The Price of Honor

Book 1 of the Minotaurs of Algoron

By Gus Gallows

Now, obviously, I wrote this one, but since we are just starting this site up, it is the only book I have to work with. So, I will refrain from saying how great it is and just give you the run down.

First, a little background. The book is based on a game called the Dark and Shattered Lands or DSL, a text based role-playing game founded by my brother. It is the background story I created for one of my characters there. His name is Pah'min and he is a Minotaur.

At a young age, the acts of his father cost him and his family everything they hold dear. Whatever he had done had left his son without honor and without a name. In a kingdom such as Ganth, honor is the highest of all attributes. To be without it is to be shunned by all and forced to scrape by with no help from anyone. Pah'min, however, was different. He is quickly discovered by the one house in Ganth which none chose or even aspired to be in. The house's primary purpose in Ganth is to train experts in the covert arts of spying.

Pah'min took the offer to join the house as he had nothing else to lose and only the promise of restored honor to gain. He soon proved that not only was he capable of learning their tactics quickly, but when put into battle, became something else. An unstoppable force impervious to the pains of combat. A blessing as well as a curse that would steer his fate as he leaves the only home he has known to earn back his father's name and restore his family's honor.

For the next 30 years, he would integrate into the kingdom of his enemy, even going as far as to raise a family within it's hated borders. He would be challenged in ways no Ganthian should be and he would pay the exuberant price required to restore his honor.

This tale is filled with danger at ever corner, magic and deceit. It is dark in nature and has a high body count. If that strikes your interest, then this might just be the book for you.

-Gus Gallows