RAZE - Part I

“Yesterday, I was the world’s greatest warrior. Long ago, I was a child soldier. I was a pirate, a mercenary, an opium lord, a mage-hunter. Today I am a prisoner, but this, at least, I have chosen.”

He was born Heshim il-Naban, the child of poor poppy farmers in an unforgiving country. He became RAZE, the greatest warrior the world has ever known, but he tells his story from a cell where he awaits his execution at the hands of the woman he loves. What no one knows is that it's a cell he chose; a cell in which he waits.

Young Heshim's life changed the day the knife-winds blew up from the south, carving apart those unlucky enough to find themselves without shelter or warning. Forced into military service as little more than a child by a brutal invading empire, young Heshim learned harsh lessons at the hands of the manipulative Captain de Trastorces and the mysterious lacquer-faced woman, Weckar, who seemed to control the wind itself. Raze tells how, without options, he survived by joining the ones who captured him. As he climbed their ranks, however, rivals emerged from amongst the other conscripts, and Heshim's quest to forget his old life and prove himself to his new masters became a fight for survival itself.

RAZE is an epic fantasy web serial by D. Thourson Palmer. It is available for free, in weekly installments, on the author's website at dthoursonpalmer.com/raze. This volume collects the first fifty-five installments - over a year's worth of updates - in a single ebook.