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Dantell (and wife) merchants from Shovel Vale
Hiron Smith - blacksmith friend of Harrisons in Oak Basin
Pensie Smith - Hiron’s wife.
Link Cackle - glassmaker in Oak Basin
Tom Elbow - Mount Vannon constabulary clerk
Ionie Plunk - Mount Vannon madame
Les Oakbrush - Pollen artist
Harget Temper - renegade constable
General Torrent - commander of the royal army
Jay Youngbud - miner
Bannon Plunk - Rebellion Leader (aka Banna Plunk)
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Baskin
Mark Leadback - fellow apprentice
Dickey Nail - Sam’s partner
Kened Rider - weapons instructor at the Baskin Constabulary.
Antina Mulch - Older female jeweler, inventor, and pollen scholar. From the same country as Banna Plunk
Issak Bolt - Minister of Justice
Target Armstrong - Marine Constable who helps Sam after his run-in with ruffians
Faran Rubble, the butler of Lord Ditch
Harl Plaster - Manager of the Piper Club
Shilla - Manager-Owner of the Piper Club
Mandy - server at the Piper Club
Captain Benjoy Fork - Issak Bolt’s nephew
Lieutenant Happy- works for Fork
Emmer Wicket - Ice Merchant
Target Armstrong - Marine Guard
Sergeant Polite - Lt. Happy’s underling
Lady Keeta Grate - Lady of the court
Gerrold Pincer - paramour of Lady Keeta
Hander Pot - principal at Red Marine Shipping
Jenna Pot - Hander’s daughter
Winnie Bentwick - Chief Constable’s daughter
Minson Mat - Apprentice
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Jordi Hawker - Purser aboard the Twisted Wind
Captain Addia Darter - Captain of the Twisted Wind
Desmon Sandal - sailor on board Twisted Wind
Asul Kindra - Wollian nomad sailor killed on board
Carolank
Commander Rett Eshing of the Carolank City Guard
Harbormaster Horis Penstock
Salise - the clerk at the harbormaster’s office
Port Hassin
Commander Ilsur of the Port Hassin constabulary.
Commandant Ahman - commanding officer of the Rakwall Armory and Fort
Harlik Bonkle - Vaarekian pollen magician
Pamon Tandar - Vizier to the Potentate of Wollia
Mito Nakara - the Vizier’s spy
Ziggor Smallbug - Tolloyan Scholar on a trip recruiting unique students for the University of Tolloy.
Smaller – Smallbug’s son
Tera Barako - Daughter of the Lashakan ruler.
Pundia
Deeter Temmis - Chancellor of the College of Cathartics
Creden Clearal - Principal of the Pundian Second Bank
Makan Clearal - Principal’s son
Viktar Kreb - dictator of Vaarek
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Tolloy
Plantian Plunk - Professor of Pollen Sciences
Renatee Dinik - Professor of Mechanical Sciences
Hilsa Forinin - Zogazin restaurant owner in Tolloy
Whem Drak - Sam’s advisor and part-time sword instructor
Pilot Grott - Professor of Martial Arts
Norna Hawkal - Trakatan student, sword mate
Pilkis Sorenon - Sam’s Alloren magician mentor
Lieutenant Kelch -University guard supervisor
Madrida Hanla - Ristarian teaching Vaarekian Literature
Otto Bralk - Commissary owner
Zogaz
Moranna Goranan - Order of Ren helper
Hadis Torkin - Sam’s mentor and leader at the Order of Ren
Sinna Torkin - Hadis’s sister and head of the Order’s hospital.
Okanna Simmarin - Renatee Dinik’s girl friend in Hizor
A BIT ABOUT GUY
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With a lifelong passion for speculative fiction, Guy Antibes found that he rather enjoyed writing fantasy, as well as reading it. So a career was born, and Guy anxiously engaged in adding his own flavor of writing to the world. Guy lives in the western part of the United States and is happily married with enough children to meet or exceed the human replacement rate.
You can contact Guy at his website: www.guyantibes.com.
