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Astral Threads, Ch 32: The Meaning of Fire

The magma channel was divided into twelve sections when it entered the base of the forge, each of which could be opened or closed to change the intensity of the heat. Enchantments on the forge chan...

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Astral Threads, Ch 31: Caverns of Runekeld

The tunnel into Runekeld was a hundred feet wide as it descended into the earth, slowly twisting downward. About half a mile along, it met a small cavern with shops and warehouses, as well as sever...

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Astral Threads, Ch 30: Gates of Runekeld

The gates to Runekeld were a hundred feet tall, carved from towering slabs of stone that merged into the mountainside. They were engraved with the image of two giant dwarves facing each other, one ...

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Astral Threads, Ch 29: Bellisagi

Sam looked along the high road to the north, following it until it descended into a valley between the foothills and curved out of sight on the way to Runekeld. Weathered crags protruded from betwe...

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Astral Threads, Ch 28: Ayala's Trouble

“Don’t forget my horse!” Krana shouted as Sam lifted her above the icy dome of the forge chamber. Her voice faded out across the clear wind of the dawn. “I don’t want him to get eaten by ...

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Astral Threads, Ch 27 (Cont): Starsteel

Time flickered as Sam purified one aura after another until he had more than a dozen Basic-tier Auras of Ice. By the time he reached the fifteenth, the World Core sent him a notification that shive...

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Astral Threads, Ch 27: A Forge on the Mountain

They spent nearly a full day digging the Shards of the Aurora out of the glacial cavern. It would have taken longer except that the ice flowed away wherever Sam moved, leaving behind a shimmering b...

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Astral Threads, Ch 26: Frostbone Crawlers

The jagged walls of the crevasse opened around Sam like a throat swallowing him into the depths of the earth. A quarter of the way down, he swept past Krana in a streak of flame as he continued to ...

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Astral Threads, Ch 25: Local Threats

The first layer of the relic was cold, the snow on its slopes matching the silver lines in Jeric’s hair as he looked over the work ahead of him. Sam had left a week ago and since then, teams of d...

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Astral Threads, Ch 24: Two Flaws

The five meteors tore across the distance and exploded with a concussive blast that shook the mountainside, swallowing the vines and the oncoming hounds in a bright explosion. A rain of ash from in...

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Astral Threads, Ch 23: The Mountain Road

“How in the world do you keep growing?!” His father’s complaint rumbled through the room as he took in Sam’s new height. Surprise and exasperation warred with amusement as he studied him an...

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Astral Threads, Ch 22: Forge (Double Length)

The workshops in the relic were mostly tumbled stones and empty basins, sometimes home to small blue spiders with legs like icicles that could survive in the frozen weather. The one he chose was on...

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Astral Threads, Ch 21: Ayala at Osera

Osera was a sprawling city several hundred miles north of Highfold, old and well built, that was nestled in the foothills of the Western Reaches. If you connected the major western cities in a line...

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Astral Threads, Ch 20: Dwarven Council

Twin rows of towering Sky Guards accompanied Sam and his parents as they approached the twenty-foot tall, iron-bound doors of the dwarven council chamber. Nine golems on each side of the group made...

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Astral Threads, Ch 19: Tower Reach

A dusty, black-cloaked figure rode on a bare-boned grey gelding as he approached the gates of Tower Reach. One sleeve hung empty in his robes, which were too loose on him and tattered at the edges....

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Astral Threads, Ch 18: Boundless Alliance

“Everyone at Level 399 is part of this Boundless Alliance?” Sam frowned as he studied Snake.

“Not everyone in the Alliance is part of the Cabal, which is the term for the darker side of...

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Astral Threads, Ch 17: Motives

With his aura active, Sam was twice as tall as Uncle Snake. His essence attributes were also infusing his physical ones and after his study in the relic, he was able to tell exactly how much.  ...

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Cover Animation: Astral Threads

Here's a cover animation for Astral Threads!

https://youtube.com/shorts/sMvFCHM4Ows?feature=share...

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Astral Threads, Ch 16: Garild’s Lawn

Following behind Uncle Snake, Sam and the other four walked onto the field outside the governor’s mansion. It was obvious now where the damage had come from, and as Garild trailed behind the rest...

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Astral Threads, Ch 15: Bloodline Clan Envoy

When Sam arrived at the gates of Garild’s mansion, he saw that the damage from his battle with the Bloodline Clan descendants had been mostly repaired. The stones had been replaced in the walls o...

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Astral Threads, Ch 14: Astral Void

The Void stretched out all around him. The rune he’d learned from the World Core while watching his friends evolve shuddered in his mind as it began to resonate with his essence constell...

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Astral Threads, Ch 13: Relic Training

Dinner with his family led to a pleasant evening where Sam caught up on all of the changes in the relic over the past eleven days and then to the first real night of sleep he’d had in a while. He...

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Art of Sam for Book 4

By EL Geron.

There are some more variants of this image, including wallpapers, and also some new emojis on the Discord server.

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Astral Threads, Ch 12: Knowledge

Sam wandered among the steles in the cavern, his talons trailing along the cut crystal and stones, and then along the walls, brushing against every silver plaque. The others had been interested as ...

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Astral Threads, Ch 11: Chamber of Amaris

The group headed back up to the first layer, where they located the storeroom of Amaris. Unlike the other two that had been hidden in the mountain, this one was an actual building, or at least the ...

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Astral Threads, Ch 10: Sky Guards

Sam stared at the army of golems with disbelief. There were ten formations of the black crystal golems, which had to be the Sky Guards, and then ten more formations of the other types that each had...

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Astral Threads, Ch 9: A Rumor of Artifacts

“I meant to tell you about this last time, before we were interrupted by those three brats.” Twilight had just set as Garild’s words echoed out across the greenstone. He was standing near the...

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Astral Threads, Ch 8: The High Council

Aemilia stood in a vast orchard that stretched out into the horizon. Above, the sun bathed the rolling hills and the trees with light so dense that it was nearly liquid, and it hung around the leav...

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Cover Reveal, Astral Threads

Here's the new cover for Book 4!

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Astral Threads, Ch 7: On the Path of Trials

The world was ice and stone. The sky swirled in currents of pale blue and yellow mana that slammed into Jeric’s body and washed through the other side, leaving a trail of energy sparkling in thei...

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