A Dawn Obsolete

A coming of age for those born with talent or magic, in a future Earth where the government actively seeks out those called Scion. Eight main characters will each grow as artists—for magic doesn't always have to be about power, or conquering another world, or superheroes. Sometimes magic is just a reflection of who we want to be.

Sci-fi, fantasy, some historical fiction, inspiration from myth, music, anime, Shakespeare, movies, Hegel, fine art, and math symbols all come together into the first of seven in the series namedThe Light Apparent.

For UNOFFICIAL - NOT MY CREATION - celeb photos, anime pics, fanart, artist muses, Nightcafe AI, etc. that I use to help visualize the cast, please see https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Ptxk9_GGX1KnLR7bZLvYwjCcUsqcq--D?usp=sharing. None of these will be actually attached to the work with its eventual physical publication (except perhaps Nightcafe) but are PURELY for my visual aid (and yours too - but every character appears differently to its reader!). Note that it is also CURRENT, so a lot of the cast in there includes those introduced in recent chapters in Book 2.

I thank the Hector Fan Club, the first betas, for their feedback, theories, and casual observations which on occasion preluded the foundation. I am grateful to my mom for showing only amazement and congratulations and pride after I told her I'd written a novel. A shoutout to Emma for giving chapter-by-chapter feedback! And I could not do this without all of the artists and authors who have inspired me. Fiction may be a long hallway in the Hotel Trivago, but I'm trying my best to add a new floor.

Myriad songs, other fictional works, historical figures, words of the Bard, and many other references are used throughout. I do not write to infringe, only to continue a mode that has been forgotten.

"All the world's a stage"-- Shakespeare, SCION INMORTALIS

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Book 2 foundhere

Also, please note that the author's copy of bothA Dawn Obsoleteand the sequel are the most up to date; the Royal Road iterations will not be. But all await the eventual physical publication later this decade.