A night at the local tavern doesn't go as planned. He went for a drink, he left covered in the blood of his friends. With a bloodthirsty elf hunter chasing him down, how can a lowly thief escape the grasp of the evil elven hunter known only by the name Bloodblade? This is a complete prequel story set in the bestselling Dwemhar Realms universe, a growing world containing over thirty novels!

Librarian note: Older cover of B01D04ULGU. The elves have been called to war. As his parents leave, Kealin and his siblings stay behind to continue to train for the inevitable bloodshed that will reach their shores. For all their lives they have been persecuted for being half-elf. Kealin has never questioned his mother's true lineage but she has been in hiding and he will soon discover why. A prophecy is revealed that foretells doom for all the warriors who departed. In order to avert the disaster, Kealin and his half-blood siblings embark into the frigid seas of the north aboard an enchanted ship. In a perilous journey, Kealin discovers a power not at all elven in nature. He is changing. As the blood of the race of a long dead people surges in his veins, a power awakens within his mind tying him to a lost and powerful culture. But what else is waking in the long frozen north, will risk all of them and Kealin is playing into the hands of a master deceiver. He must learn to control this ancient power before a hidden plot destroys all he seeks to save.

An undying sorcerer may provide half-elven warrior Kealin's last chance to find his sister. Five frustrating years along the forbidding northern coast have yielded only rumors of a powerful seer dwelling far to the south. To reach the enigmatic entity, Kealin must trace a path of blood down an entire region. Dogged by a dark curse on his own soul, he must run the gauntlet of the Grand Protectorate and their anti-elven zealotry. Kealin's only aid comes from a duo of fugitive treasure hunters of uncertain loyalties. Darkness is gathering. Will the return of an ancient sleeping evil prevent him from saving the last of his family? When blood fills the mountains, Demons will awake.

His parents are dead. His brother is trapped. His sister is missing. If Kealin is going to help either of them he must find Risdannia. But he is alone in a strange land with few allies. War encroaches. Kealin is torn between helping his friends and uncovering a way to save his siblings. Finding Risdannia is only a part of his journey. A powerful wizard has emerged and in his path are thousands of innocent people. With his resurrected orc hordes, he seeks to exterminate all who threaten him. But for Kealin, his every action curses those he loves to their deaths. He cannot escape his past and the true enemy may not be who he thinks.

When death awakens there is nowhere one can hide. Kealin’s blades still reek from the blood of Vakron-Tur. He defeated the dark wizard but lost his elder brother.The god of death’s voice resonates in his mind and he struggles to control what little of himself that remains. He is close to reaching his sister but with so much lost already, he wonders what end will come from his quest. Journeying south with his companions, he meets Veora, a beautiful but sadistic necromancer. As an acolyte of the Five and a student from the High Sanctum of magic, she agrees to lead them to her masters. But while this practitioner of death magic knows what Kealin seeks, he senses a presence about her. Something she is hiding. When it comes to magic, is death no more than another path to life or a shadow of a darker and consuming evil? Many fans of fast-paced sword and sorcery and fantasy adventure, have loved the first three books in the Half-Elf Chronicles by J.T Williams. Do not miss Necromancer’s Curse, the fourth book in the series!

The time for a zealous reckoning has come. The western lands tremble. The city of Eh-Rin is under siege and with the nearing eclipse of the moon, the powerful spells protecting the ancient city will fail. The legions of the Grand Protectorate ready their forces to smite the very place that stands as the last beacon of hope in a darkening world. In a desperate assault to save Eh-Rin, Kealin and his companions draw upon the power of death magic and unleash a horde of their own in a final attempt to defeat the enemy that has already claimed two elven kingdoms, the last rebelling kingdom of men, and will soon reveal a true terror against all peoples of magic. But this is all a distraction. A power worse than all the armies of the land draws near... something that has been among them the entire time...

One final duel remains. A showdown between the righteous and the unholy. Kealin and Tulasiro journey North with haste and the half-elf of Urlas knows he may not return. His challenger has haunted his mind and struck down his love ones; Vankou, the god of death, will not take another. Kealin will have vengeance for the fallen. Armed with the god-sword gifted to him by a fallen deity and the blood of the Dwemhar surging in his veins, Kealin prepares for the final battle. But the seas he once sailed upon have changed much in the last few years. The world quakes as all the energies of magic swirl towards a great gathering in the heavens above the dark parts of the north. A great return is upon the living realm. The time of the Dwemhar has come. When at last the final threads of both the Stormborn of legend and Dwemhar of old converge, Kealin will discover the terrible truth and the identity of his true adversary... an entity that even the ancient races failed to destroy... an entity that threatens all of the ascended and living alike.

