The Hatchling Man - Book One: The Tower of the Swordthane

It all started with a sword. And so begins ‘A Brief History of the Swordthane Wars’ by Jarbis Nyrllsson, Sage of Igrainel; a old, worn and well read book owned by Omerod Thorne, liegeman to Silverbane the night elf, Dark Knight and Paladin. Not that this mattered to young Tom Clovely, for he had never read a complete book in his life. And reading is perhaps the furthest thing from his mind in the chaotic and illicit daily life of the orphaned urchin of Valdos City, until one theft too many from the wrong person at the wrong time and in the wrong place changes his life completely. Thrown into the company of the three Paladins of Ukko, Tom Clovely begins his journey into the far North, a squire in the service of some of the greatest warriors of the world, wielding living swords descended from the first and greatest of the named blades, yet facing an enemy that is truly legendary; as the Paladins embark on a quest to find the Hatchling Man, a man born of an egg, and a man upon whom rests the fate of Peace.