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    A Monk’s Tale: A Novelette in the world of The Crafter Chronicles
    A Monk’s Tale: A Novelette in the world of The Crafter Chronicles
    A Monk’s Tale: A Novelette in the world of The Crafter Chronicles
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    A Monk’s Tale: A Novelette in the world of The Crafter Chronicles

    By Matthew B. Berg

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    Cedric is a respected monk at the Ridderzaal monastery. But before he became a man of the cloth, he traveled the land, fighting trolls alongside dwarves and giants, living among the fearsome Krigares, and studying with elves, wizards and Shenn Frith shamans.

    This novelette provides a back story for one of your favorite characters from The Crafter Chronicles. It is a great standalone read as an introduction to the world of Matthew B. Berg, or as a companion piece to his trilogy begun with The Crafter's Son. (And there are no spoilers in here if you haven't yet begun the series!)

    Framed around Cedric taking a nostalgic journey through his personal journals, this story is roughly 10,000 words. (About 1/8th the length of the first book.) And, unlike the slower unfolding of The Crafter's Son, this book gets right to the action!
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPublisher s33168
    Release dateMay 18, 2020
    ISBN9780978579142
    A Monk’s Tale: A Novelette in the world of The Crafter Chronicles

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      A Monk’s Tale - Matthew B. Berg

      A Monk’s Tale

      By

      Matthew B. Berg

      Woodfall Press

      P.O. Box #6011

      Holliston, MA 01746

      Copyright © 2020 Matthew B. Berg

      All rights reserved. No portion of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means—electronic, mechanical, photocopy, recording, scanning, or other—except for brief quotations in critical reviews or articles, without the prior written permission of the publisher.

      Please purchase only authorized electronic editions, and do not participate in or encourage electronic piracy of copyrighted materials. Your support of the author’s rights is appreciated.

      This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

      eBook ISBN: 0-9785791-4-3

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      Contents

      Map of Known Lands

      Prologue

      1. Troll Patrol

      2. Adjutant

      3. Krigsrike

      4. Ekszer Hegy

      5. Ydenia

      6. Feathers, Furs, and Bones

      7. Mirren's Tale

      8. Magic and Pine Nuts

      9. Restoration

      10. Foraging

      11. Subterfuge

      12. Justice

      13. Starting Over

      14. Absolution

      Epilogue

      Also by Matthew B. Berg

      A Brief Glossary, with pronunciations

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      About the Author

      To my readers.

      Prologue

      Cedric looked around the mostly empty room. Almost everything had been carefully bundled up in crates. He’d let his aide take charge of most of the items in his study—predominantly books, scrolls, and other loose writings. But he’d asked him to leave the packing of his trophy shelf to him. He couldn’t bear the thought that those items might get damaged or lost, so he would see to them personally.

      The shelf was more cluttered than he liked. But the items it contained were ones with which he would have a hard time parting.

      A troll’s tooth. A bit gruesome, but there could be no better reminder of what he had undergone.

      A smooth grey adder stone on a simple twine lanyard.

      A delicate wand of wenge wood. The elf who’d passed it on to Cedric claimed it had been a gift from the tree itself.

      A raw chunk of silver ore from the dwarven king.

      A fearsome talon he had found in the mountains of Ath. The Krigares were convinced it was a dragon’s claw, though, strangely, it seemed to be made of stone.

      And of course, there were his journals. He’d started writing them when he was campaigning with the king so many years ago. And for the most part, he’d done a fair job of keeping up with the habit.

      He grabbed an empty crate and set it at his feet. And then he plucked his oldest journal from the shelf. It was smaller than the others. More weathered and tatty. He brought the journal up to his nose and inhaled. The earthy smells of leather, ink, and vellum relaxed

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