Book One of the Merlin Chronicles By Daniel Diehl.
Title: Revelations: Book One of the Merlin Chronicles
Author: Daniel Diehl
Genre: Fantasy
Length: 338 pages
Release Date: September 2013
ISBN-13: 978-0615879802
Imprint: Mythos Press – GMTA Publishing
Book Description
Merlin the Magician only exists in myth and legend – at least that’s what archaeology student Jason Carpenter thought until he discovered the mysterious orb that had housed history’s greatest wizard for 1,600 years.
Merlin the Magician only exists in myth and legend – at least that’s what archaeology student Jason Carpenter thought until he discovered the mysterious orb that had housed history’s greatest wizard for 1,600 years.
Forced into an uneasy alliance, Jason and Merlin are sucked into a web of deceit, intrigue and murder that sends them on a chaotic race to outwit, and out run, Merlin’s ancient nemesis, the evil sorceress Morgana le Fay, her gang of drug smugglers and a 500 year-old Chinese necromancer. Its a race against time to complete their quest before an army of dragons is unleashed on a vulnerable and unsuspecting 21st century world.
About the Author:
Daniel Diehl
Daniel Diehl has been an author, writer and investigative historian for thirty-five years. For nearly twenty years Diehl has been involved in writing for publication and documentary television production. Mr. Diehl’s work has won awards from the Houston (Texas) Film Festival, the National Trust for Historic Preservation (US) and the City of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Arts Foundation. Working alone and as a part of the multi-award winning team of Daniel Diehl and Mark Donnelly, Diehl has produced work in two main categories; trade publication and television documentary scripts. His canon of work includes twenty non-fiction books (which have been translated into ten foreign languages), one previous work of fiction and scripts for more than one hundred and seventy hours of documentary television primarily for A&E Network, The History Channel, History International, Biography Channel and Discovery Network.
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Character Interview questions
1. What is your character’s name? Do they have a nick name? –
His full, given name in his native Welsh language is Myrddin Emrys ap Morfryn but most people know him simply as Merlin.
2. What is he/she's hair colour and eye colour? -
His hair and waist length beard are white with age and his eyes are a riveting hypnotic blue. Hypnotic is not a euphemism, here, he can literally hypnotize a person and invade their mind simply by locking eyes with them.
3. What kind of distinguishing facial feautures does your character have? – Beyond being very thin with a large, hawkish nose, his beard obscures much of his lower face.
3. Does your character have any scars? –
No
5. Who are your character's friends and family? –
Everyone he knew has been dead for nearly 1,600 years. Well, nearly everyone, with the exception of the sorcerous Morgana le Fay, but anyone who has made it a life’s quest to kill you hardly counts as a friend.
6. Who are the people your characters are closest to, who does he/she wish they are closest to? –
He is forced into an uneasy alliance with a young American archaeology student named Jason Carpenter and, eventually, with Jason’s girlfriend Beverley McCollough, but are they friends?
7. Where was your character born? Where has he/she lived since then? Where does he/she call home? –
As I said earlier, he was born in Wales around the year 410 AD. For some decades he was court priest and wizard to Uther Pendragon and Arthur, both of whom were kings of the Britons. From roughly 485 until 2013 he lived in exile in a blue crystal sphere about the size of a grapefruit.
8. What is he/she's biggest fear. Who has he or she told this to. Who would she never tell this to, and why? –
He is afraid that Morgana le Fay will kill him before he can find a way to permanently stop her from releasing an army of dragons into the world. He only tells Jason because he has absolutely no choice.
9. Does he/she have a secret? –
Many, he is, after all, the greatest wizard in the history of the world.
10. What makes your character laugh out loud? –
I don’t think I‘ve ever known him to laugh. But then, he is a man with a very serious mission. He does, occasionally, smile knowingly but it’s probably best not to ask why.
11. What is one strong memory that has stuck with your character from childhood. Why is it so powerful and lasting? –
There was that time when he was about nine years old, when he was on his way to… Oh, but that’s a secret that has to wait until the second book in the trilogy.
12. Your character is going for a night out. Where is he/she going? What does he/she wear? Who will she be with? –
When going out in public he tends to exchange his usual garb of a long, gray, homespun gown and goat skin vest for a brown tweed suit. It makes him look a little less conspicuous.
13. What does your character most value in friends? –
He doesn’t really have any friends. Spending 1,600 years in a crystal sphere seriously limits a person’s social circle.
14. Which words or phrases does your character over-used? –
If he over-used words it would be the fault of his author and we don’t make that mistake.
15. If your character could change one thing about him/herself what would it be? –
He would have killed Morgana le Fay when she was a child and saved himself sixteen centuries of hassle.
16. Which talent does your character have or wish to have? –
I don’t think there are many talents that the greatest wizard in the history of the world doesn’t have.
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