Location: Iztak, in the Rhokki Mountains Timeline: Sixth Age, 53rd Year I confess it took me a moment, studying that trembling, plainly-robed figure alone on the chamber floor, to recognize precisely what had happened. This was not the High Wyze One. This was not even one of the mid-ranking Vice-Wyze Ones or Choir-Keepers who'd made... Continue Reading →
7.5 – Well, Well, Well
Location: Iztak, in the Rhokki Mountains Timeline: Sixth Age, 53rd Year Keldar's confession — voices in old shrines, confused ones, contradictory ones — sat with me rather worse than I let him see. I already intended to march to Gwar's Aerie and demand an accounting for the western unrest, for whatever game he imagined he... Continue Reading →
7.7 – It Had to Be Akka
Location: Nektar's Cauldron, Kra Timeline: Sixth Age, 53rd Year I returned from Iztak with the particular hollow satisfaction of a man who has successfully patched a leaking hull while entirely uncertain whether the ship still has a hole in it somewhere he hasn't found yet. The immediate crisis was contained. Praxus would carry my counsel... Continue Reading →
7.4 – Return to Kagor
Location: Kagor Timeline: Sixth Age, 53rd Year Two years is, as I believe I have already made abundantly clear, very little time at all to a creature such as myself. And so it was that I spent the better part of them exactly as a freshly liberated god ought: running my empire, ignoring my enemies,... Continue Reading →
7.3 – Picking Up the Pieces
Location: Nektar's Cauldron, Kra Timeline: Sixth Age, 51st Year and beyond I did not stay in the dark forever. I want that understood plainly, and rather early in this chapter, because I suspect you've just watched me at my very worst and deserve the reassurance that it did not last — that whatever else may... Continue Reading →
7.2 – It’s My Life, It’s Now Or Never…
Location: Nektar's Cauldron, then The FirmamentTimeline: Sixth Age, 51st Year and beyond Freedom, I have discovered, is a rather disorienting thing when it arrives after an eternity of not having it. You'd think — and I certainly thought — that the moment my rib clicked back into its ancestral cradle, the moment that gnawing, pathetic... Continue Reading →
7.1 – A Confession
Location: Nektar's Cauldron, KraTimeline: Present Day I imagine you've noticed I've been rather absent. Oh, don't bother pretending otherwise — I can feel you nodding, there, wherever and whenever you are, smug in your little certainty that you've caught me out. Six sections. Six. An entire book's worth of parchment devoted to a trio of... Continue Reading →
6.14 – The Serpent’s Bargain
Location: The Hedge Maze, Fubar Palace Grounds Timeline: Sixth Age, 53rd Year, Fall There is a particular satisfaction in watching a creature of my own making corner himself on purpose, believing all the while that he holds every advantage in the exchange. I confess I did not expect to find myself rooting, in this particular... Continue Reading →
6.13 – The House of Horrors
Location: Kaoz's Villa, Outside Fubar Timeline: Sixth Age, 53rd Year, Fall I have visited a great many houses of horror across the long, undignified span of my existence — I built a fair number of them myself, in fact, back in ages when my ambitions still required a proper stage to perform upon. Even so,... Continue Reading →
6.12 – The Reunion
Location: The Foothills Outside Fubar Timeline: Sixth Age, 53rd Year, Fall Barkla's tunnel, as luck or dwarven memory would have it, had let them out not far from the very sewer grate Emcorae and Nathily had first forced open two nights before. It was Nathily who remembered the promise first — Mossflower's nose pressed to... Continue Reading →
The Apocrypha of Azazel 