The last of the rhynselks fell to his skill. Their blood oozed from their bodies and into a shallow lake of crimson. An excellent harvest. A macabre sight.
He turned away from the scene, trying not to think about the smell of iron on the air or the unclaimed power in all that blood.
They had not entered. He was done. That was all tha...
2025-09-25 22:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post“Kelstor, withdraw and prepare Scorching Lance!” Cass shouted over the battlefield. “Pellen, hold your spell until the last moment. Everyone else, keep the queen busy!”
She could have ordered Kelstor back silently via Salos, but there was no need to hide their maneuver from a monster that didn’t understand language, and announcin...
2025-09-23 22:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostHer command echoed in her ears as she fought the rhynselks already inside the walls. She’d done it.
It hadn’t been an accident. It hadn’t been a mistake.
She’d meant to override his will. She’d intended to force him to act against his wishes.
Did it make a difference that it would save everyone else? Did it matter tha...
2025-09-18 22:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostHis master’s Command hit him like a physical force. Like a slap to his face. Like something had slipped into his skin and squeezed his soul.
At his side, Tiador snorted. “As if yelling it louder would make it so.”
He ignored the Jothi nobleman’s words. They were unimportant to his current orders. How did he stop the rhynselks...
2025-09-16 22:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostCass leapt in front of another rhynselk, a Tempest Blade flying from its end. The blade crashed into the beast’s side, slicing through the hide and electrocuting the muscle. Salos launched out from her shadow, his claws burying themselves in the monster’s face, raking at eyes and nostrils.
It groaned in pain, its legs buckling and its ...
2025-09-11 22:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostKohen grit his teeth as he watched the wall fall and the queen charge in. His hands twitched at his sides, eager to draw his lightning blade. Eager to rip blood from the beast’s veins and twist it into a weapon of his will.
Except, Kohen Delim Veldor should not have any such spell. Kohen Delim Veldor, eldest son of the Warden of Vaisom a...
2025-09-09 22:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostThe rhynselk queen broke through the walls with a rush of ice and a burst of physical might. The defenders scattered into new defensive positions before her.
Alyx’s hand on her sword tightened. Take us down.
You aren’t going to Grand Descend? Kelstor asked, his surprise loud over their bond.
Alyx froze.
Four more waves. That was how many it took before there was no room for the frightened beasts to run away.
By the fifth wave, they were packed so tightly that the boom of thunder erupting in front of them only sent them running faster at the defenders.
“Ranged combatants, ready attack on the herd!” the caravan master shouted over...
2025-09-02 22:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostCass had never felt more at ease than she did on Kelstor’s back thousands of feet in the air. The wind whipped around her, tugging at her robes worn over her armor and pulling her braid in a dance behind her. Atmospheric Sense painted a picture of the rolling air currents as they played over the landscape below her and leapt through the air. A...
2025-08-28 22:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post“How did you end up cooking?” Alyx asked as she stirred her bowl of stew.
Night had well and truly fallen over the camp. Cass sat beside a smaller private campfire at the edge of the caravan’s encampment. Kelstor lay on the outer edge, his head resting over his paws. Alyx leaned against him while Pellen and Marco sat alongside Cass i...
2025-08-26 22:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostCass continued helping with cooking as dark fell over camp and the other travelers trickled into the camp’s center, all lurking a respectful distance in wait for dinner. The rolling night air carried their conversations to her. Most of it was quiet grumbles about how long the journey was and how uncomfortable the wagons were and how bumpy the ...
2025-08-21 22:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostSalos stalked out to the outskirts of camp. He climbed up the wagon walls, slinking along their length, watching the darkening horizon.
Cass didn’t understand, and she wasn’t listening. It shouldn’t surprise him. She was stubbornness incarnate. Stubborn and naïve.
It wasn’t a hard concept but she just had to make it complica...
2025-08-19 22:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostThey made camp as dusk fell, the sky a gorgeous shade of orange along the horizon, with wisps of pink and crimson clouds. Already, the silver moon was visible in the darkening sky, with the ghosts of stars dotting the darker horizon. The copper moon would join it soon, as the sun dropped the final degrees out of sight.
The wagons circled a...
2025-08-14 22:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostAlyx did not stare as Velillia disappeared behind her. She did not watch as the walls shrunk from the impossibly tall barriers between the vulnerable lower district and the wild continent to a thin line along the horizon. She did not look back as the only home she’d ever known disappeared behind them.
The wind was cold as it whipped arou...
2025-08-12 22:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostCass and company met at the city gates. That company had greatly increased while Cass hadn’t been looking. Alyx, Kelstor, Telis, and Marco stood at the edge of a collection of wagons.
Telis spoke with a portly man in a leather vest and a tri-pointed and feathered hat, ironing out the last details for the trip.
Carava...
