Christopher Patterson

Erik Eleodum is a simple man. He's content farming his family's homestead in northern Hathgolthane and raising a family, like his father, for the rest of his life. Adventure is the last thing on his mind. Erik's brother, Befel, and his cousin, Bryon,can't think of anything worse than farming for the rest of their lives. They want to b heroes. They want fame and fortune. They want to leave their families and go east to the county of Golgolithul where they are sure to find wealth and great adventure. When these three young men leave their farmstead they discover the world is not so simple or easy. Fortune is laden with treachery, fame must be earned with blood, and adventures are rarely grand. The road eastward id hard. To get there, they must ultimately sell their swords and become friends with thieves, dwarves, soldiers, and mercenaries. They battle a band of ruthless slavers, slip past assassins, and experience the deadly consequences of black magic. Will Erik be able to return to the simple life? Will he unwittingly become famous, rich, or a hero? Will he even survive?

Shadow's Fire

A Chance Beginning

Erik has killed men. Their deaths haunt his dreams. He sees visions of his tortured family every time he closes his eyes. His only hope now is to continue to push forward, pray for the souls of the men he has killed, and pray that he will one day see his mother and father and little sisters again, just as he left them.

Dark Winds

Breaking the Flame

Erik Eleodum is a simple man. He doesn't want to be a hero. He doesn't need fame or fortune. He is content farming his family's homestead in northern Hathgolthane and raising a simple family, like his father, for the rest of his life. In fact, adventure is the last thing on his mind. Befel, Erik's brother, and Bryon, his cousin, can't think of anything worse than farming for the rest of their lives. They want to be heroes. They want fame and fortune. They want to leave their families and go east, to the country of Golgolithul, where they are sure to find easy wealth and great adventure. But when these three young men leave their farmstead, they quickly discover the world is not so simple, not so easy. Most fortune is laden with treachery, fame must be earned with blood, and adventures are rarely grand. Ideas of grandeur are crushed and the road east is hard. To get there, these men must ultimately sell their swords and become friends with thieves, dwarves, soldiers, and mercenaries well past their prime. They battle a band of ruthless slavers, slip past assassins, and experience the deadly consequences of black magic. Will Erik ever be able to return to the simple life? Will he unwittingly become famous, become rich, become a hero? Or, will he even survive? Often the deeds of those deemed smaller, either in stature or status, go uncounted by chroniclers of history. Yet, it is these deeds that repeatedly change the course of history. For every hero whose feats minstrels sing, there were fifty men following his stead, giving blood and sweat just as he did; and because they were not the first to return from a long voyage away, or perhaps they did not return at all, their glories are never sung. This is a story about those men who would only be known in the local legends, who would have been forgotten by time save for a small bit of chance. Chance, Fate, Destiny, Dumb Luck; all these and more, and then maybe none of these things, are the reasons a young man can go from a farmer's son, a boy of lowly birth born with dirt on his face, to a great warrior, a kingly knight, a dragon slayer. Three young farmers, tired of plowing endless fields from sunrise to sunset, gave up all they knew to pursue fame, pursue riches. Their crying mothers at their backs and the unknown ahead of them, they worked in pigsties, slept in the alleys of outskirt cities, traveled with strangers and shed blood unwillingly. They trusted men they should not have trusted, and did not trust those they should have. These young men who left their way of life for fame and glory would soon learn, as most young men full of grand ideas and just ideals do, the world is not what they thought it to be."

Book One of the Shadow's Fire Trilogy

Shadow's Fire: a Chance Beginning

Erik has killed men. Their deaths haunt his dreams. He sees visions of his tortured family every time he closes his eyes. His only hope now is to continue to push forward, pray for the souls of the men he has killed, pray that the dreams of the dead will one day stop, and pray that his family is all right, that he will one day see his mother and father and little sisters again, just as he left them. He never wished for adventure, never wished for fame or fortune, but it seems they will come his way anyways. As he travels with men he doesn't trust and dwarves who seemingly do not trust him, he tries to hold onto to who is, who he was, who he wants to be. The only people he might truly find solace in, Befel, his brother, and Bryon, his cousin, are so self-absorbed, they have no time for him. Erik will travel into new lands and meet new people. His quest for the Lord of the East's heirloom in some ancient, lost dwarvish city will shatter his world. He will have to rebuild that world, everything he knows, only to have it shattered again. He will not only fight men and monsters, but he must fight evil, death, hatred, and darkness. And as Erik continues to wonder how much more blood will stain his hands, dark clouds loom overhead, carried by dark winds.

