“The Herald of the Traveller?” Alex asked. “Are you serious?”
“Yes,” Carey smiled, looking quite pleased.
The courtyard had fallen silent.
Every eye was focused on the young woman who was both familiar yet unfamiliar. To the research team, Carey was a fallen colleague, one who had been mourned. To the Watchers, she ...
2024-07-24 21:26:39 +0000 UTC View Post“What…is it…that you want me to try…father?”
Alex looked over the land, taking in everything around him. “You see all this? I mean, do you see how devastated it is?”
Claygon followed his gaze. “Yes…of…course…”
The group looked over the landscape in silence.
All around were signs o...
2024-07-23 20:28:29 +0000 UTC View Post“Well, looks like it’s stopped.” Thundar pointed. “See?”
At long last, the Ravener’s remains had stopped flooding the floor of the chamber. Most of the enormous cavern was filled with black dust; the remains of the terror that had reigned over Thameland for millenia. Even the lake was saturated with them.
...
2024-07-20 21:17:49 +0000 UTC View Post“Be ready,” the king of Thameland whispered.
He stood on the walls of the capitol city, looking out.
His muscles ached.
His breathing was heavy, but the power of both the General’s magic and the Traveller’s blessing flowed through him. On the wall around him, his knights remained watchful, scanning the fields ahead. The...
2024-07-19 23:32:14 +0000 UTC View PostWithin the Ravener’s dark world, Claygon rampaged like an ancient god of war.
As his opponent weakened, the golem became more accustomed to his new powers.
The Ravener’s armies fled before the golem’s might.
Its beams and magic were useless against him, while his destructive rays carved trenches through its insides....
2024-07-18 22:54:36 +0000 UTC View PostAlexander Roth, General of Thameland, floated within the final node inside the Ravener, stunned at what he was seeing. This place not only produced massive amounts of mana, serving as a sort of control centre for the Ravener’s energies, but it looked exactly like Uldar’s throne room. From here, mana was sent through all of its internal mecha...
2024-07-17 22:53:25 +0000 UTC View PostAtop the forest covered mountain in the distance, loomed Aenflynn’s castle. It towered above all else, a symbol of the Fae lord’s power, protected by his magics and rising high above the devastated terrain.
It stood proudly, a symbol of the sovereignty and grace of Och Fir Nog.
A symbol that, in short order, would be no more.
... 2024-07-16 21:03:21 +0000 UTC View PostBeing in four places at once meant keeping track of a lot.
In his homeland, Alex had been crushing dungeons, taking control of dungeon cores, casting Army of Heroes on everyone he met, and turning his controlled Ravener-spawn loose on their kin.
Inside the Ravener’s lair, he was fighting alongside his companions, countering the mag...
2024-07-13 23:31:41 +0000 UTC View PostLord Aenflynn was long lived. His life had been one of triumphs and frustrations, some small, and some great indeed.
In his youth, he had been a carefree sort; a fae who often slipped into the material world to have some sport, tricking mortals and watching their comical reactions. It had amused him, and often satisfied his curiosities. 2024-07-12 21:43:23 +0000 UTC View Post
When he was a young child, Saint Merzhin of Thameland sincerely believed that he had been born for one purpose.
To serve Uldar.
He grew up in the church, raised by priests and priestesses, and lived among other children. The young boy had slept on a thin cot, ate simple meals and spent most of his waking hours learning scripture, tel...
2024-07-11 21:21:26 +0000 UTC View PostIn the moments before Claygon had smashed the crystal against his chest, Alex had to fight his every instinct in order to keep himself from interfering. Every instinct had screamed at him, telling him his golem would get hurt, or worse.
Nor would it be the first time that he’d come close to dying.
Twice before, in battles wit...
2024-07-10 21:26:13 +0000 UTC View Post‘Alright, it’s off balance,’ Alex’s thoughts came through his link with Claygon. ‘You’re up, buddy.’
“Everyone!” he shouted. “Claygon’s gonna be with me! Get ready!”
“Here’s to success!” Theresa shouted, leaping over a cluster of Spawn Knights, to slash a living core. “You can do it!”
“We got...
2024-07-09 23:21:14 +0000 UTC View Post“Why is this happening?” the Ravener’s scream shook its inner world. “How… …but you are—is this an illusion? How are you here and outside at the same time? I sense you elsewhere as well, what are you do—”
“What did…it just say?” Claygon froze in surprise.
As did his companions w...
2024-07-06 23:45:17 +0000 UTC View PostAlex Roth couldn’t count how many hours he’d spent pouring over the Ravener’s schematics. There were times when he would go to the laboratory in the Research Castle when the sun was ready to set and not leave his chair—reading and memorising reams of papers mapping the constructs internal specifications—until the sun was coming back up...
2024-07-05 23:30:18 +0000 UTC View PostAlex Roth, General of Thameland looked over three different scenes.
In one, Merzhin was struggling with the divine ward around Uldar’s throne.
In another, the Ravener was battling his friends in its lair.
And in the third, monsters were spreading across Thameland, bringing chaos and death to the kingdom.
So, he got to w...
2024-07-04 21:20:04 +0000 UTC View PostWhat was the Traveller’s power?
