Blood song : a Raven's shadow novel
(Book)

Vaelin Al Sorna was only a child of ten when his father left him at the iron gate of the Sixth Order. The brothers of the Sixth Order are devoted to battle, and Vaelin will be trained and hardened to the austere, celibate and dangerous life of a warrior of the Faith. He has no family now save the Order. Vaelin's father was Battle Lord to King Janus, ruler of the Unified Realm. Vaelin's rage at being deprived of his birthright and dropped at the doorstep of the Sixth Order like a foundling knows no bounds. He cherishes the memory of his mother, and what he will come to learn of her at the Order will confound him.