tobiasbegley

Peaches and Perception

On a windswept plain, in the unclaimed territory near the dragon Elyciune and her Umber Horn Sect, not far from Aergarde nor the lands of the Tower City of a Thousand Worlds, two powers met. <...

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The Twin Trials: Chapter Seventy-Eight

I didn’t get nearly as much sleep as I’d hoped that night, nor the night after that, but at least I got a touch of variety, as the coyotes gave way to a handful of large, crab-shaped ice elemen...

The Twin Trials: Chapter Seventy-Seven

Thankfully, between Sense Directionality, Analyze Space, and my ability to teleport up into the air and hold myself there to survey, I was able to make my way back to the trail and keep hiking. Wit...

The Twin Trials: Chapter Seventy-Six

The first and easiest selection to make was the spread-crystal. That was a massive improvement over my current, alchemically grown crystal, and it’s constant, if slow, expansion would be invaluab...

The Archmage: Epilogue. Two weeks later...

I've listened to the confusion and feedback, and I'm going to be including this second chapter of the epilogue.
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Two weeks later… 

Osheen l...

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Hello, and... Thank you all for reading. The time that I've put into the Journals of Evander Tailor series has been awesome, and I'm looking forward to continuing writing.

I'd love to hear y...

The Archmage: Epilogue, twenty-five years later...

Twenty-five years later…

Micah Smith crept through the library of the Evander Tailor Academy of Magical Arts, doing his best to remain as quiet as possible, while ...

Chapter Fifty-Two

“Tara?!” I shouted. 

Tara landed on top of Trenton’s force dome, and her whip slashed through the spell holding the giant sword together. At the same time, pillars of her familiar ...

Chapter Fifty-One

I’d heard a few times that Zachary Dormer was potentially the weakest archmage in a fight. A part of me hadn’t really understood what that meant, though. On top of that, a different part of me ...

The Archmage: Chapter Fifty

A spike of otherworldly power, the mentalist power of the dreamscape, echoed in my mind. For a moment, I thought that I would be forced to see images of my worst memories, live through my nightmare...

The Twin Trials: Chapter Seventy-Five

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When I awoke, I wasn’t miraculously healed, but I did feel somewhat better. 

That was a shame. I’d kind of been hoping the coblynau would b...

The Twin Trials: Chapter Seventy-Four

As soon as I appeared up the mineshaft, I fumbled for one of my small stock of healing potions and drained it, while teleporting my other potion, the one that I’d dropped, into the air in front o...

Pickify me, captain

Top three picks are the items that are selected!

The Twin Trials: Chapter Seventy-Three

In the end, I thought that the best choice was, unfortunately, the grossest choice. 

Using Transport Item to try and teleport the item up to me would drain my mana dry, and it might not ...

Short Story Collab!

This is a short story, written by me, and performed by AlternateAurora on youtube!

Here's the transcript: Ah, welcome in, welcome in. Lledrith’s grand library is available to all, though ...

The Twin Trials: Chapter Seventy-Two

I gritted my teeth. 

The smart thing to do would be to just complete the Beastgate and tell Edgar. He was an occultist, false or otherwise, and could crush the revenant in a second. ...

The Serpent and the Siren

So I'm on vacation right now, but this story came to me as I was falling asleep, and so I spent... today... writing it. Whoops!
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Ian was bored. 

That happe...

The Archmage: Chapter Forty-Nine

Remember, other chapters may not be coming this week, as I'm with family.

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Managing to kill Archmage Byron had been quite impressive, if I did say so...

The Twin Trials: Chapter Seventy-One

I was woken up by a tiny man standing right next to my face. He was about the size of a pixie or brownie, and appeared to be older, about in his sixties for a human, with a full, long beard, broad ...

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The Twin Trials: Chapter Seventy

A middle aged man stood in a small crack. 

Strength of the earth flowed from him as he raised his hand and brought it down in a sharp cut. 

The stone, conjoined for eras beyon...

The Twin Trials: Chapter Sixty-Nine

Just as a reminder, I am with family, so there's good odds that there won't be any / many Archmage chapters this week!
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I spread my mana senses out around me in as wide o...

The Broken Arm

This is a followup short story to The Debt Collector, and as such, has a lot more language than usual.

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Cora leaned over her arm on her workbench, exa...

The Archmage: Chapter Forty-Eight

I sat in the cave, my belt, staff, gun, and cloak all folded neatly next to me. In front of me sat three items: a crystal, traded to me by Obereon, and a black slate tablet filled with angelic magi...

The Archmage: Chapter Forty-Seven

Osheen stepped into the room, wearing a blue suit with white trimmings, a cooling contrast to his coppery hair, and as he entered, he allowed his aura to blaze out around him, revealing the five ar...

The Archmage: Chapter Forty-Six

The bottom fell out of my stomach and I thought I was about to be sick. 

“Aldvarri’s dead, isn’t he?” I whispered, and Draven shot me an annoyed look. 

“No, your def...

The Archmage: Chapter Forty-Five

Osheen, Tara, and I regrouped as soon as we could after the pillars of light, and I picked up the three seeds, flickered on my assassin’s cloak, and flew out to Yesgol. 

There were alr...

The Twin Trials: Chapter Sixty-Eight

I jumped, but so did the cats, which probably indicated that all three of us needed to get better at fighting. 

On the other side of the clearing, the massive crystal that the ooze had b...

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