Chapter 321: Only in Dreams
Wren was very much hoping, somewhat selfishly, that once Liv and Sidonie figured out how to move or build a waystone, the very first was put down at Clear Water Cenote. While she couldn’t claim to understand the particulars herself, and had spent a significant amount of time prior to the Freeport trip ou...
2025-12-12 15:29:28 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 320: Logistics
Though it chafed at Liv to admit it, Ghveris was right. Even if she hurried things along as much as possible, there was no way they would be getting to Godsgrave in two days, or three, or even a week – not unless she wanted to simply take the waystone to the outpost at the dam, conjure a few birds from cohere...
2025-12-11 16:38:53 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 319: Dreamstones
When Wren came hurrying back, she had her bow slung over her shoulder, along with a quiver of arrows, and was carrying both halves of a paired dreamstone. Liv was fairly certain that she’d kept close track of just how many sets Master Grenfell had made – one had been for him to communicate with his brothe...
2025-12-10 16:58:30 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 318: Dry Season
The following morning, Liv accepted Caspian’s invitation to eat at the high table, with all the professors, at Blackstone Hall. To her surprise and delight, she was served personally by Lambert, who’d cooked her meals during the entirety of her stay at High Hall.
“Local eggs tossed with cheese and ...
2025-12-09 17:02:56 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 317: Interdiction
Liv reached across the table, accepting the folded sheet of parchment from Caspian Loredan. She stood up and walked over to the portable desk that Thora had made certain to bring for her, where she opened a drawer and withdrew a small knife kept for just this purpose, which she used to break the red wa...
2025-12-08 17:49:07 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 316: Ghvere
Liv did her best to ignore the weight of so many gazes, all focused on her, at the middle of the training field. The girl who’d scrubbed chamber pots in the dark at Castle Whitehill would have crumbled under so many eyes. Even now, she didn’t think that she would ever quite be comfortable as the center o...
2025-12-05 17:50:53 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 315: Master
Liv had had an extensive conversation with Sidonie, Arjun, and Elder Aira about precisely what research to present to the professors at Coral Bay. Between their trips to the ring - which was really more Triss and Matthew’s project than Liv’s, at this point - and her journeys into the Well of Bones, the Tomb of...
2025-12-04 16:19:41 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 314: Shell
“Through a series of somewhat unlikely coincidences,” Professor Norris said, in between grunts of effort as he used half a dozen mana-construct tools to disassemble Ghveris’s armored plating, “I rather expect that I am not the foremost expert on Antrian construction in all of Lucania.”
“Likely all of Is...
2025-12-03 17:53:48 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 313: Alumna
After the explosive opening of the great council, things settled down somewhat - though, upon Liv’s reflection, it would have been difficult for the proceedings to escalate any further without breaking into some sort of violence.
Duke Falkenrath gave his report on what had been found at the burned guildhall, tho...
2025-12-02 18:25:16 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 312: Eastgate Court
Liv woke from a nightmare about her body flying apart, every inch of her puffing into a dozen snowflakes, each of which was caught by the wind and scattered across half a continent. She had tried to pull herself together, but it was like trying to scoop water from the river using only her hands, and the mo...
2025-12-01 17:49:44 +0000 UTC View PostHappy Friday! I hope that everyone who celebrates the holiday had a wonderful thanksgiving. Next week we'll be back to the full five chapters :)
Chapter 311: Whiteout
When he saw Liv’s stasis bubble collapse, Keri felt a surge of panic so strong that it seemed his entire body dropped through the stone floor. He’d already ...
2025-11-28 15:38:11 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 310: Martensite
While Wren was used to working on her own, or at least in small teams of scouts, she had to admit that Duke Thomas Falkenrath got things moving quickly and efficiently. He gathered a knot of knights about him with hardly more than a glance as they stormed through the crowded reception, Wren and Ghveris followi...
2025-11-26 16:38:18 +0000 UTC View PostI know I've said this on RR and mentioned it on Discord, but it occured to me that since I'm not in the habit of writing notes on every Patreon chapter, I may not have said it here. I'll be taking Thursday off to do Thanksgiving stuff with my family, so no chapter on that day. I hope everyone who celebrates has a wonderful holiday.
Chapt...
2025-11-25 14:51:34 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 308: The Princess in the Tower
“Liv –” Tephania broke in, clearly about to defend the man she was intending to marry, but Thurston put a hand on her arm, bringing her to a halt.
“No, Teph,” he said, his tone gentle. “She’s right.” Thurston Falkenrath met Liv’s eyes without flinching.&...
2025-11-24 16:02:28 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 307: Petitioners
“You were rather hard on him,” Blaise observed, once the council of regents had returned to the reception.
“That Duke Richard seemed like he couldn’t get out of here fast enough,” Miina added, from the ambassador’s side.
