Illiom, Daughter of Prophecy

“Under every fear lies a hidden power, quietly waiting to be claimed.”

The Common Weal of Theregon has enjoyed relative peace for nearly a thousand years.
Since its inception, the five member kingdoms seem to have struck a balance of sorts and resolved many of their long-standing differences. Commerce flourishes, cultural exchanges are commonplace and it seems that the chaos and mayhem of the second age of the world are truly a thing of the past.

When seven stones and a prophecy find their way into the hands of Queen Eranel of Albradan, no one knows what to make of them. The prophecy speaks of an ominous tide that is rising to threaten the stability of the realm, yet there is no evidence that anything is amiss. However, the Royal Palace in Kuon begins to take the prophecy more seriously when several unsettling events begin to unfold across the Kingdom.

It is against this backdrop of surface stability and secret concerns that seven people are summoned to the Queen's Court in the capital.

One of them is Illiom, a young woman with problems of her own. Disinterested in the machinations of politics and blissfully unaware of any dire portents, Illiom lives her life absorbed by her own set of riddles. For Illiom has no traceable genealogy. She is a foundling who forever questions and doubts herself and fails to understand the purpose of her life.

She believes herself to be tainted; something in her past must account for the curse of power that she keeps deeply buried. This is a land where magic is mistrusted, and those who wield it are shunned, if not persecuted. It is this unhealthy legacy of power that has driven Illiom to seek refuge in the mountains, where isolation seems to offer the only protection for her.

Now Illiom’s self-imposed isolation is coming to an end: someone is coming for her, to summon and draw her out of hiding and take her, willing or not, back to the world of humans, to the very place where she feels most vulnerable.

‘Illiom, Daughter of Prophecy’, is the first book of the ‘Destiny of Fire’ trilogy, an epic fantasy series that follows Illiom as she emerges from her exile, leaving the security of her mountains behind, only to find herself thrown in with a bunch of misfits from across the land. Sharing almost nothing in common with each other, save a mysterious summons to address the growing crisis. These seven Chosen of Prophecy must reconcile their differences before they can embark on their quest to face the threat that is rolling uncontrollably to meet them.

Will they learn to follow the signs and portents in time to resolve a crisis of mythic proportions? Will Illiom find her true self in time to be of any use to anyone, including herself?