Uncharted - Kevin J. Anderson

Arcane America
A new world. New magic. New history.
AfterHalley's Comet was destroyed in a magical battle in 1759, the backlashseparated the entire New World from the
Old in an event known as TheSundering. Now isolated from the rest of the globe, America has become a verydifferent
place, where magic works and history has been changedforever.
It is 1803-a new 1803. Young Meriwether Lewis, footloose andintrigued, goes to hear a lecture in St. Louis by the
venerated old wizardBenjamin Franklin. Franklin's talk is disrupted by the attack of a wingedfire-breathing beast,
much like legends from Lewis's own Welshheritage. In the aftermath, Franklin tells the young man that he knows ofa
great, growing evil that lurks in the uncharted Arcane Territories west ofthe Mississippi.
Using his own vast fortune, Franklin commissions Lewis andhis own talented partner William Clark to embark on a
remarkable voyage ofexploration, to meet and document the indigenous tribes, to find a route all theway to the Pacific
Ocean-and perhaps beyond the magical veil to Europeagain-and to stop the growing evil that is filling the
American West.For while the Sundering separated the rest of the world and granted the originalcolonists unexpected
magical gifts, sorcery inspired by native legends hasalso been ignited. And the Arcane Territories may hold
unparalleled dangersfor the expedition, both natural and magical.
Accompanied by the brilliantshape-shifting sorceress Sacajawea, Lewis and Clark set off on anunparalleled
adventure across a landscape that no European has everseen.