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BOOKS BY GUY ANTIBES
MAGIC MISSING
Book One: A Boy Without Magic
In the world of Mariopa, everyone is a magician. Even animals and plants use the ever-present magical stuff some of the inhabitants call pollen to enhance their lives. The problem is, lightning coursed through Sam Smith’s little five-year-old body and burned out his ability to manipulate pollen. He became, in that life-defining moment, a boy without magic in a world filled with it.
Book Two: An Apprentice Without Magic
Sam finds himself in Baskin the capital city of Toraltia where he starts our knowing only his superior’s superior. Through grit, determination and his knack for no magic whatsoever, Sam must learn to develop relationships that will take him further along in his life, still mostly undefined. A new nemesis joins forces with an old one to make his life too interesting.
Book Three: A Voyager Without Magic
Sam Smith, formerly an Apprentice Investigator of the Bentwick Royal Constabulary, boards his ship of exile. Not having a home, he doesn’t have much choice other than to sail to the far off land of Vaarek. His voyage becomes filled with death, insurrection, pirates on the land and the sea, amid exposure to unfamiliar cultures. Sam must tread carefully, as his nose for snooping is called upon in his ports of call, especially since his arch-enemy in Baskin is a fellow-passenger.
FANTASY - EPIC / SWORD & SORCERY / YOUNG ADULT
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SONG OF SORCERY
Book One: A Sorcerer Rises
Bound to a cruel grandfather, thirteen-year-old Ricky Valian is an orphan and a thief. Compelled to steal a valuable item in a public place, Ricky uses the only trick he knows, a magic trick. His crime doesn’t go unobserved. The Dean of Doubli Academy witnesses the theft and recognizes Ricky’s latent talent, volunteering to become Ricky’s guardian at the boy’s trial. Ricky finds himself, unlettered and untutored in sorcery, in a place filled with students. As he struggles with his unexpected circumstances, Ricky becomes a target of a vicious bully, who may not be above taking the life of someone who gets in his way.
Book Two: A Sorcerer Imprisoned
Ricky Valian always dreaded the Juvenile Home in the city of Applia. Killing a member of the Council of Notables is enough to sentence him for a stay. The lord’s widow is anxious for revenge and Ricky has to scramble to stay ahead of people out seeking his life. While there are strange things going on at the Home that will put him in peril, he finds a priceless treasure long forgotten at the Home. Can he stay alive long enough to save it?
Book Three: A Sorcerer’s Diplomacy
Back at Doubli Academy, Ricky finds new acquaintances and a new pastime. However, all is not bliss as circumstances converge to make it impossible to avoid confronting his nemesis, Duke Noacci, the man Ricky suspects of killing his parents. While on a school break, he finds himself in the middle of two powers ready to go to war. Ricky must make life-altering decisions as he struggles to save himself and his new friends.
Book Four: A Sorcerer’s Rings
Fleeing for his life, Ricky Valian heads to Duteria, home of an institute of sorcery. With the help of his two servants, Ricky must learn basic sorcery that he hadn’t needed before. His studies take him out of the Duteria and into new perils as he discovers an insidious plot to disrupt all the governments of his world.
Book Five: A Sorcerer’s Fist
Armed with knowledge of an insidious plot to assume power over the world, Ricky must battle religious zealots within the organization that took him in afte
r being branded traitor. Together with a secret society that Ricky never took seriously, he finds allies that he once thought enemies to fight against the enemy hidden among those he thought were allies.
FANTASY - EPIC / SWORD & SORCERY / YOUNG ADULT
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THE DISINHERITED PRINCE
Book One: The Disinherited Prince
Poldon Fairfield, a fourteen-year-old prince, has no desire to rule since his poor health has convinced him that he will not live long enough to sit on any throne. Matters take a turn for the worse when his father, the King of North Salvan, decides his oldest will rule the country where Pol’s mother is first in the line of succession, followed by Pol, her only child. Pol learns he has developed a talent for magic, and that may do him more harm than good, as he must struggle to survive among his siblings, now turned lethally hostile.
