My return to the tower was smooth, with my only complaint being the mists of the morning leaving me feeling damp. Fire magic took care of the actual dampness, but did nothing for the feeling that r...
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Cover art for those who haven't seen it! A friend of mine and excellent artist did this for me and I'm super happy with it. It beats the stock photo I'd grabbed from google.
<... 2021-07-06 16:31:00 +0000 UTC View PostAfter I had paced myself to lethargy, I took a hot bath with a glass of wine and a plate of cut pears. The events of the day had distracted not only myself but others from our meals. It was the sma...
2021-07-06 16:31:00 +0000 UTC View PostAs I walked up the stairs, I had several concerns regarding Lilly. House Shielding had sent me a missive several weeks ago detailing her use of my name inappropriately to garner a position in the g...
2021-07-05 16:31:00 +0000 UTC View PostI watched from the top of my tower as the newest beast wave approached. This wave was composed of condors, wild frost elementals, and yeti. All of which were led by a powerful ancient yeti, w...
2021-07-03 02:24:00 +0000 UTC View PostToday's chapter will be released at a later time than usual today.
2021-07-02 16:10:08 +0000 UTC View PostMy air elementals held me in the air over a Mirtallean town, and my gargoyles flew nearby. I hadn’t planned this foray out, not really. The idea had nested in the back of my mind like a giant spi...
2021-07-01 18:07:35 +0000 UTC View PostI couldn’t help but frown as I gazed at the newest tower attached to my wall. Lutha had arrived that morning with fifteen other dwarves from her clan. They’d been cast out from her home in Sena...
2021-06-29 16:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostI spent the rest of the day on the top of my tower, though I had to use ice magic around midafternoon to combat the heat and sun. Ram’s wife, Lutha, didn’t arrive that day, which turned out to ...
2021-06-28 16:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostSeveral days had passed since I had spoke with Loralie on the tower top. In that time, I had decided to stop some of my experiments. The pits outside my tower were not going to provide results befo...
2021-06-25 21:51:49 +0000 UTC View PostA week had gone by in a flurry of activity. The towers were complete, two of them. Loralie and the mages with her had moved into a tower attached to the wall surrounding my own tower. Three stories...
2021-06-25 16:30:02 +0000 UTC View PostSorry for the delay - caught a bit of a chest cold and today and tomorrow's chapters will delayed.
2021-06-23 22:03:05 +0000 UTC View PostAs I was flying back to my tower the next day, I couldn’t help but chuckle. The Bakers’ Guild, for all their normal posturing, was simply not prepared to be nominated to the duty of verifying m...
2021-06-22 14:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostI had spent most of the evening taking in the sights and sounds of a city I had lived in for many years, determined to make them a memory to be held for when the Pestilence leaves it a ruin. It was...
2021-06-21 16:30:02 +0000 UTC View PostHi! I wanted to see if any of you would be interested in an interlude chapter from a different point of view. I've put together a list of some of the characters to choose from, but if t...
2021-06-19 23:57:36 +0000 UTC View PostAmong the people shouting, the loudest was the fat attendant who sputtered and shouted, “You refuse?! This is a lawful order! To refuse is treason!”
I shook my head and waited, watching a...
2021-06-18 16:31:01 +0000 UTC View PostI arrived a few days later at the western gate to Sena City. While I may have made an entrance landing before the gates from the air, that was not my intention. The guards in their fanciful a...
2021-06-17 16:31:00 +0000 UTC View PostHello!
Just wanted to let you all that there won't be a chapter posting tomorrow. Sorry! I'll try to make it up with double chapters later this week or an additional chapter this ...
2021-06-15 19:29:43 +0000 UTC View PostIt took two days for the summons to arrive. I spent the night I’d found out that Laxton Bay had fallen pouring over my plans and notes and preparing. Much of the next day had been wasted with rec...
2021-06-15 16:32:00 +0000 UTC View PostThe last two weeks had been fraught with several annoyances that were luckily matched with several successes in my experiments. I was currently doing the recording keeping in my laboratory next to ...
2021-06-14 16:36:05 +0000 UTC View PostWhen I awoke, I was greeted with some good news. It seemed that compared to the last few days of detailed work that wasn’t to my benefit, I had been somehow rewarded by fate. I was eating a...
2021-06-11 16:31:00 +0000 UTC View PostThe next morning, I was, admittedly, grouchy. Despite several projects moving forward, my heart wasn’t in them. I was considering the implications of the assassination attempt last night.
O...
2021-06-10 05:31:13 +0000 UTC View PostInterlude – Paladin Adam
I called forth the power of Bi and swung my fist into his face, knocking the man back into his comrades. A spear squealed as it scratched across my armor, but I sna...
2021-06-09 16:49:30 +0000 UTC View PostIt had finally happened. I was sitting on the top of my tower watching the sunset with a disgruntled frown as I looked down into my cup. I should have expected it. It was truly only a matter of tim...
2021-06-08 16:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostI watched from my rooftop as Baron Froom’s ostentatious carriage being pulled by four fancifully carved wooden horses rode slowly down the road to my tower. The horses were a dark, polished wood ...
2021-06-07 16:31:00 +0000 UTC View PostThe next morning, after a breakfast of grilled fish over corn, I was approached by Jax. I was headed downstairs to my laboratory, when I noticed him following behind me. Jax was the thi...
2021-06-04 16:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostI sat at the curved stone table on my first floor, looking at my four guards as we ate a meal of pork stew with biscuits. I had allowed Chelsea to open some of the pantry to support the refugees at...
2021-06-03 16:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostWith my illusion back in place, I arrived on the top of my tower near the middle of the night. The moon was high in the sky but I couldn’t see any reflections along my lake. Instead, the front of...
2021-06-02 16:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostIn the morning, I ate cold travel rations with a frown, and then prepared several moonstones with enchantments. The bunny illusion had worked well, and it would be negligent of me not to take advan...
2021-06-01 16:30:02 +0000 UTC View PostFour days later, Mena and Leslie arrived. They arrived with the merchant from Lark that normally came to sell us food and sundries. The addition of the lad from Woodhoot, Fin, came as no great surp...
2021-05-31 16:31:00 +0000 UTC View Post