Ending the Sorcerer

I am killing interest in my Sorcerer series, it seems. I am referring to the fiction about a genocidal Nazi and his psychotic daughter. They are Arnold and Elsa Kess, The Sorcerer and the Enchantress. Their villainy is using magic, technology and armed force to commit mass murder. The girl’s mother and half-sister fight to stop them.

The series was loved by the very few who heard me read it to them. The Sorcerer was their favorite character. His dialog is eloquent and his atrocities logical. He is loving though murderous and idealistic though cynical.

SPOILER ALERT!

The Enchantress dies. She was the conduit for a curse that kills countless children in their sleep. It kills her too. The Sorcerer weeps as his own child dies in his arms.

Listeners were deeply moved by the scene. It is the end of the first book, Sorcerer of the Realm. The second book, Blood of the Sorcerer is a prequel.

The third book, Call of the Sorcerer is the conclusive end of a trilogy. Elsa is saved by the psychic powers of her mother. Everyone disliked that the dramatic ending of the first book was negated.

I knew THE END from the beginning. It was NEVER the death of the Enchantress. It was ALWAYS the death of her father, the Sorcerer himself. The story is meaningless otherwise.

The Sorcerer is about a man and a woman. They fell in love but the world estranged them. Their daughter is that love personified. Everything about her is their relationship. When you understand this, MY ending for the story makes PERFECT sense. You realize the alternative is not only cynical, but a narrative dead end.

As of September 30, 2025 I am only six chapters away from finishing the Elsa Trilogy, the first three books of the Sorcerer series. The fourth book is an alternate version that has Elsa as Felix, the Son of the Sorcerer as the book shall be entitled.

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