A Magicker's Journey: The Weeping Man - A Magicker's Journey, #1

One late evening, the brotherhood of Grotsk receives a letter from a small village: a child is missing, and the mysterious forest nearby may well be the culprit. Charged with exploring the sinister enigma, Marhios, a young, ambitious magicker heads out into a devastated, almost barren world on his first magicker quest to test his knowledge and abilities, in hopes that he has enough within him to unravel the mystifying disappearance and become a respected member of the brotherhood - while not losing his head in the process."A Magicker's Journey: The Weeping Man" is an enthralling adventure into a captivating world where the will of man, marred and shaken, struggles doggedly on in the indomitable shadow of the ashen clouds that inexplicably descended more than a century ago, ravaging nearly everything in their wake; a world whose secrets await to be discovered by those intrepid enough to seek onward against the vast bleak wastes in search of a purpose and an answer.
and perhaps even some hope in a world whose horrifying darkness is ever lurking, eager to devour all those not careful or willful enough...