
Oath of Fealty - A continuation with Paks as a background character, showing the effects of Oath of Gold.Oath of Fealty, Kings of the North, Echoes of Betrayal (formerly announced as Crisis of Vision) and Limits of Power have already been published. A second series of a projected five books, set after The Deed of Paksenarrion and entitled Paladin's Legacy is also in progress. Moon would later write a pair of prequel books about Gird himself, Surrender None and Liar's Oath, collectively titled The Legacy Of Gird. And the aforesaid Religion of Evil - Achrya the Webmistress and Liart, the god of torment - are still hard at work.Īll three books are available in a compiled omnibus edition.

Also, there's the question of a lost king she goes on a quest to find. Oath of Gold - Broken from the events at the end of Divided Allegiance, Paks must come to her senses, regain her courage and rediscover her calling to Paladin-hood even without the formal organization of Gird's order.In the process she meets and travels with the other races of the kingdom and also has an encounter with the kingdom's Religion of Evil that does not end well for her, threatening her future and livelihood. Divided Allegiance - Paks leaves the mercenaries to enter training as a paladin candidate in the order of Saint Gird.She comes out relatively well for it but starts to wonder whether she's always going to be fighting for the right reasons and where her allegiances ought to lie. She signs up with the mercenary company of Duke Phelan, undergoes training and fights in her first wars. Sheepfarmer's Daughter - 18 year old Paksenarrion ("Paks" for short) runs away from home and an unwanted Arranged Marriage to become a warrior.The first series written by Elizabeth Moon first released in 1988, a work of Heroic Fantasy divided into three books: The scroll Dorthan reads is headed The Deed of Paksenarrion Dorthansdotter of Three Firs, and many are the tales of courage and adventure written therein." She wishes you to have them and has no need of them." And though he accepted water from their well, he would say no more of Paksenarrion, whether she lived or lay buried far away, whether she would return or no. "Keep these," the stranger said, "in memory of your daughter Paksenarrion. of the day a stranger rode up, robed and mantled in white, an old man with thin silver hair, and handed down the box and the sword, naked as it hangs now. Gird the cross-hilts are gracefully shaped and chased in gold. The pommel's knot design is centered with the deeply graven seal of St.

The other is a very different matter: long and straight, keen-edged, of the finest sword-steel, silvery and glinting blue even in yellow firelight. "In a sheepfarmer's low stone house, high in the hills above Three Firs, two swords hang now above the mantelpiece.
