Back at it today, folks! Hope everyone had a wonderful break over the holidays, caught up with family and other generally good and pleasant things.
I have returned to my assigned place at the desk and writing has recommenced. Chapters for Chrysalis are locked and loaded for next week, with...
2026-01-09 05:10:14 +0000 UTC View PostI'm now officially on break!
Yeah boiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!!!!!
I hope everyone out there has a great break, hangs out with family and does many cool things. Find comfort, peace and enjoyment to renew your spirit and gird your loins for the next year ahead!
Chrysalis will be back on t...
2025-12-19 07:17:26 +0000 UTC View PostHigh above the capital, the Palace of Ascension floated. An impossible structure, kept aloft by the largest array in the history of the realm, and home to the highest of the Blood.
At the tallest point of this structure, within the most sanctified of its towers and surrounded by platinum ra...
2025-12-19 07:09:46 +0000 UTC View PostAuthor note:
I knew people would crash out after the last chapter, so I figured I would give you the next week of BoD in advance. This means BoD will be on break for an extra week in January though. So there.
This is the finale of Book five pe...
2025-12-19 01:39:39 +0000 UTC View PostCrinis was unhappy. To tell the truth, that was a vast understatement. She boiled with rage. Frothed with it. Every drop of her inky immaterial flesh yearned to take hold of the disgusting… unspeakable creatures and rend them.
Then rend them again.
Perhaps a third time coul...
2025-12-19 01:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostMage Captain Elinon stumbled through what was left of the battlefield in a fugue state. Having the curse removed from his body was like having the flesh stripped from his bones. The process had been agonising, and lengthy. The curse had spread far and wide throughout his flesh, and so far ...
2025-12-18 01:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostCurse Magic holds an… interesting place as a magical discipline. Not a common form of mana by any means, nevertheless there have been specialists who have chosen to devote their time and energy to the research and development of it as a branch of study.
Although it is often...
2025-12-18 01:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostFatigue was beginning to seep into the War Bishop’s bones as his mace seemed to gain weight by the second, adding to the throbbing pain in his wrist. Under normal circumstances, he could fight for a day without rest, but sticking close to the monster had necessitated that he be within its curse...
2025-12-17 01:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostI had made a simple plan, because, in my opinion, complex plans are about as useful as no plan at all. Solant would disagree, I get that, and maybe for her, it would be fine. For me? I know my limits. More importantly, I’m working with Tiny, and that idiot priest, and other people of questionab...
2025-12-16 01:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostHe was drawing ever closer, Tyron could feel him. In the back of his mind, he had hoped it wouldn’t come to this, that the other man would stay out of the battle, and, for some time it had appeared as though that might be the case.
An unmistakable presence, like a drawn blade held ...
2025-12-16 01:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostIt has always been a challenge to stand between the Colony and the outside world in matters of business and finance. In my heart of hearts, I am an ant, and I agree wholeheartedly with the way my siblings view money. Largely unnecessary, a sign of a lack of cooperation, or perhaps of an inher...
2025-12-15 01:00:13 +0000 UTC View PostIt was difficult for Beyn to see what was happening in the battle due to the flood of tears that obscured his vision. Choked with emotion, he even found it difficult to perform the one function in which he excelled: speaking.
Watching the Great One fling themself into danger, to be a...
2025-12-11 23:33:37 +0000 UTC View Post
There were several requests for a visual of the mastermind behind the release schedule chaos this week.
Here 'tis.
2025-12-11 23:30:58 +0000 UTC View PostAuthor note: Sorry about the disastrous schedule this week folks. We're getting carpet replaced in a few rooms and it has consumed my every waking moment.
If you must vent your anger, aim it at my cat, who's a territorial little stress-head and feels the need to spr...
2025-12-11 01:31:54 +0000 UTC View PostAfter displaying the superiority of my produce, I’m sure I’ve dragged a fair few resources out of my opponents. Dealing with that sort of acid apocalypse must have drained them of mana and mental energy, I’ve no doubt about it.
They’ve also been forced out of their position. H...
2025-12-11 01:28:33 +0000 UTC View Post“That son of a bitch,” Mage Captain Elinon spat, almost unable to believe what he was seeing.
