There they meet their third traveling companion, a minstrel named Tresbastion who has a talent for making human remains into instruments that shriek the identities of their murderers, and is currently hiding from the last village he got chased out of.Īt first, “Minor Mage” seems a fairly straightforward coming-of-age adventure story, but Kingfisher is good at subverting expectations. After escaping from a pair of bloodthirsty ghuls posing as farmers, they venture into a possibly haunted forest. Still, the crowd of irate villagers are very persuasive, and so the young wizard and his familiar set out for the mountains and hope for the best.
Problem is, Oliver is only twelve years old and, in the words of his smart-aleck armadillo familiar, a very minor mage.
When an isolated farming village suffers a seemingly endless drought, the villagers feel they have no choice but to send their resident wizard, Oliver, on the dangerous journey to the Rainblade mountains to try and convince the Cloud Herders to bring back the rain. Kingfisher’s “Minor Mage” is a fantasy novella for about a boy and his… armadillo.
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