Saithorthepyro

Chapter 19 - Nightmares I

When I decided to visit Glee Street, it wasn’t to the casino I went to.

It tempted me, her pride and joy, an old disused warehouse transformed into a thriving operation. Brightly colored ba...

Chapter 18 - Lead V

The temple of Zavan had seen better days.

Not in terms of the structure itself. Dwarf-built and carved stone formed a massive structure, easily stretching the height of town cavern we were in...

Chapter 17 - Lead IV

To Samuel’s displeasure, his brother did not want to leave the religious half of our contingent in the dark, resulting in two things. First, the second carriage following shortly behind us, and s...

Chapter 16 - Lead III

Starken’s corpse struggled to its feet, the devil wearing it maneuvering bloated flesh with disgusting proficiency. Legs wobbled as it took a step closer, mutated bone and muscle not able to stan...

Chapter 15 - Lead II

I stared at the temple, a pensive frown growing on my face as I looked it over.

I’d never seen a temple to Savareth before, as important as the ocean was to Anglea’s trade. I couldn’t b...

Chapter 15 Delay

Folks, I was working on chapter 15 rn and unfortunately my power went out. I will try to get it out tomorrow morning but it is the first day at my new job, so there might be a delay in getting it o...

Chapter 14 - Lead I

Melissa looked up in bewilderment as I opened the door to the practice chamber again. She glanced between me and the chunk of stone she’d pried loose from the floor, currently frozen mid-scrape a...

Chapter 13 - Whisper VIII

Breathe in. Breathe out.

This…this wasn’t relevant. Outside of a reason for her not to hear the whisper. Something to be ignored. For now at least. Later, there would be time to think abo...

Chapter 12 - Whisper VII

Holmsteader didn’t look too out of the ordinary if you ignored the scar.

She looked younger than I expected, not much older than me, colored pale green, with a long scar running next to her...

Chapter 11 - Whisper VI

Humming a little tune, I went down into the darkness of my cellar.

An expansive one had come with the property, and I’d expanded it since then, adding the proper airflow for a lab and divid...

Chapter 10 - Whisper V

I numbly watched a pair of corpses being eaten.

The devil was chewing its way through the Watchman’s guts, not caring for their contents as its teeth sliced through intestines. The two othe...

Chapter 9 - Whisper IV

Donald Tyler toppled backwards, black fire already fading from his hands as he landed on the wood paneling of his floor with a resounding thud. He lay there, unmoving, expression shocked, the only ...

Chapter 8 - Whisper III

The house didn’t look like it belonged to a diabolist.

Usually, I’d have some snide thought about how little reality resembled someone’s book with cackling villains. However, between sy...

Chapter 7 - Whisper II

It was in fact two in the morning when I’d broken free of the straitjacket Alice had left me bound in. 

Another half hour to get ready, collecting various tricks of the trade from my s...

Chapter 6 - Whisper I

I didn’t move, despite every instinct telling me to.

The cold metal pressed against the bottom of my chin precluded any attempts to run. The slightest wrong twitch could have the wielder pu...

Chapter VI delayed briefly

Hey folks, I'm sorry but I will not have Chapter VI up till probably several hours after the usual upload date at a minimum. RL circumstances that arose very recently constrained my time and left m...

Chapter 5 - Profane V

The tunnel was a smooth polished stone carved out of the foundations below. It made sense, not a single crack for anything to wriggle in or out of like you might encounter with bricks. Even the met...

Chapter 4 - Profane IV

Father Reginald’s young adept was a half-elven lass a few years younger than me, brown hair cut to a precise bob.

From the other side of the room, watching, she’d been shivering since we�...

Chapter 3 - Profane III

The first thing to focus on when the group of priests entered was anything but one specific priest. Anything at all, such as how strange it was for all of them to be forming an united front in forc...

Chapter 2 - Profane II

The carriage ride was longer than I expected. I almost didn’t notice because of the horrendous monstrosity Tagashin insisted on wearing.

“I am not getting spotted alongside you with that ...

Chapter 1 Profane I

Four weeks after I let Lady Karsin walk out a probable door, I was considering what would have happened if I’d followed her.

Not that I wanted to die, but as my few current customers were p...

Skall Part 2

“Troll!” someone screamed from down below, followed by a cacophony as Alice ran towards the stairs, hand going inside her coat for a club. The floor underneath her shuddered as something ripped...

Skall Part 1

Five Years Ago

Alice Skall felt the crunch of sand under her boots as she kept her back firmly against the wall. The rough wood wasn’t comfortable, but like hells was she turning h...

Book 2 on track

Hey folks, just a little update. Book 2 will start tomorrow, although I’m currently dealing with a bunch of interludes I wrote that I’m figuring out if they’ll be regular chapters and slotted...

Book 2 Update

So, I apparently forgot to mention this when I posted the epilogue to Book 1. Currently we are on track to start releasing Book 2 two weeks from when I posted the Epilogue, so in eight days. If thi...

Book 1-Epilogue

After leaving Lady Karsin to her probable demise, I walked back to the tea party, already sure that Lord Montague would leave without a hair on his head harmed.

Oh, his custodianship of the I...

Chapter 103 - Endgame VI

Lady Karsin took another sip of tea, visibly unconcerned even as man-handled Lord Montague back into his chair. He loudly protested, but that halted as soon as my hand squeezed tighter around his t...

Chapter 102 - Endgame V

I woke up to a murky, drizzling day.

A thick blanket of grey clouds coated the sky, occasionally sending scattered pockets of rain down on us. There was a chill in the air that threatened to ...

Chapter 101 - Endgame IV

There was less subtlety about the second attempt. If they hadn’t figured out the drakes had been involved in the kidnapping of Edward Montague, they were dumber than I thought.

It was still...

Chapter 100 -Endgame III

It was a quiet night in Voltar’s house as I kept my eyes shut and pretended to sleep, waiting for intruders to come bursting in to kill us all in our sleep.

I’d prefer to be waiting on my...