SOLVED. Standard Fantasy Series where young village man goes on to save the world from an evil empire. Involves finding artifacts and forging alliances with different cultures. Aragorn analogue meets long lost mother. [s]

[Daniel]

Hey!

This is driving me mad so I'm desperately hoping this works

I read the book maybe 5 years ago?

The protagonist is a standard villager who provides goods/services to the village. There's no magic school or king or anything. It's a small village with a mayor.

In the village where the protagonist lives there's also a rich person who comes and goes who has a big house. That's the aragorn analogue that saves him when the story begins.


In the first book this guy teaches the protagonist the sword and the love interest teaches him hand to hand and how to sneak in the forest.


Also in the first book they hide in a temple where they meet an older woman. She's sharp tongued and proper and travels with them.

At the end of the first book they reach a secret temple/fortress the leader of this order turns out to be the Aragorn analogues mother. The spend the start of book 2 reconnecting.

In the 2nd book people arrive on ships from across the continent. These people know a magic that let's their ships go faster. One of their leaders is a girl who has feelings for the protagonist. She teaches him some stuff

She and him travel through a desert area to recover an artifact that's guarded by big lizards.

Right. Hopefully this jogs a memory or two.

It's not belgariad, legend of the seeker or sword of truth or memory,sorrow,thorn

It's pretty straight forward fantasy so nothing that subverts the genre massively


Thanks guys! I truly hope you can help because It's driving me mad.


Last little detail that MIGHT be they key but isnt 100%

I kinda remember getting the title mixed up with either Legend of the Seeker/Sword of truth so the title MIGHT be close to this. Thats a maybe though.

[Capn]

So the Aragorn analogue - are we talking blood-of-kings-and-rightful-heir, or forest-ranger similarities? Or both? Broken-sword-destined-to-be-reforged?

Already ruled out by OP are:
The Belgariad Boxed Set: Pawn of Prophecy / Queen of Sorcery / Magician's Gambit / Castle of Wizardry / Enchanters' End Game
Legend Of The Seeker
Sword of Truth - Legend of the Seeker: Legend of the Seeker Actors, Legend of the Seeker Characters, Legend of the Seeker Episodes, Legend of the Seeker Executive Producers, Allard, Ashgar, Bounty, Breath of Life, Brennidon, Bridget Regan
(Daniel - please let me know if I messed up here in the attributions!) :)

Read approx. 2017

Was it a newish book when you read it? Did you read a Kindle or ebook version, or hard copy? If hard copy, anything about the cover art? (Applies for ebook too, if you can recall!).

I have to ask (because there's another thread that I'm desperate to help resolve) - is there a PORTAL from our world into this one in the forest? Is the love interest a student teacher? Is there a battle with airships later on? ;) (Here's Parker's thread if so: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/... ). It also features a long-lost mother, if you were wondering. :)

[Daniel]

Hey! Thanks so much for answering.

Iirc he's nobility. He lives in the village but is always travelling.

At the end of the first book they reach their destination, the headquarters of a secret order. Its a secret temple in the mountains.

Turns out it's his mother in charge so they reconnect.

At the end of the first book/start of the 2nd they're in this temple fortress and the main character is in a coma/trapped in a dream.

Eventually the bad guys find this temple and they need to escape.


Also near the start of the 2nd book I THINK the MC ends up in a little cottage, they'd been chased there by MAYBE the trees?

I didn't add that because the memories are hazy.

There is no wizard school or anything like that. He spends the whole series travelling and making alliances.


One part I remember clearly that I'm hoping jogs a memory is the people that came from another continent on ships. They're at war with either a people or type of monster on their continent that's wiping them out.

The woman magic user teaches MC magic while they travel to recover an artifact and she has feelings for him. To do this they travel across a desert. They meet a desert people and by the last books these people are a part of the big army that defeats the bad guy.


Honestly I can't remember if the love interest tries to kill him first. I JUST had a hazy memory of her maybe being an elf and a male elf hating the MC and she defends him? And they teach him how to sneak and knife fight?

No airships. There are Gods. I have a hazy memory of them being trapped or forced to sleep? The main bad guy hates them and recovered a sword or artifact that could kill them.

I have no idea how old it is. I read it like 5 to 7 years ago. I've looked and looked but don't have records that far back.


I can't stress how annoyed I am. I've offered rewards on reddit and posted this everywhere and Nada.


Thank you for any help you can give.

[Daniel]

Adding another detail. In a later book a character who defected (I think) from the bad empire infiltrates their army to get close to the bad guy and fails and gets captured.

[Daniel]

I found it!

Googling random things I remember finally paid off!!


The Godling Chronicles - The Sword of Truth is the answer!!

I'm so relieved I could genuinely cry that's been driving me nuts for months.

Thank you all for the attemps!

[David]

Awesome, Daniel, thanks for keeping us updated, and congrats on finding your book!

The Sword of Truth by Brian D. Anderson.

[Kris]

Glad you found your book series, Daniel. Would you say these books were written teens and/or adults?