The Font
“There is the Font.” Romelda pointed across the cavern to the enormous stone hand that held the construct of the Firstborn. It was older than I had imagined it would be. Most of the Firstborn complexes I had found were alive with light and colour. But here it was as though the very essence that […]
The Gates of Sia’tai
Tohrein looked across the bay at the Gates of Sia’tai. It had to be them. It had taken him all day to make his was down the mountains. None of the bloody maps he’d found talked about that, did they? Oh no. Bloody cartographers just left lines on parchment and neglected to tell you anything […]
Incurison
The guardsman was blissfully unaware as Dalmanes pushed himself out of the wall and back into the material plain. The light of Telumisere rippled around him and if the man had been paying attention that should have given him ample warning that something was amiss. The only light in the courtyard was from torches – […]
The Dream
She had dreamed of this tower before. In the nights of Culling, when the Whispers first rode the winds through the street of Sambredo, she had slept uneasily and dreamed of this ancient, crumbling room. In the days and weeks that followed she had dreamed of it again, and again. The cobwebs that floated light […]
Arrow of the Gods
Ostel stood before the tip of the Gods Arrow Fallen to Earth and stared. The summons had touched him with an energy he did not recognize. It had not been the power of anyone he knew, neither mage nor Ciralys. He had never felt such a powerful Call. But he hadn’t imagined this. He had […]
