The Innocent Mage

The Innocent Mage (first book in the Kingmaker, Kingbreaker series) takes place in a kingdom called Lur, which cut itself off completely from the rest of the world several hundred years before the story takes place. The citizens of Lur consist of two peoples, the Doranens fair haired, beautiful, noble, magic workers, and the dark haired, hard working commoners, the Olken. The Olken have always lived in Lur, whereas the Doranen fled to Lur from the homeland by a woman called Barl who by now is basically Jesus, she cut Lur off from the rest of the world to protect her people and the Olken from her evil lover Morg. The main character is an Olken and the youngest son of a fisherman, his name is Asher and he is twenty years old. Asher dreams of buying a fishing boat for his father and himself and of having enough money for his father to live out the rest of his days comfortably. To make these dreams come true Asher sets off to spend a year in the capitol city of Dorana working and saving all he earned. The book is written in three parts and the bulk of the story takes place in fair Dorana. Asher is completely unaware that a secret society called the Circle watches over him, their leader known to them as Jervale's heir (it has not really been explained who Jervale was) has proclaimed him to be the Innocent mage, a kind of secret messiah that the Circle has been waiting for, for centuries. I won't give away anymore of the plot but I will quote to you Jervale's prophecy. "In the Final Days shall come the Innocent Mage, born to save the world from blood and death. He shall enter the House of the Usurper, He shall learn their ways, He shall earn their love, He shall lay down his life, And Jervale's Heir shall know him, and guide him, and enlighten him not."