Chapter 169: The Lady of Thorns
When Caspian Loredan had called Liv into his office after she returned from Lendh ka Dakruim, she’d been terrified that he would press her about the Lucanian royal family’s word of power. When she’d been questioned by Genevieve Arundell, it had be...
2025-05-08 19:12:48 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 168: Aira Tär Keria
The rooms they were given were warm with the glow of carved and polished wood. Not only the furniture, but the panelling of the walls and the boards of the floors, had been smoothed by hours of labour and years of guests. To Liv’s ...
2025-05-07 19:52:44 +0000 UTC View Post176 - A Meeting in the Wood
Even Sir Maddoc of the Wood made his ill-considered bargain out of love, and his desire to protect the princess. Of course, the price he paid in the end was more than he could have ever imagined.
Fran...
2025-05-07 11:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 167: Al’Fenthia
Al’Fenthia bloomed at the northern end of the high pass between Lucania and Elden lands, surrounded by mountains to either side. To the east was a great green valley, and Liv could tell even from a distance that it contained a rift. T...
2025-05-06 19:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 166: The Flowers of Home
When Liv went back inside the Vædic ruins, she found Sidonie once again standing before the curved glass panes in the control room. The journeyman’s book was spread out next to her, along with her small pot of ink and quill pen, and...
2025-05-05 19:48:05 +0000 UTC View Post175 - Baron
Without the logistical support of the empire, the structure of the legions is simply beyond our means to maintain. I must reorganize the men, and find a different solution.
The Campaign Journals of General Aurelius, v...
2025-05-03 11:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 165: The Sins of the Mother
“Good evening, Liv,” Kazimir Grenfell said.
Liv saw, at a glance, that they were seated in her old teacher’s study at Whitehill: she at her old desk, with a slate in front of her, and Grenfell at the front of the r...
2025-05-02 22:40:34 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 164: The Heights
The enormous eagle brooding over her eggs was clearly disturbed.
Liv, crouched on a plane of blue mana fixed just close enough to the crest of the summit to allow her and her friends to get a glimpse of the nest, could imagine the ...
2025-05-01 20:19:10 +0000 UTC View Post174 - Honors
Back home, the old men used to give a general a laurel wreath, when they won. Always seemed stupid to me. I’d rather have gold, wine, and women.
The Life and Times of Legionary Titus Nasica
Chapter 163: The Eagle’s Nest
When Liv opened her eyes again, at first she wasn’t certain how much time had passed. The sun hadn’t descended yet - it was still day. There were more clouds in the sky, she thought, and a few isolated flakes of snow were fall...
2025-04-30 20:06:58 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 162: Among the Peaks
It was not the cool light of dawn in the mountains that woke Liv, but the smell of bacon cooking over a campfire. She had been dimly aware, in the night, of being pressed between Rosamund and Sidonie for warmth, and now it took a moment of...
2025-04-29 19:44:14 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 161: Into the Wild
“The nerve of that bastard,” Matthew exclaimed. “Sending his men into a duchy without so much courtesy as a warning!”
Triss promptly elbowed him in the side.
“What– oh. My apologies, Liv,” Matthew said, somewh...
2025-04-28 20:20:09 +0000 UTC View Post173 - Deep Summer
Let all common men who have fought for the late usurper come forward and swear their loyalty, and they shall be forgiven.
King Lionel Aurelianus
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4th Day of D...
2025-04-26 11:00:37 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 160: The Second Dawn
Crossing the Airaduinë to the southern bank had been easy enough, and the Eld had remained downriver from the edge of the shoal by a considerable margin so as to avoid the sharp-toothed fish which had grown into mana beasts.
T...
2025-04-25 14:52:55 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 159: Landslide
Liv walked over to where Arjun knelt next to Rosamund, examining her shoulder with not only his eyes, but his fingers, as well. The dark haired girl winced whenever he probed her body, but managed not to make any noise other than a few hissed in...
2025-04-24 15:18:46 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 158: Calevis kæn Iravata
Steam hissed from the joints of Calevis’ rebuilt legs, and the clicking of gears came to Liv’s ears from his movements. The half-mechanical Eld took two steps away from the cradle in which he had been hanging when Liv, Wren, Rose ...
2025-04-23 14:40:05 +0000 UTC View Post172 - The Surgeon’s Tents
We pray the Angelus grant us healing, mercy, and a release from the suffering of this world.
Narvonnian Prayer
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17th Day of High Summer’s Moon, AC...
2025-04-23 11:00:24 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 157: Night Raid
Liv accepted a cup of watered wine from Thora; once she’d been served, the lady’s maid stepped back to take her place along the stone wall of Baron Arnold’s war room. It was not nearly so grand as the one Liv had seen at Akela Kila, but t...
2025-04-22 15:23:47 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 156: Reconnaissance
After an entire evening on the wall, Wren’s fingers were numb. She’d emptied two quivers of arrows into successive waves of Antrian war-machines, though the normal arrowheads she used for hunting were completely ineffective agains...
2025-04-21 13:36:36 +0000 UTC View Post171 - The Horde
I have ordered the priests to seal what remains of the city away, so that no one can ever get to that damned gate again. Nothing good can come of that place – it is a festering sore on the flesh of the world.
Th...
2025-04-19 11:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 155: Valegard
When Liv woke up, her left leg was throbbing painfully.
She thought, at first glance, that she was most likely still in the same bedroom that she’d been brought to upon arrival at Valegard. The walls were of gray stone, and two narrow win...
2025-04-18 11:00:16 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 154: Fall
“Journeyman Brodbeck is still a student at this college,” Caspian Loredan began. “She is our responsibility.”
Liv didn’t look away from Genevieve Arundell – Guild Mistress Arundell, it now seemed – even when the old archmage spoke...
2025-04-17 19:08:24 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 153: To Speak
Triss frowned. “Come after Julianne? What do you mean?”
“Not here, Liv,” Wren said. “Come on. Let’s walk down to the beach or something, where we have a bit of privacy.”
Liv nodded, and rose from her se...
2025-04-16 19:24:55 +0000 UTC View Post170 - The Battle of Maʿīn III: The Living and the Dead
Return swiftly, my beloved sister. I’ve a gift for you.
Letter from Avitus to Cecilia
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17th Day of High Summer...
2025-04-16 11:00:29 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 152: A Year Come and Gone
“I was half afraid you wouldn’t be there by the time I got back,” Wren said, as the two women burst out of Blackstone Hall into the courtyard.
“I’m just glad you understood what I meant, and that they came,...
2025-04-15 19:07:02 +0000 UTC View Post
For Faerie Knight readers, Sarah did a new piece of Ismet ibnah Salah, Exarch of Epinoia!
2025-04-15 01:32:18 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 151: Put to the Question
In Liv’s opinion, nothing productive happened after Archmagus Loredan’s comment. A number of mages stood up to speak, but the professors and Genevieve mostly just watched and listened, which told her that nothing was going to be de...
2025-04-14 19:32:57 +0000 UTC View Post169 - Camiel
I will open the way with a sacrifice. Like all things most precious, the price must be paid in blood.
The Journal of Decimus Avitus
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17th Day of High Summer’s Moon, AC 297
It...
2025-04-12 11:00:20 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 150: The Watchful Guild of Magim
Within only a few days of the king’s proclamation, the campus was flooded with people.
The professors, journeymen and staff of the college had already been preparing for the arrival of a new year’s crop of stude...
2025-04-11 19:19:36 +0000 UTC View Post