The Deed of Paksenarrion Book Cover

The Deed of Paksenarrion


A Fantasy Novel


Book 1 of the Paksenarrion Collections Series


Subgenres & Tropes:

  • Epic Fantasy,
  • Military Fantasy,
  • Quest Fantasy,
  • Paladin Protagonist
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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.  

Publisher Description

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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