Scott Telek is a writer, artist and filmmaker. He has been writing professionally for over 20 years, while also writing fiction, film reviews, doing oil painting and creating films. He has always been interested in legend and folklore, which led to his obsession with the lore of King Arthur.
Telek takes a different approach to epic fantasy, which usually invents new stories taking place in the Arthurian world. Telek's interest is in honoring the ancient tales by retaining the plot, story, and weirdness of the original legends from nearly a thousand years ago, but filling in the character and psychology in ways that are compelling to modern readers, but missing from the Middle English sources. That way, readers get to know the real King Arthur of lore, with all the grandeur, magic and romance that modern, made-up stories simply cannot match.
You may think you know all about King Arthur--but you don't. Sure there's swordfights, honor and romance. But there's also a lot of magic, psychological intrigue, supernatural occurrences and unexplained phenomena that make this much more "Twilight Zone" than "Camelot." And the entire, decades-spanning plot, with multiple interlocking storylines, was completed over a thousand years ago--so it's all going somewhere, and it's all been thought through, right to the very end. No making up as we go along!
Enter The Swithen at book one, which details the real origin story of Merlin--laid down 800 years ago! Book two finds Merlin preparing Britain for the coming of Arthur, and at the end of book three, Arthur is born. Get on for the ride as we see Arthur rise, unite Britain, marry Guinevere, form the Knights of the Round Table, be betrayed by Lancelot, and be there are the whole thing comes crashing down, in the most monumental, epic, intricate and moving tale of a civilization's rise and fall ever set down.
Two formidable knights.
One deadly secret.
And the future king in the middle.
Arthur has pulled the sword from the stone—but he's not king yet. A confused fourteen-year-old from a small town, Arthur suddenly finds himself considered the foretold king of all Britain. He struggles to grasp the enormity of what it means, except that it means he can't go home, his brother and other boys—even men, and even kings—are bitterly jealous of him, and many people want to kill him while he's still just a boy.
"Scott Telek's Swithen series just keeps getting better and better."
—Tyler Tichelaar, author, "Children of Arthur"
Put into training with Sir Ulfius and Sir Bretel—the knights that guarded Uther and Igraine, the former king and queen, Arthur learns to fight with swords, lay siege to a castle and understand the demands of kingship as he is drawn into the close friendship the two knights share. But one of them has a secret—a secret so dark and explosive it throws the formidable knights into a deadly feud, with the future king caught in their battle.
While this happens, the Lady of the Lake makes Merlin aware that he's not the only power in the realm. Morgan le Fay discovers that the boy who ruined her mother's life has been found, and lays a plan to entrap him. King Lot is not about to let the realm fall into the hands of a child, and gathers kings to plan a war to prevent it. And Arthur learns that a great wizard created him, molded him, and will soon arrive to assume total control of his life.
"A return to the best of T.H, White before it was treated to Disney's sickly saccharin kiss. My only honest criticism is we have to wait for the next."
—Steve Gladwin, Stories of Feeling and Being, author; "The Seven"
In the fifth novel of the acclaimed Swithen series, the only Arthurian novel series to remain completely faithful to the real Medieval legend of King Arthur, the scope and action explode as characters that will play major roles in books to come begin to weave their stories. A vast world, featuring an intricately-woven society of characters whose stories will continue over the next twenty novels begins to take shape as the Realm of Logres attempts to process the appearance of the great king. Many will love him. Some will hate him. But everyone in this fully-realized world of beauty, myth and magic will be touched by him.
"The best telling of these stories I've encountered in any medium."
—Amory, Audible Review
Author Scott Telek makes the blank archetypes of the Arthurian legend into real people with relatable emotions, helping us understand the intricate interconnections and subtle ironies that have helped this story endure for almost a thousand years. Join The Swithen for an unprecedented literary journey that tells one unforgettable, generation-spanning saga over the course of twenty-five novels, all leading toward a devastating, transformational, shattering climax.
With Wonderly Wroth, we're one fifth of the way there.
"Telek is re-telling the Arthurian legend but filling in the holes while giving the originally piecemeal plots a contemporary feel and the flat medieval characters modern emotions and motivations."
—H. Williams, Amazon Review
Título : Wonderly Wroth: The Swithen Book Five
EAN : 9798989106219
Editorial : Scott Telek
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