Wild card #2 or 3,4,5 depending how you look at it.
Self pubbed with few good reviews. Sample first.
The Walkers of Legend by Miles Allen.
http://www.amazon.com/The-Walkers-Le...8498673&sr=1-1
Quote:
The Empire, ruling nine-tenths of the world, is on a countdown to collapse. They must crush the last peoples of the free world to feed their chambers. They kidnap all of the enemy's young mages, a routine task before invasion, but one of them is no ordinary man.
It soon becomes a race against time as he attempts to unlock the secret of the Empire’s powerful magic, challenging his formidable Master to try and prevent him from starting a devastating war against his homeland; a war that will force his people into a life of slavery and torture. Back home, his friend uncovers his abduction and begins the equally impossible task of getting him back …
The Walkers of Legend launches into an epic action fantasy series that will begin to unravel a fearsome and deeply endangered world, and one that holds a staggering ten-thousand year-old secret.
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