Passage of the Acolyte: part one

Greynol Arowen is an Acolyte and 'the Sage of Idarill’; that is, if you consider the last half of his eighty years. Then a message arrives at his door, an invitation of sorts that reopens the mystery of his earlier life. Once a fighter, champion, and husband to Aliane, since lost to the enemy, Greynol discovers the past hid a secret beyond his reckoning. Enslaved by a merciless foe, Aliane bore him a son. Forty years later, Fauglir, wielder of dark magic and minion of Illutar, enemy of all things fair, claims to be that son. He offers the Acolyte an invitation – and challenge. Greynol ventures to a tournament and enlists a group of young friends to escort him on a journey that leads to the heart of the enemy with hopes of facing his son and undoing the evil that binds him.