Somebody coughed, and I felt the vague desire to murder them for disturbing my rest. “You’ve got… like… some number of seconds or minutes to… do the explain-y thing.” “Shadow, we got the information!” shouted a voice far too cheery…
You can’t avoid it forever. Oh? Watch me. I sighed as I walked down the street, leaving town. Everywhere I went, I saw Shadow. And that topic was just too stressful right now. I needed to do something… No, I…
Okay Clary, here’s your big chance to impress Shadow! I just have to do the research, and she’ll be so impressed she’ll fall in love with me right then and there! Okay, that probably won’t happen. But still, good things…
Ah, Widow’s Dusk. A city. Not really as grandiose as Raven’s Shade so I honestly don’t care to describe it. I stepped onto the ground a few meters from a house just as normal as the rest. I strolled up…
I sighed at Kiana’s latest theatrics. Always with that nonsensical love of the grandiose. After she left the room I called out, “This meeting of the council is dismissed. Any remaining discussion may be had at the next meeting, and…
Having discarded the minotaur meat a while back to look civil, I slinked into Raven’s Shade looking all regal and important and other such nonsense. I ignored the commoners, encountered no guards this time, and made my way to one…
Dark lion. A big furry animal with a regal mane, dark eyes, and magically-enhanced defenses that include a minor resistance to elemental magic. On average, it takes a patrol of three slayers and a caster to take one down. Dead.…
Gleaming spires towered above the city, resplendent in their dark glory. The streets were paved in cobblestone patterns evocative of the monsters, the hidden things, the secrets in the shadows. It was a city of darkness, but more than that…
Furious hatred, seething rage, and calculating intelligence. A being of power and might so vast as to consume reality. A being imprisoned in a place where reality itself means nothing, an empty void containing a terrible being constantly reaching out…