2025-08-07 22:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostSalos watched Cass sleep restlessly. She tossed and turned on her guest room bed in the Delim manor, limbs tangled in her blankets, pillows scattered to the wind. This wasn’t unusual, exactly. She often slept fitfully, not that he’d ever tell her. But usually she settled as the night progressed.
She was usually well settled into the ob...
2025-08-05 22:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostCass’s next stop was the temple. It floated over the river on the wide spire, its towering glass walls shimmering in the afternoon sun.
Alyx was waiting for her outside with Kelstor. The crowd hung around them, holding a respectful buffer of several yards around the dragon. Most passed by quickly, trying to look like they were focused on...
2025-07-31 22:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post“A book from the last age,” the woman, Lady Tamara Daith, muttered, flipping through the pages with a delicate hand. Daith was a bird of a woman, with a narrow build and a sharp nose, her eyes piercing like a hawk’s.
Cass sat across a cluttered desk in the crowded office of the mage. Tall shelves consumed the walls, filled from floor...
2025-07-29 22:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostThe reception hall of the Academy of Arcane Arts was deserted when Cass and Salos visited it the next day. A single, very bored-looking receptionist sat behind the reception counter, his head resting on his arms. He sat up when he noticed Cass, a customer service smile, slipping over his lips. “Is there something I can help you with today?”<...
2025-07-24 22:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostCass leaned back in her chair, closing her eyes, as Alyx continued speaking with the smiths. The swordswoman explained the other equipment she wanted for herself, Marco, and Kelstor, the smiths jotting the details down and sketching ideas across their papers.
But it wasn’t dark behind Cass’s eyelids. Lights floated around her, beacons ...
2025-07-22 22:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostTabith started sketching designs on the paper before her.
Cass couldn’t read any of the words the smith added to the margins of her plans, but she imagined it was notes on sizing or material.
“So, a new staff?” the smith asked.
Cass nodded.
“You sure? If you are going to change your mind, this is the moment. And, ...
2025-07-17 22:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post“We’re closed until next—Oh. It’s you,” Xri Relven said as Cass, Alyx, and company stepped into the Relven shop. It looked just like they’d left it the other day, weapons on display on the walls. A trough of ice water by the door. The tall xerenth engraver, Xri, at the counter inspecting something with a jewel loop.
Had it real...
2025-07-15 22:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostThaycer returned, pushing a cart into the room, upon which rested three objects, all of them glowing softly in Cass’s Mana Sight.
“These each hold ties to the Custodia,” he said with another low bow to his mother.
The duchess’s eyes swept over the offerings, a pensive frown on her lips. After a moment, she nodded. “Yes, you...
2025-07-10 22:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostHello everyone! We're back! The first chapter of Stormborn Sorceress book 4: The City on the Edge of the World just dropped! Thank you all for joining me and Cass on this journey.
With the release of book 4, I decided to update my Patreon Tiers. Up to this point there was just one, unnamed tier. That tier hasn't changed so if you ...
2025-07-08 22:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostThe Grand Duchess was no less intimidating in the private of her audience hall than she had been before her people. Her obsidian eyes looked down on Cass as if dissecting a strange puzzle. She sat on high in a throne of black glass, her dragon sprawled behind her, head resting beside the throne, dark eyes matching the duchess’s.
The woma...
2025-07-08 22:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostI’d like to talk about Kohen and Ahryn today.
I went back and forth on whether Alyx should have one or two brothers. I had initially penciled in two more because the ‘female lead’ with two bratty brothers is a little bit of a trope in the noble fantasy romance stories I read. To be clear, Alyx is not a ‘female lead’ in that way,...
2025-07-04 22:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostVery early in the creation of Stormborn Sorceress, I knew I wanted Cass to have companions. Side characters are almost always my favorite characters in other stories, and I knew there was only so far I could personally take a solo character before I ran out of ways to maintain the narrative, so I always intended for Cass to slowly build...
2025-06-27 22:11:29 +0000 UTC View PostToday I’d like to talk about the system of Stormborn Sorceress, its inspiration, and some of the earlier iterations.
The system is inspired by other systems of the genre, particularly the stats of Unbound by Nicoli Gonnella and Beneath the Dragoneye Moons by Selkie Myth and the Aspects of He Who Fights With Monsters...
2025-06-19 22:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostHi all, today I wanted to talk about my writing process so you have a better idea what I’m up to all the time.
Each book starts with a first draft. I’m a Discovery Writer, which means I don’t do a lot of planning when I write my first drafts. Discovery Writers are also sometimes called ‘Pantsers’ because we write by the se...
2025-06-12 22:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostHello everyone!
We’ve made it to the end of book 3! Can you believe it? I can’t. Thank you so much for coming on this journey with me and for all your support along the way.
I will be taking a short hiatus here to finish preparing Book 4: City on the Edge of the World. The story will return here...
2025-06-09 22:01:02 +0000 UTC View Post