A half-elf seeks a cure in the mysterious Shadowlands. But followers of The Blood stalk the lands and there are whispers of ancient demons returning... Kealin Half-Elf has only been like this for a few weeks and already he is changing. He feels a hunger he has never felt before. Before this, he had mastered the power of his ancient Dwemhar heritage, destroyed an ascended being, but was mortally injured. Vampirism saved him. But now he must hurry to reverse the effect before he is eternally trapped in a state of maniacal blood lust. But the worst part? The Shadowlands are not a place for a pale elf... and even more so one that has the ancient Dwemhar lineage. Not to mention his traveling companions have their own secrets, especially the mysterious wizard Evurn -a shadow elf returning home after generations in hiding. Kealin knows it unwise to ask him directly. In the darkness of what is to come, Kealin will have few choices if he is to save himself and those he cares about. But the one choice he might need to make will mean losing everything else he fights to hold on to. In the end, should he just embrace the darkness and release his hold on sanity? He might not have a choice. If you're a fan of epic fantasy, explosive sorcery, and swordplay, with an air of political intrigue and religious zealotry, you're in for a treat. In this new novel by USA TODAY BESTSELLING author J.T. Williams, you get a new novel set in a world of over twenty-five books and counting. What's better? This book is a perfect starting place if you're new! Are you ready? Scroll up and click Buy Now or Read for Free with Kindle Unlimited!

Every plan has fallen apart. The Blood grasps the Shadowlands. Can any defeat the Great Seer? More importantly, can they stand against what she creates? Kealin can no longer be in the sunlight. Weakened and broken, he embraces the guidance of a Vampire Lord and has gained a new furry companion with a penchant for a magic he's never seen. If he is to help the others, he must learn to control his new powers but the goblins swarming his new master's lands will complicate that and his Master has his own secrets...

Those of Shadow rise. But a once powerful ally has become consumed by The Blood. Kealin rushes to Aeveam's aid. Though he has had a victory with Eschal and defeated one of the demonic realms, there is much more at work than mere spiders and dwarves. He is confident in his control of his vampiric side but a new enemy hunts him and this is no mere foe of flesh and blood. Aeveam, fighitng for days alone with just Sordall, happens across someone from her past that she did not expect all while tapping into a power that frightens her beyond anything else. As she fights to both stay alive and prevent the vampiric poison from overtaking her, she begins to feel that all she has known up to this point was wrong. Evurn and the rest of his companions search for allies and make deals that will have far-reaching consequences but he has little choice. Rumor has it that a Golden Wizard, a powerful and once zealous ally has turned against them, drawing an abomination into the Shadowlands. As the Great Seer tightens her grip on the once-free lands of his people, Evurn will have to trust in old friends from his time with the Stormborn if he hopes to have any chance to stop the demonic forces just on the brink of the living realm. A Great War is brewing but those of Shadow and The Rogue Elf have no intent on backing down.

They won a battle but ignited a war and a betrayal like none other is coming. The Great Seer makes her move. As Evurn moves to retake Eliadel, a greater enemy reveals itself. Aeveam is learning the secret to her own lineage and hidden power that was suppressed. A twisted zeal grows within her. Now, Kealin and Trugno work with the paladin Elwynn and the Order of Iruda to attempt to cut off the Great Seer's ties to demonic energies and blood magic. But Kealin has been drifting into the repository of knowledge known as the Book of Urakel, an ancient tome with a personality of its own... who is this unseen hand that scribes such dark revelations? All the while wizards rise up across the lands in growing strife among their order. But Kealin doesn't trust them. Even though many of his friends do. In the end, it may be a rogue elf and his trusted companion who must strike, alone...

Darkness descends and it's up to one young high elf to stand against it... but nothing is as it appears. War has erupted across the lands and when the elves of Urlas depart for war, Kealin is not allowed to join the other warriors as he expects. His father and mother, and the elven High Council, demand he and his siblings stay behind. There's something Kealin is not being told. When a soothsayer foretells the fall of the elves that have gone to war, it's up to Kealin and his siblings who refuse to stand by and wait. if they're to save their parents and the lives of their kin they must act. No matter the risk involved. This one dark choice will see Kealin on a path like none before. A menace within him awakens. It isn't elven magic. It is something else, older and darker. When one tragedy follows another, Kealin must grow and become something else entirely. His ascension begins. Embracing the darkness of an ancient race that resides within as seething darkness just on the edge of his mind, can he control this growing power? Get ready for the Rogue Elf of Urlas: Twilight Ascension a progressive, epic fantasy adventure! The complete omnibus includes: Half-Bloods Rising Seer of Lost Sands Shadow of the Orc Star Necromancer's Curse Wrath of the Half-Elves The Last Dwemhar