The beastman called Sheriff Kard was a mixture of man, lion, and goat; a leonine mane and claws, lyre-shaped horns that curved upwards and outwards from his head, cloven feet and a lion’s tail. His eyes were those of a great cat, their pupils compressed into vertical slits. Now that they stood ...
2024-12-13 18:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostRedmane did a quick count of heads.
Apart from the squad Sheriff Kard had just blown into incoherence with a single swing of his axe, there were five more small formations of Numantians moving to encircle him. From his vantage above it all, he could see there would be more on the way as wel...
2024-12-12 18:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostPraetor Jarel Craith met General Tacito Fabian at the temporary encampment of his legion, the Venturian 6th, which sprawled out under the long afternoon shadow of the towers of Taracon.
They sat at the General’s table, within the large command tent at the center of the camp.
Starin...
2024-12-11 18:00:14 +0000 UTC View PostAric Morholt couldn’t tell how long they had been walking.
It was difficult to mark the passage of time in this unholy place. The sky never changed. There was no evidence of a world which turned, nor were there a sun or moons to observe. Only fragments of things decorated the ruddy skies...
2024-12-10 18:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostRedmane crouched over the carcass of the Gryphon, his teeth shearing through muscle, his jaws crunching bone, hot blood flowing down his chin. The meat was satisfying, nourishing. It tasted like its siblings, the Manticore and the Sphinx.
A flavor Redmane seemed to recall, perhaps from a p...
2024-12-09 18:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostHey yall, I have to take a few days off posting!
Chapter 96 will drop on MONDAY 12/9/24 at 12PM CST.
Hope the holiday season is treating you well!
2024-12-06 05:14:33 +0000 UTC View PostRedmane found the Seal in the heart of the forest.
It lay at the bottom of a thickly wooded basin, perhaps a mile wide and half as deep, suggesting the place may once have been the site of a great impact. And like the Seal of the Sphinx, it was housed in an ancient building of black stone....
2024-12-05 18:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostAt the apex of his prodigious leap, King Edd brought his sword back with both hands gripping tight on the hilt, his body arched in such a way that when he swung the weapon he would double forward, putting every ounce of force he could muster into the blow. A strike Redmane himself wouldn’t have...
2024-12-04 18:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostRedmane and Pietr rejoined each other once they had set everything into motion.
He hadn’t intended it, but this would be a splendid opportunity to observe the Imbued of other worlds in action.
Astral Stalker
[Imbued] marked as Prey
King Edd sat upon a throne of skulls.
Mostly they were the skulls of demi-humans, though there were other kinds mixed in; cats, birds, rodents, the occasional human skull stood out because of its size. The King was himself a demi-human, with gray green skin and yellow eyes, an uncharacteris...
2024-12-02 18:00:14 +0000 UTC View PostRedmane did not find himself immediately surrounded by Sicari.
A good sign. It meant the Castigator’s Lorica was working.
Even so, it would be wise to move with stealth. Hold on to the advantage for as long as possible.
He stared down at the encampment of...
2024-12-01 18:00:16 +0000 UTC View PostJarel Craith watched the battle on his map screen.
The first wave of Sicari didn’t fare well. Then the second wave deployed. One by one he watched all the names on his target list wink out. Including the most important name on the list: Redmane.
His problems were over.
Or were...
2024-11-30 18:00:13 +0000 UTC View PostRedmane had never seen a Numantian city before.
Up close, the sight was breathtaking.
Lar Tathvaal said this place was called Novium. Its stone structures rose against the horizon, tall and mighty, the sheer size of the buildings and their fine workmanship a demonstration of the power...
2024-11-29 18:00:18 +0000 UTC View PostAs Redmane shouted to call the retreat, the gleaming points of twenty seven Star-Steel arrowheads loosed from their bows.
Every last one was aimed at the same target.
Again he felt the effect of his third eye. A distortion of his perception of time.
He would not have enough t...
2024-11-28 18:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostTwo straight blades pierced Redmane’s torso from the left and right.
The broad edge of an axe sank deep into his back.
A sword sliced his left arm off above the elbow. Another took his right leg just below the knee.
A pair of bladed polearms, of the kind he’d evaded a moment...
