Baron

Nothing of the kind. Vlad, his mentor, and the young students won’t be allowed to wait out trouble in the wilderness: previous fights with monsters turn into real, bloody battles. An icy elemental force with no magic at all, the hunters’ main law (“there are no former hunters”), and the question of who benefits from what’s happening—lie ahead on a lethally dangerous road where no one will get so much as a breather.

There aren’t many people rejected by their own world, but they do exist. By stepping through the portal and finding themselves in Arlanda under the protection of the Church, they must prove their loyalty to the Savior… or die. Be killed by the Fallen’s servants, by the fangs of foul beasts—or end up on the pyre of the Inquisition.

Since the Time of Troubles, only seventeen people have made it to Arlanda, and only a few survived—against all odds. They were called the outsiders. Vlad is one of them: not just a survivor, but a master-hunter who has become a danger to the lords of foulness. And the guild’s first commandment drives it home: there are no former hunters.