The Hollow Vale: Act II: Through Mist and Memory: To remember is to suffer; to forget is to disappear...

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Alexander Paul Burton

The Hollow Vale

Act II: Through Mist and Memory: To remember is to suffer; to forget is to disappear

Alexander Paul Burton

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Fortis Media Ltd
01 April 2025

Celtic religion & mythology; Mind, Body, Spirit: thought & practice

Series: The Tharion Cycle: Memory Is the Last Magic. Silence Is the First Language.

Act II of Book One of the Tharion Cycle

In the mist-veiled ruins of a crumbling empire, the Bell tolls-and the world begins to unravel.

As Caelwyn ventures deeper into Tharion, where memory dissolves and the Wyrd sings in silence, the path leads her to the Hollow Vale. There, the ground forgets its shape, the air erases names, and the ancient Bell waits beneath fractured stars. Accompanied by a soldier burdened by lost oaths, a smith who hears the stone's sorrow, and a girl untethered by time, Caelwyn must face the cost of remembering a land that is trying to forget itself.

""Sulen noeth vethar: what is forgotten whispers still.""

The Hollow Vale: Act II continues the mythic saga of Tharion, where starlight, prophecy, and silence collide in a battle not of swords, but memory itself. For fans of Tolkien, Le Guin, and Susanna Clarke, this is a story where sacrifice hums through every breath, and the Bell's toll reshapes the threads of time.

The Hollow Vale (Acts I, II and III) is the first book in The Tharion Cycle, a mythic fantasy saga steeped in folklore, lyrical prose, and the quiet magic of things that were meant to be forgotten. For fans of Tolkien, Le Guin, and Tamsyn Muir, this is a story where memory is sacred, silence is dangerous, and language is the last line between the world and what waits beneath.

By: Alexander Paul Burton
Imprint: Fortis Media Ltd
Volume: 3
Dimensions: Height: 203mm, Width: 127mm, Spine: 17mm
Weight: 322g
ISBN: 9781069415844
ISBN 10: 1069415847
Series: The Tharion Cycle: Memory Is the Last Magic. Silence Is the First Language.
Pages: 324
Publication Date: 01 April 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Alexander Paul Burton is a genre-bending neoclassical composer, pianist, and musical raconteur who straddles the line between high art and high camp, much like a Bach fugue performed in drag. Born in Somerset but spiritually adopted by the wilds of the Canadian Rockies, he crafts cinematic soundscapes that blend Baroque intricacy with EDM euphoria-think Handel at a warehouse rave. His Ode to the Westcountry project marinates nostalgia in a bath of existentialism, while his OUTLINE series and LGBTQ+ advocacy ensure that the sound of resistance is as refined as it is rebellious. A former vegan food entrepreneur, marathon runner, and Tokyo farmhand, Burton's life reads like a Nietzschean paradox-eternally returning to music while forever running from convention. When not composing, he is engaged in the noble art of defending Katie Price, funding corgi couture, and musing on the neuroexistentialist plight of the millennial expat. #MillennialTruths