I've always loved that intoxicating feeling of adventure and
mystery when embarking with a character into a brand new world. My driving motivation with The Banished Lands
series was to create a world with a rich lore and history, but not overburden
the reader with backstory. I've always
loved the richness of poetry – the metaphorical language which speaks to a
deeper meaning just beyond the edge of explanation. In The Banished Lands series, we enter a
fractured world with a forgotten history.
But hints of it remain through a set of poems that speak of the old
world and cryptic events which brought an end to that age.
I love the idea of characters living normal, mundane lives,
suddenly thrust into an ancient struggle they didn't even know was raging. I love the fantasy genre because it isn't
ashamed of the classic archetypes – the epic struggle of good and evil,
heroics, and everything that often gets the label cliché. Using these archetypes in ways that haven't been
done before was my real motivation for writing The Banished Lands series. The way this series combines poetry, lore and
mystery is something unique in the fantasy genre.
When writing this first book, I often sat back and wondered
to myself, What would it be like to live in a world with a shrouded past? We often take modern life for granted – the
whole wealth of human knowledge at our fingertips. But what would it be like to live in a world
where the only history was cryptic poetry telling of a time when the world was
a completely different place? And what
if, somehow, those ancient poems that no one really understands seem to be the
only thing that really explains the dark things creeping forward from the
fringes of the world? Welcome to The
Banished Lands.
About the Author
Benjamin
Mester is native of San Diego but can often be found wandering the woods of
northern Minnesota. He fell in love with
language at an early age – the eloquence of poetry or the grandeur of an epic
story. Fantasy is his favorite genre,
crafting new and magical places of heroism and adventure. When he isn't writing, he's often taking long
walks through nature or wondering about his place in the wide world.
Benjamin
is the author of The
Banished Lands series.
You
can visit him on Goodreads.
About the Book:
Title: THE BANISHED LANDS (BOOK ONE)
Author: Benjamin Mester
Publisher: Independent
Pages: 384
Genre: Fantasy
Author: Benjamin Mester
Publisher: Independent
Pages: 384
Genre: Fantasy
BOOK BLURB:
A kingdom in danger. A prophecy that will change everything.
But will they understand it in time? The old world is gone, and barely even
histories remain. But something from that time is returning. The closing lines
of a farewell poem, written centuries ago by the last great king of the age to
his slain wife, might be more than just a poem:
The world and all its light shall fade,
I'll stay with her beneath the shade
And wait until the world's remade...
Join us in this epic fantasy adventure as three friends plunge into the great mystery of their age, twelve centuries in the making. A mysterious fog blankets the forest just outside the sleepy town of Suriya. A dark plot unfolds as Durian and his friends discover ties between a strange wanderer and the warlike barbarian kingdom far to the north. Are the mysterious things happening in the forest a prelude to invasion? What happens next will propel Durian and his curious friends into the middle of the oldest riddle in the history of their kingdom, a dozen centuries old.
The world and all its light shall fade,
I'll stay with her beneath the shade
And wait until the world's remade...
Join us in this epic fantasy adventure as three friends plunge into the great mystery of their age, twelve centuries in the making. A mysterious fog blankets the forest just outside the sleepy town of Suriya. A dark plot unfolds as Durian and his friends discover ties between a strange wanderer and the warlike barbarian kingdom far to the north. Are the mysterious things happening in the forest a prelude to invasion? What happens next will propel Durian and his curious friends into the middle of the oldest riddle in the history of their kingdom, a dozen centuries old.
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