Chapter 11 - Rear Guard
“He’s no archmage. He’s a damned fool.”
- Hemlock the Shaper, Archmage
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“I cannot do much for him,” said Gunther. “He’s been ill, that ...
2025-03-18 17:32:50 +0000 UTC View Post
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Chapter 10 - Out in the Cold (Part 2)
“Heard about your mother, kid,” said Hjorvarth as he paid her four full marks for the pig. “I’ll be at the funeral. So will the other hunters.”
“Thanks. Need a n...
2025-03-17 18:57:09 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 9 - Out in the Cold (Part 1)
“No one should expect anything from Archmages. They are too powerful to be ruled, too easily distracted to rule. At best they are an unreliable weapon that can be pointed in the general direc...
2025-03-17 18:56:48 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 8 - The Aftermath (Part 2)
Author's Note: Updated to include a bit more reaction from Runolf after Taliesin expounds on his mission to defy the gods. Minor update, doesn't really impact the outcome, but makes it flow a bit s...
2025-03-17 18:56:30 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 7 - The Aftermath (Part 1)
“Will the world end? Can it end? Many learned men have debated this over the generations. While I have long had rationalist leanings, I also believe in empirical data. We have witnessed lines...
2025-03-17 18:55:21 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 6 - The Torque (part 2)
A loud crash and sudden screams sounded from outside. An explosion swiftly followed accompanied by yells and shouts. Taliesin jumped to his feet as the girl jerked upright in bed. She slid from the...
2025-03-17 18:54:52 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 5 - The Torque (part 1)
“The Ostmen are given their Forgings. The men of Kemet take animistic traits. Only the Hellenes draw power from sacrifice. The Ostmen and the Kemet are granted their power directly from their...
2025-03-17 18:54:29 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 4 - The Rescue (part 2)
It took around thirty minutes to save those who could be saved. Taliesin had been able to cast just enough healing to stabilize two guards, while Gunther healed another four. At that point, he did ...
2025-03-17 01:59:32 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 3 - The Rescue (part 1)
“He had a quiet dignity, unfailingly polite but I swear there was mischief in his eyes.”
-Jarl Arnulf Swifthand
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Taliesin plummeted from a ...
2025-03-17 01:47:43 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 2 - Fate
“To each man shall his own free actions bring both his suffering and his good fortune. Jupiter is inevitably king over all alike. The Fates will find the way.”
- Zeus, ...
2025-03-17 01:41:12 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 1 - Akashic Records
"But thereafter he shall suffer whatever Fate and the dread Spinners spun with her thread for him at his birth, when his mother bore him."
- Homer
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