people’s villageto investigate a mysterious gateway portal, closes it and narrowlyavoids being eaten by a Wyvern but is captured by an ElendariHuntmaster, who takes her prisoner and then transports her toMoonmist to meet his boss an Elendari Lord called Darkmantle.
Aquitain investigates the water elementalsproblem and is tipped off that his cousin Zephira and hismemcrystal Alpha are on another world called Moonmist. He hearsthat Miranda has been captured and taken there as well, so hedecides to follow.
Miranda is imprisoned by Darkmantle.Prendergrass, the family wizard is ordered to give her a newidentity. The wizard recognizes her as Snowbelle’s daughter andfears for her safety. He changes her face using powerful magic sothat Lord Darkmantle wouldn’t recognize her. He also covers herwith a glamour making her look greenish and insect like to matchher new name of Dragonfly.
On the way to Moonmist, Aquitain is heldup on Astaria, a mysterious gateworld that exists in between Mudrunand Moon mist. Llanlorian the ruler of Astaria offers him a job towork for her if he helps her defend the Gate world. Heaccepts.
Aquitain travels to Moonmist and meetsLlalorax, the royal magician of the Queen of Moonmist. They arerudely taken prisoner by the Queen’s guard and accused of treacheryby the Queen and gaoled in a prison in a bottle. Aquitain with thehelp of a fairy-like person called Glammer escapes the prisonbottle.
He is attacked and his spirit is pulled outof his body and captured in a soul crystal by a malign chaoticspirit called Schlum that has been inflicting its ill will on thepeople of Moonmist for years.
In the soul crystal, his spirit form meetsthe spirit of Llanlorian’s healer sister Yllandril and theyexchange stories. Aquitain gets information from her allowing himto discover a way to read his own spirit aura which allows him tounlock previously locked memories.
Miranda is tortured to convince the guardsthat she has lost her memory and been changed to her new identityas Dragonfly. She meets Zephira who has had her memory wiped andidentity changed and is now known as Lash. She goes on a missionalong with Darkmantle’s soldiers and her body is possessed by themalign spirit Schlum, who had earlier captured Aquitain’sspirit.
Her spirit controlled body accompaniesDarkmantle and his attack force as it invades her home gateworld inSnowbelle’s absence. She witnesses her people being slaughtered andis traumatized by the events that happen.
While in his soul crystal prison Aquitaindiscovers how to open a divinity seed hidden in his spirit and usesit to gain the knowledge to create two small bodies out of chaosclay to house his and Yllandril’s spirits.
With Glammer’s help he creates the bodies andGlammer smashes the soul crystal allowing him to escape from thecrystal into their new bodies. He and Yllandril teleport into theprison bottle to hide from Schlum but the malign spirit leavesMiranda’s body and follows them. Aquitain cunningly works out a wayto trap it and destroys it.
Aquitain is hailed as a hero by the MoonmistCollective mind and honored
