ISBN-13: 9781514675786 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 312 str.
This is a fantasy novel with a Christian overtone. I have always admired C.S. Lewis for intertwining his Christian faith with stories that attract readers, such as the world of fictional fantasy. It became my dream to follow his example and I hope that you, the reader, will enjoy this first installment of The Crynophian Chronicles. The story focuses on the Nephilim king, King Noomsay. He is the son of Umalaw who in turn was the son of Og, the first king of the Nephilim. The Nephilim are referred to in the Bible in Genesis 6 as being descendants of fallen angels who married the daughters of men and their offspring were giants, men of renown. In my Novel they are also giants and for over one and a half millennia the Nephilim harshly ruled Nagala Sortis, the northern lands of Crynophia, until they were forcibly evicted from their lands by their defeat at Thornogina with the help of a powerful stone believed to be sent to the people by The Ancient of Days. I use that term because it refers to God as mentioned in Daniel 7:9 in the Bible. In my novel, the Nephilium kingdom found a new home in Sinagala Sortis, which refers to the "Land of the South," the land south of the Califanu and Mentu mountains that divide Crynophia in half. It is there that the Nephilim reside until the death of King Umalaw, and an ancient and evil prophecy surfaces. A prophecy that predicts the return of the Nephilim to their old home in the North. In life, there are good times and there are bad. There is life, love, death, and darkness, good and evil. There are the young (Tamall and Limlee, the two seventeen-year-old Elfumans) and the old (Leopold the Dreamer). There are also the diverse inhabitants of Nagala Sortis, the Cynocephalians, the Tellem, the Northern Elves, the men of Lybithium, the Watchers and of course, the Elfumans. And their opponents in this story, the Nephilim, the Ogres, the men of Sargonis and the Dark Elves who are ruled by the evil Elf witch queen, Cincubus. These I call "The Unholy Union." Then there are the Orcs, both the black and the red, not to mention...well, maybe I have said too much. I will leave off my description here and I hope that you enjoy this, the first book in the Crynophian Chronicles trilogy, the Golden Orb. Thomas N. Malone Sr.