The Ancient

About “The Ancient”

Bransen Garibond sets out to find his lost father but is deceived into traveling across the Gulf of Corona to the wild lands of Vanguard. There, he is forced to join a war against the ruthless Samhaist, led by the powerful Ancient Badden. Beneath Ancient Badden's magical ice castle on an Alpinadoran lake, various societies are caught in their own conflicts, unaware of his plan to destroy them. Bransen becomes the key to preventing disaster, as his failure would lead to the deaths of everyone on the lake and the fall of northern Honce to the Samhaists. The Ancient is the first book in the Saga of the First King, set in the same world as Salvatore’s DemonWars series. It was published in 2008.