Loss: Prequel to the Bornlord Saga

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Loss sets the action-filled Bornlord Saga in motion. An expedition returning to Aldar across the desolate grasslands meets a stranger who, unknown to the party, is fleeing the very people Aldar relies on for trade. His presence brings unexpected hardship, and the fighting abilities of the party members are tested beyond measure. Will they make it back to Aldar? What about Aldar's future?Survival for those of Aldar rests on a very thin thread: a long and torturous journey across desolate, searing grasslands that must be undertaken each year by those brave enough to face the trip. Despite the difficulties, the yearly expeditions to trade for coralin medicine have been successful for hundreds of years. Then a new element enters the picture: a renegade Aldaran the expedition meets at a desiccated waterhole out on the plains. Despite the misgivings of the expedition's leader, Banjee, and the decidedly antagonistic behavior of Banjee's rook, the stranger is allowed to join them. After all, no Aldaran would ever desert a person in need. Are the stranger's criticisms of Aldar valid? The stranger seems oblivious to the strengths of his own former people, but does it even matter once battle with the ferociously vindictive Nomers starts? The fighting abilities of the party members are tested beyond measure. Will they be able to get the coralin back to Aldar? And how will this impact Aldar's future? Loss sets the stage for the Bornlord Saga, an action-filled fantasy in which a force of newly graduated armsors gives everything it has to see that Aldar lives on. This book, along with the rest of the series, is quirky, in a new thought sense, in that it balances on the genuine, limitless magic of the human spirit.