The rise of Sven:

Prologue:

In the late 2000s there has been no shortage in quarrels between light and darkness. Otherdom has been torn asunder by civil conflicts both between and within the watches and the inquisition. On one end of the spectrum the powerful light one known by many as Gesar seeks to groom another mage to pass the torch to, while the dreaded Zebulan is working to undo everything the watch has fought to create. There is only one problem, two American others are going to become a thorn in the side of the watches.

Sven Ludvig, born to Russian immigrants in Los Angeles of 82 has made tremendous strides in the progress of magic. Being the first light one in over a millennia to master domination magic, and being the first mage in the history of mankind to discover solar magic, Sven has been seen as both a hero and a ray of hope in the eyes of his fellow others. However, there is a dread side to his eccentric and often audacious method of preserving the watch.

Over eight years ago Sven fled from the Los Angeles watch under the conviction of murder. He fled to the most inhospitable and malevolent places on earth, knowing that only the places where others dread to walk could provide him some solace. There he grew, developed, loved, lost, hated, learned, forgot, became an adept of several thoughts of magic and subsequently became one of the most mentally imbalanced others ever seen.

Sanja Ludvig had always been a gifted girl. Ever since she was born she had sensed things that no one else seemed to notice. She spent most of her life without seeing her brother, but never felt a reason not to love him. On her 20th Birthday she has come to Moscow to visit her brother and get questions answered by the one person in the world that may be able to understand her. It is with great desperation she hopes to understand why she has had such an indirect hold over the people around her.

But answer these questions Sven cannot; not without undoing everything he has worked over a decade to accomplish. Sanja holds secrets to the future that Sven has dreamt to make since he was a boy. She has the power to alter the fate of humanity and usher in a new era. Only Sven can protect her from the scheming hands of the double-crossing others that control the watches, and only she can unlock the future of the human race.