Holder Of Worlds – Christopher Mitchell

He gave them a vision of an aged god being transformed back to his youth as the years fell away from his flesh. The two gods cried out in anguished longing, and Cael delved into their memories. He perceived their current condition – they were lying on beds in the midst of gold and splendour, their physical forms shrunken and skeletal, their eye sockets vacant, their teeth gone, and their flesh desiccated and withered. ‘I can save you from this living death,’ said Cael.

‘I can return you to what you were before, and, in return, you will give me and my friends all the help I require.’ ‘Are you a god?’ said Nostram. ‘I am not,’ said Cael. ‘I am something better; I am a dream mage, created by Nathaniel.’ ‘Save us!’ cried Lieka. ‘I beg you.’

‘To do so, I must know where you are.’ ‘We are in the palace of the Three Pillars,’ said Lieka. ‘Come to us there.’ He glanced at the members of the Sacred Family, who were staring at Cael in silence. ‘My children,’ he cried, ‘you must see that this man arrives safely; he must come to the Three Pillars. Where are the three sages who found him?’ Sage Baila and the other two sages stepped forward, their heads bowed.

‘Honour this man,’ said the god, ‘and bring him and his companions to the Three Pillars; for they have come to set us free.’ Cael raised a hand and severed their connection to the dream vision. He opened his eyes, and saw the other three mages coughing and spluttering as they came back to their bodies in the small, smoky chamber within the temple. They stared at Cael, then they fell to their knees before him.

‘How long will it take to travel to the Three Pillars?’ he said. ‘Several days, my lord,’ said one of the sages. ‘Then we shall leave in the morning,’ said Cael, as he got to his feet. ‘Good night.’ He walked out of the temple and into the building where he shared a room with Cole. Rosie had set up her bed in an adjoining chamber, but she was sitting with Cole when Cael entered the bedroom. ‘That didn’t take long,’ said Cole.

‘I assume it didn’t work?’ ‘No, it worked,’ said Cael. ‘We might have been wrong about our theory. I don’t think venta was a failed experiment into creating salve.’ ‘No?’ said Cole. ‘What is it, then?’ said Rosie. ‘I think it was an experiment into creating dream vision,’ said Cael.

‘I spoke to the sleeping gods. I told them about salve.’ ‘What did they say?’ said Rosie. Cael smiled. ‘They begged us to come to the Three Pillars. This will be your first and last night in this forest, Rosie; we’re leaving at dawn.’

Christopher Mitchell is the author of the epic fantasy series The Magelands. He studied in Edinburgh before living for several years in the Middle East and Greece, where he taught English. He returned to study classics and Greek tragedy and lives in Fife, Scotland with his wife and their four children. OceanofPDF.com By Christopher Mitchell The Magelands Origins Retreat of the Kell The Trials of Daphne Holdfast From the Ashes The Magelands Epic The Queen’s Executioner The Severed City Needs of the Empire Sacrifice Fragile Empire Storm Mage Soulwitch Rises Renegade Gods The Magelands Eternal Siege The Mortal Blade The Dragon’s Blade The Prince’s Blade Falls of Iron Paths of Fire Gates of Ruin City of Salve Red City City Ascendant Dragon Eyre Badblood Dragon Eyre Ashfall Dragon Eyre Blackrose Dreams of Kell God Restrainer Holdfast Imperium World’s End The Magelands Empire Serpent Dominion Demon Witch Death Seer Blood Burden Kin Strife Tempest’s Edge Creator of Worlds Palace of the Almighty Sapphire Throne The Lost Ascendant Yearning for Evermore Holder of Worlds Immortal Empire Masters and Makers Fall Seldom Kings The Making of Abigone Whalebone King Lies the Prince Suffer the Heir As Makers Dreamt OceanofPDF.com Copyright © Christopher Mitchell 2026 Cover Design by Sasha Almazan and Gene Mollica, G&S Cover Design Studio.

LLC. Maps by Irina French Cover Copyright © Brigdomin Books Ltd 2026 Christopher Mitchell asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work. All the characters in this book are fictitious, and any resemblance to actual persons living or dead is purely coincidental. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems (except for the use of brief quotations in a book review), if you would like permission to use material from the book please contact [email protected] Brigdomin Books Ltd First Edition, January 2026 Ebook Edition © January 2026 ISBN 978-1-915978-82-0 OceanofPDF.com ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I would like to thank the following for all their support during the writing of the Magelands Empire – my wife, Lisa Mitchell, who read every chapter as soon as it was drafted and kept me going in the right direction; my parents for their unstinting support; Marilyn Hopwood and Lisa Hoffman for reading the books in their early stages; James Aitken for his encouragement; and Grant and Gordon of the Film Club for their support.

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