Scabbard of Swords
Colby is nine feet tall, made of stone-gray skin and good intentions, and has spent his whole life pretending to be something he’s not.
Officially, he’s a half-orc, son of a brewer and a sea captain. Unofficially, he’s a forest troll—a secret his parents have kept since the day a council of fortune-tellers showed up on their doorstep and announced he was destined to defeat the Ice Lord of Firesong Vale. Nobody asked Colby. Nobody really asks the Chosen One anything.
When the Ice Lord’s portal army invades Ashvault Citadel—frost trolls, ice wraiths, and an alarming number of confused snowmen—Colby sets out to do the one thing prophecy demands and he never wanted: become a hero. He’s got a found family at his back that includes a disgraced elder druid with a tragic backstory and worse luck, a Watcher whose strength rivals his loyalty to the bears who’ve adopted him right back, and a wandering yeti chef whose spice necklace is doing a great deal more than seasoning soup.
Back home, blacksmith Anjou is forging the one weapon that might actually end this—if she can finish it before the Ice Lord finds her first.
Between guild politics, a halfling warlord with better intentions than methods, and a cooking competition where the prize is a legendary scabbard mistaken for a breadstick holder, Colby’s quest asks a simple question with a complicated answer: what do you owe a world that’s never quite let you belong to it?
Equal parts Pratchett-style absurdity and Christopher Moore irreverence, with a heart it earns the hard way, Scabbard of Swords is the first book in A Seasoned Saga—for readers who want their epic fantasy to come with found family, real stakes, and at least one sword made of bees.