Blades Broken

Pelt’s dreams of conquest and glory ignited an entire realm to war. Too late did he realise they made a poor shield against the jagged edge of his own pride. Instead of uniting the eastern half of Varri-Mennyn to his banner and raising himself up to be a beacon of strength and hope, he turned himself into its enemy and paid a high price for defeat. His freedom. General Fleet and the King’s Men have finally caught up to him, and now he must face a reckoning with King Goring Saedren in the west. One that he can no longer run from.

Halling’s dreams of a life of hedonism and vice and vengeance were all he lived for. He glutted himself on the hate and fear of all who stumbled upon him, and he became blinded to his own poisonous vanity. After picking one fight too many, the veneer shattered, and Halling now lies broken and alone with only the singing mother for company.

And while the brothers languish in the prison of violence they made for themselves, bereft of their true-steel weaponry, other powers begin to stir in the east. The Dels of the Great Desert are never idle, and they have recruited new agents. Kannath Meadowmere, scourge of the north, has joined his forces with a powerful new ally. Nillis Catgut. The Man with Two Voices. The Demon Haunted.