More like Slayer's Honour

anchored on:sword and sorcerymonster huntingsecondary worldquestsfriendshipadventurous

but

Narrow

The Crescent Moon KingdomsSeries
series1 book2012
Epic fantasy and fantasy, about wizards, set in desert.
“A handful of reluctant heroes must uncover the truth behind the killings before the kingdom tears itself apart.”
from the catalogue
Start with Throne of the Crescent Moon →
Hyborian AgeUniverse
universe242 books1929
Fantasy.
“Earlier still lies the Thurian Age of Kull of Valusia, brooding forerunner to Conan.”
from the catalogue
Start with Conan the Victorious →
includes Conan Universe, Kull of Valusia
Brak the BarbarianSeries
series16 books1963
completed
Fantasy.
“John Jakes's Brak the Barbarian follows his own wandering barbarian swordsman, Brak, through sword-and-sorcery adventures modeled on the pulp tradition of the 1930s and '40s but original to Jakes rather than adapted from an earlier author.”
from the catalogue
Start with Brak the Barbarian →
PusadianSeries
series9 books1951
completed
Fantasy.
“The Pusadian series is a sequence of fantasy stories by L. Sprague de Camp, begun in the early 1950s and written under the influence of Robert E. Howard's Conan stories.”
from the catalogue
Start with The Eye of Tandyla →
The SwordbearerNovel
Glen Cookstandalone novel1982
Fantasy.
Tiger and DelSeries
series10 books1985
Fantasy.
“Jennifer Roberson's fantasy series pairs Tiger, a desert-born sword-dancer from the south, with Del, a Northern swordswoman trained in her own tradition of blade-magic, as reluctant partners across a hostile borderland.”
from the catalogue
Start with Sword-Dancer →