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Susan Dexter
The Ring of Allaire
The Ring of Allaire
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Revised May 2012 to improve formatting and add map of Calandra.
Tristan is a teenaged wizard with dark hair and green eyes--but he’s no Harry Potter. No cozy boarding school for Tristan either--he’s been home-schooled by the old wizard who discovered him as an abandoned infant under an apple tree on Midwinter’s Night. There’s no one to tell Tristan who he is or what abilities may be his. If not for Thomas, his smart-ass cat familiar, he’d be utterly lost.
One ordinary afternoon, Tristan returns home to find that his master has vanished, leaving his unprepared apprentice to take up the entwined quests for the legendary warhorse Valadan and the lost princess Allaire of the Nine Rings. He’d be no one’s first choice, but Tristan’s the only one left to assemble the essentials of the quest--a wizard, the Warhorse, the heir to Calandra’s throne--infiltrate Nimir’s fortress of Darkenkeep, and steal Allaire from beneath the Winter King’s icicled nose. In their hundreds, the other wizards have tried--and died.
Tristan’s training is exemplary. His will is indomitable. His confidence, however, is nonexistent, and his magic is flawed and unreliable. The fate of his world depends on him--whether he thinks himself equal to the task or not.
Tristan liberates Valadan, convinces Polassar of Lassair to follow him, rescues Allaire from Darkenkeep, and seeks for the Tenth Ring which will grant all of Allaire’s rings their full magical power. He rescues and is rescued by the resourceful Elisena and gains a deadly enemy in the enigmatic sorcerer Reynaud. He journeys to the Wizards’ City of Kovelir, then braves Darkenkeep a second time, struggling all the while with his hopeless love for the oblivious Allaire.
In the end, Tristan nearly gives up his own life to slay Darkenkeep’s Guardian and spare Polassar, whom Allaire loves as she could never love a hand-to-mouth wizard. Tristan has no reason to suspect that Allaire’s tenth ring and Calandra’s lost king will both suddenly be revealed--that one had been bound into his rusty sword and the other is...Tristan himself.
At first Tristan tries to evade his fate. But in the end he knows he cannot hide in his cottage while his world freezes around him. He will wed Elisena, join the power of Calandra’s throne to that of the ten rings, and take up the fight against the Winter King
Tristan is a teenaged wizard with dark hair and green eyes--but he’s no Harry Potter. No cozy boarding school for Tristan either--he’s been home-schooled by the old wizard who discovered him as an abandoned infant under an apple tree on Midwinter’s Night. There’s no one to tell Tristan who he is or what abilities may be his. If not for Thomas, his smart-ass cat familiar, he’d be utterly lost.
One ordinary afternoon, Tristan returns home to find that his master has vanished, leaving his unprepared apprentice to take up the entwined quests for the legendary warhorse Valadan and the lost princess Allaire of the Nine Rings. He’d be no one’s first choice, but Tristan’s the only one left to assemble the essentials of the quest--a wizard, the Warhorse, the heir to Calandra’s throne--infiltrate Nimir’s fortress of Darkenkeep, and steal Allaire from beneath the Winter King’s icicled nose. In their hundreds, the other wizards have tried--and died.
Tristan’s training is exemplary. His will is indomitable. His confidence, however, is nonexistent, and his magic is flawed and unreliable. The fate of his world depends on him--whether he thinks himself equal to the task or not.
Tristan liberates Valadan, convinces Polassar of Lassair to follow him, rescues Allaire from Darkenkeep, and seeks for the Tenth Ring which will grant all of Allaire’s rings their full magical power. He rescues and is rescued by the resourceful Elisena and gains a deadly enemy in the enigmatic sorcerer Reynaud. He journeys to the Wizards’ City of Kovelir, then braves Darkenkeep a second time, struggling all the while with his hopeless love for the oblivious Allaire.
In the end, Tristan nearly gives up his own life to slay Darkenkeep’s Guardian and spare Polassar, whom Allaire loves as she could never love a hand-to-mouth wizard. Tristan has no reason to suspect that Allaire’s tenth ring and Calandra’s lost king will both suddenly be revealed--that one had been bound into his rusty sword and the other is...Tristan himself.
At first Tristan tries to evade his fate. But in the end he knows he cannot hide in his cottage while his world freezes around him. He will wed Elisena, join the power of Calandra’s throne to that of the ten rings, and take up the fight against the Winter King
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