Amos Daragon
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Amos Daragon is a series of fantasy fiction books by the French Canadian writer Bryan Perro
. The series has twelve volumes, beginning with Amos Daragon: The Mask Wearer. The central story arc
focuses on Amos Daragon, a bright and adventurous twelve year-old, and his quest to become the 'Mask Wearer'. Amos sets out on a journey to find four masks that harness the forces of nature – earth
, wind
, fire
and water
– and the sixteen stones of power (4 stones per mask) that give the masks their magic. With the help of his humanimal friend, Beorf, Amos must fulfill his destiny and defeat the forces of evil that threaten his world. The Amos Daragon series has been published in numerous countries worldwide. The first English
translation of The Mask Wearer was published in June 2009 by Scribo, a division of Book House, an imprint of the Salariya Book Company
. The second book, Amos Daragon: The Key of Braha, was published by Scribo in September 2009. The third book, The Twilight Of The Gods, was published in January 2010. The fourth book, The Curse Of Freyja, was published in Spring 2010.
Bryan Perro
Bryan Perro is the author of the children's fantasy fiction series, Amos Daragon, a series of twelve novels that focus on the adventurous young adult Amos Daragon and his quest to become the 'Mask Wearer'.- Background :...
. The series has twelve volumes, beginning with Amos Daragon: The Mask Wearer. The central story arc
Story arc
A story arc is an extended or continuing storyline in episodic storytelling media such as television, comic books, comic strips, boardgames, video games, and in some cases, films. On a television program, for example, the story would unfold over many episodes. In television, the use of the story...
focuses on Amos Daragon, a bright and adventurous twelve year-old, and his quest to become the 'Mask Wearer'. Amos sets out on a journey to find four masks that harness the forces of nature – earth
Earth
Earth is the third planet from the Sun, and the densest and fifth-largest of the eight planets in the Solar System. It is also the largest of the Solar System's four terrestrial planets...
, wind
Wind
Wind is the flow of gases on a large scale. On Earth, wind consists of the bulk movement of air. In outer space, solar wind is the movement of gases or charged particles from the sun through space, while planetary wind is the outgassing of light chemical elements from a planet's atmosphere into space...
, fire
Fire
Fire is the rapid oxidation of a material in the chemical process of combustion, releasing heat, light, and various reaction products. Slower oxidative processes like rusting or digestion are not included by this definition....
and water
Water
Water is a chemical substance with the chemical formula H2O. A water molecule contains one oxygen and two hydrogen atoms connected by covalent bonds. Water is a liquid at ambient conditions, but it often co-exists on Earth with its solid state, ice, and gaseous state . Water also exists in a...
– and the sixteen stones of power (4 stones per mask) that give the masks their magic. With the help of his humanimal friend, Beorf, Amos must fulfill his destiny and defeat the forces of evil that threaten his world. The Amos Daragon series has been published in numerous countries worldwide. The first English
English language
English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...
translation of The Mask Wearer was published in June 2009 by Scribo, a division of Book House, an imprint of the Salariya Book Company
Salariya Book Company
The Salariya Book Company is an independent publishing company based in Brighton, United Kingdom, which publishes children’s non-fiction, fiction and baby books both domestically and internationally...
. The second book, Amos Daragon: The Key of Braha, was published by Scribo in September 2009. The third book, The Twilight Of The Gods, was published in January 2010. The fourth book, The Curse Of Freyja, was published in Spring 2010.
Amos Daragon in other media
Amos Daragon is currently in production as a children's animated television series, made by Spectra Animation. In Quebec, fans of the books can visit Le Sanctuaire des Braves (The Sanctuary of the Braves) in the municipality of Saint-Mathieu-du-Parc, near Shawinigan. Le Sanctuaire des Braves is a weekend camp for children between 10-15 based in the Amos Daragon world, where children can portray their own character in the continuing saga of the Amos d'Aragon universe.List of Amos Daragon titles
- Vol 1. The Mask Wearer (English translation published June 2009)
- Vol 2. The Key of Braha (English translation published September 2009)
- Vol 3. The Twilight of Gods (English translation published January 2010)
- Vol 4. The Curse of Freyja (English translation published May 2010)
External links
- Amos Daragon website
- The Salariya Book Company/ Book House
- Byran Perro (French website)
- Spectra animation
- Le Sanctuaire des Braves Weekend Camp in the Amos d'Aragon Universe