Book Two: The Monk’s Habit
With his health failing, Pol Cissert takes refuge in a monastery dedicated to magic, healing, and swordsmanship. As a disinherited prince, he thinks his troubles are behind him so he can concentrate on learning magic and getting his body repaired. He soon finds that his sanctuary isn’t the protection he hoped for.
Book Three: A Sip of Magic
Expecting to resume his studies after a long absence, Pol Cissert is disappointed when he is drafted by the Emperor’s Seeker to infiltrate into Tesna Monastery. His mission is to verify rumors of a new army being raised by the South Salvan King, a man he perceives as a personal enemy. Pol will face new challenges, not the least of which will be figuring out the mysterious roommate who arrives not long after he learns about the Tesnan’s plans to take over the world.
Book Four: The Sleeping God
Carrying an amulet given to him by his late mother, Pol Cissert seizes an opportunity to travel to a far-off city in search of his roots. He has no idea that the journey will be no easy jaunt. Chased by magicians, thugs, pirates, and priests, he searches for his legacy by seeking the Cathedral of the Sleeping God. Pol finds that the truth isn’t always something everyone wants.
Demeron: A Horse’s Tale - A Disinherited Prince Novella
Demeron, a Shinkyan stallion who can speak to human magicians, is cut off from his master and must find a way to return hundreds of miles to Deftnis Monastery, his master’s home. To do so, Demeron must travel through the country of his birth, eluding humans who would eagerly take possession of him. Sixty pages long, Demeron, A Horse’s Tale is best read between A Sip of Magic and The Emperor’s Pet.
Book Five: The Emperor’s Pet
On his way to return Shira to her home in Shinkya, Pol Cissert is called upon to solve two mysteries. His reward is something he does not desire, but he must put that aside while he travels to Tishiko, the exotic and dangerous capital city of the country of Shira’s birth. He finds that deadly politics badgers him every step along his journey.
Book Six: The Misplaced Prince
Pol can’t remember his name or his origin when washed up on the shore of a strange continent. Demeron, his horse, must find a way to get Pol to a magician powerful enough to remove his curse. Without his magic or his memories, it may take years to find the right person, and until then Pol has become the Misplaced Prince.
Book Seven: The Fractured Empire
In the final installment of the series, Pol Cissert Pastelle returns home after four years abroad to find The Baccusol Empire breaking apart with civil war erupting on multiple fronts. He reunites with Shira, the Shinkyan Princess, and gets to work trying to save his stepfather’s Empire. He finds more insidious spells invoked by the enemy, a society of magicians that has dedicated itself to domination. Pol has his own challenges as he navigates his way through drastic situations, not the least of which is a series of confrontations with old and new enemies.
FANTASY - EPIC / SWORD & SORCERY / YOUNG ADULT
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POWER OF POSES
Book One: Magician in Training
Trak Bluntwithe, an illiterate stableboy, is bequeathed an education by an estranged uncle. In the process of learning his letters, Trak learns that he is a magician. So his adventures begin that will take him to foreign countries, fleeing from his home country, which seeks to execute him for the crime of being able to perform magic. The problem is that no country is safe for the boy while he undergoes training. Can he stay ahead of those who want to control him and keep his enemies from killing him?
Book Two: Magician in Exile
Trak Bluntwithe is a young man possessing so much magical power that he is a target for governments. Some want to control him, and others want to eliminate the threat of his potential. He finds himself embroiled in the middle of a civil war. He must fight to save his imprisoned father, yet he finds that he has little taste for warfare. Trak carries this conflict onto the battlefield and finds he must use his abilities to stop the war to protect the ones he loves.
Book Three: Magician in Captivity
After a disastrous reunion with Valanna Almond, Trak heads to the mysterious land of Bennin to rescue a Toryan princess sold into slavery. The Warish King sends Valanna back to Pestle to verify that the King of Pestle is no longer under Warish control. The Vashtan menace continues to infect the countries of the world and embroil both Trak and Valanna in civil conflict, while neither of them can shake off the attraction both of them feel towards each other.
