Lok the Hammer

In Book II, Lok the Hammer, Lok dissolves many a Wouachouian feud against local military factions, such as bandits, and petty Warlords, putting them in their place. Lok marries, deceitfully, Lynn, a daughter of Herrohvell, and finds himself, reluctantly, placed in the Wouachou Military School for Officer Candidates. It is near this time that the Wizard gives Lok a certain war hammer, the very one which was used to kill him in his early teens, and from which he derives his mythical surname; Lok the Hammer. Follow Lok as a young man in his mid-twenties, traveling away from the Orient as a hired mercenary, settling disputes among the Gogs and Ma-Gogs. He wanders with a growing band of Pirate outlaws; Freed Slaves, miscreants from all nations, including Nahrvoldian Mangaks, who have pitted themselves against the ancient "code," of Mangak. Soon after his turn North up the mighty Ivory River, Lok and his small Army, now numbering over six-hundred, enlist in the cause of the brawny, indomitable, "Rhog" Essox, 'High King' of the Scythians; (from Sky-things--a bastardized name of the ancient Scythians). Discover Lok, the outlaw, as he finds himself in demand as a lawman. He is learning lessons in Leadership, and the misuse of unbridled authoritarian command.