Hey everyone! Here's a little overview on Part 2: The Magma Series! It starts with Book 1: Magma, followed by Lava, Ash, then Haze. In this series, we get to see the same world but 70 years in the future from the end of part 1. Through her travels in part 1, Daleesi is cursed with immortality, forever frozen at 18 meant to be the eternal Spirit Guide to endlessly serve the Balancers of the world, something she struggles to cope with as everyone she knows and loves grows up and grows old without her. Part 2 takes place after Nilo's death, which Daleesi suffers great PTSD and depression from. The trilogy follows Daleesi's journey and relationship with the next Balancer, a boy of the Water Realm named Roric.
Overtime, like ice branched from water, a new form of fire giving is born, many descendants of Donoma developing control over the heat energy within the earth, creating magma giving. With this new power comes a new sense of pride, many magma givers branching off and forming the Magma Realm, which begins to take over out of resentment for the 200 year long war against Donoma.
As the world has progressed, it has changed and reformed, shaped by Nilo and Daleesi into one of balance and peace, known as Earth Nation. No world can be perfect though, and as problems arise and the Magma Realm comes to power, the next Balancer is threatened.. Daleesi takes 2-year-old Roric into hiding to protect him and work on his training until he turns 18 when he must begin to fulfill his duties as Balancer. 16 years later and Roric and Daleesi must return to Utugi, the world's new capital city, where great problems have arisen and balance needs to be restored.
Upon their return they find many divisions within Utugi, meant to be the city of peace and prosperity. With tension between givers and nongivers, division between classes, anti-Earthers against the Earth Nation, the spreading of the Magma Realm, and Elitists discriminating against water givers, Daleesi finds her hands full as she must solve all these problems as well as complete Roric's fire giving and spiritual training. To take this burden off her plate, the Council of Peace headed by her nephew Fintan has placed Roric's fire giving training in the hands of a fire giving master, which leads to more problems for Daleesi.
Her arrival in the city introduces her to Tulu, an 18 year old gifted fire giver who leaves behind his life as the son of a master in the upper ring of the city to live a modest life as a laborer in the lower ring. He joins Daleesi and Roric, the three of them becoming a team as well as forming a kind of friendship Daleesi hasn't known in years. Together they face corruption, secret alliances, uprisings, and indifference, Daleesi struggling with her own sense of self trapped in the mindset of an 18 year old after 88 years. Through their journey, Daleesi will learn to open herself and connect once again to another, Roric learning to form his own separate identity from Nilo to become his own type of Balancer. Will they be able to create a bond strong enough to defeat the Magma Realm and maintain Earth's peace, or will the world end in fire and take them with it?
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