The Obsidian Oracle

The Obsidian Oracle

Two former friends seek a powerful ancient oracle—one for good; one for evil—in this fourth Prism Pentad novel that explores the harsh world of Dark Sun The Dark Lens is an ancient oracle that can harvest the magic of the sun, hidden by the last dwarven knights for the sake of a new world. With it, Tithian of Tyr can evolve into a true sorcerer-king. Only Agis of Asticles, who covets the lens to destroy the Dragon Borys, stands between Tithian and his desire. For either man to survive the quest, the hatred between them must be vanquished. If not, they risk falling prey to the beast-headed giants who guard the Obsidian Oracle.

The Obsidian Oracle

The Seven-Faced Oracle

Enter Kynesis, a city woven not of stone and steel, but of shared dreams. Its iridescent architecture shimmers against the ochre sands of the Whisperlands, a desert whose secrets only Zynathra, a cartographer of mindscapes, can truly hear. But Kynesis’s dream is fracturing. The Seven-Faced Oracle, the living embodiment of the city's collective unconscious, has fallen silent, and its vibrant reality is twisting into a nightmare. Summoned by the enigmatic Veiled Council, Zynathra is entrusted with a perilous mission: journey into the Oracle’s psyche and uncover the source of its silence. Armed with a shard of forbidden Mindglass, she plunges into a kaleidoscopic labyrinth of the mind. In the Zone of Mirrors, she confronts fragmented reflections of herself – the warrior she could have been, the scholar she might become – each whispering temptations of alternate realities. Beyond the mirrors lies the Zone of Endless Voices, a cacophony of Kynesis’s fears and forgotten memories, where the whispers of long-dead architects and historians claw at her sanity. And then, the desolate expanse of the Zone of Forgotten Names, where identities evaporate like mist, threatening to erase Zynathra’s very being. But Zynathra is not alone within the Oracle's fractured mind. She encounters others lost within its depths, their stories intertwined with the city’s precarious existence, revealing a truth more complex than she could have imagined. The Oracle is not a god, but a chorus of fragmented consciousnesses – the remnants of Kynesis's founders, trapped in a perpetual dream, their unresolved traumas now tearing the city apart. Zynathra faces an agonizing dilemma: restore the Oracle’s voice and risk unleashing chaos, or allow the city to dissolve into individual nightmares. With the Mindglass pulsing against her palm, she makes a daring choice. She won't restore the old dream, but weave a new one, a tapestry of resilience woven from the threads of shared pain and collective hope. Can she reshape the city's psyche and rewrite its future, or will the whispers of the Whisperlands consume Kynesis, shattering its dream forever?