Scorio
The Red Keep hove into view.
It was like nothing Scorio had imagined. Cradled by huge banks of slowly roiling fog, its sanguine walls rose in stark defiance to the rough mountains around it, their faces roughened by the centuries but st...
2025-08-15 14:39:01 +0000 UTC View PostScorio
They executed their escape after the next sleep cycle.
Scorio spent most of the ‘night’ lying on his nest of pink fronds staring up at the cave ceiling without dark vision. One arm beneath his head, the other across his chest, metho...
2025-08-13 13:00:16 +0000 UTC View PostScorio
Everybody fanned out across the cavern floor but for Xandera, who entered their customary cave and moved to the rear wall in readiness.
“How do you want to handle this?” asked Scorio. “How many fiends, what kind of support?”
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Nezzar smashed across Scorio’s face like a thunderbolt. The force behind the blow was punishing. The world flared white and silver as Scorio staggered back, but the pain of the blow was nothing to the shock of Leonis’ words.
It...
2025-08-11 16:53:55 +0000 UTC View PostJova
As the bronze sun descended beyond the straits into the Crimson Sea, the sky grew hazy with hues of magenta, lavender, and peach. The rough mountains that flanked the straits grew vague, details melting away, and the high wispy clouds that drif...
2025-08-11 16:53:05 +0000 UTC View PostI'm so sorry, everyone. This isn't some asinine attempt to drag out cliff hangers, but just a truly frustrating problem with Dropbox backups and Scrivener on my laptop not opening the latest file. I've spent the past hour trying to figure out what's going on, but both the main document and both b...
2025-08-08 14:23:43 +0000 UTC View PostThe Nightmare Lady
“Run!” screamed the Nightmare Lady, scampering over the dunes on all fours. “Damn it, Nox, run!”
Her shadow fled before her, angular and rippling on the ivory sands, cast by the great blazing Silverine Sun that was in the process of ...
2025-08-06 17:10:27 +0000 UTC View PostLeonis
They must have forgotten how echoes carried in this place. Leonis sat cross-legged before his cave, hands resting lightly on his knees, and listened to Scorio berate Jova. The man’s tone was sharp and cruel, and though his words were muffled, there was no m...
2025-08-04 15:46:40 +0000 UTC View PostScorio
“You already know what to do,” said Scorio.
“Funny,” replied Jova, hands on her hips. “If I did, I’d be a Pyre Lord.”
“What I mean is, you know what I know. You probably know it better than I do.”
“Given ...
2025-08-01 14:24:01 +0000 UTC View PostScorio
“What?” Leonis’ shout echoed off the cavern walls. “You’re serious? You’re saying I’ve been hauling rocks like an idiot for nothing?!”
“We told you not to risk it,” said Jova, tone cool. “You’re the one who insis...
2025-07-30 15:21:34 +0000 UTC View PostScorio
Scorio awoke to a gentle shake of his foot. Darkvision revealed Kelona crouched in the mouth of his cavern, her expression at once nervous yet challenging. When Scorio sat up, she rose smoothly to her feet, gestured for him to follow, and exited onto the ridge.
Curious, Scorio ...
2025-07-28 14:22:10 +0000 UTC View PostScorio
A sound tugged Scorio from sleep. Half aware, he leaped to his feet, blinking away his stupor as he glanced about the darkness.
No sign of Silverines pouring in through a chiseled gap. Instead, he saw Leonis risen to one elbow, hand to ...
2025-07-25 13:32:26 +0000 UTC View PostScorio
“All right, listen up,” said Scorio as he approached the others. They’d gathered by Leonis’s side looking somewhere between tense, dejected, and on edge. “Jova and I have reviewed the situation and made a decision.”
The othe...
2025-07-23 13:42:51 +0000 UTC View PostScorio
Leonis still hadn’t woken up when everybody got into position.
Scorio did his best to not fret. The big man’s breathing was steady, his color wan but not corpse-like, and occasionally it looked like his eyes were moving beneath his ...
2025-07-21 13:33:15 +0000 UTC View PostThe Nightmare Lady
The Nightmare Lady loped along the edge of the cliff, her tail undulating behind her, talons digging into the crusty rock. She ran smoothly, fluidly, drawing on the ambient Bronze mana with ever more proficiency, feeding it into h...
