FREE (Kindle) Elegy:The Arbiter Codex (Sword&Sorcery)

[xg4bx]

by Christopher Kellen


"D’Arden Tal is an Arbiter — given up at birth to the secretive Council of Masters, to be raised and trained in the light of the manna. Only the Arbiters can withstand the toxic power of the world’s lifeblood, and purify it when it has been corrupted. For more than eight decades, D’Arden has been a champion against the darkness. There are many shadows in the world, but the azure light from his crystalline sword burns them away.

A veil of crimson death has settled over the city of Calessa. Evil rages within it, the land is frozen and bleak, and the dead once more walk among the living, consuming all in their path. The few who stand firm against the darkness grow more desperate with each passing day, and despair takes root in the hearts of the good.

His mission is simple: D’Arden must root out and destroy the source of the evil before it overwhelms the meager remains of innocent life within Calessa’s walls. This is what he was born to, what he has trained for. One more day in the perilous and deadly life of the Arbiter.

This time, though, something is waiting for him. It has been expecting him. And it knows exactly how to destroy him…"

http://www.amazon.com/Elegy-The-Arbi.../dp/B005ESFMMY


The Corpse King (Tales of Eisengoth)

"After years of nothing but grueling training and the desperate dance of death that is the life of an acolyte Arbiter, D’Arden Tal has been named an apprentice. He has been assigned to learn from Havox Khaine, one of the greatest Masters in living memory.

For two years they have traveled across the known world, and now they enter a tiny kingdom on the edge of nowhere. Rumors abound that the monarch of this kingdom is insane, and has created a demented puppet court… of the dead.

D’Arden must learn what it truly means to be an Arbiter, as he makes his first real confrontation with the horrors of corruption. Something much worse lurks within the shadows of the king’s mind than simple madness, and D’Arden will find reason to call him…

The Corpse King.

With this novelette, welcome to the world of Eisengoth: a dark fantasy realm ruled by insane gods, and the setting for ELEGY: Book One of the Arbiter Codex. Heroic fantasy for fans of Conan (Robert E. Howard), Kane (Karl Edward Wagner) or Geralt of Rivia, The Witcher (Andrzej Sapkowski) with a Lovecraftian-horror flair."

http://www.amazon.com/Corpse-King-Ta.../dp/B005MDD0PC




i'm a big fan of these books and highly recommend them to anyone looking for some current conan-style sword and sorcery. there's also a 3rd short story, Sorcerer's Code, available for 99 cents.

[Dr. Drib]

I love sword and sorcery - the old school.

Let's see how these match up.

Thanks!



Don

[koland]

first has affiliate links - mod please fix

[Shack70]

Thanks

[MrsJoseph]

Thanks! Can't wait to try them out.

[Papi47]

Thank You

[xg4bx]

the aforementioned story The Sorcerer's Code also just went free-

"Edar Moncrief: sorcerer and scholar extraordinaire. To the outside world, he is a peddler of love potions and wart remover – after all, one has to make a living. Behind closed doors, he is a dangerous and powerful sorcerer specializing in the laws and function of the mysterious energy known as manna.

When he trips over a body in the streets of Elenia, he discovers that the corpse belongs to none other than an Arbiter, the mysterious wielders of the crystal swords rarely seen in his part of the world. The loss of life is his gain, though, when he finds the opportunity to examine the most precious and rare artifact in the world: the Arbiter’s heartblade.

To his misfortune, that same opportunity brings him face-to-face with the spectre of death. Another Arbiter, D’Arden Tal, has found him, and believes he is responsible for the killing. Edar’s only hope is to find and catch a murderer in the streets of the most decadent and deadly city in the Old Kingdoms, before Tal declares him responsible and kills him instead…"

http://www.amazon.com/Sorcerers-Code...4133129&sr=8-6

[koland]

Might as well grab his short story while you are there (also free):

Dutiful Daughter
http://www.amazon.com/Dutiful-Daught...dp/B005EZ7FJU/

[MrsJoseph]

Originally Posted by xg4bx

the aforementioned story The Sorcerer's Code also just went free-

"Edar Moncrief: sorcerer and scholar extraordinaire. To the outside world, he is a peddler of love potions and wart remover – after all, one has to make a living. Behind closed doors, he is a dangerous and powerful sorcerer specializing in the laws and function of the mysterious energy known as manna.

When he trips over a body in the streets of Elenia, he discovers that the corpse belongs to none other than an Arbiter, the mysterious wielders of the crystal swords rarely seen in his part of the world. The loss of life is his gain, though, when he finds the opportunity to examine the most precious and rare artifact in the world: the Arbiter’s heartblade.

To his misfortune, that same opportunity brings him face-to-face with the spectre of death. Another Arbiter, D’Arden Tal, has found him, and believes he is responsible for the killing. Edar’s only hope is to find and catch a murderer in the streets of the most decadent and deadly city in the Old Kingdoms, before Tal declares him responsible and kills him instead…"

http://www.amazon.com/Sorcerers-Code...4133129&sr=8-6

Thanks!