Oath of Swords

By Weber, David

Book Id: WPLBN0000635953
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Title:	Oath of Swords
Author:	Weber, David
Volume:	War God Series
Language:	English
Subject:	Science fiction, Fantasy & science fiction, Pulp literature
Collections:	Science Fiction Collection, Baen Library Collection
Historic Publication Date:	1995
Publisher:	Baen Publishing Enterprises


Citation APA MLA Chicago Weber, B. D. (1995). Oath of Swords. Retrieved from https://www.central.gutenberg.org/

Description
Description: Our Hero: The unlikely Paladin, Bahzell Bahnakson of the Horse Stealer Hradani. He's no knight in shining armor. He's a hradani, a race known for their uncontrollable rages, bloodthirsty tendencies, and inability to maintain civilized conduct.

Summary
Summary: None of the other Five Races of man like the hradani. Besides his ethnic burden, Bahzell has problems of his own to deal with: a violated hostage bond, a vengeful prince, a price on his head. He doesn't want to mess with anybody else's problems, let alone a god's. Let alone the War God's! So how does he end up a thousand leagues from home, neck-deep in political intrigue, assassins, demons, psionicists, evil sorcery, white sorcery, dark gods, good gods, bad poets, greedy landlords, and most of Bortalik Bay Well, it's all the War God's fault. . .

Excerpt
Excerpt: Chapter one he shouldn?t have taken the shortcut. Bahzell bahnakson realized that the instant he heard the sounds drifting down the inky-dark cross corridor. He?d had to keep to the back ways used only by the palace servants?and far more numerous slaves?if he wanted to visit brandark without the guard?s knowledge, for he was too visible to come and go openly without being seen. But he shouldn?t have risked the shortcut just to avoid the more treacherous passages of the old keep. But Bahnak was no ordinary chieftain. He knew there could be no lasting peace while Churnazh lived, yet he was wise enough to know what would happen if he dispersed his strength in piecemeal garrisons, each too weak to stand alone. He could defeat Navahk and its allies in battle; to conquer them he needed time to bind the allies his present victories had attracted to him, and he’d bought that time by tying Churnazh and his cronies up in a tangle of treaty promises, mutual defense clauses, and contingencies a Purple Lord would have been hard put to unravel. Half a dozen mutually suspicious hradani warlords found the task all but impossible, and to make certain they kept trying rather than resorting to more direct (and traditional) means of resolution, Bahnak had insisted on an exchange of hostages. It was simply Bahzell’s ill fortune that Navahk, as the most powerful of Hurgrum’s opponents, was entitled to a hostage from Hurgrum’s royal family.