Reedas and the Revelers
Another experiment I did in about an hour, completely rethinking my writing style, particularly for vocab and dialogue. Reedas goes on a midnight hunt with the revelers of Brimanor.…
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The Dark Shaman
A band of Men of the North venture into the deep, dark of Dagrow forest, hoping to flee imprisonment or execution, only to find an even greater danger lurking in the blackness of the forest...…
The Wood Dweller
Reedas is a mercenary, a strong, fast, cunning and efficient mercenary who will stop at nothing to complete whatever job he is hired for. And so when granted a most unusual and confusing task from the Yagar of the East, he finds himself delving into a stranger and stranger predicament.…
Beyond the Edge
My first attempt at sci-fi for a competition I entered. What lies beyond the edge of the observable?…
The Carpenter's Daughter
This was just a quick dialogue experiment I wrote in about 45 minutes without any planning. A short tale of Reedas the Mercenary going to the rescue of the carpenter's daughter in the mountain town of Hurruse.…
The Dangers of Lockland
In a quiet, sleepy mountain village in the fairest most tranquil reaches of the land, the peace is one day disturbed by the beasts of Lockland; and so that peace must be defended, and the forest of Lockland must at all costs be cleared of these beasts by what few warriors that village has.…
Reedas and the Great Beasts
In days of old, the people whom are now of the Western Mountains were spread far and wide, and reached many corners of the land. Their first lord of the citadel, Yulen, was the first to reach the peaks of Dondorgrad in the West, flying on the great Winged Beast from what, in this age, is known as Estorgrad. In Estorgrad Yulen dwelt for most of his life, living atop the mountain now known as Holyulen. When he climbed the peaks of the West, he gained great renown as Lord of Rebastios, and so upon his death the Rakiraja of Dondorgrad constructed atop Holyulen, the great temple Yulenyend, and there he was laid to rest. And with him, was lain his sword Drelner, a blade fashioned from the metal of Butrea, a quality which few weapons can now claim. And this sword is now a treasure of value beyond reckoning, for any of those hardy enough to claim it.…
A Mercenary's End
The final part of Reedas' tale, and the telling of his time within the cave of the Imps.…
The City of Stone
Losslas is a wanderer. A somewhat careless wanderer, and when he finds himself wandering west with the purpose he has held his entire life of seeing Rebastios, the City of Stone, he gains much more than he bargained for and sees more than he ever could have hoped to.…
The Glowing Trees of Athrilí
Golher, a young peasant girl living in the North, finds herself every day living under violence and being treated as a possession by her drunkard husband. But when night falls again upon her mind, and he descends upon her again, she finally defends herself, and eventually finds her fate tied up with that beyond the realms of mortality.…
The Battle of Ordnost
Read here the retelling of the legend of the one hundred and ten men led by Barra the Great, and his endeavor to march against the enemy of the South, no matter the odds.…