Blood Magic: Ragnarus works on pain and sacrifice blood is the most common medium of gaining what you want.Beehive Barrier: The Elysian Green ability creates bubble shields made of hexagonal plates.Even if you don't care about accidentally cutting everyone around you, it's easy for a skilled opponent to get inside your reach. They are so heavy you need Super Strength to pick them up and even then they're so long they're very difficult to wield properly. Awesome, but Impractical: Most of the Dragon's Fangs are massive swords nearly seven feet long and capable of cutting through anything.

It was a Ragnarus Traveler who saved the world by sealing all the Incarnations (except Elysia, who had returned to her Territory on her own) beneath the Hanging Trees. A conspiracy created eight Incarnations at the same time for an unknown purpose, resulting in an Elysian Traveler Incarnating to stop them, and then a Ragnarus Traveler Incarnating to stop her. On the rare occasions when Incarnations would remain in the real world and rampage, Elysian Travelers would fight them.

In truth, Incarnations are rare usually whenever someone Incarnated, they would immediately return to their Territory and become a part of it. Appeal to Nature: Enosh wants to release the Incarnations to destroy the 'unnatural' supremacy of Ragnarus, and bring everything back to the 'natural order.' They don't particularly care that millions will die when the Incarnations rampage, and even want to help them after they are freed.The series consists of three books, as well as a short story collection covering the original nine Territories. and what they are holding back.Ī series of fantasy novels by Will Wight.

They come at the problem from two different directions, gaining power to save everyone.Īnd of course, there is the question of what the sacrifices are truly for. Alin is the hero prophesized to put an end to the sacrifices once and for all, while Simon is just a boy. Simon tries to save everyone, but instead it is his friend Alin who manifests powers and kills the enemy Traveler-while their friend Leah, secretly the daughter of the King, takes the sacrifices away.īoth Simon and Alin wish to save Leah and the rest of the sacrifices, but they are on two very different paths. He said that if Simon ever needed training, he would help, but Simon needed to take care of his mother first.Įight years later, Simon is stuck in a tiny village with his insane mother when troops from Overlord Malachi come demanding a 'sacrifice ' nine prisoners, who will be taken to the capital for unknown purposes. Simon was only saved by the intervention of a strange man with a huge sword. His father was killed, and his mother driven insane. When Simon was eight years old, two Travelers attacked his family on the road.

The traveler's gate trilogy