2024-11-27 18:00:13 +0000 UTC View PostThe bottom level of the Deepwell Monastery was a large, circular chamber, its centerpiece an immense pool of dark water.
Framing the pool was a scene etched directly into the stone; Vos, holding the God Breaker in his right hand, his left grasping a pair of chains connected to the necks of...
2024-11-26 18:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostNOTE FROM THE AUTHOR
This marks the end of Book Two and the setup for Book Three, which starts tomorrow, all per my original plan.
But the ordering of chapters and books may change when I get to Amazon, on account of that fact that I'm...
Meeting with a major publisher this morn...
2024-11-25 18:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostPeople had always praised Jarel Craith for his restraint.
Even when he was a boy, he waited his turn to speak. He paid careful, quiet attention to his teachers. He abided by the rules. Early on, perhaps before he could even speak, he became aware of the difference between the way things we...
2024-11-24 18:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostRedmane ate his fill of the flesh of the Sphinx, his eyes closed, absorbed in his meal.
Corpus: 28,826
And when his eyes opened, they were pools of black with points of red light for pupils.
Level Up!
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The Sphinx approached them, walking on quiet paws, smiling as if she were enjoying a joke no one present would understand.
Phantasm
Redmane noticed a change in the air. A stillness. The red glow of the room subtly changed color, became a shade of violet and the shadow...
2024-11-22 18:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostFrom the summit of the ruins on the rocky hill, Redmane could see out across the rest of the island chain known as the Fangs of Frost. They stretched onward to the north for miles, most of them barren crags like the one he presently stood upon. The dark sea churned around and between them, over a...
2024-11-21 18:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostMecia Porsena of Numantia, Colonial Governess of Taracon, leaned against the balcony rail of her bedchamber to have a look at her domain. She held a half finished glass of wine negligently in one hand, swishing its contents around, more interested in the sound of her nail tapping the glass than t...
2024-11-20 18:00:23 +0000 UTC View PostRedmane returned home to refill his Gnosis, and this time he left with plenty.
Gnosis: 2508
He also returned Pietr to the custody of Flora, so that she could continue to learn the intricacies of the Faction menu, the Marketplace, and the Sanctuary upgrade system. She ...
2024-11-19 18:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostWhen the white light faded, he found he was immense. So large it was difficult to reckon with the sheer scale of his own body.
Deep inside him existed a mortal mind, but it lay buried beneath a consciousness even more vast than his physical form. Redmane could feel that small mind strugglin...
2024-11-18 18:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostThe Imbued of Beroh Keep had little experience in the realm of accounting or administration, as it turned out.
This would have been the sort of thing he’d ask Helmold Brecht to do, but alas, the wretched traitor was no more.
For a moment he considered opening his Soulspace and aski...
2024-11-17 18:00:14 +0000 UTC View PostNOTE FROM THE AUTHOR
A couple of you suggested a change to Wrath of Redmane that I went ahead and made.
Here's the updated version of the Skill:
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Skills Consumed:
Rage Fueled Might
Might of Umber
B...
2024-11-16 18:00:16 +0000 UTC View PostAs he left Helmold Brecht to his fate, walking into the quiet night, Redmane again recalled the words of the old crone. What she said to him when they first met on the night he broke free.
A parting word of caution for thee. Not all who aid thee are thy allies, and not all who fight the...
2024-11-15 18:00:16 +0000 UTC View PostThe hound caught Helmold’s horse by the throat.
Its jaws clamped down, taking the hound, horse and rider tumbling to the ground in a pile. The horse squealed and kicked its hooves wildly in the air, eyes rolling around in panic as the hound tore out its throat, spraying fresh blood everyw...
2024-11-14 18:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostHelmold Brecht spurred his horse from a canter to a run.
There would be time to relax later, when Aerin Morholt returned to fix this infernal situation. For now they rode hard, to make as much space as possible between themselves and the enemy.
Night had fallen, but the road was bless...
2024-11-13 18:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostHelmold Brecht found he liked Beroh Keep.
The housemaids and the kitchen maids and even the washerwomen were prettier. The kitchen was larger and better stocked. It had a fine library, and there were plenty of normal folk around who were impressed when he revealed his status as an Imbued. H...
2024-11-12 18:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post