2025-07-18 13:55:32 +0000 UTC View PostScorio
For the first short while everybody stayed close, clustered together not far from the plug, watching intently and listening for sounds of impending doom. Leonis was their center, and it was as if nobody was willing to stray too far from where...
2025-07-16 13:52:21 +0000 UTC View Post
Revealed here first! You guys remember this scene?
2025-07-15 13:40:35 +0000 UTC View PostScorio
Impatient, Scorio fell into a steep dive. The wind rushed about them as he half-furled his wings, and Kelona let out a whoop of excitement. The fog swirled and parted so that the ghostly ground resolved itself into pale sand dusted over rocky...
2025-07-14 13:38:26 +0000 UTC View PostScorio
When the sanguine sun finally began to rise, it did so swiftly. One moment it lay low in the sky, causing the air to swelter and roil, the desert to be bathed in crimson hues, and then it began to climb. It rose higher by the moment, the heat...
2025-07-11 13:24:02 +0000 UTC View PostScorio
Flight.
Scorio never felt more free.
With his huge wings extended, he glided on the baking hot thermals that rose from the desert below, his body exhibiting a natural intuition as to how to angle his wings so as to flow smoothly o...
2025-07-09 13:32:30 +0000 UTC View PostScorio
After the Heart Oaths were sworn, Leonis and Jova departed to collect their packs, leaving Moira and Scorio to wander LastRock until they found a quiet square. They’d walked in silence the whole way, both sunk in thought. Scorio’s alterna...
2025-07-07 13:40:57 +0000 UTC View PostScorio
The light streaming through the windows was the burnished amber of midday. Scorio blinked, passed his hand over his face, then sat up. The threadbare sheet pooled about his waist.
“Hey, look who’s still alive.” Kelona sat in one o...
2025-07-04 14:21:13 +0000 UTC View PostLeonis
A dull ache awoke Leonis from his stupor. For a moment he just lay beneath the tousled sheets, blinking up at the cracked stone ceiling. His body was sore. His back, his legs, his left shoulder. For all his sleep he still felt worn out.
Jova
Jova quit Moira’s administration hall, Ignited her Heart, and rose on a slab of stone to the top of her tower. The sounds of LastRock awakening grew thin and distant as she landed on a ledge and stepped into the great chamber.
Frustrati...
2025-06-30 15:21:09 +0000 UTC View PostScorio
“Wait, what?” Scorio rushed to the edge of the roof just in time to see Moira land on the ruptured sidewalk and dust off her hands. “Jova? You want me to team up with Jova?”
Moira pretended to consider, then nodded. “...
2025-06-27 13:32:48 +0000 UTC View PostScorio
An arid wind blew off the metallic desert to the south and moaned through the gaps in the wall. The light was dark and murderous, the even sky gradating from amber to burgundy as the sun descended toward the scorched horizon. Evening in the T...
2025-06-25 14:32:40 +0000 UTC View PostThe Nightmare Lady
Nox leaped and crawled across the desert, and the Nightmare Lady followed.
At first she staggered after him on instinct. Exhausted, bereft, her mind a wasteland of grief and self-loathing, she fought to simply place one talo...
2025-06-23 14:29:15 +0000 UTC View PostHello everyone!
The fact that you're reading this means you chose at some point along the way to support my writing above and beyond just grabbing my books as they come out on Amazon. Maybe it was Immortal Great Souls that convinced you, or Throne Hunters, or The Grind Show. Regardless, you...
2025-06-23 14:08:59 +0000 UTC View Post(Quick note about a passage I've entered into Chapter 37. You'll immediately see why this was a necessary edit :P
“What do you suggest, Sam?” Harald knew his anger was misplaced, born of frustration and helplessness. “Stay here and endanger you all? Sit around till they send some...
Harald’s instinct was to immediately draw back, heart hammering in his chest. Two foes. Moving a good distance apart from each other, but in parallel, and no doubt planning to attack in concert.
His thoughts whirled. How was this possible? Who’d get the Twilight Crown if he fell while f...
2025-06-22 02:13:22 +0000 UTC View Post