Of Sir Ben and Flit - Heroes of the Frontier: a Swords of Faith fantasy adventure

by Jeremiah D. MacRoberts

Fresh from their woodland tower adventure, Prince Bengallen and his thane, Caanaflit, prove themselves able Frontiersmen and enhance their reputations as men of action in the Spearpointe area. Before the Rebellion, before the Beast, under the guise of Sir Ben and Flit, they became heroes of the commonfolk.

The following tale occurred during the early events of “The Beast of Spearpointe” (Swords of Faith, Book One), specifically, between the 18th and 19th chapters of the 2023 revised edition. The concept was cut in an early draft for pacing, for the sake of moving the overall plot of the novel toward the introduction of characters and events necessary to its climax. The cut content has since been redeveloped into a largely stand-alone short story and made available to you. So, if you wanted to see how Bengallen and Caanaflit built their reputations in the Frontier after the tower and prior to hunting the Beast, spend some more time with these characters, or simply want to test Swords of Faith before diving into a novel series, this is your chance.

109 pages, Kindle Edition

Published April 7, 2023

About the author

Doctor Jeremiah D. MacRoberts is an academically trained philosopher (BA, University of Kentucky, 2005), clergyman (MDiv, Lexington Theological Seminary, 2008), and counselor (DMin, Liberty University, 2022). He enlisted in the US Army following high school as a Private (1998), serving in special operations units before commissioning as a Chaplain, a decade later, and attaining the rank of Captain (2012). Chaplain MacRoberts left the military to work for the Department of Veterans Affairs but has also served as a rural church pastor, guest preacher, chaplain for civilian hospice, and provider of free counseling. An avid reader, occasional gamer, and amateur comparative mythologies scholar, he also uses this wide variety of life experiences to inform the characters of his fiction: Encounters with group dynamics, traumatic stress, recovery, morality, wisdom, destiny, faith, fear, forgiveness, cognitive dissonance, emotional grief, physical pain, and all subjects between have been incorporated into how his characters think, feel, and act in their world. Jeremiah D. MacRoberts is currently working on his 10 part "Swords of Faith" traditional fantasy series as well as the ongoing sci-fi "Starscape Chronicles." He also dabbles in contemporary adventure stories, absurdist dark comedy, westerns and Americana with a paranormal twist, as well as narratives about pastoral encounters and real-world ministry.