Origins of the Never (Tales of the Neverwar, #0)

Imagine if you can, you tiny mortal, a world of peace and plenty, a world where magic weaves its web throughout all reality, banishing conflict, sickness, and hunger. A world where the races live in perfect peace and harmony, and the forces of Light prevail.
But know this; the brightest light creates the deepest shadow, and within, the ancient enemy stirs, its slumber interrupted by the spark of jealousy. Evil enters an innocent heart, causing a downward spiral into corruption. A single being, Tenybris, falls from the light, and becomes the greatest threat to life in the history of the universe. As this world, and the font of magic it holds turns to darkness, the great one, Olumé faces a desperate choice. Make the ultimate sacrifice, or allow Tenybris to devour all life, everywhere.
Could you decide between life and death...or something infinitely worse?
Origins of the Never is the prequel to the Tales of the Neverwar. Set thousands of years before the series, read how darkness rises and dragons die, and how magic is banished from the realms.

CJ Rutherford has always been a story teller, even if they started out in his mind only. He grew up on a farm in very rural Ireland, and was left pretty much to his own devices most of the time.
​So, he invented his own world, with fairies, trolls, and other mystical creatures.
​His stories stayed with him throughout his life, sometimes scrawled down on scraps of paper, and occasionally brought to life in a sketch (although he's the first to admit what he drew and what you might see might not bear any similarity to each other.)
​Along came two daughters, and at last he had an outlet for his imagination. As the girls grew up they were enthralled by the characters and the worlds their father created. He even brought them to life in his fantasy world, and they never knew when he sat down to tell them their bed-time story, whether they would be fighting a dragon or playing with one.
​But time moves on, and daughters grow up, and soon enough, CJ needed another way to tell his tales.
The rest, as they say, is history…or the future, depending on how you look at it.
Tales of the Neverwar is a unique fantasy series, spanning two worlds, one of magic and one of science. Millennia ago, magic was hidden to prevent it being used by an ancient evil malevolence to conquer the universe. Now, the spell hiding it is failing, and the magical land of Teralia is about to re-enter our world.
The Darkness, banished for thousands of years, awakens as the magic grows stronger, and searches for a way to use this new magic, this 'science', to free itself from the prison entombing it.
20-year-old Katheryn's ordinary life is turned upside down when she discovers she's the only thing standing between survival, and the destruction of everything she loves.
So begins a desperate battle across time, space, and multiple dimensions, as magic collides with science in an ancient battle for supremacy…for whoever controls the magic, wins the war.