“That might have something to do with how she nearly took his limbs o...
2025-11-21 18:28:20 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 306: Betrayed with a Kiss
Wren was already in the air by the time Liv and the others came out the door of Acton House and piled into the carriages. She wasn’t specifically watching them, and she hadn’t wanted Kaija, Ghveris or the rest to count on her in the event something happened, but she did think keeping an eye on ho...
2025-11-20 16:04:16 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 305: The Council of Regents
“The first time I came here, Matthew escorted me,” Liv murmured. She was nestled up against Keri, the two of them having shifted to share her bench during the course of the ride. “Julianne and Henry had just told me that they wanted to adopt me, and then they dressed me up in the fancie...
2025-11-19 17:57:47 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 304: Invitations
The morning after arriving in Freeport, Liv joined her cousin Miina for practice down on the beach. Kaija and three of her guards patrolled around them, and it occurred to Liv that if Baron Henry’s Whitehill guards had been this fastidious about her safety, she would probably never have met Cade in th...
2025-11-18 18:44:35 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 303: The Seed
The royal palace of Moristaim had never been built with the intention of housing prisoners, no matter how exalted their status in the kingdom of Lucania. It had only actually been completed in the eleven-hundred and fourteenth year after Miriam’s rebellion began, during the reign of Millie’s great, great gra...
2025-11-17 16:23:54 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 302: Array
Liv couldn’t help grin at how Rei had his face pressed up against the glass windows of the carriage; the boy was up on his knees, perched atop the cushioned bench. Had it really been – Liv had to do the math – nine years ago that she’d first come to the city, with Master Grenfell there to explain everything...
2025-11-14 18:59:04 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 301: The Rebel Queen
In the dim light just before dawn, on the day chosen for departure, Wren slipped through the quiet halls of the keep atop Bald Peak, passing from one circle of light through the darkness to the next, each cast by a brazier set in turn along the inner walls of the corridors. Each brazier was filled with gl...
2025-11-13 18:19:15 +0000 UTC View Post
What do you all think? Also, I had to make a name swap in chapters 298-299, as I realized I'd mixed up a Crosbie brother.
2025-11-12 20:31:55 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 300: Family
Most of the preparations for the trip to Lucania’s capital weren’t Keri’s concern, or his responsibility. Kaija and Liv’s personal guard would handle security, while Basil, Liv’s steward, would travel ahead with a small group of staff to prepare for their arrival. A message had already been sent to...
2025-11-12 17:17:13 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 299: Masks and Blades
“Baroness Grenfell will be choosing a location to establish a new port for us, Captain Athearn,” Liv explained, waving her hand to indicate the map spread out across the table. “I asked you here to assist her in making that choice. You’ve brought the nautical charts I requested?”
Co...
2025-11-11 16:54:39 +0000 UTC View PostAnd so we begin volume eight! I'm back and forth between two titles, for this one. I don't think either one's a spoiler, given the setup from last book, so let me know what you think:
Godsgrave, or Archmage?
Chapter 298: What Harvest Brings
The sun rising over the eastern mountains painted the curtain walls atop Bald Peak i...
2025-11-10 17:44:56 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 297: Breaking
With the acceptance of the Red Shield Tribe into the alliance, and the exile of Juhani, Liv fought to suppress a rising sense of excitement and confidence. All of the work she’d done before the voting even began was showing now, in a powerful voting block that was carrying through the things she wanted – no,...
2025-11-07 16:50:28 +0000 UTC View PostVäina tär Väinis was on her feet before the swell of noise had subsided, but she managed to hold herself back from speaking until Elder Raija had granted her permission with a nod.
“This is nothing but a transparent attempt to gather more votes for her own faction,” the older woman said, her face ...
2025-11-06 15:34:40 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 295: The Council of the Alliance
There was a contrast between the two conclaves of the Mages Guild which Liv had attended, and the meeting of the Eld at the Hall of the Ancestors. At first, she found it difficult to put into words; but accompanying Keri and Calm Waters to the grove where the children were left to play made it...
2025-11-05 17:15:35 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 294: Choosing
“Let me out!” Liv screamed, spinning around in the darkness and the mist.
The God-Eating Queen crumbled away, leaving Liv alone with only the frozen statues of her lovers, and then, one by one, those shattered, as well. Cade’s form crumbled first, splitting with an audible crack and then ...
2025-11-04 14:43:41 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 293: Shields in the North
The necessity of moving the entire tribe – including both the very young and the very old – forced the Red Shields to first travel overland, to where, at Soaring Eagle’s command, they had first concealed their canoes along the northern bank of the Airaduinë. Hunters ranged ahead, behind, and t...
2025-11-03 16:14:07 +0000 UTC View Post