Armies of the Silver Mage - Christian Warren Freed

EVIL STIRS AS AN ANCIENT ENEMY RETURNS TO CLAIM THE WORLD.
Lifelong friends Delin Kerny and Fennic Attleford are tired of their quaint village life. Finally of age, the boys sneak off into the night for what is sure to be grand adventure. A chance meeting with a crazed old man in the forest leaves them rattled. They awake the next morning to find the old man dead, his only legacy a strange purple stone. It is an event that will not only change their lives, but carry with it the fate of the world. Goblins and worse stalk them. What was once the promise of the adventure of a lifetime is now a mad dash for survival with the fate of the world at stake.
Filled with battles of men, elves, dwarves, and goblins on an epic scale, Armies of the Silver Mage is an epic fantasy quest and the first of 9 books set in the mythical world of Malweir. It is the story of hope, desperate plots, and what it truly means to grow up in a world gone mad.