The Farsala Trilogy is a series of three fantasy novels by Hilari Bell that includes Fall of a Kingdom (also published as Flame), Rise of a Hero, and Forging the Sword.
Jiann is traveling with his father and a band of deghans to find a secure flat terrain to fight the Hrum.
She hunts for the family, when one night she gets chased by jackals, and is saved by a tribe called the Suud.
The lady who saved her, Maok, teaches her "magic" or how to speak to spirits of things like fire and water, trees and animals.
When Kavi realizes that the deghans do not deserve to become slaves, and that not all Hrum are as good as they claim to be, he has a change of heart and becomes one of the main leaders of the resistance.
A main part of the Farsala Trilogy is the legend of Sorahb which is told between each set of chapters.
The country in which the trilogy takes place is called Farsala, a land with diverse physical features, from swamps to deserts.
Farsala is ruled by the Gahn (or King) and the twelve deghan (noble) houses, each represented by an animal.
[1] Hrum, though not a location any of the action takes place in, is an important country to the plot of the story.