Wheel of Time: Oaths Are Power

Manetheren burned at the end of the Trolloc Wars, and the working that bound its royal guard was thought lost with it. It has been sitting dormant in one bloodline ever since. The Ihvon Oath is not channeling. He cannot touch the Source and never will. It is Old Blood resonance answering intent — a rite, half Old Tongue and half will, that binds a willing person to him as Oathsworn. It costs the other side nothing supernatural. What it demands is his: a debt of protection and provision he must genuinely honour, or the resonance sours and the bond curdles into resentment. Rowan al Caar holds a crumbling Andoran toll-fort at Tarwin’s Gap and a handful of sworn men. Trollocs come through that pass. The White Tower has started asking who is binding men with a working that smells of the Old Blood. — Description from novelcodex.orgFull novel: Wheel of Time: Oaths Are Power — read the rest free on N​o⁠v​e⁠l​C⁠o​d⁠e​x⁠.​o⁠r​g⁠