About Elenya’s Saga

The World

Elenya Saga has protagonists from five distinct cultures, each with unique powers:

• Elnoreans are profoundly connected, capable of telepathic bonds that share more than thoughts.
• Olorins use truth as a currency for power with surprising results.
• Summoners make music in their souls to enliven their Elementals, but that music can be twisted to sinister effect.
• Randuins wield writing, painting, and sculpture to alter reality at a terrible cost.
• Rovers are shape shifters who have to manage their mass at all times and must take care lest a form overwhelm their humanity.

Unique Magical Forces or Elements

Elenya’s Saga forsakes the tropes of fire, earth, air, and water. Rather, it offers a unique take on science and magic:

• Kinetics is the force of movement, heat, and cold.
• Fluid is the force that governs atmospherics, oceans, and even the soil and rocks.
• Wave is the force of sound, light, harmonics and resonance.
• Organics governs all things biological and chemical.
• Quantum governs the atomic world of electricity, magnetics, uncertainty and more.

Innovative Structure

In Elenya’s Saga, a tale spanning eons comes to a head, revealed through nine focused, digestible novels. Book lengths range from 160 to 320 pages (approximately). Each novel stays with a story and reaches a thematic resolution that advances the broader saga.

Bondsword’s War is the best entry point into the saga, but you could start with Summoner’s Song. The series will be published in the order numbered above (Dan’s favorite, and recommended ordering). That being said, a reader could read in an order like: 1, 4, 5, 2, 3, 6, 8, 7, 9, and they would get a different, coherent experience.

The only real requirements are:

• Start with Bondsword’s War (1) or Summoner’s Song (2)
• Read Summoner’s Song (2) before Guardian’s Peril (3)
• Read Bondsword’s War (1) before Guardian’s Peril (3), Chosen’s Ascension (4), Fugitive Flight (5)
• Emissary’s Return (6) is an inflection point. Read it after 1-5 and before moving on to 7-9
• Read Protector’s Mandate (9) last.

The official ordering is Dan’s favorite sequence, and the Prologues and Epilogues work best when revealed in that order.

Each prologue delves into the mortal past (2,000 years ago) or the gods’ past (before the worlds existed). Each epilogue acts as an interlude, often showing how the fates of gods and men hinge on the smallest choices.

Elenya’s Saga stumbled on this format by happy accident. Dan intended to follow the standard formula: three large volumes, jump around every few chapters, throw in lots of interludes. Instead, we stay with each story in a truly unique experience.