RHA'ZUUN RISING (Book One of the Scriptlord Saga)

RHA'ZUUN RISING is on a writing break while I complete and polish the manuscript to enable a daily posting cadence. Please bear with me as I make these changes. Emkai has spent her whole life watching her mother build their House into the envy of Asoah. One day it would all be hers. A Trading House that owned the greatest sky vaults in all Ikeala, and if she was lucky her mother's title.  But her mother's enemies are Emkai's enemies, and to inherit what is rightfully hers, she must prove herself. Prove herself on a mission to Onwa, the crater city of coffins, at the behest of Tshunnari, a grieving goddess that teeters on the edge of madness.   Meanwhile amongst the nomadic clans of Emkai's people, just outside the walls of her city, a boy is chosen; three nascent scriptcasters found, where there should be none. Rori, born in a poor hamlet, but blessed with the precious gift of ink, the foundation of all scriptcasting, and the magical substance that allows the great sky vaults to fly, and Ikalean scriptcasters to dominate all the nations of the continent. But the missions of the old ones are seldom simple affairs, and though it was fated that these two would meet, if either had known the consequences of their journey, then they would have wished that the other had never been born. Rha'zuun Rising is the first book of the Scriptlord Saga. An epic set in a world of sky vaults, flying fortresses carrying the wealth of nations, and cities ruled by fanatical cults. Featuring martial nomadic steppe clans, living crystal familiars, and a hard magic system, this work lies at the intersection of shounen manga, and western epic fantasy. ONGOING.