Book 1 · Fire - Sun Land
The Secret of the Sun Pyramid
Hot dunes, dried-up riverbeds and pyramids nobody understands any more. Only one old man insists that water once flowed here.
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One continuous story in five stages. The children travel from the Sun Land through the Magic Forest and the Ice Land to Cloud Mountain and finally into the Hinterworld. The order of the journey is not the order of the cycle - and they only notice that at the very end.
Book 2 · Earth - Magic Forest
The Lost Magic Forest
A forest that was once vast and magical. Today a whole society waits for chosen ones - and has forgotten how to look for anything itself.
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Book 3 · Water - Ice Land
The Ice Pirate of Devil Lake
Former harbours stand marooned in the ice. One man has mounted his sailing ship on giant blades and refuses to give up the sea.
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Book 4 · Air - Cloud Mountain
The Dragon of Cloud Mountain
A high-mountain society that can calculate everything and is therefore certain that dragons do not exist. There is one.
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Book 5 · Aether - Moon Land
The Secret of the Hinterworld
The front countries call it the Hinterworld, or the Shadow World. Its inhabitants call it Moon Land. Here the search for the treasure ends - not as expected.
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