The Bone Orcs
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RIDMARK ARBAN was once an honored Swordbearer. Now he is a disgraced exile, outcast and alone.
Yet he is still a warrior without peer, and when death cultists attack an innocent village, Ridmark must put himself to the test to save the villagers.
Or die in the attempt...
Jonathan Moeller
Standing over six feet tall, Jonathan Moeller has the piercing blue eyes of a Conan of Cimmeria, the bronze-colored hair of a Visigothic warrior-king, and the stern visage of a captain of men, none of which are useful in his career as a computer repairman, alas.He has written the "Demonsouled" trilogy of sword-and-sorcery novels, and continues to write the "Ghosts" sequence about assassin and spy Caina Amalas, the "$0.99 Beginner's Guide" series of computer books, and numerous other works.Visit his website at:http://www.jonathanmoeller.comVisit his technology blog at:http://www.jonathanmoeller.com/screed
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The Bone Orcs - Jonathan Moeller
THE BONE ORCS
Jonathan Moeller
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RIDMARK ARBAN was once an honored Swordbearer. Now he is a disgraced exile, outcast and alone.
Yet he is still a warrior without peer, and when death cultists attack an innocent village, Ridmark must put himself to the test to save the villagers.
Or die in the attempt...
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The Bone Orcs
Copyright 2016 by Jonathan Moeller.
Published by Azure Flame Media, LLC.
Cover image copyright Konstik | Dreamstime.com & Lotophagi | Dreamstime.com - Human Skull Photo.
Ebook edition published February 2016.
All Rights Reserved.
This novel is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are either the product of the author's imagination, or, if real, used fictitiously. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without the express written permission of the author or publisher, except where permitted by law.
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The Bone Orcs
In the Year of Our Lord 1474, Ridmark Arban needed answers, so he went to one of the most dangerous places in Andomhaim.
He thought it worth the risk, because the Frostborn would return.
Perhaps not today, and likely not tomorrow, but soon, within his lifetime. The Warden had warned him about the omen of blue fire, a day when blue fire would fill the sky from horizon to horizon. On that day, the ancient wizard had said, the way would be open for the Frostborn to return. Ridmark had tried to warn the nobles and the Swordbearers and the Magistri, but to no avail. No one believed him, so he needed proof.
The Qazaluuskan Forest might well hide that proof.
It was a dangerous place. The pagan orcs of the Qazaluuskan Forest were aloof and remote, but nonetheless unremittingly hostile to the men of Andomhaim. Outsiders who ventured into the Forest tended to never return. Whenever the Forest’s tribes launched raids on the nearby lands, seeking captives and loot, the Duxi of the Northerland and Caertigris launched punitive expeditions, sacking a few villages and burning a few forts, but every attempt to conquer the vast lands of the Forest had ended in catastrophe.
Going there was madness.
Yet the Qazaluuskan shamans knew secrets, whispers wrung from the dead by their necromantic spells. They knew secrets lost everywhere else in the world, and sometimes bold Magistri went in search of those secrets. They, too, usually did not return.
But Ridmark thought it was worth the risk. If he could find proof of how the Frostborn would return, perhaps the realm could prepare itself. If he was killed in the process…well, that would be no great loss for anyone. He had once been a Swordbearer, a knight of the realm, and a husband, and now he was none of those things.
As if to remind him of his failures, the scar upon his left cheek and jaw, the brand of a broken sword, still felt tight, even after a year.
Not that he needed