Results by "R. L. Keck" in All categories

Having retrieved the promised talisman that will drive Malik’s spirit from Midgard, Torval, Asta, and their friends return to the Northlands to prepare for the final confrontation with the Outworld demon. Along the way, old acquaintances are reunited, while others are lost, requiring those remaining to band together and complete the quest demanded by the gods: return the splinter of Yggdrasil to the Rainbow Bridge and heal the tree of life.

Successful in driving the demon, Malik, from his mortal shell, though at great personal cost, Torval and his cousin, Asta, and their friends learn they must travel to the Western Lands and retrieve a magic talisman with which they can destroy Malik once and for all. For one the Western Lands hold no allure, for a debt is owed and payment - long overdue - is required. Nevertheless, leaving their homeland and new friends, the travelers brave unpleasant conditions and deadly confrontations as they make their way west.

Splinter of Asgard is the story of Torval, a Norse youth of 16 who dreams of the high-seas adventurous Viking life of his father, brother, and uncle - but fate has limited him to being an apprentice shipwright. That all changes when Torval awakens an age-old magic and must accept the responsibility for returning a lost relic to Asgard - home of the gods, from where it came.