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Welcome to the Search for the Avatar website, home of the latest epic fantasy series to enthrall readers of all ages. Stay a while and learn a little about the author, how the series was created and just why it appeals to kids as young as 10, but holds even more interest for those older and wiser readers who are able to read in between the lines. An avatar is not what you have been led to believe...
“You have an ability, but it is unrefined and untested. An avatar is someone who has spent many years training and learning control of that ability. It involves the triad of voice, action and implement. Those with the ability learn the way of the triad of control...” Saul to Zak, chapter 4.
Avatar is an ancient word, its true origin predating computers by thousands of years and its secret at the heart of why Zak, a young boy recently orphaned, is pursued from his home on a planet called Terrah to the summit of Khufu’s great pyramid in Egypt and then to Australia.
Once in Australia, Zak’s adoptive parents take him to a remote farm near Dunedoo, a small town in country New South Wales. Zak is home schooled and time passes quickly as he lives in apparent safety, but bleak social isolation. It isn’t until he is fourteen that his life is turned upside down as mysterious neighbours seek to upset his perfect little world. At the same time, there is a brutal attack on his homestead and Zak uses a power he doesn’t understand to defeat an assassin with magical abilities. What follows is a series of disasters as Zak’s life is thrown into turmoil and he struggles to deal with life in a world where he has no one he can trust.
However as startling as all the physical assaults and challenges are, the real problem for Zak is trying to work out who is good and who is evil- or even if there is a good and evil side, because the death bed confession of an apparent friend destroys everything Zak believed in. Zak becomes lost in shades of grey as he struggles with the concept of good people deliberately committing evil acts. Join Zak as his preconceptions are shattered and he must assume nothing as he uncovers a system of suffering and manipulation beyond anything he dared imagine.
This is the Search for the Avatar, the beginning of a new fantasy series which can be read by the young as a simple adventure, or used as a springboard to discuss the philosophical basis of what constitutes right and wrong.
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