Obould Many-Arrows - The Sellswords Trilogy and Transitions

The Sellswords Trilogy and Transitions

As of Road of the Patriarch it seems that Obould has withdrawn from Mithral Hall and has begun to secure what land he has already taken, calling it the Kingdom of Many-Arrows.

In the prologue The Orc King, a hundred years have passed and the kingdom which Obould created, The Kingdom of Many Arrows, has survived the years, establishing trade agreements and treaties with the surrounding cities of the "goodly races". At the current time a descendant of Obould, Obould VI, is in control, but is being contested fiercely by shamans of Gruumsh who believe in the old ways of being self dependent and not being peaceful with the good races. They want to bring the time of Obould to an end and wage war once again against the dwarves of Mithril Hall. Meanwhile, the orc kingdom is also threatened by a group of men, elves, and dwarves on a merciless quest to destroy the orc kingdom and bring things back to how they were in the days of old. The reader may be surprised to find that Drizzt is siding with the orcs. This, however, only constitutes the prologue. In the first several chapters, the story is brought back to the situation as it was left off in the end of The Two Swords.

The situation as it is in The Orc King also furthers the growing desire for peace within Obould; this, of course, is only strengthened by the story of the prologue (which takes place over a century past The Hunter's Blades Trilogy), which obviously shows Obould's vision of the future as an inevitability.

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