Book One of the Saga · Recorded in the Seminary Archives

The Crowndom
of Sands

Can destiny be escaped, or does every choice lead toward it?

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A Birth on a Moonless Night, Book One of The Crowndom of Sands. Cover design by Ain Houras.
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A Birth on a Moonless Night

Long, long ago, in a world beyond our own. A forbidden Book of the Arcane was opened. From a cursed land, erased and forgotten. And on a moonless night, a child is born. What was buried will rise. What was sealed will demand its price. Crowns will break. Kingdoms will fall. And the world will be forced to remember its sins. This is not a war for thrones. And those who walk the path of Yaqin may yet wield the power of the Fold.
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Kings are made before they are crowned. Every character in this saga believes, at some point, that they are choosing, and every reader will have to decide for themselves whether they ever were.
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The known world, as mapped by the Collegium.
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Kanana, the capital of Mehirea.
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Mehir Square, Kanana, where the Unifier still stands in bronze.
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Mohamed L. Masry
Mohamed L. Masry, author of The Crowndom of Sands.
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Mohamed L. Masry

Mohamed L. Masry is an Egyptian novelist and filmmaker, and creator of The Crowndom of Sands, an epic fantasy saga years in the making, drawn from history, mythology, and the civilizations of the ancient world. He lives and writes in Cairo.
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