Valdemar beginnings!

Into the West (Founding of Valdemar #2) by Mercedes Lackey    

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Having passed through a gate into a new land,  Baron Kordas Valdemar’s people and those who accompanied them, including the “Dolls” were eager to move forward.

Kordas is trying to move over fifteen thousand people, their equipment, livestock and barges, in the hunt for unoccupied land.

First he has to deal with someone whose brutally attacked on of the Dolls, vrondi elementals trapped in a human shaped body that they animated. That he would not put up with! As the tale progresses we see the remarkable development of the elements. And remember, what one knows they all know. What they become eventually will I’m sure be remarkable.

Delia, Kordas’ sister-in-law, who’s been besotted with him, finally makes the break and comes into her own as a member of the scouting group.

Kordas leads his people along the waterways, beside a dangerous brooding forest, with inhabitants that looked like they’d been part of a change circle.

Then they come to an area that is protected, a vale built by Hawkbrothers, the Tayledras.

Would they be accepted or not, and what does it all mean for the founders of Valdemar?

Another tense tale in the series, citing the beginnings of the Valdemar we know and love.

An Astra House ARC via NetGalley.                                              

Many thanks to the author and publisher.