IABD 13: Power Stone
Everything Matthias had read about Divine Breath in the past two weeks had been clear: every cultivator could only have one Tower.
A cultivator’s Tower was intrinsically linked ...
2025-02-28 18:54:12 +0000 UTC View Post
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IABD 12: Divine Tribulation
Matthias witnessed every movement in the rain, felt every touch of the wind, smelled the richness of the earth, heard the crackle of electricity and tasted ozone on his tongue.
But most...
2025-02-28 18:53:59 +0000 UTC View PostIABD 11: The Brewing Storm
On the morning of Matthias’ Awakening ritual, he woke from dreams of mist and shadow, and dressed in the dark; his shadow-tendril placed his cloak over his shoulders while his fingers closed the ...
2025-02-28 18:53:48 +0000 UTC View PostIABD 10: Ready to Live
The tendril of utter darkness was fused to Matthias Stonebreaker’s soul, growing like a sprout that smelled of decay. For most, the sight would have driven them into an all-consuming terror. ...
2025-02-28 18:53:30 +0000 UTC View PostIABD 9: Blood's Drop
“The Caliber System of Power.” Altaizar clenched a fist before him. “Is a simple and sometimes imprecise way of categorizing a Gift Wielder’s or Life Enforcement Practitioner's skill, or st...
2025-02-28 18:53:17 +0000 UTC View PostIABD 8: A New Path
“Master Altaizar?” Matthias grabbed his notes, shooting up from the chair. “What…but how?”
Altaizar folded his hands behind his back. “My protections are to leave your famil...
2025-02-28 18:53:05 +0000 UTC View PostIABD 7: The Mage's Tower
Matthias’ eyes adjusted to the darkness within the mage’s bedchamber.
Strange objects, curios, ornaments and specimens filled the room: exotic fruits and colourful insects floated i...
2025-02-28 18:52:55 +0000 UTC View PostIABD 6: When Nothing Changes
For a long moment, Matthias considered breaking into Altaizar’s tower.
It was—as far as he knew—unguarded. Eklund’s efforts to post his own guards at the tower, at one time, had...
2025-02-28 18:52:35 +0000 UTC View PostIABD 5: Runes and the Pillars of Power
“I know it’s a lot.” Matthias finished his story.
“It’s more than a lot, little brother!” Bregindoure hissed, his eyes bloodshot. He gripped the bars, turning his knuckles w...
2025-02-28 18:52:24 +0000 UTC View PostIABD 4: Exploration in Darkness
Startling awake from dreams of mist and shadow, Matthias realised he was in his room, in the same bed he’d outgrown last winter.
Music was filling the air, flame crackling in the fire...
2025-02-28 18:52:12 +0000 UTC View PostIABD 3: The First Waking
There was no colour, yet there was light.
Shades of grey painted a massive chamber lit by colourless flame blazing in scores of iron braziers. The room seemed to be some sort of temple,...
2025-02-28 18:52:01 +0000 UTC View PostIABD 2: Cursed
Matthias Stonebreaker did not notice the ambush until it was too late.
His grip tightened on the ruins of his brother’s gift, while his eyes focused on the tower rising from the fores...
2025-02-28 18:51:52 +0000 UTC View PostIABD 1: Living in Shadow
“Tonight, we kill death.” The necromancer rocked the baby in her arms. “And you will help us do it.”
The mage knelt on a disk of stark white stone in a circle of obelisks shroud...
2025-02-28 18:51:41 +0000 UTC View PostI Am Become Death Launches Right Now! Unpausing Patreon!
Hello everyone!
At long last, it is time. It's been months in the making with health issues and all sorts of complications, but at last it's here.
I have unpaused patreon! Fee...
I Am Become Death Launching Tomorrow!
Hello everybody!
I am confirming that tomorrow, I will launch I Am Become Death on Patreon. So when you get like...6-20 emails depending on your tier, don't be surpris...
Mark of the Fool Book 9 Launches on Kindle! Also Book 8 Audio News!
Greetings and salutations!
Woooooo book 9 launches today! Thank you all for your support this entire time, and I am very happy to be here. Without you, I would NOT be here! I...
2025-02-12 14:33:46 +0000 UTC View PostHealth Update + Launch of I Am Become Death Date + Webcomic Update
Hello everybody!
Been a bit, hasn't it? I've been focused on recovery and writing when I can as my condition clears up.
Now, I know a lot of you have been worried about my health, so ...
An Update + Audio Announcement!
So hi everybody!
Let me start off by saying that I have been avoiding posting this, but I’ve put it off as long as I can.
In short, I’ve been having health issues.
Before y...
Mark of the Fool 8 out in ebook and paperback!
Hello my lovely patrons!
Been a bit, hasn’t it? I’ve had a lovely break and am currently working on I Am Become Death. Expect that to drop sometime probably in...
2024-09-18 14:01:33 +0000 UTC View PostA Dragoncon Announcement (Book Signing + Rune Seeker 4 launching today!)
Hello everyone!
I hope you all have been having a great time this end of summer! I've been chilling, enjoying my break and catching up on a lot of irl stuff I've been putting off, haha!
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Chapter 907: Generals and Legacy (Final Chapter of Mark of the Fool + Afterward)
“Shall we go?” Alex asked Theresa, offering his arm.
“Yes, let’s,” Theresa whispered, her hot breath on his ear.
Together, husband and wife linked arms and made their way towa...
2024-08-06 21:03:14 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 906: Celebration
The Golden Dragon was perched on a hilltop in one of the wealthiest areas in all of Generasi; a massive building that resembled a small castle of white stone with hulking golden towers. Curving thr...
2024-08-03 22:06:04 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 905: The Circle
The doors opened before Alex and Theresa, revealing what waited beyond: the Temple of the Traveller.
Long ago—when they’d first found this place—what had waited there was fire, death an...
2024-08-02 22:50:37 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 904: A Wonderful Life
Theresa Lu looked up at her father in silent wonder.
His words kept echoing through her head.
To your wedding day.
To your wedding day.
To your wedding...
2024-08-01 22:15:26 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 903: Where We Are, Where We're Going
More than a year and half had passed since the destruction of the Ravener in Thameland, and life in the City at the Centre of Creation—the city of wizards—had changed in certain ways.
Shr...
2024-07-31 21:28:45 +0000 UTC View PostMark of the Fool 6 audiobook launch (Chapter later today after editing is done)
Helloooo everyone!
So I usually like to do these announcements at the same time as I post my chapter for the day but...I'll level with you, editing is taking a bit and won't be done for ...
Chapter 902: An Eternal Opportunity
“Death’s not gonna take me until I’m damn good and ready for it,” Alexander Roth declared. “As a matter of fact, it won’t ever have me. I’ll have it when <...
2024-07-30 21:08:16 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 901: Chaos in the Wild and Order in the Material
“All of Och Fir Nog’s leadership collapsed. By the time the smoke had cleared and the last Ravener-spawn gasped its final breath, folk realised that there weren’t anyone around to tell ...
2024-07-27 22:08:38 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 900: A Funeral and a Person of Means
Alexander Roth, General of Thameland, floated through the skies over Greymoor sipping a glass of cool apple-lemon cider as he watched the sunrise.
The warmth of a summer wind tousled his hair...
2024-07-26 20:38:12 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 899: Planning for the Next Thousand Years
What would you say to—in a thousand years or so—joining my cabal?
Baelin’s words echoed through Alex’s mind.
It took him a long moment to remember to breathe.
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