Three days after the destruction of Wisptown
The hot water from the shower washed over her, as Evantra stared into a single point on grey tiles of the motel shower. She looked down at her feet, watching the droplets fall from her hair to the floor. The pattering of water calmed her as much as it was possible.
<... 2025-08-17 01:25:04 +0000 UTC View PostThe archdemon’s first missiles impacted the barge the moment the Mythic Veilsurge closed.
Evantra dashed out of the hall and was met with the blaring of alarms that echoed down the deserted corridors. Apart from the emergency alarms, the ship's interior electrical systems were down. The only light which entered the corridors was from the...
2025-08-15 01:15:02 +0000 UTC View Post“Belphegor the Seeker—”
The attendant’s words were interrupted by shockwaves.
Her skin crawled as she heard the telltale sounds of detonation after detonation activating sequentially, the waves of force spiralling outwards, reverberating throughout the Spirit. The echoes of the blasts reached them, shaking her to her...
2025-08-13 01:15:02 +0000 UTC View PostWhen Evantra emerged out onto the main floors of the Spirit of Nimue, she found them deserted. The personnel that she would ordinarily have seen going about their duties, occupying the various rooms of the ship, were nowhere to be seen. The hallways were empty, and the air was eerily stagnant and still.
Elaine must not want an...
2025-08-10 13:15:01 +0000 UTC View PostWhen Evantra awoke, the pain ringing in her head had disappeared. Her hearing was no longer muted, her ear canals no longer filled with blood from ruptured eardrums. She leaned forwards and realised that her broken bones – wherever they had been – had all been mended.
Her freedom of movement was impeded for a different reason.
Th...
2025-08-08 01:15:02 +0000 UTC View Post“Feet shoulder-width apart, keep your knees slightly bent.”
She pulled the trigger, the instant that Trevor, no, the spirit moved.
It screamed, tearing through the street towards her. Her palms were met with the cold grip of her Nagantra as she withdrew it from its holster. She held the trigger down even as her ...
2025-08-06 01:15:01 +0000 UTC View PostEvantra stared at the damning words, her heart beating out of her chest. The [ritual of consumption] she had triggered had failed to consume Caliburn’s catalyst. Her foolproof method of making Caliburn’s integral artefact detector vanish into thin air had failed her.
I can’t consume it yet.
We’re going to the con...
2025-08-03 04:17:28 +0000 UTC View Post“Thank you, one and all, for attending Caliburn’s celebration for a successful raid venture.”
Elaine Hallwell paused, smiling cordially as her words were greeted with a spattering of applause. She inclined her head, signalling her intention to continue, and the lingering sounds of applause vanished.
“Having felled the wyvern ...
2025-07-31 11:33:02 +0000 UTC View Post“Evantra! Pardon me, Mordred, like the bellends say it. You made it! Did you enjoy your time off?”
Evantra returned Clark Hallewell’s grin as the man strode up to her, clapping a sizeable hand on her shoulder. Turning to look around in the interior of the ship, it seemed as if Caliburn had pulled out all the stops for the ce...
2025-07-29 03:57:18 +0000 UTC View Post“There’s our girl of the hour, come here, pendeja.”
Evantra smiled as she watched Trevor wince at Carmen’s choice of language, inching over to cover Lucas’ ears as he giggled. Trevor looked up at them, shooting them a smile, before returning his attention to arranging the disposable plates with Lucas.
“Hey, Carme...
2025-07-26 08:32:41 +0000 UTC View PostMegacorporations acting together in a conspiracy. Concealing occult artefacts from society… it would make sense if they don’t want further competition to arise.
It lends further credence to the idea that the megacorporations are incorporating them into cybernetics somehow. Maybe even more broadly into their products and ad...
2025-07-23 17:57:59 +0000 UTC View Post“Where are we going, Evantra?”
Evantra had dragged Noelle out to the car, ignoring the discomfort that lingered after their discussion.
She hated to admit it, but the other girl was right.
No matter how much she tried to confront the Veil or the things that terrified her, she was still cursed with the guilt of her actions, ...
2025-07-22 06:05:53 +0000 UTC View PostHi all!
I come with some sad news for those of you reading Fearshaper – I’ll be putting the series on hiatus to shift my focus to Ghostslayer and some other ideas that I have floating around.
Unfortunately, the brutal reality of serial writing (especially when you’re trying to turn it into a living) is that if a series doesn’...
2025-07-21 07:40:01 +0000 UTC View PostSaravagan Dreamer, the Highlord of Dreams, sat in a quaint café in the Town of Eleric, watching his daughter tend to her flowers.
Rose Flora.
He had vehemently opposed the name when his wife had suggested it. There was such a thing as leaning too heavily into a theme.
As usual, he hadn’t gotten his way.
Saravagan sippe...
2025-07-21 07:33:23 +0000 UTC View PostShiver never knew what it was like to suffer from success.
She usually just… suffered.
That was, until she accomplished her goal of severing all eight of a serpentine dragon’s gargantuan grey wings with a single strike of her Phobia.
Her dilemma born of the efficacy of the strike, was that she wouldn’t l...
2025-07-21 07:23:06 +0000 UTC View PostThey emerged into a dark, frozen world. Towering mountains that eclipsed the Verscallian Peaks could be glimpsed in the far distance.
