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CORPEDIUM BOOKS
FOR GROWNUPS
The adventures of SUN AND THUNDER🏳️🌈, a lovely couple of dare devils, stretch over five volumes of thrills and passions, through time and space. They know no boundaries, have the purest hearts, and a bit of wizardry in their bones; and only one rule: to never go their separate ways. When they met, Thunder’s medieval kingdom was lingering in darkness under a wretched cloud. Anotimp-ul, the new emancipated world they found across the canyon was on the brink of decay and could only be saved by revisiting their past. Likewise, many other worlds of their universe had been lost, consumed by their own peoples’ failings. Lastly, a far-away Planet Earth, in a post-apocalyptic state of ruin, called out to them for help. Sun and Thunder had to race against time. Could their own world’s magic help another? Could a new collective moral conscience emerge to halt Earth’s total destruction?
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THE GARDEN OF ADAYARANA🏳️🌈
Who are the heroes of the Sun and Thunder series? Sun is a child of the land of sunshine with jade-green eyes, like shallow water ponds at the end of summer, and unkempt pampas-grass-colored tresses. Thunder is a child of the land of darkness, his eyes a stary night sky, his ebony silk mane pervaded with the scents of rose water and smoldered firewood.
To save his land and to find redemption for his tormented soul, Thunder, the fierce Black Knight of Noaptea’s Royal Guards, embarks on a long journey to find the moral virtues he lacks. Sun, selflessly signs up to accompany Thunder, too willing to help and forgive the young man who can do no wrong in his eyes. Leela, the whimsical gardener of Adayarana has agreed to guide them and bridge the gap between the occasionally intersecting realms of the humans and their fairies.
The gifts they seek are hard to find – goodness, peace, hope, trust, joy, and love. Will Thunder become the man he deserves to be? Will he attain the new kind of moral courage he needs to save himself and his land?
THE KEEPERS OF IARNAHANA🏳️🌈
When Valine, their world’s fairy of courage, comes to deliver a letter in Anotan, a language unknown to them, Sun and Thunder are stunned to find out that across the monstruous canyon they believed to be the end of their world there was a second world they knew nothing about. And, from where, they were summoned by a mad scientist with a mouthful of a name, Noru Ultimul Intelept Grand Wizard of the Anotimp Citadel, to revive and rescue 37 books of law lost somewhere in time, not over time but literally in time, as far as 500 years ago.
The vices this new world had accumulated throughout its history such as malice, avarice, arrogance, betrayal, aggression, and deceit become the issues they need to put back into working order all through poverty-stricken towns, epidemics, and brutal invasions, plus a salty sea that Thunder, our consummate horse rider, hates to navigate with a passion.
As they go further and further away from Iarnahana, their enchanted garden of love and desire, the frustrations grow, and time-travelling into the past is taking its toll. Will they be eventually sent into the future?
LOST WORLDS🏳️🌈
Fairy Grand Master Viu, the jovial overseer of Pamint-ul’s collective conscience, is plotting to pull Sun and Thunder into a new adventure he can no longer undertake himself. The two professors, now fully devoted to archeology, are digging up their world’s deserts when they get derailed and sent on an extraordinary odyssey, to decipher what led eight of their universe’s worlds, corresponding to Viu’s eight ancient renderings of ancestral flowers, to become lost to humanity. They inch away from Pamint-ul, from their fairytale-like Iarnahana, and realize that safety and harmony are not a given elsewhere. Their ability to absorb knowledge - science, languages, or history - is uncanny, though the moral behavior of other societies forces them to change course and adapt.
Upon meeting Spear, the fairy shipbuilder, their wanderings begin in Anotimp-ul, through the Badrágon Ocean, to the worlds of Baadal, Okáné, Goáhág, Saramdul, Nainen-Sisu, and Mor. Sun teases Thunder’s reckless first attempt at driving a car. Nonetheless, both endeavor to later drive, navigate, and pilot every conceivable moving object that can take them further. Discovering the reasons why these civilizations are almost extinct – from exploitation, abuses, wars, and neglect – becomes the most sobering experience of their long lives. How far can their unbridled optimism stretch? Is, for Sun and Thunder, a return to normalcy even possible?
