Authors Note on "Falk's Oath"
When I was first working on The Deed of Paksenarrion, I wrote a lot of background material—legends, folktales, songs, etc. And when I had finished those books, I had notebooks filled with these very useful references. In the twenty-odd years between those books and the new Paksworld books, the Paladin's Legacy books, those notebooks—supposedly put away in a particular safe place—disappeared. Utterly. Luckily, enough remained in my memory, with clues from the books, to recreate some of the old material, though not in the same exact words. Falk's legend is older than Gird's, possibly older than the magelords' arrival in the Eight Kingdoms since he is mentioned in the "Oathsong of Mikeli," which is at least that old. Knights of Falk exist in book-now, and this is the legend they rely on.