The Nightmare Lady
The tenebrite gave them no more problems.
Instead, it coursed ahead like an eager hound, surprisingly agile on its tentacles, hauling itself across the ground and maneuvering over rocks and outcroppings with liquid ease. Its...
2025-09-11 18:21:00 +0000 UTC View PostJova
There were just too many of them.
It wasn’t a question of fury. She had plenty of that. Willpower. That was endless. She tore boulders from the quarried ground, flung them, directed them, allowed her power to do the rest. Her will was m...
2025-09-11 17:34:44 +0000 UTC View PostLeonis
The hour was upon them. From outside the temple came the sound of voices, hundreds, thousands of people awaiting his emergence. The world was inhaling, drawing him forth, demanding he appear and prove himself equal to the moment.
All hi...
2025-09-11 14:43:57 +0000 UTC View PostLeonis
They encountered resistance on their third day out.
All joy was gone from the expedition. The nascent camaraderie, the humor around the campfires, the sense of hope and exhilaration.
What speared toward the Tomb of Sadness now was...
2025-09-10 14:05:00 +0000 UTC View Post[This Chapter will appear after Chapter 46, wherein Scorio is thrust into the Cube's Gauntlet and initially fails to fight off the blockhead . A new edit introduced during his first exchange with Anseline is the revelation that Myla's real name is 'Fionna'; Myla, it turns out, is an assumed i...
2025-09-09 18:34:00 +0000 UTC View PostScorio
Scorio exhaled slowly, finding his center, his control. If this was indeed a Gauntlet run, then he had time. Death was assured, certainly, but that meant he could learn, adapt, get better at whatever challenge was coming his way.
Unlike...
2025-09-09 14:33:19 +0000 UTC View PostScorio
How often had he been here?
How many times had he found himself flinging himself into the unknown, without much of a plan, deprived of allies, alone, and pitting himself against all of Hell?
Despite the growing exhaustion, Scorio ...
2025-09-09 13:38:41 +0000 UTC View PostDameon
Hospitality was not one of the Silverines’ strong suites. Never had been. But Dameon had never spent quite this much time simply sitting to one side watching them at play.
In previous lives, sure, he’d had plenty of interactions. Bu...
2025-09-08 13:33:04 +0000 UTC View PostLeonis
Jova led the way, her plinth spearing out low and fast above the Unfathom’s interminable silver sands. Leonis sat at the rear of her platform, gazing behind at the subtle plume of dust their passage disturbed even at the height of some ten ...
2025-09-07 16:35:34 +0000 UTC View PostNaomi
How do you process a selfless deed you know you don’t deserve? As Naomi struggled to keep up with Nox, she wrestled with what was happening, the deed he was doing, the contest he was eschewing, and came up short.
She wanted to protest,...
2025-09-05 13:03:27 +0000 UTC View PostScorio
Myla drew back, eyes going wide.
A gust of wind blew dust across the plain and howled through the fluted rocks about them, setting up a mournful wail that perfectly matched Scorio’s mood.
“Now, you can do your corpse teleporta...
2025-09-04 15:21:29 +0000 UTC View PostScorio
Scorio flew through the Silver Unfathom skies in a daze. His emotions were too mercurial, too powerful, changing from loss to grief to fury to helplessness at any given moment. Myla was a negligible weight upon his back. He barely thought of ...
2025-09-04 13:54:20 +0000 UTC View PostJova
Jova narrowed her eyes and poured her wrath into the stone before her. It was pliant, but sweat soaked her hair, her robes, and her Heart was pushed to the point of exhaustion. Any moment now it would gutter. Reason said she could just rest. Re...
2025-09-03 15:36:17 +0000 UTC View Post(Adding some bonus chapters today as the cliffhanger nature of Chapter 37 would be intolerable otherwise, and not the way the actual book would play out.)
Naomi
The Pools of Radiant Gold were right ahead. Naomi could tell from the pal...
2025-09-03 15:34:47 +0000 UTC View PostScorio
Scorio slumbered. Fingers interlaced beneath his head, he’d lain still for what felt like ages, gazing up unseeing at the shifting clouds, fragments of conversations playing in his mind. Emotions arose and then fell back into nothingness. W...
