Naming Bullets — Ian Thomas Healy

Naming Bullets is a prequel to Western Fantasy series, The Pariah of Verigo, which includes the novels Pariah's Moon and Pariah's War. An Elven explorer named Giryati is waylaid by bandits in the frontier continent of Verigo. A native medicine woman named Ullu comes to his aid and as they begin to learn from each other, Giryati must decide whether or not to use Ullu's magic to hunt down the bandits; whether or not he's a killer.