She has to confront and overcome her strengths as well as her weaknesses…and her triumph redeems more than herself. In the end, she pays the price that heroism demands and becomes the paladin who saves a kingdom…but the journey is longer and darker than she ever imagined. But military life and warfare aren’t anything like her daydreams…yet she holds to both her duty and her dreams. When her father tells her she must marry the neighbor’s son, she runs away from home to join the mercenary company her cousin told her about. Paksenarrion Dorthansdotter, headstrong daughter of a sheep farmer on the north edge of the kingdom, dreams of being a hero out of legend, of fame and magic swords and great deeds. Gird, the peasant, the armsman, the Liberator who taught his people that they could fight - and win - against oppression.ĭuring the war, Gird took in a refugee who soon became known as "Gird's luap" (luap being the word for assistant, or an army officer who was not in the chain of command.All three novels in this epic trilogy, Sheepfarmer’s Daughter, Divided Allegiance, and Oath of Gold, appear in the omnibus edition, Deed of Parksenarrion. Paksenarrion could never have fulfilled her destiny had it not been for one who came before.
Closer at hand, the men and women who shaped Paks as a young recruit and mercenary soldier are in their turn changed by what she did-and by her character. The adventure continues-because when Paksenarrion found the missing king of Lyonya, she upset lives, realms, and long-laid plans all over the Eight Kingdoms of the North-and the fallout will affect even faraway Old Aare. Likewise, some articles about the books themselves will appear for the sake of completeness.Įveryone can edit pages and help to make it better. Comparisons with other mythologies and such will be tolerated if they are brief and to the point.
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