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The Bloodstar Cross has bloomed once more.
A dark fantasy audio saga and novel series by Daniel Murphy.
The Stories
Every story follows someone who will be swept into the events of the Bloodstar Cross. Start with the duelist; most listeners do.
Audio series · Complete
Voslo Stettman is the country's most famous duelist. Sung of, revered, feared, and now, old. He's looking for a reason to live that doesn't involve quite so much killing, but his past follows close behind.
Novel trilogy · Book One finished
Joss Elrin is the last heir of a fallen dynasty, a hated prisoner in the palace that once belonged to his family. Then the young king makes him royal advisor.
Novel
Twenty years after nine men killed him and his son, Sol'Arrak claws his way out of the grave beneath a blood-red star. A magical seal keeps him alive for one purpose: to hunt down every name on the list.
Audio series
Decan Reign is rarely as helpless as he looks. Bound on a pirate deck, he sees a way into the Black Forge, the cartel flooding the coast with a drug called the Drops. The heist of a lifetime could make him as rich as a prince.
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The Wandering Duelist · Chapter 1
The famous duelist Voslo Stettman finds himself far in the countryside, and with a corpse he doesn't know what to do with, when he meets a traveling merchant.
News, updates and scrolls
Histories, letters and journals recovered from the Ordered World. Some are propaganda. Some got their authors executed. Hover to lift the Justicant’s ink.
We have no doubt that the High King knew the true occult nature of this event, and that the very knowing of this was precisely why he forbade the arcane arts. Magic is real, and we have forgotten that.
~ Scholarch Visina’s apology before his execution · Year 72
BannedKeeping the sun to our left in the mornings and our right in the afternoons, we still arrive back at the border of the Shine after five days of hard travel. People often go missing, and are never found again.
~ Scholarch Leitral · recovered from a riderless horse
RecoveredSome of them say he is a prophet from beyond the Shine, bringing a religion from the darklands to our Ordered World. Many say he is a god. All agree that he is a man.
~ Confessor Enaso Martani to Arch Confessor Kayvar Soln
SealedThe World
Two thousand years
For twenty centuries the Elrin kings ruled the continent. Temples to the Seven and the Eight stood in every city, bards sang of gods, and mages walked beside kings.
The Lands
The eight lords knelt together in Belmaras and kept their lands, each with a royal Regent at his ear. Choose a state, or hover any name on the map.
The Royal State
The Bloodstar Cross · Book One
The Bloodstar
Treason
The Novels
Joss Elrin is the last heir of an ancient dynasty, a political prisoner in the palace his family once ruled. There, to be an Elrin is to be hated.
When the impetuous young Belrase king names him royal advisor, Joss holds the first office any Elrin has held in generations. But civil unrest is spreading, a miracle-worker preaches in the south, and the Bloodstar is a herald of bloody change. Forced to flee, Joss learns the old stories were not all wrong, and that long-forgotten evils are stirring. Evils, as his luck would have it, that only an Elrin can stop.
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