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Guild Mage 109

Chapter 109: Farmond Blackstone

Liv realized that she was holding her spoon halfway between her bowl and her mouth, forgotten, so she set it back in the soup.  “I have, actually,” sh...

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Guild Mage 108

Chapter 108: Authority

The first few weeks at Coral Bay, with the giddy joy of new friends, evening meals at the Crab and Gull, and the pleasant distraction of Cade Talbot, now seemed to Liv ...

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Guild Mage 107

Chapter 107: Spirited Debate

“Where are we headed?” Tephania asked, as the group spilled out of Blackstone Hall into the courtyard at the center of campus.  

“The landin...

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Faerie Knight 154

154 - The Gate

And I say unto you, those who stand against the word of the Angelus, they are forsaken.

  • The Testament of Isrāfīl

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Guild Mage 106

Chapter 106: A Voice in the Dark

The morning after the funeral, Liv rose early and dressed in the winter things stored in her rooms at Kelthelis. The parka with an outer layer of seal fur, th...

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Guild Mage 105

Chapter 105: May Not Feed the Wicked


It was dark by the time Liv went downstairs to join her friends, and the oil lamps had been lit.  Someone - Liv wasn’t certain who - had...

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Guild Mage 104

Chapter 104: The Son of Celris

As soon as she was certain the waystone was active, Liv hurried back to Steria.  Keri was holding the mare’s reins, and she set her foot in the stirrup a...

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First Pass of Chapters 90-103 Revisions

I've done a first pass trying to address some of people's concerns, in terms of adding development to Liv's relationship with Cade. It's a hefty chunk of chapters; while some people may want to rer...

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Guild Mage 103

Chapter 103: Tidings

A pounding on the door spiked through Liv’s head like an iron chisel.  Her mouth tasted foul, like a mountain squirrel had crawled inside while she slept, died, an...

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Faerie Knight 153

153 - Maaz the Brave

There is nothing more valuable than knowing the ground on which you will fight; that one thing is worth a thousand men.

The Campaign Journals of Genera...

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Guild Mage 102

Chapter 102: Skinner

Storm eels.

Liv grimaced, already thinking through all the ways this could very quickly go wrong.  Professor Blackwood had described how they could release a s...

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Guild Mage 101

Chapter 101: King Tide

The sea was still a somewhat surreal place for Liv: after spending nearly her entire life in the mountains that surrounded Whitehill, looking out onto a flat expanse th...

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Guild Mage 100

Chapter 100: The House of Wyrms

Keri turned away from Calevis to confront the wyrm itself, while all around him people scrambled down over the tiered stone benches into the bowl of the amphit...

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Faerie Knight 152

152 - Jabal Al Nusur

The officers can do their arithmetic about how many men you want to send at a wall, but what I know is this: I’d rather be the one on top of it, than the one climbi...

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Guild Mage 99

Chapter 99: The Hall of Ancestors

“Look, Rei,” Keri said.  “Do you see all the animals?” He held his son up with his left arm, while using his right to point at the carved tree t...

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Guild Mage 98

Chapter 98: Permutations

Liv and Rosamund walked over to the ballroom together, parting ways with Arjun.  It was an odd reminder that Blackstone Hall, prior to housing the college, had b...

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Map

Here's a Sunday surprise for you! This began as rice on paper, migrated in a rough form to Inkarnate so that I could keep track of things, and has been updated and turned into an absolute work of ...

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Guild Mage 97

Chapter 97: The Storm Eel

“These are the mana beasts you are most likely to encounter during a king tide,” Professor Blackwood explained, as Liv’s class gathered around a series of larg...

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Guild Mage 96

Chapter 96: Time and Tide

By the time Liv had the pie ready to bake, her hands and arms were thoroughly covered in flour.  She’d unlaced the left sleeve of her bodice and rolled back t...

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Faerie Knight 151

151 - Suq Alnakhil

Every oasis is precious; a small, delicate world within a vast wasteland.

  • The Commentaries of Aram ibn Bashear



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AudioCodes

I have several codes, provided by Tantor, for free downloads of the audiobooks for both Faerie Knight and Graal Knight. If anyone is interested, let me know; I'd love it if people were willing to l...

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Guild Mage 95

Chapter 95: An Assignment

“Observe,” Archmagus Caspian Loredan instructed, and Liv couldn’t help but lean forward in her chair.  “Aluthō ais’veh Novis perae Mae,” he incante...

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Guild Mage 94

Chapter 94: Classes

After a wonderful dinner at the Crab and Gull, during which Thora and Wren assured Liv that she no longer had to worry about meals at High Hall, she wanted nothing more th...

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Faerie Knight 150

150 - Auberon’s Test

There’s more than one reason the general never tried to rebuild the  damned city - who ever decided it was a good idea to build in the swamp, in the first pl...

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Guild Mage 93

Chapter 93: Arianell Seton

It took a bit for Professor Annora to get Celestria off the field; Arjun ended up going to help, at the healer’s request.  Liv was only vaguely aware of what...

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Guild Mage 92

Chapter 92: Celestria Ward

Liv’s friends welcomed her back to the stands with congratulations and, in the case of Rosamund and Cade, quick hugs.  It didn’t escape her notice that Wre...

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Guild Mage 91

Chapter 91: The Bodyguard and the Professor

Wren made her way down to the training yard while the eastern sky was only just beginning to lighten into a shade of pale, luminescent blue, rather...

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Guild Mage 90

Chapter 90: A Night’s Rest

By the fourth time she’d iced over her bandages, Liv could no longer deny that it was time for her to call it an evening.  Another two bottles of wine had ...

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Guild Mage 89

Chapter 89: The Crab and Gull

Liv looked to the stands, where Thora, Wren, Arjun and Tephania were waiting for her.  Despite Professor Annora’s healing magic, her arm still throbbed pa...

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Faerie Knight 149

149 - Burning White

It is a mystery to me, to have found a hidden room in the deepest cellars, sealed with the emperor’s own mark.  An emperor of many generations gone, no less, wh...

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