In the battle-weary world of Dracos, filled with dragons and wizards and magical creatures, a young boy named Tanis Thalin is born into violence. His planet Dracos resembles Earth, but houses a civilization far advanced into the future. Tanis becomes the ruler of three kingdoms before he perishes in battle. His wife bore him twin boys who later become estranged. The twins end up ruling small city states, but in the end, they almost destroy their civilization. Before that annihilation could occur, Tanis returns from the dead after many years to save the day. He is an immortal warrior who will do anything for his family and friends.
In book two of this enthralling science fiction series, the Thalin brothers and their families must survive battles raging around their walled city. Their continuing family saga began in book one, To Rule a World. This story begins as the brothers have just settled into a peaceful period when a new threat arises, and the search for a culprit is unsuccessful. In a lesson for the young, these are the words of wisdom: “Druids and wizards are different as night and day in philosophy but are similar in abilities. One is really no different than the other in battle, but in healing and life in other times the druid has the advantage.” In a twist of fate, a Thalin grandchild named Christof is able to wield a sword that could not be held by anyone else. Does this mean that peace can be restored in their world of Dracos?
Darkness covered the world of Dracos for centuries and the Druids had no answers. In their darkest hour a child is born to save their world. Tanis Thalin, champion of the people, moves with speed and mercy taught by his elven family to unite a world of darkness in a new world of light. Can he save their world or in the end will darkness consume it?
In book two of this enthralling science fiction series, the Thalin brothers and their families must survive battles raging around their walled city. Their continuing family saga began in book one, To Rule a World. This story begins as the brothers have just settled into a peaceful period when a new threat arises, and the search for a culprit is unsuccessful. In a lesson for the young, these are the words of wisdom: “Druids and wizards are different as night and day in philosophy but are similar in abilities. One is really no different than the other in battle, but in healing and life in other times the druid has the advantage.” In a twist of fate, a Thalin grandchild named Christof is able to wield a sword that could not be held by anyone else. Does this mean that peace can be restored in their world of Dracos?
In the battle-weary world of Dracos, filled with dragons and wizards and magical creatures, a young boy named Tanis Thalin is born into violence. His planet Dracos resembles Earth, but houses a civilization far advanced into the future. Tanis becomes the ruler of three kingdoms before he perishes in battle. His wife bore him twin boys who later become estranged. The twins end up ruling small city states, but in the end, they almost destroy their civilization. Before that annihilation could occur, Tanis returns from the dead after many years to save the day. He is an immortal warrior who will do anything for his family and friends.
Acts of performance, such as music, storytelling, and poetry recital, have made significant contributions to the rediscovery and widening popularity of Old English poetry. However, while these performances capture the imagination, they also influence an audience's view of the world of the original poems, even to propagating certain assumptions, particularly those to do with performance practices. By stripping away these assumptions, this book aims to uncover the ways in which representations of performance in Old English poetry are intimately associated with poetic production and fundamental cultural concerns. Through an examination of Beowulf, diverse wisdom poems, and the "artist" poems Deor and Widsith, it proposes that poets constructed an imaginary domain of "poetic performance", which negotiated tensions between early medieval creativity and core social beliefs. It also shows how the poems' relationship with oral methods of composition and circulation weakened in later medieval poetry as both language and poetic form altered. Overall, the book explores what depictions of performance within these texts can tell us about early medieval conceptualisations, processes, and practices, in the poetic imagination and in wider culture. Through an analysis of Eddic poetry and Laȝamon's Brut, it also highlights a tradition of "poetic performance" in English poetics.
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