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A young dwarf, Redwin of the order of the Forge, has only one ambition: to become a lord of the runes. Despite the opposition of his father, Redwin will join his uncle, a venerable of the Order. Then will follow a long and terrible initiation during which the young dwarf will discover the art of the runic forge and the handling of arms. To achieve his objective, Redwin will lose much... his soul and his father
The tragic fate of Ordo of the Order of the Talion. A stolen childhood, a cruel and painful initiation have made him the worst killer, feared by all. Ordo is cursed... Born on the 6th day of the 6th moon, he is the 6th child of a sibling of the Order of the Talion. On the day of his 6th birthday, his father abandons him to the instructors of the Black Lodge, a secret branch of the Order that trains assassins intended to eliminate all those who oppose the plan of the Talion. Thirty years later, Ordo became a master of the shadow. The time has come for him to take revenge on all those who betrayed him and made him suffer so much. His objective: to ruin them.
A golden cube covered with esoteric writings has been exhumed from the bowels of a fortress-state of the south. The artifact, dating back to a distant and terrible era, is of great interest to the masters of the Order of the Temple who immediately gather a group to investigate on the spot. Despite it, Aral, a young engineer who has just graduated, is part of the expedition. Arriving on the spot, the evil is already awakening, revealing the darkest face of the dwarf people.
Any revolt begins in tears and ends in blood. Oösram was the greatest general of the fortress of Goll-Garsëm, but he has betrayed his order and his king. Since then he is nothing. His beard has been cut off, his goods confiscated, his glory forgotten. He and his family are now Errants, working the earth, subject to the whims of the powerful. Over time, Oösram thinks he has mourned his old life, but can we deny what we have always been?
Brahm, captain of the Order of the Shield, loses his wife while she gives birth to her son. Tiss, his daughter, takes care of his best of their home, but she fails to protect her little brother from a band of Ogres. The child is seriously wounded, he will be a boisterard for the rest of his life, a cripple incapable of holding the rank. All the hopes that Brahm had placed in his son are destroyed, he will never be the great cognar that he had hoped. Despite his father's opposition, Tiss decides to take the place of his little brother and learn the profession of arms...
While he is four years old, Jorun, Redwin's younger son, spills the melting metal on his face... Marked for the rest of his life and jealousizing the talent of his older brother, Jorun is devoured by anger. If Ulrog, his older brother, inherited their father's gift for the forge, Jorun, inherited only his rage... Unable to control this increasingly rebellious son, Redwin entrusts him to a recruiter of the Iron Legion, a company of mercenaries bringing together the courters who flee the weight of the dwarf tradition, dishonor or justice...
Fifteen years have passed since the fire that ravaged Fort Druz. The Order of the Talion has not been destroyed. The power has only changed hands, from those of the archivists to those of the lords of the Bank of Peter. Purchased by the murderer masters of the Black Lodge, Ordo has renounced his vengeance... Until the day when the beautiful and mysterious Derdhr, one of the most powerful lords of the Bank of Peter, comes to find him to propose to him to finish what he began...
Sriza is an exorcist of the temple, a cognar having vowed to fight the demons and to protect his parishioners. But while a terrible snowstorm covers the valley, isolating it from the rest of the world, a horde of possessed attack the enclaved villages. Sriza must discover what the demons are looking for to have a chance to stop them.
Dröh, the son of Oösram, has traveled the world to learn the profession of weapons, in the hope of freeing the Errants from the dominant orders. But when he returns home, seven years later, no one wants to hear about revolution. Blood has sank too much. He then commits himself to the construction of a road through the land of the Winds. The work is advancing but the hostility of the Orc tribes is growing...
Thirty-eight years have passed since the death of the young Tiss. Abokar was the battle lord of the current king's grandfather. He is old, very old, he has been fighting for more than a century. He is only the shadow of the warrior he was once. His body, accustomed to the harshness of the countryside, makes him suffer, and his thoughts sometimes seem to flee him... Abokar knows that it is time for him to take his reverence...
Fleeing the vengeance of a Talion master, Torun's family exiled to the other end of the world. The young dwarf then found himself without a mentor to teach him the art of forgery. The village priest proposed to take him as a disciple so that he could succeed him. Death in the soul, he was about to accept when his path crossed that of a half mad hermit, a dwarf living like a beast at the bottom of the woods...
Kardum is the son of a glass blower. He refuses this mediocre life of taskron. After a long and bloody ascension, he becomes one of the most powerful merchants of his people. His trade: arms. From dagger to seat machines, Kardum founded an empire. He provides anyone who is able to pay the high price, regardless of his race or intentions...
Returning to her native land, Captain Fey of the Iron Legion has to face the Orc threat. If she wants to save her family, she, who has spent most of her life on the battlefields, will have to take up a challenge of a whole new nature. While she goes to the bedside of her dying mother, Fey discovers that the fortress where she grew up is besieged by hordes d'orcs. The area, isolated from the rest of the kingdom of Leon, is condemned. Fey decides to rebuild a viaduct collapsed for millennia in order to allow the rescue to intervene. But the runes that linked the stones have been destroyed and forgotten for a long time. The bet seems impossible to raise, until she discovers a notebook belonging to her father, a certain Aral of the Temple.