2025-09-03 14:01:03 +0000 UTC View PostScorio
The days became rhythmic. An hour or two of flight behind Braxofitz punctuated by time spent camping as Scorio regained his mana reserves. Xandera would crouch, hands pressed to the rock, eyes closed, as she channeled Acherzua’s strength th...
2025-09-02 19:46:01 +0000 UTC View PostScorio
“Then we’re agreed.” Scorio glanced around the small group. “Swear the Heart Oaths, and we’ll head out into the Unfathom.”
“Great!” Myla rocked onto the balls of her feet, hands linked behind her back. “Happy to swear ...
2025-09-01 17:54:53 +0000 UTC View PostLeonis
How did one come back from the dead twice?
Always in this life he’d felt haunted by his past self, the last-dead Leonis, the man who’d fallen to Manticore and been the friend of heroes, the source of Praximar and Dameon’s true fix...
2025-08-31 17:03:43 +0000 UTC View PostDameon
Damn it.
Damn it all to Hell.
Dameon hitched his pack nervously and glanced out of the stairwell into the entry hall. Even at this impossibly early hour a few people were up and serving themselves some of the fine slop that Lady K...
2025-08-29 15:27:49 +0000 UTC View PostScorio
In the bowels of the Red Keep lay a great hall, long abandoned, devoid of furniture, and vast in scope. It was deep underground and reached by means of a winding staircase whose endless steps became mesmerizing as one descended for what felt ...
2025-08-28 16:52:38 +0000 UTC View PostScorio
“So is this what happens when you move up in the ranks?” asked Scorio, sitting back in the armchair and balancing his cup of liquor in his knee. “Endless rounds of talking and talking?”
Half of Druanna’s face was lit in warm ...
2025-08-27 17:03:39 +0000 UTC View PostScorio
The large hall on the ground floor was filled with even more faces when Scorio descended to find his friends. The central firepit was blazing, and knots of people stood here and there in low conversation while others were eating meals ...
2025-08-26 13:43:56 +0000 UTC View PostThe Nightmare Lady
Naomi lost herself to wonder.
Traversing the Lustrous Maria was akin to wandering through an endless dream. Acherzua had been many things thus far, from the dour impressiveness of the Fiery Shoals to the grim bleakness of th...
2025-08-25 15:56:27 +0000 UTC View PostDameon
This wasn’t a disaster. Far from it. This was an opportunity. If he could play his cards right. If he could keep them both from killing him.
Dameon closed the door to his suite and pinched the bridge of his nose. Damn it. With each pa...
2025-08-22 13:01:14 +0000 UTC View PostScorio
“Wait,” said Scorio. “Wait, wait, wait. You’re saying—you’re saying you want to explode the Suns to free your missing sister?”
Lady Krula leaned back in her chair. “A century has passed, and my sister remains absent. She...
2025-08-20 13:00:17 +0000 UTC View Post
Exciting news, everyone! Throne Hunters 3 is now live in both ebook and audiobook format. If you're part of this Pa...
2025-08-19 17:02:58 +0000 UTC View Post
Here we go - the last of these cover posts, sharing the final iteration based on everyone's feedback. Thanks for helping out, you guys!
2025-08-18 18:50:47 +0000 UTC View PostScorio
A firm rap on his door dragged Scorio from his dreams—something about chasing the Nightmare lady through the depths of the Chasm, calling her name, begging her to turn around—and he sat up with a gasp, momentarily disoriented, but glad to...
2025-08-18 18:40:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Thanks for all the help with this one, guys! If only I was as confident about artwork as I was worldbuilding and character arcs...
2025-08-15 16:07:44 +0000 UTC View Post
What do you guys think? (Typography from Book 1 used to give you an idea of what the final might look like). Does it 'work' as an IGS cover, or are you not a fan? Really looking for some honest feedback here, as I've yet to pull the trigger on deciding whether it's a done deal or not. Thanks ever...
2025-08-15 15:19:09 +0000 UTC View Post