Noctharis has trembled beneath the shadow of blood magic wielded by the dark wizard Vaelgrim, who kills without remorse and prepares to transcend mortality during the coming Red Eclipse—when his power will reach its terrifying zenith. In the slums of Luminara, sixteen-celestial-turn orphan Elias scrapes by on the streets—until one selfless act of courage changes everything. When he rescues a stranger from a pair of deadly xyraxals. That single deed signals an ancient ethereal guardian of balance between light and darkness, the Aetherion, that cannot act alone. The Aetherion chooses Elias as its host, granting him immense but temporary power and hurling the boy into a confrontation with Vaelgrim himself. Now Vaelgrim hunts the Aetherion’s energy to fuel his ascension. Elias must undertake a perilous journey to Veyloria to train with the Wizard Council. Along the way, he faces savage weather, mythical beasts, and Vaelgrim’s cursed abominations. Elias must master...

Elias thought defeating Vaelgrim would end the nightmare. He was wrong. When the dark sorcerer returns from death — reborn stronger, his skin etched with malevolent runes and his eyes burning crimson — the fragile victory crumbles to ash. The Aetherion, the cosmic force bound to Elias, is once again in Vaelgrim's sights. And this time, the dark lord has merged with powers that no one fully understands. With war tearing apart the kingdoms of Ethrydol and Postria, and Vaelgrim's shadow stretching across the land, Elias and his companions must navigate the treacherous Carvarian Mountain Range alone. Kelzirans, ravagers, and the soldiers of an ambitious lord who wants the Aetherion for himself shadow every step eastward toward Omnithal. As Elias and his companions traverse the Carvarian Mountains, death finds them in a gruesome way. While his friend, Gannon, fights his own desperate battle for survival. Then she appears. Crystaline, the...

Elias has two choices—one will cost him his friend; the other, the world. When the Red Eclipse arrives, the dark wizard Vaelgrim looks to seize his long-awaited chance for total dominion over all of Noctharis. He unleashes an army of indestructible crystal warriors and commands his skeletal dragon Drakos across the skies. Sailing up the Thalmus Deep, Elias leads a desperate quest to reach Vaelgrim's fortress in the dark kingdom of Vordath, rescue his friends, and confront the sorcerer at the height of his power. During the voyage, Elias celebrates his day of birth when he turns 17, knowing it could be his last. For the next sunshift he will face Noctharis’s deadliest and most powerful wizard. To win, he must master not just the Aetherion's power, but his own grief, rage, and doubt, before they destroy him from within. The Red Eclipse concludes the sweeping tale of courage, sacrifice,...