Kessa sighted up at him. The air shimmered with heat from the molten ground, and the orange light glimmered on her strange glass visor. For some reason Harald thought she was grinning behind that crimson glass.
Then she raised her gauntlet and unleashed a gout of alchemical fire at him. He ...
2025-06-21 22:08:44 +0000 UTC View PostHarald remained crouched, one hand planted in the torn up grass, the other holding the Scourge over one shoulder. His body was still brutalized, leaking blood from countless barely healed holes. He knew he should collect his fallen enemy’s scale pouches, their Artifacts, to keep moving as an ev...
2025-06-21 14:27:06 +0000 UTC View Post(I'm aiming to finish this book this weekend. I'll post the chapters as I write them till we're done.)
Harald stalked the night.
Veil of Shadows made him part of the darkness, clothed in him the void. He felt light, lethal, perilous. The Celestara estate was large, c...
2025-06-20 21:11:56 +0000 UTC View Post“Of course it’s become a public event,” groaned Vic.
The crew had finally been invited by Lord Josse to take advantage of a guest suite in a lodge located at the back of the property. Word had spread via couriers and countless spies to the other four major Houses about the impending d...
2025-06-20 12:33:27 +0000 UTC View PostHouse Emberfell had turned out in force. The broad avenue before the House Celestara manor was filled with Emberfell guards, raiders, and more incredibly, scale golems. Scale lanterns atop high poles illuminated the block so brightly it looked as if a false day had dawned, and the fore of this fo...
2025-06-19 16:53:48 +0000 UTC View Post“The angels wept.” Sam shook her head in disgust as she stared at Vic. “What do we do now?”
Harald had summoned their friends from the entrance hall as Josse convened the highest ranking members of his House for a private Celestara meeting. The Throne Hunters had gathered in the sam...
2025-06-18 13:44:16 +0000 UTC View PostNot too long ago, Harald had been unable to run a city block without breaking into a copious sweat and wanting to vomit out a lung. The memory of his first dawn runs with Sam were still sharp in his mind; the stabbing pain in his side, the pain in his joints, the way his body had felt like a heav...
2025-06-17 14:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey everyone!
Book 2 has dropped, and is available for either reading or 2025-06-17 12:51:20 +0000 UTC View Post
We're closing in fast upon the end of Throne Hunters Book 4. I think we've another half dozen or so chapters left till we finish this arc.
Then? I'm not 100% sure, but I'm probably going to return to Immortal Great Souls #4. I've got some 90k already written from earlier this year, and wil...
2025-06-16 12:30:27 +0000 UTC View Post“Vic.” Anna’s voice was leaden with shock. “What have you done?”
“Would you believe me if I told you that was an accident?” He winced. “No? Fair enough.”
Anna’s eyes were wide as she stared at Melisende’s corpse. “You just killed the most powerful woman in Flut...
2025-06-16 12:24:29 +0000 UTC View Post“A carefully prepared team had an immense advantage over passive guards, even—even if those guards are Silver-ranked, or possibly even Gold.”
Sam put a hand on Nessa’s shoulder. “You doing all right?”
Nessa smiled a bright, brittle smile. She was definitely looking peaky, ...
2025-06-13 18:04:44 +0000 UTC View PostThe door was yanked open to reveal Yseult Khan in all her armored glory. As much as Harald had been steeling himself to see her, the sight of her peerless armor and brutal presence still caused his breath to lock up in his chest.
Her plates of golden armor were worn over a bodysuit of midni...
2025-06-12 13:49:49 +0000 UTC View Post“Master Darrowdelve!” Master Ling swept into the private lounge, his expression delighted, his hands raised as if in a surfeit of joy. “It has been too long since I saw you last, but I am overjoyed to see you in good health.”
“Master Ling.” Harald rose to his feet. “Thank you ...
2025-06-11 17:20:05 +0000 UTC View PostThe octagonal meeting chamber was carved from living rock, its walls alternating House Emberfell banners from different eras past with shelving on which exemplary work was on display. The table itself was of brown stone, polished to a high gloss so that its golden flecks glimmered bewitchingly in...
2025-06-10 13:55:58 +0000 UTC View PostVic sat in the window of their rented room, the shutters open just wide enough that he could watch the street outside. It was mostly quiet. An occasional shadowy figure strode by. This was a mostly commercial district; at this hour, the machinery of trade had rumbled to a near halt, and all was s...
