I'm looking for a particular book but as usual no idea on title or author.
It was the first in it's series and while it did have the usual chosen one vs the evil lord motiff a number of things stood out as unique or memorable.
This book was complex on it's themes of people not being who you think they are. It's very perceptiony based, there is no real Evil Lord from within the universe's perspective. The reader only knows it because you have a objective frame of reference.
Like the wheel of time there is a Good Spirit / God/Force/Power/supreme being and a bad one. The good one has his chosen supernatural forces and the bad guy has his.
The book ends with the hero running for his life from a Coup, with his mother and a blacksmith with a limp who turns out to be a master swordsman instructor from a desert tribe of super swordsman
The crippled blacksmith teaches the young lord (I think he's nobility but that's hazy) his super saiyan sword style but urges him to not use it, rather what the rest of the castle is taught.
Who the hero and who the villian are really isn't clear for a long time, the guy who thinks he's the sun lord ends up being the dark lord and is basically a deluded puppet. Who is supported by a magician who is really a angelic / higher being. This sorceror convinces the desert tribe of super soldiers to support the bad guy under a prophecy that says that angels would only support the good guy and that is by how you shall know him.
Yet there's also alot of trippy The evil spirit / god making a play for the two characters who could be either the hero or the dark lord, the evil spirit always pretends to be god and plays for each character's mind and allegiance. It is only when the young boy denies the evil that the evil chooses the older more established character as his vessel.
I think but may be wrong that the two are brothers and that the coup at the end of the book involves the older brother (IE the dark vessel) killing his father to right the kingdom and prepare for some oncoming darkness while the younger brother, maybe the captain of the guard the limping blacksmith, the boy and his mother manage to flee into the countryside
That final few lines are about the boy realising somehow he's important and that some serious crap went down but his mother is like now is not the time for explainations. The hero says , fine but that time will come.
Any help despite the convoluted plot and my explaining of it would be most appreciated as I was so ready for the explaination pay off when I originally read the book and not getting it has kept it stuck in my head. Even if book 2 isn't out yet at least I'll be able to put it to bed knowing it's on my new release scan list.
It was the first in it's series and while it did have the usual chosen one vs the evil lord motiff a number of things stood out as unique or memorable.
This book was complex on it's themes of people not being who you think they are. It's very perceptiony based, there is no real Evil Lord from within the universe's perspective. The reader only knows it because you have a objective frame of reference.
Like the wheel of time there is a Good Spirit / God/Force/Power/supreme being and a bad one. The good one has his chosen supernatural forces and the bad guy has his.
The book ends with the hero running for his life from a Coup, with his mother and a blacksmith with a limp who turns out to be a master swordsman instructor from a desert tribe of super swordsman
The crippled blacksmith teaches the young lord (I think he's nobility but that's hazy) his super saiyan sword style but urges him to not use it, rather what the rest of the castle is taught.
Who the hero and who the villian are really isn't clear for a long time, the guy who thinks he's the sun lord ends up being the dark lord and is basically a deluded puppet. Who is supported by a magician who is really a angelic / higher being. This sorceror convinces the desert tribe of super soldiers to support the bad guy under a prophecy that says that angels would only support the good guy and that is by how you shall know him.
Yet there's also alot of trippy The evil spirit / god making a play for the two characters who could be either the hero or the dark lord, the evil spirit always pretends to be god and plays for each character's mind and allegiance. It is only when the young boy denies the evil that the evil chooses the older more established character as his vessel.
I think but may be wrong that the two are brothers and that the coup at the end of the book involves the older brother (IE the dark vessel) killing his father to right the kingdom and prepare for some oncoming darkness while the younger brother, maybe the captain of the guard the limping blacksmith, the boy and his mother manage to flee into the countryside
That final few lines are about the boy realising somehow he's important and that some serious crap went down but his mother is like now is not the time for explainations. The hero says , fine but that time will come.
Any help despite the convoluted plot and my explaining of it would be most appreciated as I was so ready for the explaination pay off when I originally read the book and not getting it has kept it stuck in my head. Even if book 2 isn't out yet at least I'll be able to put it to bed knowing it's on my new release scan list.
