Sixty years before the events of ELEGY: Book One of the Arbiter Codex. After years of nothing but grueling training and the desperate dance of death that is the life of an acolyte Arbiter, D’Arden Tal has been named an apprentice. He has been assigned to learn from Havox Khaine, one of the greatest Masters in living memory. For two years they have traveled across the known world, and now they enter a tiny kingdom on the edge of nowhere. Rumors abound that the monarch of this kingdom is insane, and has created a demented puppet court… of the dead. D’Arden must learn what it truly means to be an Arbiter, as he makes his first real confrontation with the horrors of corruption. Something much worse lurks within the shadows of the king’s mind than simple madness, and D’Arden will find reason to call him… The Corpse King. —————- The first of the Tales of Eisengoth, The Corpse King is an exploration of D’Arden Tal’s early years as an Arbiter-in-training. For fans of Robert E. Howard, Karl Edward Wagner and Andrzej Sapkowski.

"The story hits the ground running and doesn't slow down to the final confrontation." – M. Todd Gallowglas, author of the Tears of Rage Sequence D'Arden Tal arrives at the city of Calessa to reclaim it from darkness. Even to enter, he must fight his way past the corruption gathering at its gates. Armed with only his mind, his crystalline sword and the sheer force of his will, D'Arden must shatter the chains of corruption which threaten to consume every soul within those stone walls. Deep beneath the earth, he discovers an evil which will cause him to question his faith, his devotion, and his very existence. "… a really solid read." – Mat Nastos; artist, director, writer "The Arbiter Codex series has definitely catapulted to the top of my must read list whenever a new installment is released." – Amazon.com user review If you like your fantasy grim and gritty, with the feel of dirt underneath the hero's fingernails, ELEGY is for you. Readers of Robert E. Howard, Fritz Leiber and Andrzej Sapkowski (The Witcher) will find themselves right at home when they dive into THE ARBITER CODEX.

The Arbiter's Tower has fallen. Upon arriving in the city of Arundael, these are nearly the first words to reach the ears of the Arbiter D'Arden Tal. Less than a month after defeating the great evil inhabiting the southern city of Calessa, D'Arden and Elisa must face an even greater challenge: reclaiming the ancestral fortress from an unimaginable darkness. Worse yet, only two Arbiters escaped the Tower before its destruction—D'Arden's oldest comrade and another young apprentice. With their home overrun by darkness and corruption growing ever stronger around them, D'Arden fears that they may be the last surviving Arbiters in the world. D'Arden has only just begun to transform his unauthorized apprentice from a provincial solider into someone worthy of the honor he unintentionally bestowed upon her. As he struggles to recover the sanctuary of his Order, he could never have predicted the true extent of Elisa's transformation...