Anger, outrage and grief rippled through the Golden Legion as if they were physical things. Men and women cried out, unable to contain their emotions, even through their ingrained discip...
2025-12-11 01:25:13 +0000 UTC View PostPower was a storm and Tyron lived at the centre of it. Arcane energy ran through him at a ferocious pace. Like water being forced through a narrow opening, he could feel the pressure of it, so intense that, were he unawakened, it may well have shattered his bones.
Without a ...
2025-12-09 01:25:04 +0000 UTC View PostAs impressed as I am with Merchant, she has nothing on the industrial, financial and commercial capacity I am now packing in the rear-zone. It’s aggressive, stream-lined, with an incredible price-to-earnings ratio and exceptionally creative accounting. My market share is out of control...
2025-12-09 01:21:28 +0000 UTC View PostThe War Bishop stood with his troops, shoulder to shoulder with the men and women he slept, ate, trained and fought beside. Not all of them would survive the day, but that was the price that needed to be paid, and all were willing to pay it.
Sacrifice was the brick and mortar that lay the f...
2025-12-09 01:20:36 +0000 UTC View PostNormally, the hardest part about hunting for a powerful monster was trying to pin it in place and bring your force to bear. In the worst case, this could involve a month’s long campaign of carefully manoeuvring, slowly cutting off tunnels, taking control of sections of the Dungeon and gradually...
2025-12-05 01:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostMerigold bit her lip and tried to stop her hands from shaking, gripping the pommel of her saddle so tight her knuckles turned white. In the distance, obscured by swirling miasma and golden light, the two forces clashed over and over again, yet even mounted she couldn’t see well enough to...
2025-12-04 01:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostThere was something sacred to standing in the Dungeon. It was a place of infinite possibility, of rich mana and unending gifts. What purpose did it serve, for what reason did it put forward such bounty, if it wasn’t for the benefit of the Old Races who had lived upon Pangera before the Dungeon ...
2025-12-04 01:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostSummoning an army to try and defeat a monster isn’t as simple as it seems. Powerful monsters may be large, but they are also, most of the time, quite cunning as well. Trying to engage one with a force of tens of thousands within the unpredictable terrain of the Dungeon is far from a simple ...
2025-12-03 01:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostLuckily, I didn’t encounter anything fishy as I made my way through the tunnels with the forces of the Colony filing along behind me. It looks as though the delvers of Green Mountain have given up the game, at least for the time being, worried that I would still be lurking in the shadows and lo...
2025-12-02 01:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostGeneral Crow watched as the battle continued to play out before him.
“Our Mages have been unable to bring down the orb,” one of his officers reported.
I can see that, he thought to himself.
Hanging over the battlefield and raining down what he was told was co...
2025-12-02 01:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostOnce again, I’m back out into the tunnels. For the fun of it, I’m deploying my submarine technique, even though it’s not particularly necessary. There’s just something satisfying about floating along, my legs tucked up under my carapace. I can almost imagine the sonar pinging sound ringin...
2025-12-01 01:28:39 +0000 UTC View PostI’m not overly eager to become further acquainted with these pests trying to capture my siblings, but an emphatic message needs to be sent, and I am just the ant to send it.
Besides, I can’t go down to the fifth and deliver sweet, sweet vengeance to the Krath until I’ve finishe...
2025-11-28 01:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostThe Grave Moon bore down from above, unleashing an unceasing pressure that felt vaguely familiar to Tyron. From within the sphere, perhaps the size of a barn, thick drops of concentrated death magick began to fall. Many dissolved into arcane energy before they reached the ground, but other...
2025-11-27 01:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostI address a few other minor details with my mutations. The triad has given me an organ that effectively acts as a mind mana construct, taking energy from my core and converting it so it can feed straight into my mind constructs. It’s an overall efficiency boost compared to having to do t...
2025-11-27 01:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostNaturally, there’s a catch. Of course. Unlimited mana? It goes against the very nature of the entire world! If I could provide unlimited mana to myself, then I could wander freely around the Dungeon, even going all the way to the surface, as a tier eight monster! I could cast li...
2025-11-26 01:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post