Reminds me of my old book, The Dark Demon Lord, which also attempted to create a dark character, though I failed. This book seems to succeed where I couldn't. The writing is also fantastic and something that really brings out the emotions and the story really well. Yur is also a very creative concept, a child born a slave, given the freedom he desired, yet with no goal in mind. The lack of goal vs the inability to figure out a goal are very different concepts and the author does very well looking at that. Props to the creativity and the violence shown, truly great work.