This Is Mercryan
The Chronicles of Mercryan is a series of Fantasy novels set in a world called Mercryan. Mercryan is home to some familiar fantasy faces, like elves, dwarves, humans, and dragons, but other creatures, such as virakus and schnen, call Mercryan home as well. This world has two suns, four grand high gods and a pantheon of lesser gods. Mercryan's recorded history begins with a war amongst the grand high gods. Inferne, progenitor of the humans, allied with Titan, god of the dwarves, and Memidia, goddess of elves, to go to war against Nocturna, goddess of the schnen. The war was a catastrophe for the mortal denizens of Mercryan. All would have been wiped from the world had it not been for the sacrifice of the grand high mother Goddess, Ilysea. Her loss and the subsequent wrath of the grand high father God, Lucid, ended the war. After punishing his children, Inferne, Titan, Memidia, and Nocturna, Lucid departed from this realm.
The first book of the Chronicles of Mercryan begins over a thousand years after the Cataclysm. The world has been divided into various kingdoms, the result of mortal wars and time. Widower's Web begins the journey of a handful of people, impacted and changed by life, war and experience as they are brought together by paths set in motion by a tragic past. The future of Mercryan darkens.
Widower's Web
War changes the lives of everyone. Jerenau Degrav hoped to do just that as he led his armies north. Once a good man, he had long ago abandoned his nation and people. Betrayal transformed his vision of the world. It rotted and sabotaged its future. With new eyes, crafted by pain and sorrow, he recognized the imminent destruction all around him. If he could harness that, lock it all underneath one banner, one goddess, he could remove all reason for conflict. Perhaps he could find peace there.
Book 1 of the Chronicles of Mercryan follows a myriad of strangers as their lives get tangled up in the web of Jerenau’s war. Dwarves, elves, humans, there is no distinction given when swords are drawn and arrows fired. Battle will spur them and to battle they will unite, be it for good or ill. They will all change.
