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100. Skyrend Peaks - Magas Village

The beastman called Sheriff Kard was a mixture of man, lion, and goat; a leonine mane and claws, lyre-shaped horns that curved upwards and outwards from his head, cloven feet and a lion’s tail. H...

99. Skyrend Peaks - Magas Village

Redmane did a quick count of heads.

Apart from the squad Sheriff Kard had just blown into incoherence with a single swing of his axe, there were five more small formations of Numantians movin...

98. Taracon - Legion Encampment

Praetor Jarel Craith met General Tacito Fabian at the temporary encampment of his legion, the Venturian 6th, which sprawled out under the long afternoon shadow of the towers of Taracon.

They ...

97. Soulspace - Corpse Field

Aric Morholt couldn’t tell how long they had been walking.

It was difficult to mark the passage of time in this unholy place. The sky never changed. There was no evidence of a world which ...

96. The Seal of the Gryphon

Redmane crouched over the carcass of the Gryphon, his teeth shearing through muscle, his jaws crunching bone, hot blood flowing down his chin. The meat was satisfying, nourishing. It tasted like it...

--NOTE FROM THE AUTHOR--

Hey yall, I have to take a few days off posting!

Chapter 96 will drop on MONDAY 12/9/24 at 12PM CST.

Hope the holiday season is treating you well!

95. The Seal of the Gryphon

Redmane found the Seal in the heart of the forest.

It lay at the bottom of a thickly wooded basin, perhaps a mile wide and half as deep, suggesting the place may once have been the site of a...

94. Erdu Forest - Imbued Camp

At the apex of his prodigious leap, King Edd brought his sword back with both hands gripping tight on the hilt, his body arched in such a way that when he swung the weapon he would double forward, ...

93. Erdu Forest - Imbued Camp

Redmane and Pietr rejoined each other once they had set everything into motion.

He hadn’t intended it, but this would be a splendid opportunity to observe the Imbued of other worlds in acti...

92. Erdu Forest - Demi-Human Village

King Edd sat upon a throne of skulls.

Mostly they were the skulls of demi-humans, though there were other kinds mixed in; cats, birds, rodents, the occasional human skull stood out because of...

91. Taracon - Outskirts

Redmane did not find himself immediately surrounded by Sicari.

A good sign. It meant the Castigator’s Lorica was working.

Even so, it would be wise to move with ...

90. Taracon - Governor's Offices

Jarel Craith watched the battle on his map screen.

The first wave of Sicari didn’t fare well. Then the second wave deployed. One by one he watched all the names on his target list wink out....

89. Astia - Novium

Redmane had never seen a Numantian city before.

Up close, the sight was breathtaking.

Lar Tathvaal said this place was called Novium. Its stone structures rose against the horizon, tall...

88. The Abyss

As Redmane shouted to call the retreat, the gleaming points of twenty seven Star-Steel arrowheads loosed from their bows.

Every last one was aimed at the same target.

Again he felt th...

87. Skalla Caverns - Deepwell Monastery

Two straight blades pierced Redmane’s torso from the left and right.

The broad edge of an axe sank deep into his back.

A sword sliced his left arm off above the elbow. Another took hi...

86. Skalla Caverns - Deepwell Monastery

The bottom level of the Deepwell Monastery was a large, circular chamber, its centerpiece an immense pool of dark water.

Framing the pool was a scene etched directly into the stone; Vos, hol...

85. Skalla Caverns - Deepwell Monastery

NOTE FROM THE AUTHOR

This marks the end of Book Two and the setup for Book Three, which starts tomorrow, all per my original plan.

But the ordering of chapters and books may change when...

84. Taracon - Skyline

People had always praised Jarel Craith for his restraint.

Even when he was a boy, he waited his turn to speak. He paid careful, quiet attention to his teachers. He abided by the rules. Early...

83. The Seal of the Sphinx

Redmane ate his fill of the flesh of the Sphinx, his eyes closed, absorbed in his meal.

Corpus: 28,826

And when his eyes opened, they were pools of black with points o...

82. The Seal of the Sphinx

The Sphinx approached them, walking on quiet paws, smiling as if she were enjoying a joke no one present would understand.

Phantasm

Redmane noticed a change in the air....

81. The Fangs of Frost

From the summit of the ruins on the rocky hill, Redmane could see out across the rest of the island chain known as the Fangs of Frost. They stretched onward to the north for miles, most of them bar...

80. Taracon - Governess's Chambers

Mecia Porsena of Numantia, Colonial Governess of Taracon, leaned against the balcony rail of her bedchamber to have a look at her domain. She held a half finished glass of wine negligently in one h...

79. The Fangs of Frost

Redmane returned home to refill his Gnosis, and this time he left with plenty.

Gnosis: 2508

He also returned Pietr to the custody of Flora, so that she could continue t...

78. Morazan Valley - Gruu Burrow

When the white light faded, he found he was immense. So large it was difficult to reckon with the sheer scale of his own body.

Deep inside him existed a mortal mind, but it lay buried beneath...

77. Beroh Keep - Great Hall

The Imbued of Beroh Keep had little experience in the realm of accounting or administration, as it turned out.

This would have been the sort of thing he’d ask Helmold Brecht to do, but ala...

76. Beroh Keep - Great Hall

NOTE FROM THE AUTHOR

A couple of you suggested a change to Wrath of Redmane that I went ahead and made.

Here's the updated version of the Skill:
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75. The Abyss

As he left Helmold Brecht to his fate, walking into the quiet night, Redmane again recalled the words of the old crone. What she said to him when they first met on the night he broke free.

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74. Asgoph - Lord's Road

The hound caught Helmold’s horse by the throat.

Its jaws clamped down, taking the hound, horse and rider tumbling to the ground in a pile. The horse squealed and kicked its hooves wildly in...

73. Asgoph - Lord's Road

Helmold Brecht spurred his horse from a canter to a run.

There would be time to relax later, when Aerin Morholt returned to fix this infernal situation. For now they rode hard, to make as muc...

72. Beroh Keep - Kitchen

Helmold Brecht found he liked Beroh Keep.

The housemaids and the kitchen maids and even the washerwomen were prettier. The kitchen was larger and better stocked. It had a fine library, and th...