Thunderclouds filled the skies above her, and cobalt lightning flitted in their midst, accompanied by whispers of thunder. The rumble of the thunder was soft, as if reluctant to break the peace of this place...
2025-07-21 07:20:28 +0000 UTC View PostCaledon watched as the guides around the dragon fell into tombs of earth at their feet, buried underground. Then, he watched as shadow and earth melded together, creating a protective barrier around the dragon, as it triggered its self-immolation.
Not even the combined forces of earth and shadow were able to even partially mitigate the for...
2025-07-21 07:18:19 +0000 UTC View PostCaledon Brimstone lost track of time as they pressed forwards through endless corridors of void. His breath had grown ragged, and his muscles burned from their continuous passage through corridor after corridor.
Despite the Insanity of this place, his thoughts lingered on his Fear, his paranoia preoccupying him.
It had continued to b...
2025-07-21 07:15:03 +0000 UTC View PostRathos’ gaze effortlessly pierced the world of darkness he had imposed upon reality.
He knew that while he maintained his Dreadwalk, they retained the advantage.
Shadow was his domain.
They needed to injure the soulweaver before the call of his Dread waned. The creature’s soulsight was momentarily rendered ineffect...
2025-07-21 07:13:33 +0000 UTC View PostTo stave off the Insanity that lurked at the edges of her consciousness, Vale recalled the words of Solastra Flora, that had instilled her with hope and dread in equal measure.
The terrifying dimension of her Fear that Solastra had proposed that she elaborate upon.
Highlady Solastra’s words had been clear.
There was...
2025-07-21 07:10:05 +0000 UTC View PostSomething was amiss in the Dreadwood.
It was an instinctual, visceral reaction, that sunk into Shiver’s skin the moment she stepped out of Rael’s Inheritance. She struggled to describe it, or to identify the source of the disquieting feeling.
However, her unexplainable feelings were validated by the appearance of Iltheria, the ic...
2025-07-21 07:05:51 +0000 UTC View PostRael Revenant’s grave was the picture of serenity.
The first patriarch’s resting place was situated at the very edge of the plains. A steady stream of sand poured gently over the edge, into the void beyond them. The whisper of falling sand only added to the tranquillity of the location.
Above the graveyard, was a single tree with...
2025-07-21 07:03:51 +0000 UTC View PostVale Revenant was tortured by two, tantalising and horrifying possibilities.
The first, was the graveyard at the foot of Rael Revenant’s guide. The leviathan that rivalled mountains – Azkhul Zahaard, that bordered the circular sandy plains that glimmered gently, under a golden moon.
The resting place of the progenitor of the Reve...
2025-07-21 07:00:28 +0000 UTC View PostEvantra and Noelle sat in the VR chatroom, with Evantra seated at the head of the table, and Noelle just to her right.
“So… Caliburn. You didn’t have a chance to snoop around?”
Evantra shook her head.
“Between training for the raid and Guinevere kicking me out the moment my ‘initiation’ was over, I didn’t get a ...
2025-07-19 02:37:10 +0000 UTC View PostThe Graveserpent punished Shiver for her arrogance.
Even as the ivory driven into her leg had lost its form and slipped from her wound, as the Graveserpent’s body locked up once more, Shiver cursed her foolishness.
Despite all the invocations she received, if the Graverserpent had better aim, her descent would have come to a messy,...
2025-07-19 02:16:26 +0000 UTC View Post“This Inheritance isn’t like the others.”
After a night of rest, they returned to their descent through Trepidation.
They entered the Inhertance situated at the very heart of the Gravewoods, the vast caverns that spanned under Solastra’s Dreadwood above. Where Vale had acquired the invocations necessary to stabilise her Fearc...
2025-07-17 01:50:42 +0000 UTC View PostEvantra raised her Liberty EZ Defender, and sank round after round unerringly into the moving target as Trevor Foster watched on. Her pistol flashed as she rapidly pulled the trigger, finding her headshots without exception. After gaming with Lucas and setting up their chocolatery, Trevor had asked her to accompany him for a drive, which had ine...
2025-07-17 01:42:30 +0000 UTC View Post“Carmen…”
“I know that you have a lot to do. I know. Give us your afternoon? I haven’t seen you for a week now, and it feels like—”
Evantra wrapped the woman in a hug. Her hands tightened around her shoulders, and she buried her head into the nook of her neck. For a moment, Evantra just stood there. The words escaped ...
“I’m sorry for abandoning you.”
Vale’s eyes widened at Caledon’s words. The first ones to escape the lordling’s mouth after Shiver’s departure.
That girl, when I get my hands on her I’m going to strangle her-
Vale’s outwardly demeanour was one of a paragon of calm and understanding, as she nodded to C...
2025-07-12 13:10:26 +0000 UTC View PostEvantra sat upright in Caliburn’s medical bay.
She experimentally flexed her right leg, and smiled slightly when she wasn’t met with excruciating pain burning a path up her thighs. She gingerly felt at her ribs and winced. Her eardrums were numb, but her acuity had returned after the treatment. Caliburn’s on-duty doctor had informed ...
2025-07-12 09:23:23 +0000 UTC View Post