Lord of the Rings: Star-Kindled

The patron is a star Varda kindled before the Sun, set to watch the North, and it is very nearly spent. It has chosen one dying Ranger recruit to spend the rest of itself on. The Star-Kindled Lay advances on witnessed legend. Not kills, not levels — deeds grand and costly enough to bear singing, weighed by what they cost the doer. Done in the dark with nobody to see it, a deed earns nothing at all. Arandur Fenn woke beneath a warg on a Weather-Hills patrol in the year 3016, in a body already bleeding out. He can borrow one fragment of an ancient hero’s deed he has heard truly sung — Beren’s silence, Bard’s aim — once, at a price. Reading anything Maia-touched brings a nosebleed and a flare that looks back. The patron dims measurably every single time he asks. — Description from novelcodex.orgFull novel: Lord of the Rings: Star-Kindled — read the rest free on N​o⁠v​e⁠l​C⁠o​d⁠e​x⁠.​o⁠r​g⁠