Paks has left the company, as there are parts of its philosophy that she can’t make fit with her moral code. She experiences friendship and sacrifice, and learns self discipline, and has a run-in with some scoundrels in her own company. She learns that war isn’t all adventure, and encounters the frightening powers of magic for the first time. The story begins as Paks escapes an arranged marriage by joining Duke Phelan’s mercenary company. These books, now issued as a single volume, The Deed of Paksenarrion, describe a satisfying character arc as Paks, as she’s known to friends, grows from good-natured naif to seasoned campaigner to a powerful heroine who has earned her scars. Elizabeth Moon’s first trilogy of novels about Paksenarrion, a farmer’s daughter turned mercenary, then paladin, is one of the great works of epic fantasy fiction.
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