Everything Matthias had read about Divine Breath in the past two weeks had been clear: every cultivator could only have one Tower.
A cultivator’s Tower was intrinsically linked to their soul, and just as a soul could not have more than one body, a soul could also not have more...
2025-02-28 18:54:12 +0000 UTC View PostMatthias witnessed every movement in the rain, felt every touch of the wind, smelled the richness of the earth, heard the crackle of electricity and tasted ozone on his tongue.
But most of all, he felt the lance of agony impaling his chest. His muscles locked, his scream frozen as his...
2025-02-28 18:53:59 +0000 UTC View PostOn the morning of Matthias’ Awakening ritual, he woke from dreams of mist and shadow, and dressed in the dark; his shadow-tendril placed his cloak over his shoulders while his fingers closed the fasteners
When he made his way to the door, he took nothing but the clothes on his back ...
2025-02-28 18:53:48 +0000 UTC View PostThe tendril of utter darkness was fused to Matthias Stonebreaker’s soul, growing like a sprout that smelled of decay. For most, the sight would have driven them into an all-consuming terror.
But Matthias had nearly died not so long ago.
And to him, the darkness felt natu...
2025-02-28 18:53:30 +0000 UTC View Post“The Caliber System of Power.” Altaizar clenched a fist before him. “Is a simple and sometimes imprecise way of categorizing a Gift Wielder’s or Life Enforcement Practitioner's skill, or strength and proficiency with their art. However, Divine Breath is a different beast: a cultivator of ...
2025-02-28 18:53:17 +0000 UTC View Post“Master Altaizar?” Matthias grabbed his notes, shooting up from the chair. “What…but how?”
Altaizar folded his hands behind his back. “My protections are to leave your family unharmed, but my magics still alert me if someone finds a way through my de...
2025-02-28 18:53:05 +0000 UTC View PostMatthias’ eyes adjusted to the darkness within the mage’s bedchamber.
Strange objects, curios, ornaments and specimens filled the room: exotic fruits and colourful insects floated in crystal jars, preserved in silently bubbling liquids. Tapestries of jungles, cities, deserts and o...
2025-02-28 18:52:55 +0000 UTC View PostFor a long moment, Matthias considered breaking into Altaizar’s tower.
It was—as far as he knew—unguarded. Eklund’s efforts to post his own guards at the tower, at one time, had ended with Altaizar chasing the screaming bastards down the mountain. The mage used no guards, inst...
2025-02-28 18:52:35 +0000 UTC View Post“I know it’s a lot.” Matthias finished his story.
“It’s more than a lot, little brother!” Bregindoure hissed, his eyes bloodshot. He gripped the bars, turning his knuckles white. “You nearly died. You fell from a cliff, cracked your head, had a dream about someone awaken...
2025-02-28 18:52:24 +0000 UTC View PostStartling awake from dreams of mist and shadow, Matthias realised he was in his room, in the same bed he’d outgrown last winter.
Music was filling the air, flame crackling in the fireplace, flickering firelight over his desk, chair, and an old toybox.
Dagma snored softly...
2025-02-28 18:52:12 +0000 UTC View PostThere was no colour, yet there was light.
Shades of grey painted a massive chamber lit by colourless flame blazing in scores of iron braziers. The room seemed to be some sort of temple, with two imposing statues towering high, one in the front and the other in the back.
Th...
2025-02-28 18:52:01 +0000 UTC View PostMatthias Stonebreaker did not notice the ambush until it was too late.
His grip tightened on the ruins of his brother’s gift, while his eyes focused on the tower rising from the forested valley below.
He did not catch the movement atop the boulder beside the road. <...
2025-02-28 18:51:52 +0000 UTC View Post“Tonight, we kill death.” The necromancer rocked the baby in her arms. “And you will help us do it.”
The mage knelt on a disk of stark white stone in a circle of obelisks shrouded in deepest black, bonfires burning at their peaks. Shapes writhed in the flames—whispers hissin...
2025-02-28 18:51:41 +0000 UTC View PostHello everyone!
At long last, it is time. It's been months in the making with health issues and all sorts of complications, but at last it's here.
I have unpaused patreon! Feel free to sub, but remember the first 6 chapters are free if you're signed up with patreon! To read ...
Hello everybody!
