SHARD II 'The Isles of Rill'

Erin Ap Conn was a bastard in every possible meaning of the word. He was the unfortunate 'result' of a number of drunken weaponsmen raping a young Rill maiden; he was the fatherless outcast living between two races that despised him as well as each other; and he was the wild, unruly lad who, in a impromptu drunken duel, had slain the son of a very rich and important man. He was an outcast, exile and condemned 'murderer' who, for the last ten long years, had sold both his sword and his soul to the highest bidder. That hard, dangerous decade had made him quick, cold and cruel. He was also a bastard because most of the time he was a mean, hedonistic, outspoken, womanizing, self-centered son-of-a-bitch!
It was Thorn that had saved him. Saved him from the Slath slavers in the river, from the men sent to hunt him down and, the hardest save of all, from himself. Over the long years of his exile, Erin Ap Conn had become a very angry, very bitter and very competent killer --- often killing a part of himself as well.
In SHARD I ‘The Task’, Erin helped the Kirkwean stop the Slathland invasion. He also destroyed the 'body' of the High Gnash --- but, unfortunately, not the evil 'spirit' that dwelt within.
In SHARD II, ‘The Isles of Rill’, Lucfelian is once again a disembodied 'feka', and has fled, like a dark stain on the wind, eastward to Erin’s homeland, the distant Isle of Loamin, the largest of the Rill Isles. The Shadow Lord is seeking revenge, not only against the tall weaponsman who had foiled his grand plans, but against all of Erin's kith and kin that live on the far off Isles of Rill.
Thorn, Erin and a collection of friends follow as fast as they can, bringing Shard, the cursed with them, and a desire to finally end it all one way or another.