Book Two of the Shadow's Fire Trilogy

Erik has killed men. Death haunts his dreams. Fate has chosen its path for Erik Eleodum...or has it. The pain of killing seems to overwhelm him as he grows more and more distant from his brother and cousin and he turns into the very person he once loathed...a thief, a mercenary, a killer...a hero. Erik must not only face dwarves, murderers, slavers, dragons, and the undead, he must now face his fears, the darkness that has been hidden deep inside of him. Take a journey that will shatter worlds, stain hands red with blood, test faith, question loyalties, make strong men weak and weak men brave. The world is changing and a great evil is rising, all carried by Dark Winds!

Shadow's Fire Book 2

Book Three of the Shadow's Fire Trilogy

It was the most unlikely of paths for the simple farmer, but one he must now embrace. Erik has become a hero, a warrior... and a leader. The journey to find the lost dwarvish city of Orvencrest is almost complete, but the nearer Erik and his companions are to their goal, the greater the danger. As Erik nears the end of his quest, he is now torn between his dwarvish allies, his family, and fulfilling the mission given to them by the Lord of the East. It is Erik who must decide what is best for the rest of the world. As he discovers atrocities and forgotten histories, buried deep within an abandoned, dwarvish city, Erik unwittingly awakens an ancient evil, one the world hasn't seen for a thousand years. It is an evil that threatens to enslave the world again, but the chains are not made of iron, but of fire. There is only one choice for Erik now, to die or to break the flame...

Shadow's Fire Book 3

Erik Eleodum has vanquished a dragon and is called a hero, but his journey into darkness is far from over. After two years away, Erik returns home and wants nothing more than to live a simple life of a farmer. But he knows that isn’t possible. The task that the infamous Lord of the East looms heavy, and failure means death…not just his, but the ones he loves. Erik must leave his home once again to fulfill his promise to a ruler he knows he can’t trust and, soon, on the road to the cursed tower of Fealmynster, enemies old and new threaten him. And a new shadow infiltrates not only the real world, but the dream world as well. In both worlds where he exists, Erik must search for answers, salvation, and his purpose, hoping they can be found in the Dragon Sword.

Demon's Fire Book 1

Dragon Sword

An ancient evil reemerges, one that once caused devastation and chaos the world had never seen before, and had not seen since. Erik must now figure out how to combat and defeat this ancient evil, but his time is short, and his resources limited. Erik realizes his mission is far beyond simply opposing the Lord of the East or even rescuing the spirit of an ancient elf. As darkness and chaos spread across Háthgolthane and the world, he realizes his journey will either save or doom the world. With only his sword, Dragon Tooth, Erik sets out alone and into the unknown in search of a stone called the Dragon Stone by some, the Stone of Chaos by others. He doesn’t quite know how, but this stone is a key to saving the world. Journey with Erik Eleodum as he searches for the Stone of Chaos and seeks a way to thwart the return of the Lord of Chaos…

Demon's Fire Book 2

Stone of Chaos

To Kill a Witch

Demon's Fire Book 2 (Dream Walker Chronicles Book 5)

Erik has killed men. Their deaths haunt his dreams. He sees visions of his tortured family every time he closes his eyes. His only hope now is to continue to push forward, pray for the souls of the men he has killed, pray that the dreams of the dead will one day stop, and pray that his family is all right, that he will one day see his mother and father and little sisters again, just as he left them.He never wished for adventure, never wished for fame or fortune, but it seems they will come his way anyways. As he travels with men he doesn't trust and dwarves who seemingly do not trust him, he tries to hold onto to who is, who he was, who he wants to be. The only people he might truly find solace in, Befel, his brother, and Bryon, his cousin, are so self-absorbed, they have no time for him. Erik will travel into new lands and meet new people. His quest for the Lord of the East's heirloom in some ancient, lost dwarvish city will shatter his world. He will have to rebuild that world, everything he knows, only to have it shattered again. He will not only fight men and monsters, but he must fight evil, death, hatred, and darkness. And as Erik continues to wonder how much more blood will stain his hands, dark clouds loom overhead, carried by dark winds.

Christopher Patterson

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