That gift, the titular Blood Song, will guide him to his righteous fate if he learns to control it.īefore long the King turns his envious gaze on the rich southern nations. As a Brother, he must go on campaigns against some rebellious heretics and a usurping Lord, during which he learns that he may have a magical gift himself, something that is explicitly against the national religion. These trials forge Vaelin and the novices in his group into true brothers-in-arms.Įventually, he falls under the sway of the brilliant but ruthless King, who schemes to pass on a stable and economically secure realm to his well meaning but seemingly ineffectual heir. Even as a novice, he survives assassination attempts, foils the attempt to murder one of the leaders of another order, falls in love with a Sister in the healing order, befriends a heretic with magical powers, and fights a crime lord with less pleasant magical powers. He must survive seven years and seven deadly tests that weed out the weak and the morally unfit to become a full Brother. He endures some of the most brutal training in warfare imaginable to become a warrior monk. Vaelin is unceremoniously dumped by his father on the steps of the Sixth Order when he is ten and his beloved mother has just died of an illness. He is being transported alongside a historian who begins to chronicle his life story. A duel to the death everyone believes he will lose. The framing device follows the Hope-Killer, as Vaelin is known, who is an adult prisoner of war of the southern nation, being transported to a duel at the behest of his captors. A future that will alter not only the realm, but the world. But one truth overpowers all the rest: Vaelin Al Sorna is destined for a future he has yet to comprehend. His father, too, has motives that Vaelin will come to understand. He cherishes the memory of his mother, and what he will come to learn of her at the Order will confound him. Vaelin’s rage at being deprived of his birthright and dropped at the doorstep of the Sixth Order like a foundling knows no bounds. Vaelin's father, Kralyk Al Sorna, was Battle Lord to King Janus, ruler of the Unified Realm. The Brothers of the Sixth Order are devoted to battle, and Vaelin will be trained and hardened to the austere, celibate, and dangerous life of a Warrior of the Faith. Vaelin Al Sorna was only a child of ten when his father left him at the iron gate of the Sixth Order. “The Sixth Order wields the sword of justice and smites the enemies of the Faith and the Realm.”
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