
Web serial by Quill
They took his tongue, and with it his song and his sorcery. They threw him to the lions, expecting him to die. Mauled, mutilated, and bereft of magic, Arn survives. A prisoner in Aquila, the northern skald has lost all his powers. But a felled tree can regrow, a destroyed house can be rebuilt, and a broken man can be made whole. The method is forbidden magic, and the price is life's blood. With each death by his hand, Arn will claw his powers back — little by little — aided unwittingly by his new masters, who have only one use for him: the arena.