Solitudes and Silence    by Conrad Baines Talbot
Price: Free! 46090 words. Published on July 21, 2011. Fiction.
The world's first Open Setting License-work, "Solitudes and Silence" is a fantasy novella that tells the story of Waimbrill the Soulclaine, a beloved outcast, respected yet feared. He grows distant and eccentric as he cleaves the dead and gains their angst and pain. Trying to do good despite the neutrality of his church, Waimbrill cares for a quiet young orphan while a monster terrorizes the land.