Visions of a warrior

Bahraini author Bader Alsadeqi has penned his way back into the literary limelight with the launch of his third publication in his Daedalusian Legends series, writes Mai Al-Khatib Camille.

The 32-year-old IT system analyst’s Daedalusian Legends: Chain of Secret Memories is an 80-page heroic-fantasy short novel inspired by ‘classic and traditional sword and sorcery media from the 80s-90s, along with Greek mythology such as Hercules’.

 “My only hope is people who are fans of the high fantasy and sword and sorcery subgenre would read and enjoy the stories I write and the world I create in them,” said Bader, who has a bachelor’s degree in Information Technology & Security from NYIT.

High fantasy or epic fantasy is a subgenre of fantasy, defined either by the epic nature of its setting or by the epic stature of its characters, themes, or plot. Whereas sword and sorcery is a subgenre of fantasy characterised by sword-wielding heroes engaged in exciting and violent adventures.

Sword and sorcery commonly overlap with heroic fantasy and this tale seems to have plenty of that.

According to the synopsis, the story starts in the beginning of the third millennium of the Rain Age. Dark times had befallen the Kingdom of Graytheros after a war ensued between the forces of light and darkness.

As for who won the fight, nobody remembers. The only thing people knew was that they had to stay safe as they struggled to survive the aftermath. And while things were relatively peaceful, people couldn’t help but feel a strange sense of occasional unease, as if there was a shadow looming over them.

It seems Attrebus, a mineworker, is the star of this novella as he has visions of himself being a powerful warrior battling a familiar evil. He then sets off on an adventure to figure out his identity and reclaim his destiny.

Bader’s eBook is only on Kindle and can be purchased from Amazon.

Meanwhile, Bader has plenty more fantasy fiction up his sleeve as he is currently working on another novella and a novelette, as well as a possible anthology.

“Hopefully I might be able to publish at least two of them this year,” said Bader who would like to reach a wider, international audience.

In other news, his narrative fantasy poem called Death’s Hunger has also been accepted and featured in the 55th issue of the Heroic Fantasy Quarterly.

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