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    The Splitting Earth (Zukopal 1.0)
    The Splitting Earth (Zukopal 1.0)
    The Splitting Earth (Zukopal 1.0)
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    The Splitting Earth (Zukopal 1.0)

    By Ryan Zavis

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    Rok loves to meditate, and is building a private temple away from the castle so he can find peace from the bustle of family life. There is only one rule: the temple must be made of materials only from the earth, nothing else.

    That won’t be a problem. Not for him. Because Rok isn’t a normal little boy. No, not at all. He is a demigod: a quarter of the blood in his veins is the blood of the gods. His heritage grants him power over the earth and its many elements—over stone and soil and the deep, dark, hidden ores. Just like his three siblings, Rok has a unique magical power.

    However, it isn’t all meditation and peace in Zuuland. Unknown to Rok and his family, his father’s vengeful brother Labec lurks in the shadows with his two children, Coltin and Menga. Uncle Labec is consumed by the desire to steal the greatest treasure of Rok’s father, King Nyark: the ZUKOPAL, a mysterious and powerful opal ring that shimmers with all the colors of the rainbow.

    But it isn’t just power Uncle Labec seeks. His motivations run far deeper. Labec is the yin to King Nyark’s yang. He seeks a balancing of light and dark, and even more—revenge for past wrongs. Will Rok and his siblings be able to bring peace between their father and uncle? Or will the Zukopal drive them even further apart?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRyan Zavis
    Release dateApr 28, 2018
    ISBN9780463767276
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      The Splitting Earth (Zukopal 1.0) - Ryan Zavis

      ZUKOPAL

      CHRONICLES 1.0

      THE SPLITTING EARTH

      Zukopal Copyright © 2018 by Zukorp Pty Ltd. All Rights Reserved.

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means including information storage and retrieval systems, without permission in writing from the author. The only exception is by a reviewer, who may quote short excerpts in a review.

      Author & Designer: Ryan Zavis

      Editor: Savannah Tate

      Illustrator: Amrit Tigga

      To Megan and Mia, an expansion from our bedtime stories

      Chronicles 1.0: The Splitting Earth

      How should I design the walls of the temple? Rok wondered.

      He sat cross-legged on his bed, back straight, palms resting lightly on his knees. Peace made a soothing blanket around his mind. Rok had always liked to meditate. He couldn’t remember the first time he tried it, but Mother and Father told him he had been very young.

      Meditating helped him concentrate on what needed to be done. Today, he needed to think up designs for the walls of the meditation temple he was building. It was like a puzzle in his mind. There was only one rule: the temple had to be made of materials from the earth. Only from the earth, nothing else.

      Rok smiled. That wasn’t a problem, because he wasn’t a normal boy. You couldn’t help but be special when a quarter of the blood in your veins was the blood of the gods.

      That was why he had earth power. Power over the earth and its many elements—stone and soil and even the deep, dark, hidden ores. Just like his three siblings had a unique power, so did he.

      For several minutes Rok enjoyed inventing the patterns he would use for the temple posts. They will be gentle and peaceful, he thought, to help me relax as I meditate. Maybe he could have each of his siblings do the designs for a separate post. That way his temple would be balanced: all four elements represented. Earth, wind, fire, and water, to match the powers of him and his siblings.

      What designs represent the earth? Rocks . . . trees . . . soil . . . Rok sighed and stirred. That could come later. Right now? Well, right now it was time for breakfast. His stomach made that quite clear. Despite the serenity of his meditation, he could feel it rumbling and grumbling inside of him.

      Rok took a deep breath and felt the whisper of morning sunshine on his face. Sunrise over Zuuland was the most gorgeous thing. Even with his eyes closed he could envision it: the tops of the pasture’s grass lighting up with the first drops of sunlight, the mist over the Baron rivers to the south rolling back to let it glimmer on the water.

      And the castle, most glorious of all: a three-tiered pyramid of pearly glass rising beside the sea, greeting the new sun with its own soft radiance. It was no wonder the villagers revered Mother and Father as gods. Glass was a rarity. Own a trinket of glass and you were rich. Own a goblet of glass and you were probably a king. Own a castle of glass, and you had to be more than a king. You had to be a god.

      The villagers were mistaken, of course. Mother was fully human and Father was only half god, but they didn’t know that. All they saw was a castle of glass: an impossibility. They didn’t understand how it could be. When people didn’t understand something, Father said, they worshipped it.

      Mother and Father hadn’t come here seeking worship. How could they have? There had been no villagers here when they settled

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