David Niemitz

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Chapter 195: The Last Light

Keri tumbled off the end of the frozen chute, rolled across a stone balcony and then beneath an archway, and fetched up against an ancient wall with an impact hard...

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Chapter 194: The Guide

Liv’s mind flickered through options the instant the monster began its dive.  She was the one lowering the platform, because she was the one who held the most ma...

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Chapter 193: Ice and Steel

At Keri’s insistence, Liv sat in a rough circle – though with only four of them, perhaps the points of a square was more accurate – inside the shelter she’d...

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Chapter 192: The End of All That Is

Some uncountable number of hours later, they had still not found a map.

Perhaps Celris had never intended to open his home to visitors, though the an...

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Chapter 191: The Tomb of Ice

Liv led her friends into the great hall of the Tomb of Celris – for it was a great hall, a grand entranceway that must once have welcomed visiting gods and godd...

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Chapter 190: Polar Night 

“It’s beautiful,” Arjun gasped.

Every time that Liv had come this far north with her father, she had come during the summer, when the sun never quit...

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Chapter 189: Promises

When Liv woke in the morning, for the first time since leaving Coral Bay, she found Thora waiting for her, with a fresh dress laid out and waiting.  When Liv glance...

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Chapter 188: The High Table

Liv was struck by how much Piers had aged since she’d last seen him, just over a year before.  But then, she realized, that wasn’t quite right.  The ...

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Chapter 187: The Armory

“When you said you’d be able to fit Rose with something, I was expecting that we’d be scrounging through whatever cast off junk you could find,” Liv admitted.&...

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Chapter 186: Matches

“Who are you?” Rosamund asked, with a laugh, as Liv slipped into the steaming hot spring they’d been led to by Keri’s cousin Sohvis.  Steam rose from the poo...

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Chapter 185: Breaking

At first, the words didn’t even register.

Keri couldn’t take his eyes from Rika, whose hand remained on Sohvis’ arm.  One winter, when they were young m...

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Chapter 184: Homecoming

Liv had declared that she intended to depart Al’Fenthia by nightfall, and in the end it was a close thing.  The days had grown short and the nights long, which ...

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Chapter 183: Tether

At first, Liv couldn’t help straining against her grandmother’s magic physically.  It was a natural instinct to shove her hand toward her wand with every bit of s...

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Chapter 182: Dā

Liv was grateful that Airis and Saana’s servants had kept her guest room in order.  She felt as if she’d hardly stayed there for a moment before rushing off all acro...

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Chapter 181: Winter Campaign

“I have a proposal,” Liv’s father said, before any of the elders could object to his mother’s words.  “If we know that Benedict’s forces will not...

Guild Mage Alpha Slice

So, we hit six thousand Followers on Royal Road, which is incredible!

In a bit of lighthearted celebration, here's a little treat I had made some notes on some time ago.

I've been playi...

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Chapter 180: War Council

For the first time since her grandfather had died, Liv woke up pressed tight against another person.

By the time she’d got back into camp after speaking with ...

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Chapter 179: Noghis

As Liv’s father had predicted, the Antrians in the jungle pulled back once it became clear that the Eld were no longer being forced to fight on two fronts.  With th...

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Chapter 178: Token

Moristaim Palace – or simply the palace, in the minds of nearly every citizen of Lucania – was a vast complex of ornate corridors and chambers, with as much space dedic...

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Chapter 177: Leaving the Ring

“Four hundred,” Rose said, once the door was closed and the two women were alone.  “It was bad enough when you told me that you’d live for two hundr...

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Chapter 176: The Sky So Full Of Stars 

“This is where she is,” Aira Tär Keria explained, using her fingers to manipulate the map of Varuna while Liv and Sidonie leaned over the old ...

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Chapter 175: Hunters

The first breath of the Varunan jungle eased muscles that Wren hadn’t even realized were tense.  Coral Bay had been warmer than the north, and Lendh ka Dakruim had...

Book 2 cover (2nd sketch)

Thoughts? Feels much better to me

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Chapter 174: The Garden of Thorns

Liv used her frozen warriors mercilessly, throwing them at every threat that manifested itself between the time her party entered the rift, and their arrival...

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Chapter 173: Beyond the Palisade

“If you can spare me, I’d like to see just how badly off the wounded are,” Arjun told Liv, as they followed one of the manor guards to where the expedit...

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Chapter 172: The Dark of Night

By the time Liv had brought the disk of mana up even with the platform, small flakes of snow had begun to drift down through the night.  She imagined that ...

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Chapter 171: False Prophecy

“This,” Liv said, looking down from the broken walls of the bridge onto the lake that filled the river valley.  “This is where I need to be.”

Be...

Book 2 initial cover sketch

Definitely sending a few notes back on this, so if you have feedback feel free to let me know and I can pass it on

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Faerie Knight 177 - Final Chapter

177 - The Feast of Saint Veischax

Like most Narvonnians of my generation, I find it difficult to imagine a time when our kingdom and the Caliphate were at war.

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