title: Ashes of Ascension: Tales of Iairia
author:  Tyler Tullis 
description: Tyler Tullis is a young author from Washington State. Hebegan writing his Tales of Iairia trilogy in high school and published thefirst installment, Shards of Destiny, before graduating. While attendingcollege at Gonzaga University, he published two sequels-Trial of a Maven and Ashes of Ascension. He is currentlyworking on a science fiction/ mystery series called Sophie. Upon finishing histhird novel Tyler was 21 years old.
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  Ixion In Heaven
  
  
    
  
  
    
  [PART I. An Errant King  
  
  
    
  [PART II. 'Others say it was only a cloud.'
  
  
  
  
  
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  # Ixion In Heaven
  
  
  ### Benjamin Disraeli
  
  
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  [PART I. An Errant King
  
  
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  [PART II. 'Others say it was only a cloud.'
  
  
  
  
  
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  IXION IN HEAVEN
  
  By Benjamin Disraeli
  
  
  
  
  
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  'IXION, King of Thessaly, famous for its horses, married  
  Dia, daughter of Deioneus, who, in consequence of his son-  
  in-law's non-fulfilment of his engagements, stole away some  
  of the monarch's steeds. Ixion concealed his resentment  
  under the mask of friendship. He invited his father-in-law  
  to a feast at Larissa, the capital of his kingdom; and when  
  Deioneus arrived according to his appointment, he threw him  
  into a pit which he had previously filled with burning  
  coals. This treachery so irr