Legacy Of Gird by Elizabeth Moon

Moon’s The Deed of Paksennarion has been a blockbuster success in Baen’s one-volume trade paper edition–and now the trilogy has a companion. The Legacy of Gird tells of Gird, the liberator, who teaches his people that they can fight–and win–against their Mage-born rulers, and Luap, Gird’s sworn follower, who dares not lie and cannot tell the truth–nor face the future.