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Path of Stars, Ch 40: Titan's Heart

“What do you want out of your subclass?” Asenya asked as the energy around Sam continued to build. “It’s a much more open choice than your primary class. The Path can construct almost any s...

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Path of Stars, Ch 39: Critical Decisions

The rainbow sky of the tree turned dark and the streaks of light became stars spread across the Void. Silver, white, blue, red, green, emerald, purple, yellow, and gold points appeared, stretching ...

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Path of Stars, Ch 38: Ancient Memories

The world in front of Sam became a starscape that stretched outward to an endless distance, marked only by the brilliant light of the stars as they sparkled in the dark. It was a thousand colors an...

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Path of Stars, Ch 37: Echo of the Ancients

The explosion rang out across the meadow, followed by the disintegration of the commander’s corpse. Sam was struck by nearly a hundred fragments and tossed backward across the field, but his cloa...

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Path of Stars, Ch 36: Bloodsigil Commander

“An Astral Titan? Here?” Elasia’s eyes widened as she turned to Sam and really saw him for the first time. She’d been busy fighting the commander and then talking to Alora. “I haven't see...

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Path of Stars, Ch 34: Descent

Alora’s world was called Verdant. It approached swiftly, growing larger moment by moment as the Ice Drake descended. Their speed slowed at the same time as they prepared to enter the denser atmos...

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Path of Stars, Ch 33: Verdant Sun

Moments later, Sam fell off the astral thread that led to the green sun and collapsed into the Void where he floated like a dead man. Just behind him was the glowing green emerald of the closest wo...

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Art of Altey when she’s older

The little sister eventually has to grow up a bit.

By EL Geron, like the last ones of Sam.

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Path of Stars, Ch 32: Touch of Starlight

Sam swore as he was pulled toward the vortex. Even with his sense of caution, he’d still underestimated what the Outsiders were capable of. He’d been prepared for them to blow up the fortress, ...

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Path of Stars, Ch 31: Blood Fortress

Congratulations, Astral Titan. You are now a Level 287 Astral Artificer.

The Titan’s Star’s announcement rang in Sam’s mind with a bell-like tone. Sam gave a nod as he ...

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Path of Stars, Ch 30: Outpost Runemaster

Two arcs of brilliant orange-red light blasted through the Void from the second fortress as Sam headed toward it. The attack was faster than the last one he’d seen and the bolts had some ability ...

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Path of Stars, Ch 29: Bloodsigil Outpost

When Sam reappeared from the astral thread, he was standing near the edge of the outpost, a mile above one of the stone spheres on its outer ring. From here, it loomed like a mountain in front of h...

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Path of Stars, Ch 28: Alora's System

Not long before they arrived at Alora’s world, Sam was seated on the forward deck of the Ice Drake as a storm of astral ice swirled around him. Threads of energy from it connected to a translucen...

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Path of Stars, Ch 27: On the Ice Drake

The stars flickered with rainbow light as the Ice Drake cut a wake through the Blue Star system and began to accelerate. Before long, the Titan Hall was invisible in the distance and the blue sun w...

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Path of Stars, Ch 26: Astral Rift

He spent a few days walking the astral threads and exploring nearby systems as he adjusted to his new abilities and tested them out. Here and there, he found a few more beasts to hunt, but there we...

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Path of Stars, Ch 25: Illusion Army

After he finished creating a handful of scrolls, Sam turned his attention inward, checking his condition to make sure he had recovered enough to keep hunting the lizards. He wasn’t done yet, not ...

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Sam Hastern, Current Status Sheet

Sam Hastern

Level 250

Race: Astral Titan

Class: Astral Artificer

Subclass: Spirit of Ast...

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Path of Stars, Ch 24: Aura Transformation

He traveled deeper into the red sun system, but there were no more lizards to be seen in the middle regions. Eventually, he followed the traces of essence they’d left behind and headed to the cen...

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Path of Stars, Ch 23: Astral Paths

He spent nearly a day scouting around the system as he headed deeper, but most of the middle regions were also absent of lizards. Eventually, he managed to find one group and it was only by chance,...

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Path of Stars, Ch 22: Astral Blade

A silver streak flashed through the Void, heading for another part of the lizards’ system. As soon as Sam stepped off the astral thread, he felt the essence from the two slain lizards flowing int...

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Path of Stars, Ch 21: Deep Hunting

Before they left the bandit hideout, Sam went to inspect the transfer point. It was a large metal portal about thirty feet across that was heavily inscribed with spatial runes, most of which dealt ...

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Path of Stars, Ch 20: Sleset's Ultimatum

Sam had to work to keep his eyebrow from rising as he kept his attention on the bandits’ reaction. He’d been expecting Sleset to go off into another dramatic speech, but at least his ultimatum ...

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Path of Stars, Ch 19: Blue Star System

They rested on the moon for another day to recover their strength and then Sam pulled out the Ice Drake, waving everyone onto it. Laimar, Alora’s uncle, was barely awake, but staying here was onl...

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Path of Stars, Ch 18: Wild Ritual

“The heart of the ritual is bringing your spirit into balance with the Void,” Alora explained. She was standing next to Sam as they looked out at the stars together. Not long had passed since s...

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Path of Stars, Ch 17: Faults of the Family

A streak of silver cut through the Void in a distant system. When it faded, Sam and the rest appeared. He looked around as he took stock of the situation and the condition of the Wild Spirits, and ...

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Path of Stars, Ch 16: Soul Wraith

The demons were a good distance away, since they’d been hanging back from the fight, but it wouldn’t be long until they were here. The Wild Spirits were shielded behind him, but with the level ...

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Path of Stars, Ch 15: Strength of an Artificer

Aboard the Gilded Scroll Merchant Ship

Naia was looking out the window of her family’s merchant ship at the fierce battle behind them. Her small hands were gripped tightly around t...

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Path of Stars 14: Wild Spirits

The stars of the Chaos Wild passed by in a thousand colors as Sam and Sleset headed toward the origin of the aurora ore. Now and then, Sam dragged Sleset onto an astral thread to speed it up, much ...

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Song of the Caverns by Clamavi de Profundis

Here is the holiday surprise!

Clamavi de Profundis composed and performed the “Song of the Caverns” from Book 4. It’s live on Youtube today.

If you’re not familiar with Clamavi,...

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Audio Codes for River of Fate, Book 1

The audio narration for River of Fate, Book 1: The Jade Scripture is now ready!

Narrated by Zachary Johnson (who you might know from Soundbooth Theater)!

This is the first book in a cul...

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