David Niemitz

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Chapter 220: Beauty in the Dark

Liv couldn’t help but sigh in relief the moment she stepped into the shoals of Bald Peak Rift.  She’d led Rosamund and Sidonie partway up the miner’...

Guild Mage 219

This one is substantially longer than normal - 3,261 words, when my normal goal is roughly 3k. There was a lot to fit into it, and I rearranged a few things as I went to try to make sure the build ...

Guild Mage 218

Chapter 218: Gathering the Hunt

John Draper, of King’s Highway.  

Keri repeated the information over and over in his head, so that he didn’t forget, all the way back from ...

Guild Mage 217

Figured out how to attach files in the new interface. There's an unlabeled '+' button that is invisible until you put your mouse in a certain place... grumble grumble. Let me know if it doesn't w...

Guild Mage 216

Patreon appears to have changed its settings, and moved/hidden the option to attach files. For the moment I'm going to include google drive links to the epub and pdf and hope I can figure this out ...

Guild Mage 215

Chapter 215: Woodsmoke

Wren winged over the white valley.  Everywhere she looked, the snowfall of the evening before lay untrampled on the ground.  She hadn’t had much hope of fin...

Crossover!

Alright, so this is too cool not to share. I'm a massive Gundam fan, and I did not realize when we were casting the Guild Mage audiobooks that one of our two narrators, the amazing 2025-07-16 00:20:27 +0000 UTC View Post

Guild Mage 214

Chapter 214: The Guild in Exile

Liv tucked her skirts under her and took one of the three open seats, two of which were right next to each other.  That put Sidonie on her left, and Rosa...

Guild Mage 213

Just a quick note on this one - I felt that I had to show how rough some things are on Beatrice, but I also know the subject can be tough to read about. It's tough to write about! It's not going to...

Guild Mage 212

Chapter 212: Alliances

Master Grenfell scowled.  “This is the source you won’t tell us about, Matthew?”  

From his seat at Triss’ side, Matthew nodded.  “D...

Guild Mage 211

Chapter 211: A Wider View

By the time Liv and her friends had crossed the market square and began making their way up the streets of The Hill, most of the excitement had been left behind.&nbs...

Guild Mage 210

I mentioned this on RR and Discord also, but just so everyone is aware, stubbing of book one will occur Friday, August 15th
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Chapter 210: Embers

Liv couldn’t s...

Guild Mage 209

Chapter 209: Sandstone

“That takes care of the waystone,” Sidonie muttered, leaning over Liv’s shoulder so that she could get a good look at the glowing Vædic sigils crawling across th...

Guild Mage 208

Chapter 208: A Wyrm’s Heart

Liv had been told that Silica was different than the younger, smaller wyrms that House Iravata controlled in battle.  That made sense; none of those wyrms w...

Guild Mage 207

“If the wyrm dies quickly enough, we could just wait it out,” Keri observed.  “Though I don’t like relying on something outside of our control.”

Liv shook her head.  “Th...

Guild Mage 206

Chapter 206: The High Desert

The transition from jungle hills to high badlands was gradual, and took place at a remove from the river Airaduinë.  Along the banks, green grass was replac...

Guild Mage 205

Chapter 205: Overland

They left Al’Fenthia the next morning, and if Liv could have pushed for the departure to happen sooner, she would have done so.  Only Arjun’s warning in the Tom...

Guild Mage 204

Today marks the Amazon and Audio publication of the final volume of the Faerie Knight trilogy, which was the first series I wrote on Royal Road. If anyone wants to check it out, it can be found her...

Guild Mage 203

Chapter 203: The Puppet Show

On the wooden stage at the front of the audience, fanciful puppets in the garb of warriors and kings, mana beasts and mages, jerked and danced about under the gui...

Volume 3 Stubbed; Release 7/1

In anticipation of the Tuesday release of Graal Knight, volume 3 has been stubbed both on RR and on Patreon.

Guild Mage 202

Chapter 202: Courland

The light of waystone travelled faded, and Millie blinked away the hallucinations of the dark places in between.  Around her, a dozen soldiers of the Lucanian Royal...

Guild Mage 201

This is the penultimate chapter of volume five; we will wrap the book tomorrow, and begin six on Monday. My schedule's all messed up from jet lag, so I wrote this a bit later in the day than usual...

Guild Mage 200

Back to our normal schedule! I know this is posting a bit later than usual, but I'm doing it from a plane, and coming from a different time zone than usual. This is the climax of book 5; we'll have...

Guild Mage 199

Chapter 199: The Beast in the Dark

Keri took a step back from the slumbering war machine, and fell into a defensive guard before once again realizing that he’d lost his Næv’bel during th...

Hello from Colorado!

Book 2 cover update

Progress!

Guild Mage 198

As promised, wrote this on the plane! Posting it from - who knows how many feet up :)

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Chapter 198: To Face the Storm

Liv sent four of the b...

Guild Mage 197

I believe I've mentioned before that we're going on vacation to Colorado.  Pretty early tomorrow morning, we'll be on a plane.  Now, given its a four and a half our flight to Denver, I ex...

Guild Mage 196

Chapter 196: Clear Water Cenote

Wren pushed Little Crow and Wildcat as hard as she could, for as long as she could.  They flew high above the jungle canopy, unburdened by any need to...

Demon Sect 1

I couldn't sleep Monday evening, so I ended up writing about half of this on my phone. It's an idea for a Cultivation project I've been toying with for a while, and it's inspired by the anime trop...