Deed of Paksenarrion Trilogy: Sheepfarmer's Daughter + Divided Allegiance + Oath of Gold (MM PB Set) [B1179]

1990s mass-market PB reprints of the 1988/1989 originals. From Nebula Award-winning author Elizabeth Moon, the Trilogy that started her classic PaksWorld fantasy saga. Paksenarrion, a simple sheepfarmer's daughter, yearns for a life of adventure and glory, such as was known to heroes in songs and story. At age seventeen she runs away from home to join a mercenary company and begins her epic life . . . Book One: Paks is trained as a mercenary, blooded, and introduced to the life of a soldier . . . and to the followers of Gird, the soldier's god. Book Two: Paks leaves the Duke's company to follow the path of Gird alone-and on her lonely quests encounters the other sentient races of her world. Book Three: Paks the warrior must learn to live with Paks the human. She undertakes a holy quest for a lost elven prince that brings the gods' wrath down on her and tests her very limits. The three books included are The Sheepfarmer's Daughter, Divided Allegiance and Oath of Gold. "Worldbuilding in the grand tradition, background thought out to the last detail." -Judith Tarr.

From recent Amazon/GoodReads reviews: "A True Classic. One of the best fantasy books ever written. Girl hero. Wonderful characters and world building. No extra blah blah blah. Just good old fashioned writing. Very highly recommended."; "A Great Work of Fantasy. This ranks as one of the greatest series in modern fantasy. Richly detailed world-building, relatable characters that linger long after the last page is turned. I miss Paks and her adventures but, these books are always here when I hear the call to join Paks when she adventures."; "A bit religiousy for my taste, and definitely too torture-fetishy for my taste. But while those bits are important to what the book is trying to be, they don't occupy all that much of the book's content, so I can pretty easily look past that. The book is an amazing act of world-building - some of it is traditional fantasy world-building, but where this book really separates itself from any other I've read is in building out the psychological world of a hero, as well as coloring in all the mundane details of being a soldier in a fantasy world."; "This is divided into three volumes, but it reads like one gigantic book; each volume starts almost immediately after the previous ends. All in all, this was a very good read. Lots of adventure, at core a battle between good and evil but with most characters being more complex than that would imply."