Golemancy was considered by many mages to be the absolute peak of the inscription discipline. To carve the language of magic into a physical object in such a detailed and intricate way that running...
2024-10-10 13:43:06 +0000 UTC View PostUh.... yeah... I don't.... have this. Yet.
Kind of forgot to make it. For now, this is a placeholder.
EDIT: I have written a rough draft blurb. Still working on getting so...
2024-10-10 13:42:30 +0000 UTC View PostHello,
This is a... let's call it a middle-draft version of book 4's epub. There are probably ten or twenty typos in it still. The editor has gone over it once, but it's pre-beta readers. Sti...
2024-10-09 13:55:32 +0000 UTC View PostI laid there on the floor for a minute, just coming to terms with the fact that I’d survived a mana bomb exploding two feet from my face. Even for me, that was an accomplishment. I was injured, i...
2024-10-09 13:51:11 +0000 UTC View PostIn hindsight, I’d overestimated my ability to fight in such a hostile environment. Ammun was far better suited to exist here than I was, even with his magic severely handicapped. Now I was pinned...
2024-10-08 14:24:15 +0000 UTC View PostThere was a hundred feet of space at a steep incline between myself and the golem. I could have jumped down there in a single leap, probably without using any sort of magic to assist my movement. F...
2024-10-07 12:30:54 +0000 UTC View PostI paused in the middle of my preparations to pay more attention to one of my scrying spells. The more miles I had to cover, the slower my progress got, not in the least because Ammun had started us...
2024-10-04 12:38:46 +0000 UTC View PostOnce I really started pushing, I found four different diviners willing to admit that they’d spied on Ammun using wide-area scries that wouldn’t be passively detected. None of them knew where he...
2024-10-03 12:39:20 +0000 UTC View PostFor a second, I thought I’d somehow been teleported back to Derro, to the tunnels deep underground where I'd found Querit. A moment later, I started noticing the differences in the room. If nothi...
2024-10-02 14:18:00 +0000 UTC View PostThe main silo of the summit was undamaged by my attack, but was just as empty as everywhere else. Theories whirled through my mind, one after another. Was this whole site a decoy? Everything Ammun ...
2024-10-01 13:53:40 +0000 UTC View PostThe dragon wasn’t the only thing I’d spent time preparing for. A confrontation with Ammun seemed inevitable, and since it would almost certainly be in his demesne, I’d invested some resources...
2024-09-30 13:02:10 +0000 UTC View Post“What did you do with the diviner?” I asked.
“Didn’t seem like you wanted him left unsupervised at the valley, so I brought him with me to New Alkerist,” Querit told me.
I was...
2024-09-27 13:37:13 +0000 UTC View PostIt should have been impossible for a battle with a titanic undead dragon to feel tedious, but honestly, that’s how it was. Without Averin or anyone else here to control it, and with its limited n...
2024-09-26 12:37:05 +0000 UTC View PostAverin wasn’t stupid, despite his inexplicable desire to bring Ammun back from the annals of history. His questionable motives aside, he was perfectly aware of how overmatched he was without the ...
2024-09-25 13:36:31 +0000 UTC View PostDragon tongue didn’t have a word for ‘subtle.’ They just didn’t think that way, which wasn’t to say that they were stupid, just that the idea of being clever instead of crushing challenge...
2024-09-24 13:58:50 +0000 UTC View PostDragons, even undead skeletal ones, were difficult opponents. Sheer size was a quality all its own, both in terms of offense and defense. The living ones could shrug off hits that would kill smalle...
2024-09-23 13:05:48 +0000 UTC View PostOne of the hardest parts of being a diviner was having to have an excellent memory. There was only so much magic could do to help that along, too. At some point, how well a mage could process and r...
2024-09-20 13:32:05 +0000 UTC View Post“Introductions, first,” I said. “I’ll assume you already know that my name is Keiran and that you’ve been told a great deal about me by Ammun.”
Both diviners gave nods and the old...
2024-09-19 13:44:29 +0000 UTC View PostThey weren’t guardian golems summoned into the room, of that I was certain. I’d already gone through the whole place looking for wards and traps. That meant this was the active work of one of t...
2024-09-18 13:38:00 +0000 UTC View PostI kept digging for another hour or so, but then mages started to filter in. Bleary-eyed and shuffling, they resumed their posts as the room slowly started filling up. That meant my time spying on t...
2024-09-17 13:40:07 +0000 UTC View PostQuerit stared at me in horror for a long moment before his golem core started processing information again. “But, if he’s hitting you with all the distractions now, that must mean that he’s a...
2024-09-16 12:53:42 +0000 UTC View Post“A sympathetic scrying connection?” I asked.
There was no way Ammun would make that kind of mistake. But then, maybe it wasn’t his mistake. As far as I was aware, today ha...
2024-09-13 13:05:38 +0000 UTC View Post“Did they know anything?” Querit asked when I appeared in his workshop.
“Nothing all that useful. Mid-level mages, disposable fodder just strong enough to cooperate with each other. Som...
2024-09-12 12:49:49 +0000 UTC View PostThe timing of this attack was too perfect to be a coincidence. It had come mere moments after we’d finished stabilizing the resonance point. I was the weakest I’d been in years right now, weake...
2024-09-11 12:38:01 +0000 UTC View Post“Impossible,” I breathed out. “The mana costs…”
I couldn’t even calculate how much mana Ammun was burning every second to be that far away from his phylactery. Had he brought it w...
2024-09-10 13:02:35 +0000 UTC View PostWhether it was a coincidence or deliberate, the attacking mages couldn’t have picked a better time to launch their assault. Whoever was in charge was better about keeping their forces safely hidd...
2024-09-09 14:41:29 +0000 UTC View PostIt was impossible for me to narrow down where Ammun’s mages would set up their staging point, but that did not mean I didn’t spend a fair amount of time using the various scrying beacons I’d ...
2024-09-06 13:42:54 +0000 UTC View PostQuerit stood in the middle of the petrified forest with me, right on top of the ritual circle I’d constructed to form the valley’s genius loci. Overhead, a slab of sparkling silver stone floate...
2024-09-05 12:17:21 +0000 UTC View PostI resumed my human shape somewhat reluctantly. With as spread out as I’d gotten, it was difficult to fight as a scattered pile of sand, and besides, I needed hands to hold my staff. The worm, som...
2024-09-04 11:32:01 +0000 UTC View PostWith the gestalt’s map in my head, it was easy to plan my route. Ants were naturally burrowing creatures; that combined with human-level intelligence and access to mana allowed them to thoroughly...
2024-09-03 12:41:59 +0000 UTC View Post