Griz: Volume One and Volume Two

By Nick Sutter

In the old scrolls written by Light, it is said that Griz the Unholy would be free of his demon and save the Tainted. Sin, a dragon that once bore a kinder name, read these scrolls and yet fell into the lure of a demon. With Sin’s possession came the destruction of Griz’s recent home. He vowed to set out on a quest to find this dragon and make it bow before Light and tremble before him. Griz made several allies and intended to hunt the beast down with his little army, until an attack in the night caused the crew’s thoughts to tread elsewhere. A beast that came from a portal from Griz’s past, which became the new domain of the dragon, brought a large collection of demons with it. Griz aimed for the portal, hoping to either close it or make it in after Sin. Griz failed in saving his friends, who died to the creatures that worked for Sin.

Years later, after moving overseas, Griz had a plan in place to inform the people of the possessed dragon. However, the presence of a user of the darkest magics completely threw Griz for a loop and brought his attention further inland. It was only a little way inland that Griz felt the dark energy of the magic user again.

Although it wasn’t the sorcerer that Griz found awaiting him. A man the size of an ogre awaited him, and he bore a mask of a similar ilk as the sorcerer’s. After the ogre had been dealt with, Griz made his way to the north into a village plagued by brigands. The brigands arrived that night and fought Griz and the order of knights in the city center. A good portion of the brigands died and fled the city, leaving their captain behind. Then, the sorcerer appeared and challenged the city’s defense by mere presence alone. After seemingly losing the fight, Griz awoke in the village he first met the magic user in. And it was there he saw Sin a second time.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
• Release date: Jul 25, 2022
• ISBN: 9798885402965

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Griz

Volume One and Volume Two

Nick Sutter

Copyright © 2022 by Nick Sutter

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Table of Contents

Hero in Tainted Clothing

Sin’s Puppeteer

Volume 1

Hero in Tainted Clothing

In a realm where all manner of evil reigns, a child is born destined to save the Tainted. This child, Griz the Unholy, lost his parents at a very young age. He was raised at different intervals of his life by wolf packs, cat prides, and human camps. Griz’s life was not a normal one. For nine more years, Griz lived in relative peace.

He was originally nameless but earned the name Griz when he saved a human village from a giant bear. It was the strangest thing, watching a child take down a bear, but it was also a grand sight.

At the age of ten, when he could think for himself, Griz ran to the nearest town and pledged himself to a master of dark magic. The lessons were complicated and gruesome but nothing the young Griz could not handle. Sadly, this apprenticeship did not last long.

One evening, while teaching Griz about opening portals, the master was attacked and killed by one of his own demons. The demon turned on Griz, smiled mercilessly, and possessed him.

Griz spent the next twenty years of his life as a puppet to this demon. Before his very eyes, he watched families die, cities burn, and his sanity fail. All seemed lost for Griz until Light came. When Light came, He covered Griz, warmed him, and greeted him as His child. Light had a face, but Griz could not bear to look at it. Grief, worry, horror, and sickness filled him.

Light said, Be still, my child, and let me save you, for you are destined to save the Tainted.

Griz was still, and he was saved. He awoke, after years of torment, in the presence of Light in his old, worn-down shack. He looked sadly down at the ground and, without knowing it, asked for Light to forgive him.

Light granted him forgiveness and warned, "The guards have tracked you down to this shack.