THE OATH OF THARNOVAR

The promise was work, shelter, and water. What waited at Tharnovar was something else entirely.Mirolox enters the Orsavan Barrens expecting danger. He does not expect to find an expedition marching toward an ancient settlement where workers have vanished, forgotten machinery is awakening, and desperate families are being drawn across the wasteland by promises of wages and precious water.Tharnovar was built to survive.Its ancient waterworks still run beneath the stone. Its defenses were designed to protect an entire settlement. And somewhere inside its buried systems, old mechanisms of law, duty, and obedience are beginning to function again.Someone is putting Tharnovar back to work.Alongside Sandra, a healer determined to keep the expedition alive; Barlow Silvermug, a battle-tested dwarf ranger; a Raskari pilot; and companions carrying secrets of their own, Mirolox must uncover what happened to those who came before them.But rescue soon becomes war.Captivity, siege, betrayal, and bloodshed force Mirolox to make decisions that will change more than the fate of one forgotten settlement. With every life placed under his protection, the difference between defending people and ruling them becomes harder to see.Before the legend of Mirolox, there was Tharnovar.Before the rise of iron and strife, there was an oath.The Oath of Tharnovar is Book One of The Rise of Iron and Strife, an epic high-fantasy saga of living magic, dangerous frontiers, ancient ruins, brutal battles, complicated loyalties, and the beginning of one man's long journey toward power.