SETH W. JAMES

The Adventurers

September 6, 2022

By Seth W. James

“The Sacred Spring has struck and an Orc horde ten-thousand strong has erupted from Mount Festir, surging down the forested highlands toward the coast and plunder—and over the pastoral town of Getnits. Known primarily for the smell of its tanneries and the dullness of its farmers, Getnits seemed the most boring place imaginable to Goey, the heir apparent to the Village’s only bakery. With his majority and adulthood less than a year away, Goey would soon become an important man in the village, as baker, or would if not for his only partly unearned reputation as a thief. But a childhood spent breaking into the Strutting Stag Inn to listen to bard’s tales had fired his blood for adventure and so, together with his best friend—Regnar, one of the forest folk that the villagers called vagabonds, when they didn’t call them outlaws—and his worst enemy—Hefgirt, the recently reformed town bully and reluctant heir to the town’s only caravanner—and Wanda— the tavern keeper’s daughter who harbors a deadly secret—Goey intends to renounce village life for a career as an adventurer. Their ceaseless training in preparation for the road ahead will be tested long before their planned departure, though, when a clue to the mystery of Hefgirt’s mother’s murder surfaces; they will be tested further when Wanda’s secret is revealed to a village that still burns at the stake any suspected of witchcraft; and they will face the ultimate test when they learn that the worst tale in Getnist’s history is about to be retold—by the approaching horde.”