Book3: Chapter 18 - Sweet Sorrow (RAW)
It is always hard for those who stand on the right side of events, of history. It is a heavy mantle that I have no joy in bearing.
- Gilgamesh of Uruk.
The new day’s...
2023-12-03 05:15:48 +0000 UTC View Post
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Book 3: Chapter 17 - A Sticky Situation
Death is but a path that we must all walk to its inevitable conclusion.
- The Human Question by Gideon de Salavia 378 AC.
At a distance where the human eye could still...
2023-11-26 02:01:28 +0000 UTC View PostBook 3: Chapters 6-10 [Edited]
Chapter 6 - Cultural Exchange
Of the Mer, the children of the salt and sea, not much is known. It is said in a few academic circles that in ages long past, they enjoyed a...
2023-11-22 11:23:37 +0000 UTC View PostBook 3: Chapters 1-5 [Edited]
Edited Chapters that are of a standard I believe to be good enough for submission.
Chapter 1 - Defiance
Anything, when meticulously crafted and refined f...
2023-11-22 11:20:46 +0000 UTC View PostBook 3: Chapter 16 - Al-Lazar (RAW)
Why do we regain our essence, our well of energy, our inner Mana, more rapidly when we rest? The time when consciousness fades and we walk upon the land of the dream.
And why is ...
2023-11-17 03:04:19 +0000 UTC View Post
Book 3: Chapter 15 - Falsehood (RAW)
The pursuit of the ultimate, perfect justice above all will simply lead to just more injustice.
- The Human Question by Gideon de Salavia 378 AC.
It was an emotional r...
2023-11-12 05:20:25 +0000 UTC View Post
Book 3: Chapter 14 - Back on the Road
War is the result of a quandary to which no solution can be found.
- From the diary of Damien de Savant.
The air was moist, a juxtaposition to the dry deser...
2023-11-05 03:49:23 +0000 UTC View Post
Elwin Concept Art
Now I just need to send it off to get professionally colored and toned!
2023-11-01 03:42:27 +0000 UTC View PostBook 3: Chapter 13 - New Bloom (RAW)
The Festival of the Undrawn, also known as the Contest of the Saints, is an annual event held in the City of Dust, Al-Lazar. Warriors from all over the continent, and occasionally from beyond, ...
2023-10-28 11:56:18 +0000 UTC View PostCordelia Colored
Cordelia professionally colored in. Toning and color are beyond me so I had someone do it!
2023-10-26 00:49:10 +0000 UTC View Post
Kidu Concept Art
So, I got tired of my artist making subpar work that I needed to make revisions for. I now do the initial sketches myself and send them off for toning/coloring.
2023-10-24 06:51:29 +0000 UTC View PostLarynda New Art - Finalized
A much cuter and more innocent version of Larynda!
2023-10-21 11:49:22 +0000 UTC View PostUpdate October!
Hope that you are all enjoying the story slowly unfold. Let me just take a moment and say how grateful I am to all of you!
I am currently working on overarching plot for Book 3. There w...
2023-10-20 08:10:08 +0000 UTC View PostNew Larynda Concept Art
Style change for Larynda. Elwin and Kidu are also in the works.
2023-10-20 08:04:24 +0000 UTC View PostBook 3: Chapter 12 - Return of the Hero
On the fairest of morns, mariners whisper of glimpsing the Heaven's Pillar across the shimmering expanse of the Glass Fire Sea. I have beheld it with my own eyes during a voyage to document the...
2023-10-20 08:03:02 +0000 UTC View PostNew Cordelia Concept Art
I think the old Cordelia was way too masculine so I softened it up. Now to pass on to the artist to color it up etc.
2023-10-14 10:19:24 +0000 UTC View PostBook 3: Chapter 11 - Finish Line (RAW)
Just as water holds greater value than gold for a thirsty man, so too does silence in a world filled with incessant noise. Cultivate your silence, contemplate deep thoughts, and you will be abl...
2023-10-12 07:23:07 +0000 UTC View PostBook 3: Chapter 10 - Unforced Errors (RAW)
Cowardice?Is it simply the absence of bravery, or a symptom of a far more human failing? I believe it to be something more.
Along the long path of human history, great men have r...
2023-10-10 14:55:11 +0000 UTC View Post
Book 3: Chapter 9 - Slow & Steady (RAW)
In the rich tapestry of Al-Lazar’s Shareholder Houses, the House of Alim stands uniquely storied. Ancestor tales whisper of a figure, known only as the Shield, a traveler from a realm distant...
2023-10-08 03:05:52 +0000 UTC View PostBook 3: Chapter 8 - Bread & Water (RAW)
To be a good man is to live with virtue and integrity on the hardest of roads.
- A Quassian aphorism.
The path ahead curved upwards, becoming also more natural in its formation. Here an...
2023-10-02 14:43:33 +0000 UTC View PostBook 3: Chapter 7 - The Guide (RAW)
*Finally was able to spit out this chapter! I've been wrestling with a major plot point while feverish. If anyone wants a free copy of Book 1, please DM me!
Often I had w...
2023-09-27 13:09:00 +0000 UTC View PostThis weeks chapter.
This week's chapter is a little late as I was bogged down with the launch, editing earlier chapters and generally being ill. I wrote down most of this weeks chapter in a notebook and will be spendi...
2023-09-25 13:21:57 +0000 UTC View PostBook 1 Released! Book 2 in November!
It is now out in the wild!
Book 1 finally got released, and Book 2 is coming out in November. Book 3 should be done by summer/early autumn next year!
If you would like an ebook code for...
2023-09-20 06:10:01 +0000 UTC View PostBook 3: Chapter 6 - Cultural Exchange (RAW)
Of the Mer, the children of the salt and sea, not much is known. It was once said in a few academic circles that they once enjoyed an alliance with the Children of the Tides when the Tides were...
2023-09-17 03:58:37 +0000 UTC View Post