Set in Stone (80 page)

Tapped when held or worn touching the skin

Obrion name: Healer

Granadure name: Healer

Limestone
. Generates light

Tapped when held or worn touching the skin

Obrion name: Solas

Granadure name: Solas

Metamorphic

Quartzite
. External focus: Elemental Air. Internal focus: Senses

Tapped by placing in the mouth

Obrion name: Pathfinder

Granadure name: Longseer

Marble
. Elemental Fire

Tapped by placing under the tongue

Obrion Name: Firetongue

Granadure Name: Flameweaver

Slate
. Elemental Earth

Tapped by placing under the soles of the feet

Obrion name: Sentry

Granadure name: Sapper

Soapstone
. Elemental Water

Tapped by drinking powder in water

Obrion name: Spitter

Granadure name: Water Moccasin

About the Author

Hi! I'm Frank Morin, a computer geek, outdoor enthusiast, and fantasy author. If you enjoyed Set in Stone, please be sure to check my
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Author's Note

Set in Stone started as an oral story. In our home, we have a long tradition of making up stories, but the kids got more and more challenging with their demands. Often one of them would say as we jumped in the car, "Okay dad, we've got half an hour. Let's have a story with a wizard, a necromancer, a warrior and a bunch of orcs. Go!"

It was tons of fun, but honestly I started feeling exhausted. It was hard to keep up. So I told Kate and Kyle, my demanding, story-loving older children that they had to help me come up with a cool magic system and then we'd develop some fun stories using it. I figured I'd get a breather, and we'd see what they could come up with.

They came up with Petralists.

I thought it was a cool idea, so I sent them off to research different types of stones, and then we brainstormed what we could do with the story. The original idea didn't resemble Set in Stone very much, but it was a good start. We called our main protagonist George and launched a series of crazy adventures with him that spanned Obrion and Granadure and helped develop the core concepts of the story.

It became one of our family's all-time most popular stories, so I decided to write it down. It has matured and evolved into what it is today, but its publication is a special milestone for us.

I hope you enjoyed this story. Check my website
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