Reviewed: January 8th, 2026
Released: October 5th, 2017
Genre: Grimdark Fantasy
Sometimes, coin isn’t enough.
Sometimes, blood is the only payment worth taking.
The Downs, the poor district of the city of Avarest, is home to cutthroats and thieves, pickpockets and prostitutes, all of whom pay tribute to one of two powerful crime bosses. It is also home to Aaron Envelar, a disillusioned sellsword known as the Silent Blade, who cares nothing for the criminal overlords or their schemes, who only wants to survive and make a little coin in the process.
But when a group of unwitting thugs steal his mother’s necklace, the only link he has to his murdered parents, and leave him for dead, Aaron decides that sometimes, surviving isn’t enough. Sometimes, vengeance is the only answer.
After all, when you take everything from a man…
What else does he have to lose?
Helen’s Thoughts: 4/5
A great introduction to the character Aaron Envaler in this novella, a side story to the Seven Virtures series. If you like your heroes violent and dark, with a streak of humanity well hidden, surviving in a world that has little to offer, then this is the world for you.
Aaron is a sellsword, quick to temper and draw blood. Unfortunately he doesn’t take great care of himself in the process, so it is surprising he survives. But under all the killing, there is a sense of duty and honour that he tries to suppress.
Lots of violence and blood, and yet, even in these few pages, Aaron is a sympathetic character who knows his faults and yet still soldiers on.
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