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The Deed of Paksenarrion
A Fantasy Novel by Elizabeth Moon
Book 1 of the Paksenarrion Collections Series
Subgenres & Tropes:
- Epic Fantasy,
- Military Fantasy,
- Quest Fantasy,
- Paladin Protagonist
This book is for you if you're into...
- Misfit heroes who rise from humble beginnings
- Mercenary training and soldier life with a moral core
- Holy quests that test ideals against harsh realities
From Little Stack
Paks is, in many ways, my ideal definition of a misfit hero. She’s a nobody: the daughter of a sheepfarmer, with no noble blood, no particular education, no training (at first), and most importantly, no idea of what a world of hurt she’s in for when she decides to become a knight. But I loved following her fight down the path to becoming a paladin.
She was a constant reminder that idealism is something worth holding onto, no matter how dark and cruel the world around me is. She walks a lonely path, one where she has only her morals for company, but by the end, she truly becomes a paragon.
Paksenarrion, a simple sheepfarmer's daughter, yearns for a life of adventure and glory, such as was known to heroes in songs and story. At age seventeen she runs away from home to join a mercenary company and begins her epic life . . .
Book One: Paks is trained as a mercenary, blooded, and introduced to the life of a soldier . . . and to the followers of Gird, the soldier's god.
Book Two: Paks leaves the Duke's company to follow the path of Gird alone—and on her lonely quests encounters the other sentient races of her world.
Book Three: Paks the warrior must learn to live with Paks the human. She undertakes a holy quest for a lost elven prince that brings the gods' wrath down on her and tests her very limits.
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