Godchosen An Epic Fantasy Saga Teen and YA Epic Fantasy, Nordic Myth and Legends
Aethon Books
Dec 15, 2020
Kindle
692
Amazon
A prophecy to a 16-year-old blacksmith’s son sends Trygare kan Ingan from his home in the Cymenean glyns, armed only with his father’s sword.
Being GodChosen isn’t easy. The woman he wants doesn’t want him ; the man who should be his best friend thinks him laughable, and everyone ridicules his youth, to say nothing of his glyndweller accent.
Slaying a dragon and defending the country from invaders changes their minds, and things are going nicely, but then the gods interfere…
Tragedy strikes, sending Trygare to a foreign land where his true destiny lies…
…to become the ancestor of a dynasty that will rule his planet for three thousand years.
Combine Conan the Barbarian with Skyrim, add a dash of Game of Thrones, and the result will be this epic chronicle of the kan Ingan empire.
Review By Linda Tonis
Member of The Paranormal Romance Guild
At the age of sixteen, Trygare Kan Ingan was taken by his blacksmith father to see the Drune Priest to determine what path his son would follow in life. When the priest reveals that Trygare would be the father of kings who would rule for thousands of years, there was no question he would have to leave his village of Glynkillen and seek the princess he would have to marry. His father advised him to go to see the Chev of Cymene, who was a distant cousin and ask to be given a place among his soldiers.
When Trygare is finally before the Chev and shows him the ring his father presented him with, he is accepted as a soldier. Of course, being only sixteen he is met with constant ridicule for being young and not even being able to grow a mustache. He is teased by the Chev’s son-under-the-law, Conan, but when he and Trygare set off to a village to rid it of a beast, and Trygare kills the dragon the two become bonded as brothers.
What Trygare never realized is that the gods were up in the heavens deciding how his life would go. They present him with a princess. He falls in love with her and she hates him. His reward for killing the dragon was the hand in marriage of Princess Caithwyn, something he pictured as being perfect. However, it turned out to be a nightmare.
After months of marriage, war once again breaks out in Cymene and Trygare is on his way to battle with his wife’s words in his ears: “I hope you die, and I will finally be rid of you.” Every day she waited with her sister, Conan’s wife, for the wagon carrying the dead, praying he is one of them. When he finally arrives back severely injured, she immediately realizes how mistaken she was. She wanted him and needed to get him well so she could prove herself
Of course, when life seems to be going Trygare’s way, the gods again throw him a curve ball. He is destined not to know happiness and eventually everything that happens changes his son and not for the better.
It is not a HEA but it is a wonderful story about an honorable man who seemed to have very little say in his life. He loved his son and his son loved him, but what chance does one have when the gods are directing your life for their entertainment?
I am so happy I read this one, it is about Riven’s early life and his father. Even if you read the rest of the books in the series you should not miss this one. This is a book full of love, betrayal, honor and lies.