The Forging of the Nine-Fingered

Steel remembers every wound.

Tarod survived the arena. He survived betrayal, blood rites, and the brutal lessons of war. But survival is not victory - and legends are not born without sacrifice.

Now hunted by kings, bound by oaths he does not trust, and haunted by the cost of power, Tarod is drawn into a war older than empires. Beneath frozen mountains and across seas ruled by corsairs and monsters, he must face enemies that cannot be slain by strength alone - cannibal warlords, corrupted sor...