In The Beginning by Gail Daley (top 100 books of all time checklist .TXT) 📕

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On some illegally opened worlds, the new communities failed miserably, but others like St. Antoni, thrived. It was the luck of the draw that the illicit portal opened onto a planet that closely resembled its parent world. St. Antoni possessed a yellow sun, darker than the one that shone on earth, and that sun looked down on blue seas, land masses covered with lush grass, gray Ironwood forests, high snowy mountains, hot dry deserts and continents threaded by large rivers and small streams. Plants and animals had developed along lines genetically close enough to earth to support human life, and St. Antoni's temperature range was close enough to Earth to make living there bearable for humans.

Civilization on St. Antoni succeeded where some of the others didn’t, because of a few lucky conditions. The animal and plant life on St. Antoni was compatible with humans and could support human life. Native plants readily adapted to being farmed, and cuttings and seedlings the settlers brought with them thrived and grew in the new soil. A native cotton-like plant was discovered and harvested for clothing in the warmer climates. Native grains were adapted to make bread, and even some beans and leafy plants were harvested as substitutes for Coffee and tea.

Spell Of

The Magi

 

A Portal World Tale 

Magi of Rulari - Book 1

Gail Daley

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Spell of the Magi – Portal Worlds Magi of Rulari 1/ Gail Daley.—1st ed.

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Thanks

I want to thank my husband for his unfailing support and belief in me as a writer. And my son, Andrew S Daley, for taking the time away from writing his own books to beta read this for me, and for vetting the fight scenes.

Most of all, I want to thank my readers for taking the time and effort to read my stories.

In The Beginning

ON A PLANET called Earth in the Milky Way Galaxy, a way to open a Portal from world to world was discovered in the late 22nd Century. Were these new worlds simply other planets in the known galaxy or did the gateways lead to other dimensions with other physical laws? Or perhaps—both?

Earth itself was constantly beset by strife and wars. The Portals became simply another item to be fought over. It came to pass that a group on the losing side of one of these conflicts captured and held a Portal for a space of half a year, and seeing inevitable defeat in their future, sent their families ahead to another world. As the winning forces flooded the city, the last of the losers fled through the Portal, erasing their destination as they left so they couldn't be hunted down by their enemies.

Travel now to the world of Rulari, the new home of the escaping Terrans. Home also to refugees of a race descended from Felines as men were descended from Primates. Because of power lines called Leys, both groups arrived approximately in the same areas of Rulari and at roughly the same time.

The laws and customs of the two societies were quite different, and although at first both groups were tolerant of these dissimilarities, disputes arose between them and gradually a kind of armed hostility became a way of life between the two populations.

Both peoples discovered that not only did time march differently on Rulari, but this new world answered to the rule of will, of heart, of mind and of magic as much as the laws science had governed earth.

Humans and Sekhmet are adaptable and learned to prize those families with the ingrained talent to use magic. Most Magi had the innate ability to learn magic but affinity for certain types of abilities usually manifested in those with strong magi talents.

In the years since man first came to Rulari, Places Of Power were searched out by both Terrans and Sekhmet. The Terrans established new portals enclosed in keeps, and held by seven of the most powerfully gifted families. Formidable wards were created and set in place to ensure the keeps stayed in the control of the families, who were sworn to serve the best interest of the magic users or Magi as they came to be called. One of these ancient keeps was Ironlyn, on the northwestern sea of the country of Askela. It has been held by a family named Mabinogion for nearly two hundred years.

The Witchlings

KATHLEA MABINOGION, heritary Draconi to the shire of Ironlyn, was a powerful, unregistered Magi. Her much loved husband Maxton was a great soldier, but he had no talent other than