The Unspoken Name

Csorwe is an orc girl raised in a mountain temple, pledged since birth to walk into the maw of the Unspoken God on her fourteenth birthday. Moments before the sacrifice, the exiled wizard Belthandros Sethennai offers her another life as his apprentice, spy, and blade. Csorwe takes it. Over the years that follow she becomes his deadliest instrument, hunting a lost relic across a network of worlds joined by ancient gates, killing whoever stands in his way. But Sethennai's hunger for power grows, a rival threatens everything, and Csorwe begins to understand that loyalty to the man who saved her may cost her the self she has become.