Sages of Tachnir (Dragon's Oath Book 3)

When Time Fractures, Only the Brave Can Mend It

Udoaver Greensleeves set out to help the Sages of Tachnir raise a dragon-rider army—but time plays by different rules in the Labyrinth. While days pass for him, years slip by for his family. His son Orin grows into a powerful Shadowalker, mastering time’s hidden paths and preparing for a war that spans generations.

As the Darkmore Evil spreads, Orin makes a desperate choice to protect his newborn sister Unoria, hiding her until her destiny calls. But with ambition twisting old allies and dark magic awakening, history itself begins to splinter.

To save their world, Orin, Unoria, and their allies must rise across timelines, confronting the shadows of the past and the chaos of the future.

SAGES OF TACHNIR is a sweeping tale of time, dragons, and destiny—where every moment counts, and the greatest battle may be with time itself.

Excerpt from the book

Carn Spider Brook glided through the sizzling rift in the fabric of time into the future where he lived concealed and out of reach from the Darkmore Evil. His dusky blue-gray Goldenhorn dragon, Cezzor, carried them toward the misty plateaus and craggy ocean cliffs of his island home after successfully depositing another prophetic scroll into the past for his brother Tomas to find.

He and Cezzor had been doing this for a century, and most days Carn felt he couldn’t make another trip. He just wanted to go to Nomuria. But now that the second Shadowalker was born, renewed vigor and purpose energized him. The Shadowalkers would deliver the Oracular Crystal, the Variel would step forward, and he would be able to orchestrate his efforts to bring the Evil to extinction without the need for clandestine travel through time to deliver his prophetic knowledge. Finally, things will advance at a faster pace.

A smile tugged his aged face as he remembered the urn his mere had crafted for his sister and how his mother reacted when the glyphs appeared. He had stopped rolling his clay to stare at the colorful light shining around Aurora. Back in his innocence, his dragon-touched abilities didn’t provide the understanding that the glyphs represented a timeline. The timeline now unfolding. If all goes well, only three more levels to strategize.

His smile died. He’d long ago lost the excitement he first experienced with his Drakeborn understanding of future scenarios. Now the insights often burdened him, and living in the future equipped with his visions gave birth to knowledge of difficult sacrifices and lingering consequences—sometimes good, but often mingled with the bitterness of loss. The battle would grow fierce. Many would give their lives to rid the overland of the Evil. The Thornose would sacrifice even more. A bittersweet sadness washed over him as he thought of his brother Tomas. How I long to reveal myself to him. To tell him I am alive and still in the fight. Talk to him about what I’ve learned. But if I did, it would only give the Evil an advantage. It burdened him to know that the time for Tomas’s sacrifice drew near.

The sage from Red Grove had arrived at Tachnir. This man reminded him of his brother Kylar. Navigating that man’s ability to recall everything will be a challenge. But this is where the dragons led me, and they have never been in error. He had been excited when this Udoaver Greensleeves and his wife arrived in the valley, and even more excited when his wife birthed a son already gifted through the Thornose. As the plan played out, he had enjoyed spying on their years in the cabin where he grew up. The Thornoses were aware of his brief visits, but they did not interact.

When the male child, Orin Coolingbreath, became a Drake Ascendant as a boy through the Icewings and the Goldenhorns, the thrill of it made him feel alive. Carn’s part in the plan was working. New powers were introduced. And now the second Shadowalker had entered his time of origin and been hidden under the nose of the Evil at Nalhdyn Hold. Outcomes are getting trickier to predict, but soon I will have the Shadowalkers join me with the Oracular Crystal in this aspect of the fight. He considered bringing Aurora into the mix but wasn’t sure if it was just his longing for human companionship or if his little sister’s skills were needed for the final blow. He would not make that decision until he knew it fit the plan and not his desires.