Lore Drop – Still As Ice
Silence falls in the gorge that is also a tomb. The Winter’s Knight stands alone, his sword raised and ready, the blow held before it could land. Then he sheathes it in a fluid motion when it is...
View ArticleLore Drop – Something Wicked This Way Comes
The Blackcap mountains are a magical place, even by the standards of the Aundair/Breland borders. Over the years the peaks and passes have endured the passing of armies, the thunder of magical and...
View ArticleLore Drop – Oortok’s Busy Day
“Up! Up I get, so much to do and so many scrolls!” If there were a simple way to describe Oortok’s mental processes, this wouldn’t be a bad place to start. Like many in the Fireclan – short for...
View ArticleShort Fiction – Special Delivery
A cold wind gusted briefly through the part-opened door. It made threadbare curtains curl and twitch before they settled back into a gentle swaying motion. The swirling winter air shifted again,...
View ArticleLore Drop – Vargas
In his study, the crackle of flames in the fireplace comfort Vargas. His comfortable chair was one of the luxuries he had made sure to bring with him on his travels across Khorvaire. Built from...
View ArticleLore Drop – Hunters Hunted
In the frozen wilds that are now the merged lands of mortals and fey, all that is mortal is still and silent. But these lands are also vital and dangerous. Anything that is of the fey world now lives...
View ArticleLore Drop – Goblin Huddle
The tribe huddled in the hag’s parlour. The doors were bolted, the fires stoked, the windows barred against the killing cold. The younglings had never known winter like it, but the elders, and Jennin...
View ArticleLore Drop – of Hags and Wise Women
In the Eberron campaigns I’m running, there’s always a fluidity and blurring of alignments and expectations in line with the underlying principles of the setting. This was one of the things that drew...
View ArticleLore Drop – Mouse Quest
A trail remains in the snows that seems to consist of hops, skips, and falls of someone with very large feet and a dragging belly. From time to time there are gaps in the trail as it passes between...
View ArticleLore Drop – The Raiser of Kittens
In the small valley below a frost-blasted oak, grass grows once more. The snows have retreated, and the tenacious vitality of nature is putting through green shoots of new life on a landscape that has...
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