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The Well of Echoes is a quartet of novels written by Buy Book at Lowest Price on Amazon

and is the second arc of series. . The Well of Echoes consists of four books: . / Alchymist

The Well of Echoes is set 207 years after The View from the Mirror and the events to happen at the end of that time are directly affecting the Three Worlds now. It is set on Santhenar, which is ravaged by war between the and the . . The lyrinx escaped from the void when the Forbidding was broken, the war began 50 years after their arrival on Santhenar. . The terrible Council of Scrutators has control of the world and hides the fact that it is the war itself that gives them power and so refuses to allow it to end. Though the people believe the Council (mancers all) to be the ones to control the world it is in fact the who pulls their strings, though he or she takes no active part in day to day life. . Tiaan, an artisan from Tiksi, has a strange crystal dream and soon discovers that it is no dream at all. It is the of crying out for aid, their world is being destroyed by world-wide volcanic activity. Tiaan sets off to Tirthrax too ask for the Aachim of Santhenar's aid, but is captured by Ryll the lyrinx and is forced to help in the lyrinx's frightful . . The Well of Echoes itself is a portal of pure energy, sacred to the Aachim, which they send their dead to and sometimes use as a means of execution. An Aachim who believes their life has extended beyond its natural course will also give themselves to the Well. One Well of Echoes resides at Tirthrax, held in place by powerful magic. Whe Tiaan arrives at Tirthrax, begins to communicate with the extremely powerful there, and draws power from it. It then uses this power to begin to thaw the Well and it takes all the effort of Malien to hold the Well in place. When Tiaan leaves Malien has a bitter struggle with the Well, but ultimately is able to renew the Great Spell that holds it in place, with her great Arts. . Only the Aachim of Clan Inthis can summon a Well of Echoes as they are the clan which discovered it and some claim, originated from it. While kept asleep, a Well is controllable by all the clans. It is possible that it acts as a node]in this form. However, once awakened, it can only be controlled by Clan Inthis. An awakened Well appears as a vast circular hole in the ground with golden points of light streaming downwards in the walls. It does not exist in the normal three dimensions. When an awakened Well is summoned in , it is seen to move underneath buildings, taking the dead from inside but leaving the buildings intact. . . Tears of the Node are extremely powerful sorcerous artefacts. The Tears are made of the purest substance on , Nihilium. . Even a tiny piece of Nihilium is craved by beyond all things, as it can turn a minor-mancer, into a mancer who's power surpasses all others. The Tears are exceptionally dangerous as they are each the size of a grape-fruit and give the user the power of an entire . . The Tears were formed when the node at Snizort exploded, because power was fed back into it, via the

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