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{{quote|''In a sheepfarmer's low stone house, high in the hills above Three Firs, two swords hang now above the mantelpiece. [...] The other is a very different matter: long and straight, keen-edged, of the finest sword-steel, silvery and glinting blue even in yellow firelight. The pommel's knot design is centered with the deeply graven seal of St. Gird; the cross-hilts are gracefully shaped and chased in gold.''
''[Old Dorthan reminds his grandchildren] of the day a stranger rode up, robed and mantled in white, an old man with thin silver hair, and handed down the box [with a scroll] and the sword, naked as it hangs now.''
''"Keep these," the stranger said, "in memory of your daughter Paksenarrion. She wishes you to have them and has no need of them." And though he accepted water from their well, he would say no more of Paksenarrion, whether she lived or lay buried far away, whether she would return or no.''
''The scroll Dorthan reads is headed The Deed of Paksenarrion Dorthansdotter of Three Firs, and many are the tales of courage and adventure written therein.''
|Prologue, ''Sheepfarmer's Daughter''}}
* ''Sheepfarmer's Daughter'' - 18 year old Paksenarrion ("Paks" for short) runs away from home and an unwanted [[Arranged Marriage]] to become a warrior. She signs up with the mercenary company of Duke Phelan, undergoes training and fights in her first wars. She comes out relatively well for it but starts to wonder whether she's always going to be fighting for the right reasons and where her allegiances ought to lie. ''Sheepfarmer's Daughter'' is available for free (legal!) online reading at [https://web.archive.org/web/20080725060031/http://www.webscription.net/10.1125/Baen/0671654160/0671654160.htm Baen Free Library].
* ''Divided Allegiance'' - Paks leaves the mercenaries to enter training as a [[The Paladin|paladin]] candidate in the order of Saint Gird. In the process she meets and travels with the other races of the kingdom and also has an encounter with the kingdom's [[Religion of Evil]] that does not end well for her, threatening her future and livelihood.
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