Felix jumps into that life, and becomes one of the best assassins. He has a change of heart, however, when he sees one of his friends die from withdrawal symptoms. The second book moves north to Great Plains, possibly in central Canada. Civilization here is still very much in the frontier stage, similar to the Bloodstone Lands. We ll need to remove most of the magic and the exotic animals, and rework the adventuring party into a tougher party of mercenaries.
Ogres continually raid into the community, and provide the conflict.
Micky is the one who uncovers the plot by a cult to band with a tribe of ogres and take over the region. The third book takes place in Alaska, on the tundra. The ogres rule the land up there, but there s a missionary order with a base called the Monastery of the Yellow Rose. This book deals with a young ogre who is adopted into the order, and becomes a proselyte for their religion. He acts as something of a Christ-figure, killed in the end of the book by a charismatic ogre tribal leader, but who s noble death winds up destroying the leader s sway and opens the door to reconciliation between humans and ogres.