Chapter 4: The Shadow in the Star-Glass The Mylar vessels of impossible tech were fast approaching and the nearest had almost reached my perched. As it got closer I could see it hover with the arrogant, weightless grace of a dragonfly - its translucent hull of Star-Glass shimmering with the iridescence of oil on water.... Continue Reading →
9.3 The Mirror and The Mist
Location: The Lands Beyond the Second Ice WallTimeline: Sixth Age, Spring 51 As I dragged my wretched form over the final edge of the violet-gold crystal of the monstrous Ice Wall that guarded Lemuria, the screaming winds that ever howled during my journey through New Atlantis suddenly stopped. In its place was a silence so... Continue Reading →
1 – The Aetherium Engineer (Prologue)
The Echo of the Lost Grid The year is 1898, and the world hums with the false promise of progress. It is a world I am forced to live in but do not belong to. Smoke belches from a thousand new factories, iron behemoths roar across continents, and a strange, chugging sound—the rhythm of the... Continue Reading →
4.1 – All Hail the King
Part IV: That Meddling KidChapter 1: All Hail The KingLocation: Monthaven, Eastern TerraVerdeTimeline: Sixth Age of Substance, 45th Year, Mid-Autumn I must turn my tale now to a place I overlooked in my arrogance—a speck of a town called Monthaven, nestled in the far eastern corner of TerraVerde, buried among the dense forests along the... Continue Reading →
3.6 – The Test
Part III: The PlagueChapter 6: The TestLocation: KagorTimeline: Sixth Age of Substance, 46th Year, Spring Keldar, the Supreme Overlord of the West—my pawn? I knew the former was true; it was time to make the latter a reality. Everyone on TerrVerde feared Keldar, or at least the legends that surrounded him. He had destroyed all... Continue Reading →
3.3 – The Unfortunate Interruption
Part III - The DiscoveryChapter 3 - The Unfortunate InterruptionLocation: Nektar’s CauldronTimeline: Sixth Age of Substance, 46th Year, Spring The bones of my hands trembled with a mixture of excitement (and desperation) as I unwound the cord that held the gutskin covering bound to the top of Aspus’ fourth and final Reconnaissance Jar. The air... Continue Reading →
1.2 – The Soul Harvester
Part I: What Happened to Pesties?Chapter 2 - The Soul HarvesterTimeline: Sixth Age of Substance, 44th Year,Winter There’s nothing like the comforts of home, is there? For me, it’s sipping the finest red (1) from my chalice while lounging on my throne. You'll recall, my palatial estate was located in and arounds the grounds that... Continue Reading →
17.9 The Tree of the Forsaken
Part XVII: The Long Dark Tea Time of the SoulChapter 9: The Tree of the ForsakenTimeline: AO 326 Although it was spring in the valley there was still a biting chill, a constant reminder of how far from the warmth and safety of home Hacktor and his party had ventured. The road leading to the... Continue Reading →
1.1 The Stairway of Infinity
Part 1: The Search for DagaalChapter 1: The Stairway of Infinity Seek Ye The Light! Escape these torments in The Light! These were the sole thoughts driving me inexorably onward through the oppressive darkness and up the maddening ascent of The Stairway of Infinity. Daemons clutched at my robes, their icy grips pulling me toward... Continue Reading →
1.4 – The Necronomicon
Part 1: What Happened to Pesties?Chapter 4: The NecronomiconTimeline: Sixth Age of Substance, 44th Year, Winter I've told you before that how a god views the perceptions of Time is much different than how you mortals agonize over it (1). As such, while the minutes waned as I waited for my slaves to retrieve the... Continue Reading →
The Apocrypha of Azazel 