About the Book

Book: Quest of Fire: The Unending Light

Author: Brett Armstrong

Genre: Christian, High Fantasy

Release Date: December 30, 2025

War has consumed the Lowlands in both Jason and Anargen’s eras. Each teen struggles to keep true to the Quest as the armies led by the dark powers of the Lowlands edge closer to victory.

A secret buried in Ordumair can guarantee that evil Monarch Ilyron destroys the Tower of Light Anargen has striven to defend. And Jason’s brother, Dorian, has found an equally powerful weapon in the mysterious land of Jhi. The ancient threat of dragons returning to the Lowlands threatens to plunge the Lowlands into ruin.

Losses that leave both teens grieving deeply and an ever-diminishing list of allies means they must be willing to give everything to rescue their world from the looming desolation. But they must face the truth that it is still far too little to win, unless they can hold on till the King’s Day arrives.

 

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About the Author

Brett Armstrong has been exploring other worlds as a writer since age nine. Years later, he still writes, but now invites others along on his excursions. He’s shown readers haunting, deep historical fiction (Destitutio Quod Remissio), scary-real dystopian sci-fi (Tomorrow’s Edge series), and dark, sweeping epic fantasy (Quest of Fire saga). Every story is a journey of discovery and an attempt to be a brush in the Master Artist’s hand. Through dark, despair, light, joy, and everything in between, the end is always meant to leave his fellow literary explorers with wonder and hope. Always busy with a new story, he also enjoys drawing, gardening, and spending time with his wife and son.

 

More from Brett

Quest of Fire is a story told across seven books that took twenty years of dreaming and drafting. A story about the High King, who is a reflection of the King of Kings and the great story He has composed in which we are all taking part. Our God is described as “a consuming fire”*, a fire that also refines us and is shaping us into His likeness. My hope with the Quest of Fire series is that after reading it that fire has caught and blazes in the reader’s heart and gives them the courage to stand firm. Because Quest of Fire is filled with moments in which a vast, terrible darkness seems certain to crush a small group bravely bearing up that light, and they must choose to stand firm no matter the cost. The final entry in the series, The Unending Light, picks up that theme and sees it to its harrowing end with epic battles fought across a world built with rich, immersive detail. Heart warming and rending moments take place that just as much as the dramatic and sweeping conflicts force the protagonists to face the dark and choose whether they will remain in the light and see the Quest of Fire to the end or turn back and flee like so many others around them. So my hope is that others will read and join in the Quest of Fire, because even though it is fraught and hope is fragile, there is one truth that both the protagonists of The Unending Light and we need cling to: “the darkness has not overcome the Light.”** This story, like the great story, is about Him.

* Hebrews 12:29

** John 1:5

Interview with the Author

• What’s your favorite under-appreciated novel?

I’m really surprised by the number of people who haven’t read any of the books in CS Lewis’s Space Trilogy. They’re all really fantastic, but the last book in the series, That Hideous Strength, seems to be pretty sparsely read out of the three and those who do read it are pretty split between it being a crazy fever dream read or literary brilliance. I think it’s a bit of both, but 100% worth reading. It’s the most interesting dystopian story I’ve read and not just because it features a bear and Merlin from Arthurian legend in the middle of 1940’s England.

• How do you select the names of your characters?

It’s a mixture of things. Some names are based on ones typically found within a particular culture or in a culture a fictional group parallels. Others are composites of words from languages in a particular culture that goes along with what that character represents or some trait of the character. A few that are dear to me were created by my son (Professor Goulder in The Unending Light being one of them). What was extra fun is since this is book seven in the series there’s a pretty substantial cast of characters from across the series and many of them are referenced or appear in this book. Plus, you get to see all twelve Defenders of the Realms in one scene, which meant managing not just names but where they were from and all that implied for the scenes involving them. Some years ago, I started an encyclopedia of lore for Quest of Fire that has those sorts of details and others about civilizations, eras, etc. It was super helpful for keeping all of the names and backgrounds straight in The Unending Light and to help compose the dramatis personae resource at the front of the book.

• What was your hardest scene to write?

The hardest scene or pair of scenes were some that centered around the death of a main character. The death scene itself was complicated because of the physicality of the scene and even more so properly portraying its action without losing sight of the emotional resonance—which sticks with a reader far longer than the verbalization of sword strokes and cannon fire. The scene after it was just as complex, because the surviving main characters had to have realistic reactions to the loss while in some way still inching towards the conclusion of the story. And part of what made those scenes harder is I didn’t want to write something so awful. I wanted to protect all the characters from what I knew had to happen. I’m not a fan of capricious killing and harming of characters, but this definitely was integral to a lot of what the characters and arc of The Unending Light needed to face.

• What comes first, the plot or characters?

Strictly out of the two, I would say plot. Most of the time I imagine a scene and if it’s interesting enough I ask questions about it. Try to explore the world it’s set in and the more questions that get raised about the world, the more interested I become. I start to imagine what kind of people live in that world and more importantly who are the people at the heart of the scene. Those typically become the protagonists or antagonists of the story. As I get a feel for who the story is being driven by, I start to figure out how a story featuring them might unfold in that world, which in turn leads to wondering how the story is shaping the characters further and affecting the world with the result that those answers bring. That drives the story forward still further. Which means I never fully know the plot or characters till the very end. But that’s generally how it starts and is a really rewarding way to discover the story.

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Giveaway

To celebrate his tour, Brett is giving away the grand prize of a $50 Amazon gift card, an eBook copy of The Unending Light, exclusive digital map poster, and series theme music!!

Be sure to comment on the blog stops for extra entries into the giveaway! Click the link below to enter.

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