2025-06-09 14:03:42 +0000 UTC View Post“Whoa, whoa!” Harald raised his hands, eyes going wide. “Anita—wait!”
“Intruder!” she yelled, and the Artifact hammer did something to her voice, causing it to hollow out and grow resonant, inhuman, to fill the hallway like the crash of thunder even as the leaping worms of ele...
2025-06-06 15:52:07 +0000 UTC View PostOf their party, only Anna had ever visited Emberfell Hall before, and her description of the great complex defied belief.
“It’s located outside Flutic,” she recounted. They were all shouldering their packs, putting on clean clothing, stealing a final bite to eat, and preparing to depa...
2025-06-05 13:39:13 +0000 UTC View PostHarald paced.
They’d opted to remain in the same chamber. The odds of Sam finding them more easily was thus increased, and to be honest, none of them felt up for pressing deeper into the Eternal Tower.
To Harald’s surprise, Vic had sat with Anna when the countess had awoken and en...
2025-06-04 14:36:12 +0000 UTC View PostThe angel’s abode was sprawling, a domain of azure ponds that cascaded into ever larger pools until at last they flowed into a great lake that extended into the distance of the cavern, passing under archways into the gloom. Raw stone was buttressed by dressed blocks of pale ivory, all of it ele...
2025-06-03 13:48:50 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 23
“Wait,” said Sam, stepping forward even as Seraphina clasped her arm and arrested her progress. “I—don’t harm him!”
The huge angel ignored Sam’s plea. Though its visage was blank and gray and inhuman, Harald could sense its focus, the pressu...
Hope. Despair.
Which emotion warred most strongly in his breast? Harald gazed upon the angel-kin and couldn’t tell.
If she recognized him her face betrayed no awareness; her stare was direct and challenging as she glared at where the inquisitor stood.
Who in turn was openly ga...
2025-05-30 16:11:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Art by MidJourney.
No chapter today as I'm on the road. Good news is, I'm heading to a writer's retreat with some author buddies, so I should be able to bank a handful of chapters to ensure posting is smooth from hereon out.
Thanks as always for reading and your support. Next chapter ...
2025-05-29 15:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostThe moment the tendril of smoke touched Vic’s head it turned soot black and the air filled with a shuddering roar. A huge amount of energy, of power, was processed in a second, causing the buckled flagstones to tremble, the knights to stagger, and for Harald and Vic to clutch at each other.
... 2025-05-28 18:16:50 +0000 UTC View PostThe stairwell opened three revolutions below onto a pocket balcony that overlooked a cramped hall below. Stone steps descended from the balcony’s side to a tiny landing, ninety degree turn, then broader steps descended the rest of the way to the flagstones, these smooth, a thick heavy patterned...
2025-05-27 17:31:43 +0000 UTC View PostA sinking feeling filled Harald’s gut at the sight of the snapped disc, and he turned in a slow circle as if expecting some nefarious force to emerge right then and there to assault them.
“But how?” Sam’s distress was clear. “Artifacts are supposed to be indestructible?”
...
2025-05-26 19:06:02 +0000 UTC View Post
As the crew starts to go up in levels, their Passives, Actives, and Artifacts are adding up, and I can imagine it might become hard to keep track of. As such, I thought it might (maybe?) be useful to sh...
2025-05-23 16:49:00 +0000 UTC View PostChaos.
Where Thracos had been a singular locus of frenetic activity, the whole chamber now exploded into violence.
There were—what—over twenty Level 27 foes attacking them simultaneously now?
The first slew of mental blasts poured over Harald’s mind as the scarecrows conve...
2025-05-23 16:40:51 +0000 UTC View PostVic spent an hour with Nessa in the back of the corridor. Harald found himself restless, curious as to what they discussed, jealous that he wasn’t part of the conversation, and irritated by his own uneasy emotions. It had to be the lingering effects of Nessa’s ridiculously high Presence. Didn...
2025-05-22 16:26:13 +0000 UTC View Post
Art by the amazing Mansik Yang (YAM).
Alas, no chapter today. I’ve been under the weather, and the only backlog chapter I managed to bank was posted yesterday while I was truly knocked out. I came to the office this morning in hopes of hammering out a new one, but the brain fog is just t...
2025-05-21 15:07:26 +0000 UTC View PostThe chamber was small, square, and though the deep alcoves gave the occasional extra room to step back or maneuver, their practice space was to all effects greatly constrained. This would be a standing duel, both tightly circling or simply holding their ground.
The murmur of Sam and Nessa...
2025-05-20 15:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post