Part X: Death takes a vacationChapter 1: The Serpent's EmbraceTimeline: AO 300 It was deep into the winter that marked the beginning of AO 300 and I knew I was floundering. The winter doldrums were getting me down. It was cold and dreary up at The Cauldron and even the blackened skies of TerrVerde had... Continue Reading →
9.8 The Deepening Dread
Part IX: The Coming of the KingChapter 8: The Deepening DreadTimeline AO299 I’ll admit, I was getting a bit lazy - laying for weeks on end in my bedroom, I allowed the slaves of The Cauldron a respite from my horrors. I couldn’t remember the last time I’d sat on my throne in The Gallery... Continue Reading →
6.5 The Queen’s Gambit
Part VI: The Great EscapeChapter 5: The Queen's GambitTimeline AO 295 Gawain is gone. At first Hecla did not believe it when her informants told her as much, but there could be no denying that fact now. Not after today’s emergency council meeting in which Monty Redstone reported on the situation. Her father was conspicuously... Continue Reading →
10.1 To the Future
10.1 Afterward It’s time to wrap up these old scrolls and move on to our next story, but first let me tell you what I was thinking about way back then... Around this time I remember relaxing in my library at Nektar’s Cauldon - that grand volcano where I’d made my home on Terra. Surrounded... Continue Reading →
7.2 Drok and Derk
Book VII: The Book of KaneChapter 2: Meanwhile, with their patriarch out of the picture, Kane’s sons, Derk and Drok, had to decide where to go. Some of the clans chose to continue migrating east - they eventually settled in the most eastern portion of the new world — we’ll call this group The Kanites... Continue Reading →
7.1 The Promised Land
VII: The Book of Kane IChapter 1: The Promised Land As I mentioned before, acting as the made-up god Baal, I’d charged Kane with leading his people across the flat plane of earth to the faraway continent of North America - where I told them The Promised Land was waiting for them. Along the journey,... Continue Reading →
6.3 Lucifer – The Scourge of God
Book VI: The IlluminatiChapter 3: Lucifer - The Scourge of God Unfortunately, I had little time to pat myself on the back for being so smart because when my master realized he couldn’t recall any of my back-stabbing colleagues, he did the next best thing and brought ME back to Illusia to answer for their... Continue Reading →
2.7 Inanna’s Offspring
Book II: The Scrolls of LemuriaChapter 7: Inanna's Offspring The time had come for me to bring a world of hurt to the children of Adam and Alyssa. I decided it was time to call a friend in for help. Even though things didn’t work out with my breeding experiments the previous two times I’d... Continue Reading →
1.3 – The Morgue
Part I - What Happened to Pesties?Chapter 3 - The MorgueTimeline: Sixth Age of Substance, 44th Year,Winter As I waited for Pesties to slither before me with The Grim, my mind drifted to the past—how I first sniffed out that cursed dagger and the centuries I’d squandered chasing it. You’ll recall I wielded the Drrukka... Continue Reading →
The Apocrypha of Azazel 