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Never Leave Your Monastery
Never Leave Your Monastery
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(with illustrations by author) 471 pages
The Greatest of Whitehawk Stories! Here is H.G. Potter's Tour de Force Sword and Sorcery Epic.
Brother Jacob Magister, novice of Whitehaven monastery, imagines that he can find something more glorious than monastery life. He does not seem to mind it when certain unloving brother-monks learn of his thoughts and manage to sell him to the traveling circus.
Quickly his slavery to the circus wagons becomes unbearable. He manages to escape, slipping into the forbidden forest at night, the dark and mysterious Lokken.
An unexpected encounter with a crew of deep-world travelers camping in the woods teaches Jacob many things, things about the cruelty of a world gone mad. So Brother Jacob hurries back to the safety of his religious brothers. But now the deep-world travelers have made him newly aware of a malevolent shadow-king that rules many souls. Whitehawk's waning kingdoms, must, without some soul-wise champion, forever remain captive to an unholy Archdruid: the Dire of Melancholy.
The struggle against evil, warned of in Scripture, is all too real and he relishes no part in it. Even so, a malicious and dangerous conspiracy will not just go away, the plot of the tenebrous world will soon come to fruition. Who will oppose this shadow-lord?
There are the Friars of Whigg, an order of rival theologians, claiming superiority to Whitehaven. They have come up with a brilliant plan: check the Archdeceiver with ancient battle magic. Raise ancient wizards from the tombs beneath Nystol's abandoned wizard towers, actually resurrect them from the dead and bring their famous magic against the brutal armies of the Dire.
Do you think that would be okay with God? Should the power of Resurrection be invoked on the decaying wizards of old? Would that misuse the miracle-gift of the Lord? Certainly it would not profane the sacred faith, would it?
Something must be done before those fools administer such a dangerous solution as that in the name of God.
As suspicion and fear engulf the monastery, Jacob is accused of arcane summoning.
He throws in with the renegade band of mountaineers: "The Valraphs", whose mission is to scale the walls of the Dire's otherwise impregnable fortress , and infiltrate the abyss.
Under the dubious command of Stormrake, a talented but hot-headed amazon beauty, the adventurers set out into a world of magic and wonder, Whitehawk, a world at the brink of a new dawn of evil...and his contest of wits with the Dire of Melancholy himself, Jacob could become the dupe by which all the world is deceived, and forfeit even his immortal soul.
2021 Goodreads ★★★★★ “This Book is amazing! It’s a very interesting blend between christianity and epic fantasy. There are a lot of spiritual and philosophical discussions that makes you reconsider values and thoughts you take for granted. It has a VERY good language. It’s in my opinion the fantasy book with THE best language.” J. Lennquist . Goodread
Nov2021Amazon ★★★★★...I don’t generally read books of fantasy, but I found myself pulled in from the beginning of this one. The writing flowed nicely and made the many different names and places easier to absorb. The book is bulging with stories within the story, and the rhythm and dialogue gave the saga the feel of the Middle Ages. I liked that Jacob always stayed faithful to his Christian beliefs. Although the story was fantasy, the truth--applicable today--stood out. It was an exceptional thought-provoking tale of good versus evil. Father Harry also has a wonderful sense of humor evidenced by some of the parenthetical zingers peppering the book. Kathryn O'Donnell
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