Book Four: Magician in Battle
Trak quells the rebellion in Warish but is forced to leave to return the Toryan princess. He reunites with his father but is quickly separated again. Circumstances turn ugly in Torya, and Trak returns to Pestle to fight an unexpected army. Valanna’s story continues as she struggles with her new circumstances, and is sent on a final mission to Pestle. The Power of Poses series ends with a massive battle, pitting soldier against soldier and magic against magic.
FANTASY - EPIC / SWORD & SORCERY / YOUNG ADULT / NEW ADULT-COLLEGE
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THE WARSTONE QUARTET
An ancient emperor creates four magical gems to take over and rule the entire world. The ancient empire crumbles over millennia. Three stones are lost, and one remains as an inert symbol for a single kingdom among many. The force that created the Warstones, now awakened, seeks to unite them all, bringing in a new reign of world domination—a rule of terror.
Four Warstones, four stories. The Warstone Quartet tells of heroism, magic, romance, and war as the world must rise to fight the dark force that would enslave them all.
FANTASY - SWORD & SORCERY/EPIC
Book One: Moonstone | Magic That Binds
A jewel, found in the muck of a small village pond, transforms Lotto, the village fool, into an eager young man who is now linked to a princess through the Moonstone. The princess fights against the link, while Lotto seeks to learn more about what happened to him. He finds a legacy, and she finds the home in her father’s army that she has so desperately sought. As Lotto finds aptitude in magical and physical power, a dark force has risen from another land to sow the seeds of rebellion. It’s up to Lotto to save the princess and the kingdom amidst stunning betrayal fomented by the foreign enemy.
Book Two: Sunstone | Dishonor’s Bane
Shiro, a simple farmer, is discovered to possess stunning magical power and is involuntarily drafted into the Ropponi Sorcerer’s Guild. He attracts more enemies than friends and escapes with his life, only to end up on a remote prison island. He flees with an enchanted sword containing the lost Sunstone. Trying to create a simple refuge for an outlawed band of women sorcerers, he is betrayed by the very women he has worked to save and exiled to a foreign land. There, he must battle for his freedom as he and his band become embroiled in a continent-wide conflict.
Book Three: Bloodstone | Power of Youth
When usurpers invade Foxhome Castle, Unca, the aging Court Wizard of the Red Kingdom, flees with the murdered king’s only daughter, taking the Bloodstone, an ancient amulet that is the symbol of Red Kingdom rule. Unca uses the Bloodstone to escape capture by
an enemy and is transformed into a young man, but loses all his wizardly powers. Unca must reinvent himself to return the princess to her throne. Along the way, he falls in love with the young woman and must deal with the conflict between his duty and his heart while keeping a terrible secret.
Book Four: Darkstone | An Evil Reborn
As the 22nd son of the Emperor of Dakkor, Vishan Daryaku grows from boy to man, learning that he must use his unique powers and prodigious knowledge to survive. He succeeds until his body is taken over by an evil power locked inside the Darkstone. Now, Emperor of Dakkor, Vishan is trapped inside, as the ancient force that rules his body devastates his homeland while attempting to recover all of the Warstones.
As the amulets are all exposed, the holders of the Moonstone, Sunstone, and Bloodstone combine to fight the Emperor’s relentless drive to reunite the Warstones and gain power over the entire world. The armies of Dakkor and the forces of those allied with the three other stones collide on a dead continent in the stunning conclusion of the Warstone Quartet.
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Quest of the Wizardess
Quest of the Wizardess chronicles the travels and travails of young Bellia. After her wizard family is assassinated when she is fourteen, Bellia seeks anonymity as a blacksmith’s helper. When that doesn’t work out as expected, she flees to the army.
Her extraordinary physical and magical skills bring unwanted attention, and she must escape again. After finding a too-placid refuge, she takes the opportunity to seek out her family’s killers. Revenge becomes her quest that takes her to a lost temple, unexpected alliances, and a harrowing confrontation with her enemies.