A New Story to Tell - Wordsketch
A New Story to Tell by Icurthus The mountain lake shimmered brightly in the heat of the early summer sun. A light breeze had picked up, singing a song of serenity unique to remote places as it played in the fresh oak leaves overhead. A songbird he...
Rite of Passage: Call of Destiny
"The Shadowspawn are a group of species now considered native to Selebore, but who had spiritually originated from the chaotic dimension known as Barathrum Proper. They are called Shadowspawn because of one erroneous rumour during the Great Witchhunts...
Heir of Juinkarr: Darkest Hour
"Though they are supposed to be the most feared of all Shadowspawn species, very little is truly known about the creatures generically referred to as 'demons' [or 'Gatekeepers', as some sources from the Third Age indicate they liked to refer to...
March 2025 - The Last Musketeer
The Last Musketeer by Icurthus Lawrence can still remember the day his faith died. It was five years ago in a small room much like this one. Featureless, save for the small desk flanked by two chairs and a single oil lamp that provided a dim,...
Rite of Passage: Echoes of Prophecy
"Controversy exists if Time itself can be classified a class within the School of Elemental Magic. On one hand, it is undeniable that there exist spells and talisman-shapes that can have some influence over the hard to describe reality which is Time....
Rite of Passage: Shouts of Defiance
"The dominant religion of Selebore during the First Age and for most of the Second, before the expansion of the Potestan Empire onto the continent of Erindore, was greatly influenced by the original faith which was brought over by the humans...
Darahken Passions [word sketch]
Dusk was approaching. Akimere loved this time of day. The heat of the noon was no longer oppressive, and the cold of the coming night was yet to seep into the stones on which she was lounging. A small bird that was more sound than body was singing a...
Rite of Passage: Trumpets of War
"The name, Circle of Five is interchangeably used for either a combined _Council of Elders_ that govern the magi, as well as the actual structures that are arranged in a circle around the central Aether Temple as described below. With the decision to...
Heir of Juinkarr: Stroke of Midnight
"The Alliance of Light has a long, proud history of remaining apart from all authorities of Selebore, even if dubiously so. As such, they have from early on in their various incarnations seen themselves as an authority in their own right, on later...
Wages of Honour: Blood
"From dark, cold skies and screaming storm From constant strife, no compassion done. From rolling mist devoid of form We have come; from there we have come. To lightened skies and gentle breeze To colours bright and a warming sun. To a tender...
The Phoenixpyre - Inferno
"After the first sacking of the Ivory Tower at the end of the poorly named First Witch War, the surviving Magi council rebuilt their secret lives in the shadows of society. They remained largely unnoticed for just over forty years, until a chance...
The Phoenixpyre - Purgatory
"Much like the gryphons, who played a vital role in the defense of the Garbanan Peninsula during the later stages of The Shattering and throughout the Dark Age as a whole, the phoenixes also engraved themselves deeply into the common imagination. Being...