No one knows the origins of Brum, the lord and founder of the powerful Legion of Iron... Here is the story of this nay born Errant who rose up to the height of the greatest kings of the land of Arran. Lord Brum returns to where it all began, at the well, that place where he fought to forget the misery and rage that were his. The old warrior knows that he must confront his past, these careless times where he and his friends lived in the bottoms of Gol-Garsëm, dreaming of better days. Brum always knew that he was not like the others... and from this difference came his greatest strength and his deepest suffering.
Death is a one-way trip without return... that's at least what Oboron thought, until he wakes up at the bottom of a ravine, pierced by a dozen arrows. As he regains his memory, he understands that his destiny has just changed. We don't come back from beyond without paying the price. Oboron then has only one idea in mind: to find his own to protect them from the storm that he is about to trigger.
The lodge of Vaha, guardian of the forgotten runes, is threatened. The sisters who make it up are all fierce warriors ready to give their lives to protect the inhabitants of the Land of Arran from their own madness. Tala de la Forge is one of them. Here is her story... Tala is a sister of the lodge of Vaha. Since the night of time, her lodge protects the land of Arran by keeping in its citadel the forgotten runes of the dwarfs, who once led the world to the edge of its destruction. The warrior returns from a journey of several moons that led her to the city of Ardërum-Draz, in search of the divine rune of Immortality. Of the five sisters who left, only Eti and she survived. For what they had forgotten, it is that all treasure has its guardian.
Gurdan, an irascible recruiter of the Legion of Iron, has taken over his place as captain. If he has his arms always solid, his heart at the end of breath betrays him at the worst moment... Brum then asks him to leave the rank permanently. Gurdan will join the family distillery with the hope of ending his days. But his brother has disappeared, the buildings are in a pitiful state and his nephew has just sold the land... Yet, he will not give up, swearing that if his heart holds, he will revive the property and distill the best malt liquor of any Arran!
The city of Ysparh is ravaged by corruption. It is only thanks to the determination of its guard to maintain order and fairness. The dwarf Ararun and the blue elf Antalya are the dreaded captains, one for the finesse of its mind, the other for the thread of its sword and the two for their legendary obstinacy. So, when one of the princes is murdered before elections, they are the only ones able to unravel this affair.
Tadgar the smart one, Lygdr the dark one, Damn the seductress, Wal the mad-furious and Akab the old priest defrocated have a point in common: no law is sacred in their eyes. Only they matter to freedom, as long as it is seasoned with a good pack of talions. So, when this team of outlaw gets doubled by a necromancer and finds itself with an army of orcs, a white elf mage and a dwarf city with kits, they decide to do what any sensible dwarf would do in their place: to find the black mage and make him spit out his teeth.
Lady Svara should resign herself, it is the fate of a mother of the Shield to live mourning. But she is unable to do so. Only the rage and love of a mother can transcend the established order. Daughter of a general who has become infirm, wife of a warrior who died on the battlefield, mother of two sons carried away in battle and of a third disappeared, Svara is a woman of the Shield. Her mother's heart screams to her that her marmouse is alive, lost in the icy plains. Destroyed between grief and hope, she will gather around her an old cognar and two deserters to go in search of her.
Ulrog is in trouble and only with the help of his brother will he be able to escape. But will the enemy sons of the legendary Redwin be able to overcome the grudges of the past? Following his refusal to serve the interests of the great master of Forge, Ulrog, the eldest son of Redwin, is accused of treason. If he wants to save his head: he must acquire a place on the board of his order by winning the tournament of the best blacksmith of Arran. To achieve this, he needs an exceptional fighter capable of mastering his art. He will go in search of Jorun, his own brother.
Gurdan is facing a new threat: Kurgill, the straw man of the Talion is about to redeem the land of Obré! If he succeeds, it is the end of the small community. To counter him they have to win the games of Orbö'Kazar. On the programme: tests of strength, booze, and mouch contest! For the winner a small fortune that would put a brake on the actions of the Talion.
Despite their ridiculous sales and the hostility of the powerful, Captain Ararun of the Temple and his partner, the Blue Elf Antalya, continue tirelessly to hunt down the criminals and the Dark within Ysparh's guard.
After setting Arran on fire and blood, Tadgar, Lygdr, Akab, Damn and Walgrim fled the continent, chased by the demon of a necromancer to whom they stole a precious orb. Saving the life of a pirate, the group of broken arms without faith or law crisscrossed the oceans in search of a treasure bringing ruin and desolation, while the troubled past of Akab resurfaces.
Before becoming a dreaded cognar, Volgrir was a playful and dreaming child, who grew up in a fortress on the border of the necromant kingdoms, a fief of the Black Magi. Until the day when a supernatural mist swallowed up the region. Then began a long night of massacres at the end of which a handful of children of which Volgrir survived. They had to flee horror and join the resistance.
Redwin has fought to make Dal'darum the last hope of the ancient peoples... and he has managed to do so. But this damn crown now weighs heavily on the dungeon. Yet he must again take up his tranquillity against the shade of the Tannhosers that threatens his city. Five years after the wars of Arran, Redwin, who became the lord of Dal'darum, tries to govern a city where all the races of Arran coexist. Between political tensions, social conflicts and external threats, peace remains fragile and explosive. While communities are mysteriously massacred, a war against the Tannhosers is preparing. Redwin must protect his own and fully accept his role as king to avoid the collapse of the alliance.