Writings Author Christopher L. Patterson

The Nomad, book one of "The Silver Sheen"

2011-12-19T23:46:00.000-08:00

“I have been cursed as a Nameless, but this I doknow. I failed in leading a coup of a corrupt government, I was exiled by theschool I served, I was forced to kill the only father I ever knew, and I wasbetrayed by the woman I loved. Yet the Hood still lives. I am the flesh of hisflesh, and blood of his blood. He is my half brother and I alone am the onlyone who can stop him.”

Noik Naer, a city known for its pristine schoolsof trade and higher learning, suffers from poverty. The hungry and destitute linethe streets, begging for bread, yet the government officials and a syndicateknown as the Three Brothers live affluent lifestyles.

One of these schools is in charge of planningthe routes of the Government Caravans, which are the only source of hope forthe people of Noik Naer. When a simple caravan escort mission is ambushedby a black hooded figure, it leaves Kosai, a young guardsman of Noik Naernearly dead. This spurs an investigation which leads him to this school to findout who is leaking the route information. There, Kosai learns that that he isto kill a figure known as the Hood who almost destroyed the secret order ofthe Faye years ago, gained a form of immortality, and nearly killed himduring the escort that spurred the investigation.

What one student said about the first portion of my novel: The Silver Sheen

2011-03-16T11:48:00.001-07:00

What is it? This is a story about two children born of nature one with a white staff, one with a crimson staff who can commune with the Faye a mystical energy, one child name Desek is raised by faeries and grows up to become a wizard while the other child is raised by a woman with red hair and grows up to become an evil sorcerer. As a young man Desek goes into Ruiska learn of bartering but is confronted by a dark mysterious man then flees back to him with the faeries before going into hiding for 5 yrs. After emerging from hiding Desek finds that the faeries have been attacked by some creatures. While tuning in with the faye Desek witnesses the Sorcerer with the crimson staff attack an army of men in a city before stealing a grey stone bowl from the statue of a woman in a fountain. After leaving the city in flames and returning to the desert the stone woman turns to sand and the water in the fountain that was the towns source of thriving turns to past and is absorbed back into the earth. Desek who is a good wizard must then go on a journey to find and defeat the evil sorcerer.

How does it work? This story works by starting out telling the reader how Desek and the evil sorcerer came into being and what their relationship with the Faye is. Powerful description and movement throughout the story allows the reader to be drawn in. There is a good balance of detail and description of personalities that still allows room for the readers imagination.

Is it successful? Yes, this story is successful because it keeps the reader engaged and intrigues/entices the reader to want to know more about how the characters are relevant to one another. This is a good fantasy piece. I want to know more and look forward to reading the completed work.

The Wanderer, Book Two of The Silver Sheen

2011-02-11T08:53:00.000-08:00

Drake, a young dragon has been captured by the evil sorcerer, Erith Moregod. Maerek, his father, enlists the aid of a naive wizard named Desek to help him find his son. They learn that Erith is gathering and slaughtering all the Creatures of the Faye in preparation of a dark ritual; the resurrection of his master known only as the Hood. However, Drake's part is Erith's plot is not to be a sacrifice, but something worse. Desek and Maerek must hurry if they are to save Drake from a fate worse than death.