The blood oath seals their pact The Bloodsworn

She swears a pact with Agnar and Elvar, where she will lead the Battle-Grim to Oskutreð if they swear to do all they can to rescue her son, Bjarn, from the clutches of Ilska the Cruel. Captured by the Battle-Grim on Iskalt Island (along with her husband, Berak, and child, Bjarn) where she was destroying the Galdrabok, the Graskinna. Orv the Sneak – the only archer in the Battle-Grim, a scout and hunter. Urt the Unwashed – warrior of the Battle-Grim, bynamed because of his aversion to cleanliness Sólín Spittle – one of the longest-serving of the Battle-Grim, she lost some teeth during a fight with a swarm of tennúr Swore the blood oath to rescue Bjarn from Ilska’s Raven-Feeders Sighvat the Fat – second to Agnar, a fierce warrior, though more interested in food than making decisions. She grew up on the hard streets of Svelgarth Huld – youngest of the Battle-Grim after Elvar. Has also sworn the blood oath to find Bjarn She has sworn the blood oath to find Bjarn, son of Uspa the Seiðr-witch, to rescue him from Ilska the Cruel and her Ravven-Feeders, in return for Uspa guiding the Battle-Grim to fabled Oskutreð, the heart of where the gods fought and died epic, gritty fantasy with an uncompromising amount of heart.' -FanFiAddictĪgnar Broksson – chief of the Battle-Grim, slain in an act of betrayal by Biórr on the ash-plain of OskutreðĮlvar Fire-Fist – daughter of Jarl Störr. 'A masterfully crafted, brutally compelling Norse-inspired epic.' -Anthony Ryan It’s everything I’ve come to expect from a John Gwynne book.' -Robin Hobb

“There is not a dull chapter in this fantasy epic.” -Vulture (Best of the Year) A book of forbidden magic with the power to raise the wolf god Ulfrir from the dead…and bring about a battle that will shake the foundations of the earth. Their only hope lies within the mad writings of a chained god. Yet even the might of the Bloodsworn and Battle-Grim cannot stand alone against a dragon god. Now she plots a new age of blood and conquest.Īs Orka continues the hunt for her missing son, the Bloodsworn sweep south in a desperate race to save one of their own–and Varg takes the first steps on the path of vengeance.Įlvar has sworn to fulfil her blood oath and rescue a prisoner from the clutches of Lik-Rifa and her dragonborn followers, but first she must persuade the Battle-Grim to follow her. Lik-Rifa, the dragon god of legend, has been freed from her eternal prison. Packed with myth, magic, and bloody vengeance, John Gwynne's 'masterfully crafted, brutally compelling, Norse-inspired epic' (Anthony Ryan) continues in The Hunger of the Gods.

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