Le Soldat Chamane - 4 - La Magie de La P, Paperback Book, By: Robin Hobb

Disowned by his father who does not resign himself to seeing him obese, Jamère, whose family has been partially decimated by the ocellionne plague, leaves Grandval with the intention of pursuing his destiny as a military son, even if it means s' engage as a private. He takes the direction of Guetis, near the border where the King's Route temporarily ends. On the way, he meets Buel Faille, army scout, who opens the doors to the regiment stationed at Guetis. He is assigned to the city cemetery. There, he confronts for the first time the magic and fear exhaled by the mountains occupied by the Ocellions, at the same time as the power he feels growing in him...