They gathered before the Adjudicator to hear his official verdict.
Yeoric stood, head hanging, hands on his hips, occasionally shaking his head as if in reluctant refutation of what had just ...
2024-05-17 13:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostHarald, Vic, Nessa, and Sam arrived at the Dueling Circles well before Eighth Bell. The morning was dark and damp, dawn having broken imperceptibly behind dour clouds. A constant drizzle misted dow...
2024-05-16 13:00:14 +0000 UTC View PostHis three friends simply stared at him.
Vic recovered first. “Wait. You’re telling me that you’re voluntarily giving up six hundred thousand scales?”
“Investing,” corrected ...
2024-05-15 13:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostSam didn’t return until three days later.
Harald ignored Vic’s badgering, Nessa’s pointed stares. Other than entering the secret room one more time in order to put into motion his plan,...
2024-05-14 13:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostA Twilight Infinitum.
Heart pounding, Harald reached into the chest and took up the scale. It was light, almost insubstantial. He held it up and drank in its nebulous beauty, feeling as if he...
2024-05-13 13:00:14 +0000 UTC View PostOverwhelmed, furious, Harald glared at the four handwritten pages. The walls of the small cellar room were pressing in on him. He was having trouble catching his breath.
The very idea that Vo...
2024-05-12 13:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostVic left that evening on undisclosed business.
Nessa was long gone by that point.
Sam had departed without saying another word.
Harald had spent the day training as best he could....
2024-05-11 13:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostFurthak’s Smithy was a rambling series of connected buildings, workshops, and storage chambers. It looked disreputable at a glance if you were just striding down Fire Lane; a mass of low roofed, ...
2024-05-10 13:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostThe Aura of the Aching Depths expanded from Harald’s core. The air around him grew subtly shadowed, sound growing muffled, the temperature dropping. Harald felt his Throne of Harmony pou...
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An amalgam of Midjourney with some Witcher 3 concept art by Klaus Whitman. Used a reference piece only.
2024-05-08 15:23:23 +0000 UTC View PostHarald woke just before Sixth Bell, ready and alert and unable to stay in bed. Refreshed, he got up, cracked open his door, and peered out into the dark hallway.
Silence. Darkness.
Time...
2024-05-08 13:00:14 +0000 UTC View PostI often generate images via Midjourney for inspiration. I used to trawl the web back in the day for concept art, but now I can make my own. And while I firmly believe in hiring real artists for com...
2024-05-07 18:16:52 +0000 UTC View Post"Well,” said Vic, staring at Nessa in dissatisfaction, “that’s a negative lesson we could learn from this, I suppose. I prefer to focus on the positive.” He raised his glass of win...
2024-05-07 13:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostHarald rose from his crouch when Vic stepped out through the portal, lantern raised, rapier in hand.
“Hello, Vic,” he said, trying to disguise his relief. It was impossible to tell for ho...
2024-05-06 13:00:17 +0000 UTC View PostThe last of the stolen energy from Abyssal Attunement drained away, and Harald felt his legs grow shaky. Taking deep, steadying breaths he strode over to the first step that rose to the el...
2024-05-05 13:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostThe ashen walkers were patient.
They shifted, swayed, clearly paid close attention to Harald, but they didn’t make a move.
Instead, they formed their horrific wall of half-slurried pa...
2024-05-04 13:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostHey everyone, thanks for reading and giving Thrones a chance. It's great to have you all on board, and I'm hoping this story only continues to grow.
Toward that end, I'd really appre...
2024-05-03 17:32:37 +0000 UTC View Post“All right,” said Sam hours later, stepping up to the portal. “You’re going to stay close by?”
“We’ve had our fun,” allowed Harald. “We’re thirty Copper Crescents the rich...
2024-05-03 13:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostThe rocks sailed down to crack into the ashen walkers. One hit a shoulder, the other a back.
Their reaction was immediate.
The walkers jerked around soundlessly, arms flailing. A moment...
2024-05-02 13:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostDivinity is received, not taken.
So had Harald been taught by Seraphite Japhina at a young age. He’d been entranced by her wrinkled visage, her humble piety, struck more by her qui...
2024-05-01 13:00:17 +0000 UTC View PostHarald blinked.
All was still.
So, he’d survived Eclavistra’s attack. She’d been honest about that much, at any rate.
Groaning, he put his hand to his head and sat up. The d...
2024-04-30 13:00:11 +0000 UTC View Post“Go out wide!” barked Harald, trying to find stable footing amongst the flagstones. “Sam, other side of the street!”
The statue was barreling down on them, fast, too fast. Sam darted ...
2024-04-29 13:00:13 +0000 UTC View PostVorakhar dominated the warren, his form somehow more real than everyone else in it, as if he were made of more compelling flesh, the light forming a purple nimbus around him.
Harald, mouth dr...
2024-04-28 13:00:37 +0000 UTC View PostThe ashen walkers rushed toward Nessa and Vic, both of whom stepped out wide and then struck as one.
Vic lunged with his rapier, its long, lethal blade sliding effortlessly into his walker’...
2024-04-27 13:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostBoth groups oriented on each other.
Derrick rested an elbow on Yeoric’s shoulder and lowered his tinted glasses. “Oh, hey! Is that Samantha? Yeoric, Harald’s recruited his maid 2024-04-26 13:00:14 +0000 UTC View Post
Harald forced himself to breathe easy, to remain calm, shoulders back, blade steady. The scale-light gleamed down the length of his wooden longsword. It was ridiculous to stand against Nessa, a Lev...
2024-04-25 13:39:28 +0000 UTC View PostThe announcement that they were going to raid the dungeon coincided with a steady deluge of rain as a heavy storm front moved in across the city and drowned the world in the continuous rumbling of ...
2024-04-24 13:00:15 +0000 UTC View PostHarald awoke before Sixth Bell, before Sam had even entered his room. He rose in the dark and dressed.
Today felt different.
It wasn’t that he felt numb, but rather hardened. He didn...
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