Author's Note on "Point of Honor"
When Arvid Semminson, the dapper enforcer for the Thieves' Guild first met the not-yet-paladin Paksenarrion in Sheepfarmer's Daughter his life and hers were already on the slippery slope of change, though neither realized the cliff they'd fall off, or that they would meet again… and again. Neither did I. Arvid was conceived as a minor character, an urban, sophisticated foil for a rural town full of provincial rustics with whom my protagonist felt at home. But there he was again, almost two books later, toward the end of Oath of Gold, clearly the only person in a position to sneak a supposedly dead paladin out of a torture chamber. Some twenty years later in real-time -- in book-time much less -- he showed up in Kings of the North as someone much closer to the cliff-edge of decision and radical change. How did he get from the Arvid of Oath of Gold to the Arvid of Crown of Renewal? It began with this little story, in the days immediately after he had saved Paksenarrion's life, the first time he heard that voice.