The Raven's Warrior. Vincent Pratchett

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      YMAA Publication Center, Inc. PO Box 480 Wolfeboro, NH 03894 1-800-669-8892 • www.ymaa.com • [email protected]

      Paperback edition 978-1-59439-258-0

      Ebook edition 978-1-59439-259-7

      © 2012 by Vincent Pratchett

      All rights reserved, including the right of reproduction in whole or in part in any form.

      Editor: Leslie Takao

       Cover Design: Axie Breen

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       Publisher’s Cataloging in Publication

      Pratchett, Vincent.

      The raven’s warrior : a novel / Vincent Pratchett. -- Wolfeboro, NH : YMAA Publication Center, c2013.

      p. ; cm.

      ISBN: 978-1-59439-258-0 (pbk.) ; 978-1-59439-259-7 (ebk.)

      Summary: Wounded in battle (900 A.D.), a near dead Celtic warrior is taken by Viken raiders and sold into a Baghdad slave market. He is dragged further East, through the desert, into the ‘Middle Kingdom’ where he is bought by a warrior priest and his beautiful daughter. Hazy images of silk, herbs, needles, potions and steel, can only lead to one thing, he has been purchased by a wizard and his witch. Arkthar fears for his soul.--Publisher.

      1. Celts--China--Tenth century--Fiction. 2. Magic, Chinese--Tenth century--Fiction. 3. China--History--Tenth century--Fiction. 4. Taoist priests--China--Tenth century--Fiction. 5. Adventure fiction. 6. Historical fiction. I. Title.

      PR9199.4.P73 R38 2013

       813.6--dc23

      2012954198

       1301

      Editor’s note: Viken is the historical name of a region in southeastern Norway, believed to derive from the Old Norse word vík, meaning cove or inlet. Etymologists have suggested that the modern word “viking” may be derived from this place name, simply meaning “a person from Viken”.

      Disclaimer: This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, businesses, companies, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

       DRAGON

      Seal Script Calligraphy from the time of the First Emperor

       QIN SHI HUANG DI

       Every man’s life story begins at first breath, but this is not my story alone, and so it begins much closer to my last.

      CONTENTS

THE BEGINNING

THE ARRIVAL

REBIRTH

MY MIND’S CONCLUSION

THE NOVICE GATE

WEAPONS AND WORDS

THE SACKING OF THE TEMPLE

TRANSITIONS

RENEWAL

A NEW DIRECTION

SLAUGHTER AND STEEL

REVENGE

IN THE EYES OF AN EMPEROR

OLD WOUNDS REOPEN

FIRST BLOOD

THE SHIELD

LIFE SPEAKS

DREAMS

THE MOTHER

THE ROOTS ARE SEVERED

BY SEA AND BY LAND

BALANCE

       THE NEEDLE POINTS NORTH

       THE BEAR

       ENTRENCHED

       THE ORACLE SPEAKS

       THE SIEGE

       SACRIFICE

       FIRST STRIKE

       THE OAK

       WATER AND FISH

       THE TREE OF KNOWLEDGE

       STANDING AT PEACE

       HEAT

       CHI

       THE GUARDIAN

       THE FIRST EMPEROR

       THE ENTRANCE

       SLEEP

       THE FIVE CUTS

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