I am confirming that tomorrow, I will launch I Am Become Death on Patreon. So when you get like...6-20 emails depending on your tier, don't be surprised, lmao.
So how's this going to work?
First of all, the first Six Chapters
2025-02-27 19:56:53 +0000 UTC
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Greetings and salutations!
Woooooo book 9 launches today! Thank you all for your support this entire time, and I am very happy to be here. Without you, I would NOT be here! It's crazy to think that it's been 9 books. Just to warn you due to the length of the series spiralli...
2025-02-12 14:33:46 +0000 UTC View PostHello everybody!
Been a bit, hasn't it? I've been focused on recovery and writing when I can as my condition clears up.
Now, I know a lot of you have been worried about my health, so I'll update you on that first. Had an MRI. Actually had to drive to the States for it (the waiting l...
So hi everybody!
Let me start off by saying that I have been avoiding posting this, but I’ve put it off as long as I can.
In short, I’ve been having health issues.
Before you panic, they’re not life threatening or anything like that. Long story short, around September, ...
Hello my lovely patrons!
Been a bit, hasn’t it? I’ve had a lovely break and am currently working on I Am Become Death. Expect that to drop sometime probably in November, though maybe earlier.
In the meantime though, I wanted to announce that ...
2024-09-18 14:01:33 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello everyone!
I hope you all have been having a great time this end of summer! I've been chilling, enjoying my break and catching up on a lot of irl stuff I've been putting off, haha!
I've also been reading your comments on the ending and I am super pleased with them. Seriously, t...
“Shall we go?” Alex asked Theresa, offering his arm.
“Yes, let’s,” Theresa whispered, her hot breath on his ear.
Together, husband and wife linked arms and made their way toward the exit.
Only for the doors to abruptly burst open.
The music ended.
All danci...
2024-08-06 21:03:14 +0000 UTC View PostThe Golden Dragon was perched on a hilltop in one of the wealthiest areas in all of Generasi; a massive building that resembled a small castle of white stone with hulking golden towers. Curving through the restaurant’s spires was an immense dragon statue, plated in gold, seeming ready to launch...
2024-08-03 22:06:04 +0000 UTC View PostThe doors opened before Alex and Theresa, revealing what waited beyond: the Temple of the Traveller.
Long ago—when they’d first found this place—what had waited there was fire, death and Ravener-spawn. The goddess statues were there then, standing in defence of the silent chamber, the...
2024-08-02 22:50:37 +0000 UTC View PostTheresa Lu looked up at her father in silent wonder.
His words kept echoing through her head.
To your wedding day.
To your wedding day.
To your wedding day.
Those words were true.
After all this time, more than two years since Alex pr...
2024-08-01 22:15:26 +0000 UTC View PostMore than a year and half had passed since the destruction of the Ravener in Thameland, and life in the City at the Centre of Creation—the city of wizards—had changed in certain ways.
Shrines to the Traveller had spread throughout Generasi and its countryside. While the city had maintai...
2024-07-31 21:28:45 +0000 UTC View PostHelloooo everyone!
So I usually like to do these announcements at the same time as I post my chapter for the day but...I'll level with you, editing is taking a bit and won't be done for at least another hour or two.
So I'll just announce this now!
The audiobook 6<...
“Death’s not gonna take me until I’m damn good and ready for it,” Alexander Roth declared. “As a matter of fact, it won’t ever have me. I’ll have it when I decide it’s time. There’s too much I want to do, too many people I want to spend an et...
2024-07-30 21:08:16 +0000 UTC View Post“All of Och Fir Nog’s leadership collapsed. By the time the smoke had cleared and the last Ravener-spawn gasped its final breath, folk realised that there weren’t anyone around to tell them what to do. And that’s about when everything went to shite and the whole realm collapsed with...
2024-07-27 22:08:38 +0000 UTC View PostAlexander Roth, General of Thameland, floated through the skies over Greymoor sipping a glass of cool apple-lemon cider as he watched the sunrise.
The warmth of a summer wind tousled his hair, and the scent of his drink filled his nostrils.
He listened to the sounds of birds chirping ...
2024-07-26 20:38:12 +0000 UTC View PostWhat would you say to—in a thousand years or so—joining my cabal?
Baelin’s words echoed through Alex’s mind.
It took him a long moment to remember to breathe.
“Are you serious?” Alex asked, taking a deep breath.
“I would not joke about something...
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