Iron and Tempest: Book One of The Witch and The Wizard

Arzades lived the first sixteen years of his life barely seeing any human being besides his mother. She was both teacher and friend to him, teaching him to be as self-sufficient as possible. On the eve of teaching him some of the most important lessons of all, chaos broke into their lives, upending all Arzades knew.

Now he's on the road, chasing after those responsible for bringing death and destruction to his life. Because his mother hid a secret from him for the first sixteen years he lived. She taught him hunting, fishing, lessons for living in society. She taught him farming, how to care for wounds, cooking, and even history. But she didn't tell him this.

No one is supposed to know he exists.