“They shun you like a monster, but I see a champion; a force to be reckoned with. They are zealous, brutal, and without compassion, but you will be worse.”
Dredt had to fight. Years as a hermit and bandit on the run led up to his enrollment in a mercenary corps, and he's going to end up regretting it more than anything else. The land is scarred, war-ravaged, breaking at the seams, and he signed up to push it to its limits. Armies will crumble, towns will burn, the trees will weep in sadness at the bloodshed between brothers, and Dolsa will face centuries of war.
But what will become truth and what will become legend?
Deluve's Waif is a dark fantasy story about the unflinching luck of life. It is set roughly four centuries before the other book in the Karaask Chronicles, The Eroded Knight, but is its own standalone story. These are the myths of old that are told to frighten kids to sleep. The ones that remain tales because the alternative is too grim to bare...
