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    The Name of Death
    The Name of Death
    The Name of Death
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    The Name of Death

    By Joshua Robertson

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    Drada Koehn is a fearless, formidable fighter ensnared in a presaged war against the northern humans. When the Speaker foretells their victory upon discovery of the name of death, she sets out to unravel the mysterious prophecy. Now, bound by duty and honor, Drada faces untold horrors with her companions, searching for what may never be found. In a story of unexpected twists, she soon finds that her resolve to see the quest done will be the fortune or doom of her people.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCrimson Edge Press
    Release dateJan 2, 2017
    ISBN9781386849711
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      Book preview

      The Name of Death - Joshua Robertson

      The Name of Death

      Thrice Nine Legends

      Joshua Robertson

      13833329_1107899102604796_236448203_o

      Copyright © 2017 by Joshua Robertson

      Published by Crimson Edge Press, LLC

      www.robertsonwrites.com

      All rights reserved. This book or any portion thereof may not be reproduced or used in any manner whatsoever without the express written permission of the publisher except for the use of brief quotations in a book review.

      Printed in the United States of America

      First Printing, 2017

      Cover art by Winter Bayne.

      There once was a time when the gods were gods without question. When men were men without example. When heroes were only the frivolous dreams of lurid mortality. It was a time when truths and untruths were indistinguishable, hatred and love were equally excusable, and life and death regaled all of humanity in the same breath. Myths of old were realized and legends were born from the very dust man was formed of, to be told and retold until the grace of time altered them beyond knowing or forgot them completely. Still, some tales were preserved deep within the hearts of mankind, for reasons that could not be fathomed. Perhaps bearing the fruit of some profound truth or kept alive merely by the strength of the men who lived them. Some tales would never be forgotten.

      Thrice Nine Legends Saga

      The Blood of Dragons by Joshua Robertson & J.C. Boyd

      ANAERFELL*

      HESHAYOL*

      The Kaelandur Series by Joshua Robertson

      MELKORKA*

      DYNDAER*

      MAHARIA*

      Other Thrice Nine Legends Saga by Joshua Robertson & J.C. Boyd

      STRONG ARMED*

      WHEN BLOOD FALLS*

      THE NAME OF DEATH*

      WARDEN OF THE ASH TREE*

      THE HIGHBORN LONGWALKER*

      DEATH AT DUSK**

      Additional Works

      Legacy Series by Joshua Robertson & J.C. Boyd

      BLOOD AND BILE*

      THE HAWKHURST SAGA*

      GRIMSDALR*

      THE PRINCE’S PARISH*

      JACK SPRATT*

      *Published by Crimson Edge

      **Forthcoming by Crimson Edge

      Table of Contents

      Chapter 1

      Chapter 2

      Chapter 3

      Chapter 4

      Chapter 5

      About the Author

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      The Name of Death

      Thrice Nine Legends

      Joshua Robertson

      Month of Ripening

      Fifth of Warmth

      1351 CE

      Chapter 1

      Drada Koehn’s armor -clad knees sank into the soft mud on the eastern bank of the forked river. Undried by summer’s heat, a hundred miles from the war and hundreds of miles more from home, the mud was cool in the far-reaching shade. Drada relaxed, balancing on her knees and toes, while carefully reattaching the veil to the bottom of her helm, hiding the lower half of her face.

      The thick, tannish cloth heated her cheeks and anchored her breath while she kneeled under the canopy of the concentrated treetops. Never had she seen trees as wide and high as those in the Dyndaer Forest. The trees from her homeland, beyond the mountains in Haemus Mons, were admittedly sticks in comparison to these tall woods.

      Wrylyc, the skittish Kras, had claimed the Dyndaer was unfit for travel with beasts and barbaric men to boot. His forewarning had not scared

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