Sourcethief (Book 3) by J.S. Morin

Author:J.S. Morin [Morin, J.S.]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Magical Scrivener Press
Published: 2013-10-26T23:00:00+00:00

Whosoever readst these wordes, knowe thou that they be true. I hast borne witness to thee grate deedes of Mightee Tallax and taken to accounte the wordes and lettres of he who hast spake true to mine selfe. Herein I removed all falsehoode and deceit that I hast founde and left naut butte truth.

Thee birthe of Mightee Tallax hast been of such legende as I canne trace unto truth. He was a firste sonne of two low borne folke...

"...he was a first son of two low-born folk." Soria stumbled over the words just a bit as she spoke them.

"Is it even written in Kadrin?" Brannis asked. Soria's Kheshi accent was coming through clearly. While it sounded charming and exotic most of the time, it did not make her any easier to understand.

"Well, after a fashion. It's really old, and I don't think they had the language quite figured out back then. I think they were making up spellings as they went along."

Brannis smiled. He had come across older works during his ventures into the Tower of Contemplation's libraries, and had had the same troubles slogging through them, reading familiar words spelled rather more phonetically than properly in modern Kadrin.

"Go ahead, keep reading. I won't keep interrupting," Brannis said. He lay propped on one elbow beside Soria, who lay back with a vacant look in her eyes. Brannis knew she was seeing Veydrus more than the cabin around her.

"Three brothers had he, and two sisters after. The land in which they lived exists no longer. In their day it was called Rreise and was ruled by dragons. It was common in those times for the dragons to cull they who showed too strong a Source among their mortal subjects.

"The parents of Mighty Tallax, who had yet to earn such glorious title, saw early the peril of the power that grew within him. Before the agents of the dragon had found out their nascent doom, Tallax was taken in flight and brought to live among the forest spirits. Among the fey of the woodlands did he first learn the rudiments of the aether ..."

Soria read on for much of the morning, pausing frequently—sometimes because a spelling was just too bizarre to read at a glance, other times just to quench the thirst of lengthy oration. Though the biography read more like a fairy story for children than the life of a real person, its veracity had been endorsed by two who knew him and whose purported ages lent weight to their testimony.

The book went into the minor details of Tallax's childhood before describing his rise to power. It told of his rebellion against dragonkind and how he single-handedly slew so many of the great beasts that they sued for peace, offering vast lands and gold in exchange for their lives. Thus were established the earliest of human kingdoms, all under Tallax's protection.

A student of history, Brannis found it all fascinating. To his chagrin, he would not hear the whole tale in one night.

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