Rebirth of the Druids

Rebirth of the Druids
by Marchele E. Tyler

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Rebirth of the Druids                    
by Marchele E Tyler   

US price: $13.95
Format: Paperback
Size: 6 x 9
Pages: 198
ISBN: 0-595-21042-2
Publication Date: Dec-2001

Rebirth of the Druids is an enchanting tale of fantasy and romance that will grip the reader in its spell of magic and legend as it tells of how a young spellbinder helps to restore the balance of a tortured world.

Long ago all the lords and the ladies of the magic lands, or Druids as we know them, left the known lands. Only a few spellbinders and the old woman they called the Oracle remained behind. The Druids promised to return, but never did, so there was an imbalance in the flow of magic that came from the five wellsprings beneath the land. The magic flowed too freely and the motherland could not take the strain. The Oracle predicted that in the next few years furious storms would take over the skies, earthquakes would be common and all the seas would turn to poison. Only the Druids had enough ability to harness the wellsprings and restore the balance.

At length the Oracle called a young guard, a spellbinder named Curren, to her private chamber. She reminded him of the history of the Druids and of the wellsprings. Then she told him of the vision she had just had. Her vision showed her that soon they would have Druids among them again, but not the Druids of old. New ones would be born from common women--but because of the lack of magic in the mothers’ bodies and the desperate need for it in the babies, the children would not survive the birth without help.

This was Curren's mission--to rescue, resuscitate and rear the five Druid children, by harnessing and channeling the magic of the land through his catalyst stone. But it was a mission fraught with danger and betrayal...

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NOTE:  The Children of the Wellsprings

Rebirth of the Druids is the first of three books by Marchele Tyler.  The second is Reunion of the Druids, while the third is Masters of the Wellsprings.  The trilogy constitutes a set called The Children of the Wellsprings.

The following is The Prelude from Rebirth of the Druids:

Prelude 

In the land of Galeia there was a lady called the Oracle who could turn her mind to the future.

In her visions she saw a possible future for her world of Bonatil that frightened her. The peaceful and beautiful land she had known all of her life--all two hundred and fourteen years of it-- would be nothing more than a memory if she didn't do something. The restless oceans, the majestic mountains, the boundless plains, all would be gone--replaced by poisoned waters, decaying fields and black storm-ridden skies. The people that did survive the drastic change to their homeland would be nothing more than empty shells of what they were once, hopelessly perverted and disfigured by the untamed magic that will have seized control of the unsuspecting world.

The Oracle and her order of spellbinders were the only ones that could use any form of the land's precious gift of magic; and it was this very same gift that endangered them all. In this land magic flowed from openings deep underground—openings the ancient ones called the wellsprings. These wellsprings supplied the land with the necessary magic the Oracle and the spellbinders used in their daily lives.

The Druids, an ancient race of magic users, had always been the guardians of the wellsprings. They carefully controlled how much magic was released into the land, making sure the world was not overwhelmed by an excess amount. They were the only ones powerful enough to control the magic. They maintained a careful balance between magic and nature for over a thousand years until one day they left the known lands, promising to return when the time was right--yet to this day they had never returned.

To try and stop the horrible visions from becoming reality, the Oracle chose one of her most trusted guards to go on missions to retrieve five children born with the Druids natural abilities. This appeared to be the only hope for the future.

There was a guard who believed he was nothing more than a simple servant of the Oracle and became much more. He didn't know he was chosen because of his heritage holding the promise of survival for the future children. Only he could serve the needs of this new generation of magic users, but he was not ready to learn the truth of who he was. Only the druid children could help him unlock the secrets of his past, and only then could he help them become the masters of the wellsprings.