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41. Häerz Castle - Keep

BOOK TWO

THE SEAL OF THE SPHINX

Flora’s scent was vexingly recognizable.

The memory of it pointed nowhere. But its familiarity remained.

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40. Barograd - Keep

Redmane strode down the broad street leading from Church Town to Barograd Keep with his followers behind him.

There was the Justiciar Vella, her careworn garments and wild hair giving her the...

39. Soulspace - The Seal of the Manticore

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Skill Evolved

Omnivore —> Devourer

Devourer

Bloodline Skill (Monstrous)

Rank 1 - Evolution Possible

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38. Soulspace - The Seal of the Manticore

Corpus: 4042

Half of that huge stock of vitality gone in one strike.

It was as he feared.

One more mistake and he’d be dead. Another corpse for the endless pile...

37. Soulspace - Konungur Keep

Redmane stared at a huge portrait of Sencis Karalis, the First of His Name, King of the Stahlmen and the Omeni and the Tribes of Volos.

He saw a resemblance.

Their faces were identical...

36. Häerz Castle - Undercroft

Magister Helmold had to be very careful.

He’d go in the dead of night, when no one was down in the kitchen. The castle undercroft should be entirely empty at that time, save for a peasant o...

35. Barograd - Church Town

Pietr, High Priest of Kraal, stood a full head taller than either of the priests flanking him, perhaps eight feet tall counting the antlers. In the manner of all beastmen, his eyes had a wil...

34. Barograd - Church Town

He felt the pieces of himself in motion, drawing nearer as fast as their wings would bear them. Two were close already, the others had to fly over from across the river. While he waited for those, ...

33. Barograd - Church Town

When he came to, which felt like reluctantly waking from a long and comfortable nap, he blinked his eyes open and realized…

He was airborne.

The impact knocked him out, and bo...

32. Barograd - Church Town

Drusilla’s Font

It was a sphere of Gnosis which, once Irina cast it, floated in the air between herself, Redmane and Radovid at about navel height. The Font was roughly the...

31. Barograd - Brandis Bridge

Laszlo and Stenn, Guardians of Brandis Bridge, Slain

Tasks Completed: 3/5

Level Up

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30. Barograd - Brandis Bridge

Redmane rolled to his feet at the last possible instant before being chopped, clobbered and skewered at the same time.

To his sides, Radovid and Irina were engaged with the others. But he cou...

29. Barograd - Tradesmen's District

Redmane flew down the hill, ripping apart beastmen on his way and devouring their remains while they were still hot.

Corpus: 2132

The final team of them awaited him at ...

28. Barograd - Tradesman's District

It took Redmane half the fight, and most of his Corpus, to get Agneszka the Stitcher to the point where she was emotionally compromised.

With Pavel it seemed he’d done so right away.

27 - Barograd - Tradesman's District

The woman was nude, and appeared to have fully grown to adulthood within the flower. She had light brown skin and blue-green hair, the color of spring’s first triumph over cold winter. Her...

26. Barograd - Undertaker

The blow sucked the air from Redmane’s lungs.

Corpus: 1410

Bleeding (3)

Blood bubbled up in his mouth, flowed over his chin and down his neck. ...

25. Barograd - Undertaker

A pack of six Stitchwork Stalkers flew at him. Two Spiders were not far behind. And bringing up the rear was a howling brute with great clubs of bone for hands.

Redmane sprinted at them, pas...

24. Barograd - Smith Street

Redmane’s feet hit the cobblestones on the tradesmen’s district in a dead sprint.

Evidently this part of town had become a battleground between two factions. Agneszka’s stitched horrors...

23. Barograd - Watchtower

Redmane checked the description of the Skill to refresh his memory.

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Spawn

Bloodline Skill [Monstrous (Gruu)]

Rank 1

Active - Variable Cost

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22. Barograd - Town Walls

Crossbow bolts whizzed by Redmane’s head as he sprinted for the watchtower.

The Stitchwork Spider climbed down the side of that tower to interpose itself between him and the guards posted ...

21. Barograd - Town Walls

Redmane came to the outer wall of Barograd and looked up.

Dawn was close. The sky shone bright blue over the tops of the crenelations.

He’d come to this spot to scale the wall,...

20. Midva Forest - Umber's Hollow

Redmane’s body sailed free from the cone of flames. But the fire seared him deeply all the same, though he’d only been engulfed for a mere instant.

Corpus: 2586 2024-10-11 06:12:45 +0000 UTC View Post

19. Midva Forest - Umber's Hollow

While Wargs chased down the last of the brigands, Redmane, Valtr and Vengarl entered the chapel to see to the captive townspeople.

Many broke out into tears of gratitude. Some began helping r...

18. Midva Forest - Brigand Camp

In an instant, the quiet of the brigand camp had broken into the din of battle. Wargs tore into shouting beastmen. Somewhere above, Valtr and Vengarl sniped away at their quarry.

Redmane’s ...

17. Midva Forest - Brigand Camp

The plan for the beastmen did not resemble the plan for the Gruu, but it sounded equally effective to Redmane.

They let night fall. Firelight took over the encampment in place of sunlight. Do...

16. Midva Forest - Brigand Camp

Valtr and Vengarl returned briefly to their campsite to pack it in, and then they set out in a southeasterly direction with Redmane, the trio walking along casually under the noontime sun. Or what ...

15. Midva Forest - Gruu Burrows

The chamber of Grandmother Gruu was round and high of ceiling, its walls pocked all over with the circular entrances to tunnels great and small, the whole area illuminated in red by patches of the ...

14. Midva Forest - Gruu Burrows

The brigand camp lay some miles to the southeast, but according to Valtr and Vengarl there were so many Gruu burrows between here and there that there might as well be a host of soldiers standing i...

13. Midva Forest - Outskirts

The Great Gruu stretched out its wings and took flight, and Redmane realized in an instant of alarmed clarity what it intended to do.

It was going to pick him up and drop him into that mass ...

12. Midva Forest - Outskirts

The narrow road beyond the drawbridge of Häerz Castle, which wound a few miles in a southron direction through Barograd, was walled in on either side by dark trees. They were tall and thick of tru...