NUI🏳️🌈
NUI is the first volume of the “Nui and The Dreamers” double sequel to the SUN AND THUNDER trilogy – “The Garden of Adayarana”, “The Keepers of Iarnahana”, and “Lost Worlds”, which took place in their fantastic Universe of eight realms. Later named the Octopus Cluster, this Universe of theirs has fought to create an all-encompassing fairy realm, which is well known thus far to the readers to be the collective conscience of all their inhabitants even as they are spread geographically over several planets, continents, and moons. Nui becomes the link between this cluster, a binary system located far from here, and a post-apocalyptic Planet Earth where even the youngest generations have lost hope, and where the Pac-Pac, integrated by Nui, Bora, Tabi, Skeeter, and Gray-C, remains an isolated resistance cell of five hackers and kid geniuses who decline to give up. Calling Sun and Thunder to the rescue is a logistic nightmare, way more complicate than picking up the phone.
THE DREAMERS🏳️🌈
THE DREAMERS is the second volume of the “Nui and The Dreamers” double sequel to the SUN AND THUNDER trilogy – “The Garden of Adayarana”, “The Keepers of Iarnahana”, and “Lost Worlds.” Sun and Thunder have been summoned to rescue Planet Earth and, for the first time, they feel the need to ask for help. The five-volume series acquaints the readers with a plethora of characters with different degrees of magic powers, or super powers as such whimsical sounding attributes are called when facing serious trouble. The country boy and the knight become true super heroes in “Nui and the Dreamers.” And they are not traveling alone. Please look forward to our upcoming YouTube video explaining the variety of creatures living in the Octopus Cluster to better understand who the Dreamers are. Humans, magic earthlings, fairy magic earthlings, gatekeepers, and fairies will all be part of the cruel and powerful drama of this rescue mission.
CORPEDIUM YA ILLUSTRATED STORIES
PAPOOK
Plagued by an innate curiosity, Papook gets entangled in the rulings of the Kingdom of Palat while serving tea to the king and the magistrates. Although his adoptive father had cautioned him to stay out of it, he can't help it, and gets involved deeper and deeper. Will he be able to wiggle himself out of this tight situation?
"Over the course of a month, Papook became well acquainted with the laws of the kingdom, and how these were interpreted by Ursa and Micul. Like Alma Lina, the young boy felt troubled by the judgments. Every day, he shared with Old Ayo what he had seen and heard in the great hall, and asked for his opinion. Old Ayo always found a wise and compassionate way of settling the disagreements that Papook questioned. The old man had a deep love and respect for people, and had spent his entire life healing problems of the heart, body, and soul. He approached every case with kindness and fairness. Papook greatly lamented that Old Ayo was not in charge of the king’s rulings. Everyone’s life would have been better, and Alma Lina’s happier. But such decisions were way out of Papook’s control."
OLINA
More than just the name of Boyer, Olina's father wanted to pass on to his recently born offspring a pompous title of nobility that neither he nor any of his ancestors had ever had. Thus, he appended to his name and estate the Forest of White Laces, well known to all Yaviks for being haunted. As Count or Countess of Boyer and Laces, his successor would be inscribed in the island’s archives as the most powerful landlord Yave had ever known. What the count didn't count on, no pun intended, is that whoever haunted the forest had something to say in the matter. In no time, a curse was placed on the spoiled toddler: in the bewitched mirror she was been give when she turned three years old, she was to see her face three times before turning twenty-one, or the whole island was to sink into darkness. Thus started the race for her parents to make the impossible possible and shield the headstrong girl from harm while she sailed the treacherous waters of her childhood and teenage years, into maturity. Will the island of Yave keep seeing the sun rise after she becomes of age?
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