On the surface, it was teleportation: transporting oneself instantly from one place to another.
But was that truly the core of Hannah’s power?
Alex doubted that it was; the Traveller’s power wasn’t just about teleportation. Before he’d even used...
2024-07-03 21:39:08 +0000 UTC View PostAlexander Roth’s soul abruptly returned to his body like a comet plunging into the sea.
His soul swelled with Hannah’s power, great amounts of her energy flowing in by the instant. It flooded in, radiating through every fibre, pore and cell, sparking his mind, his thoughts. When he opened his eyes, it wasn’t just to the...
2024-07-02 21:32:06 +0000 UTC View Post“W-what is this?” a soldier cried.
Holy light radiated from the Cave of the Traveller, illuminating the army’s fort, and the Coille Forest.
Ravener-spawn cringed away from that light, fangs clenched as if in pain.
A gentle wind caressed the forest, contrasting the sharp cries coming from the Cave.
“Something’s h...
2024-06-29 21:59:14 +0000 UTC View PostHannah’s power sang all through Alex’s being.
She smiled at the Roth family, and it was like the sun coming out after the darkest storm.
“I’m strong now…strong enough to bridge the gap through you, Alex,” she said. “Because you gave me the last bit of energy I needed, Selina. And because you have been channelling your f...
2024-06-28 22:24:41 +0000 UTC View PostSelina Roth ran past towering windows streaming early morning sunlight through the villa.
Her bare feet echoing through the halls, cut through the conversation the Lus were having with the queen of Thameland and a few of her guards, as they gathered in the dining hall, discussing the situation in the kingdom.
Mr. and Mrs. Lu—and th...
2024-06-27 21:01:45 +0000 UTC View PostAll across Thameland, dungeon cores drank the power of their enemies’ terror, swelling with new energies.
Green fields became hellscapes dotted with black orbs, each one spewing monsters by the score. Beasts hunted for Thameish flesh to devour, roaming through once quiet woodlands, springing on those unlucky enough to be caught the...
2024-06-26 21:13:35 +0000 UTC View Post“Wh-what’s happening?” a soldier cried.
All across the city of Ussex, magical energy rose from the defenders of Thameland like steam escaping a boiling pot: the enchantment of Army of Heroes now dissipating.
As the city burned, warriors looked around in confusion, as though suddenly waking from a dream.
The magic in their...
2024-06-25 22:30:18 +0000 UTC View PostThe fae knights tensed. “Attack!”
Armour clinked, halberds were raised, all eyes were fixed on the young archwizard.
The line of knights standing in front of the divine ward swung their weapons, blades and hafts passing through the curtain of divine energy as though it wasn’t there.
Other fae knights came thro...
2024-06-22 21:42:46 +0000 UTC View PostPower poured through the Ravener’s inner pathways, replenishing its strength.
‘Yes. This is the way!’ it thought, drinking in the power needed for its trials. ‘These mortals will not rob me of what is mine, now they can learn that.’
The Ravener began channelling power.
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Cl...
2024-06-21 22:11:14 +0000 UTC View PostThe archwizard’s eyes turned toward Aenflynn’s castle. “What have you done?”
The Fae lord was beaming, pleasure filling his expression. He folded both hands behind his back like a naughty child hiding a stolen biscuit. “Not a thing. I did nothing.”
“Do not take me for a fool. I have spells that sense the rhythms of divi...
2024-06-20 21:44:59 +0000 UTC View PostAnother divine ward sprang up, forming a half-sphere of divine light, sealing Merzhin and Alex in the throne’s chamber.
Both young Heroes were now trapped between the first ward sealing the throne, and the second one sealing them in. They had little space to manoeuvre, perhaps only about five feet between the two ward...
2024-06-19 21:37:00 +0000 UTC View PostThe moment Alex teleported with Merzhin, he knew something had changed.
As he and the Saint catapulted through space—images of locations from across the planes racing by—it felt as though they were no longer travelling alone. Hannah’s power pulsed like a beating heart, reacting to…he didn’t know what.
It felt as if
Nothing happened.
“What?” Alex pressed his palm to the Ravener’s surface. “What’s going on—”
The construct seemed indifferent to him, fully focused on gathering strength to stop Claygon.
Alex called on Hannah’s power once more while recalling the image he’d seen when he’d connected to the Ravener. A dark pla...
2024-06-15 20:14:13 +0000 UTC View PostAlex felt an ominous power building within the Ravener.
Building quickly.
Light surrounding the construct dimmed.
Its inky surface writhed as though swarms of worms were slithering beneath it.
“Everyone!” he called. “Get ready! It’s going to—”
His warning came too late.
Power skyrocketed, exploding...
2024-06-14 22:08:48 +0000 UTC View Post“Claygon!” Alex shouted, instantly teleporting to him.
The golem was pressed to the stone wall, his chest glowing red-hot, waves of heat rising, moisture steaming, drifting off the hot metal.
“Are you alright, buddy?” Alex asked him. “Is your core—”
“I am…fine! Look out…father!” Claygon point...
2024-06-13 22:21:15 +0000 UTC View Post