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 was one of the most surprising things you learned in creating your book?

This is perhaps a small thing, and there are of course other things I learned, but this one is illustrative of how I approach storytelling. While researching for the portion in the book’s land of Jhi, I wanted to give that civilization a bit of Chinese cultural overtones, to help readers with visualizing it. So, I looked up what kinds of stone they would have had for construction and I came across granite. Which, you know, felt kind of milquetoast, but then I read about how granite has this fascinating property of case hardening. In short, it’s a weathering process in which minerals accumulate on the surface of the granite (and similar stone types) to create a more durable shell around the stone. I wondered how using a stone that for certain purposes seems harder with time would fit in with a culture’s view of the world and from it came up with the notion that the Jhiish view their civilization as increasingly fixed and firm in the Lowlands. They view their people not in terms of the present but on a spectrum of history, with opponents and opportunities coming and going around them, while they remain.

Finding little things like that and weaving them into the story is something I love to do with my world-building. I feel like it makes it all deeper, richer to read. The more nuanced and alive a world feels, the more a reader will want to explore and discover it and through that become swept up in the story.

 

• How did you come up with the title for your book?

That was kind of a battle for this book. When I first realized Quest of Fire should be a seven-book series with four novels and three novellas, I came up with a distinct naming pattern for each. The novels would have titles reflective of evening progressing back into day to represent the overall balance of dark and light in the Lowlands across the series. And since one of the major motifs of the series is the King’s Day, when the rightful High King will at last return and set the brokenness of the Lowlands, healing it for good, I thought that would be a great title for the last book.

I thought that for six years as I was working through the series and was happy with all the other titles selected along the way. Then as I was drafting this book, I got tripped up. The story and ending while, of course, figuring the King’s Day as an important beacon in the distance, started lending itself to a different title. I’m a big fan of parallel inversions (I think I just made that term up) where the start and end look alike but are the inverse of each other. The first book being The Gathering Dark, I began to feel the pull towards a title that would better match it while still holding to that progression of dark to light in titles. The theme of a day without end, a period of light where darkness never intrudes or interrupts or harms again really gripped me. That’s when I realized the title had to be The Unending Light. Because as much as the dark may gather itself, and shadows grow deep as night falls, there will inevitably be a resurgence of light as at dawn, and when the time is right there will be the era of unending light for the Lowlands and our world it mirrors.

 

• What’s your favorite writing snack, drink, and/or music?

I don’t really have a snack or drink in particular that I go to when writing. Music though…I have a pretty eclectic playlist. My wife and I share an Amazon account, so our Prime music is a mixture of her favorites and mine, which I’ve come to appreciate. The playlist is pretty full of movie scores and Christian music. In particular, TobyMac’s songs tend to have the right level of energy, dramatic shifts, and pretty deep but accessible lyrics that really energize my writing. I think the blend of genres and artists helps to create layered moods. For example, while writing some of the final scenes of The Unending Light I was listening to Beethoven’s “Moonlight Sonata”, Lorde’s cover of “Everyone Wants to Rule the World”, Clint Mansell’s “Lux Aeterna”, and Toby Mac’s “Love Broke Thru.” The scenes shifted from dejection, despair, and defeat to resilience and surrender to, by effect, God’s greater purposes. Which are some deep and complex things to go through and needed a pretty broad range of tonal inspiration.

 

• Is your writing space pristine or organized chaos?

Last year, my wife set me up a writing nook within our bedroom. For years before then I pretty much did my writing in a foldout chair that I moved from bedroom to living room, wherever there was space and I wouldn’t be disruptive or likewise interrupted too much. With the new writing nook, I’ve had my own space, which I was pretty fastidious about keeping organized…until my son started giving me things to keep on the desk. And that was the beginning of the end of its pristine state. I think organized chaos is a bit generous for how it looks now, but in a way I appreciate it even more now, because it’s a blend of my wife’s care and support covered in examples of my son’s creativity and interests. Having some emotional treasure like that while writing can’t hurt.

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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.

https://gleam.io/EgmVf/quest-of-fire-the-unending-light-celebration-tour-giveaway