Blood & Iron by Eli Steele

Magic doesn’t exist, until a mage falls in the streets of Ashmor. In his last moments, he gives Rowan Vos, a thief for hire, a sword that will alter his future, and threaten not only his own life, but the lives of everyone around him.

Eldrick D’Eldar returns from the Kingdom of Meronia with dire news – three decades of fragile peace is unraveling.

And Griffon Alexander, the son of a minor noble relegated to the borderland keep of Braewood, is about to face the culmination of all of these events.

“Blood and iron… Each craves the other. Drawn together since the hills were small, there is no separating them. Everything that we desire destroys us, Eleksandr. So, I’ll allow my axes what they crave. And if it ends them, then so be it, but I expect they will outlast me yet.” -Kren Redstorm