Short Story – We Have A System
Planning things – I hear that’s something people do. They can conceive a series of steps in a linear series that starts with the foundations and moves forward, building towards a coherent outcome...
View ArticleLore Drop – Kher’s Wait
Kher squatted in the snow by the blasted oak, and settled his roughly forged hammer against a nearby fallen tree trunk. His mother had sent him to meet the travellers. This time he was not expected to...
View ArticleLore Drop – Rakken’s View
The wilderness seems bleak, but Rakken is enthralled. His companions on the journey leak secrets and tales. It’s like they are surrounded in a veritable cloud of memories and speech, and images that...
View ArticleLore Drop – A Knock on the Door
Something that seems quite strange to the modern population of Eberron is the belief system of the old goblin tribes. Before the humans brought their god shapes to Khorvaire there was no recognised...
View ArticleDDC – Future Flash Lore Drop
And here we are, together once more, walking the freshly scrubbed decks of a ship. Constructed of soarwood, it skims below the clouds. Constrained by gem-set pylons and a ring of precious metals that...
View ArticleLore Drop – An Infernal Interlude
Derroghast pauses in the Poison Garden and observes the growth of infernal branches through and beneath the skin of the nearest mortal soul. Like the others it is suspended around a calming fountain...
View ArticleDDC Lore Drop – The Old Shop
Even in the biggest and brightest of proud cities, there are the quiet places. The front lines of the Last War ebbed and flowed on their many fronts, and despite the grand civic works, there are scars...
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Lore Drop – Unquiet Valleys
Rictallius the Bone Collector watched the hexbloods and their companions disappear from view. The gangling nothic was the first to be obscured by the fall of the path. Twitching and distracted, it...
View ArticleLore Drop – The Magen
The Librarian conducted one more circuit of the crowded square. With a wave of subdued annoyance it concluded that the dragonborn interloper had managed to evade it. It paused and let the crowds part...
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Lore Drop – Aftermath
Laren looks into the mirror as the adventurers shout after their fleeing companion. He can’t help but feel that his eyes are no longer his own. The plain brown eyes he has known his whole life have...
View ArticleLore Drop – Rakken No More
The dwarven stronghold of the Amberhammers is built into the side of a mountain. It has a terraced garden on its northwest side next to broad stone steps that lead down to a town that is still being...
View ArticleLore Drop – A Watch Man’s Day
Yeltun Faydch shook his head at the scene before him. Life had been so much simpler before. In the old days there had been privation and death but it had been wartime and it brought into focus just...
View ArticleLore Drop – Moving Day
There had been a lot of builders working on Katya’s house, adding an extension. It was well known that she had taken on Kerne’s sister as an apprentice so it only made sense that more space would be...
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Lore Drop – Bolt
The offloading of cargo had gone smoothly, and a fresh load of provisions was being secured below by Drevit with the usual level of orcish profanities. Bolt took a moment to scan round the deck and...
View ArticleLore Drop – Draconic Prophecy: The Written Scribes
If the Written Scribe tells the stories of the dead before the throne of Winter, attended by the Daughter of Hearts then there may be an end to cycles, or a path for the Fury of War to contend with...
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Lore Drop – The Fall of The Hearthsflame
Laren was among the first to feel it. He’d just finished washing up after his evening meal and was standing in his garden. Sunset was always his favourite time of day – winding down after a busy one...
View ArticleLore Drop – Fellestri
Eyes larger than a pony narrowed in contemplation. There had been a moment of surprise at the sudden shift in the runes in the stones, but it had been fleeting. A creature of guile and deceit that had...
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Lore Drop – A Letter From Faye
Dearest sister – I have only just noticed that you took your copy of the journal with you, and so I hope that this message finds you well. In truth, I hope that this method of getting a message to you...
View ArticleFiction Fragment – Waiting For A Good Dog
A kaleidoscopic fan of light was washing lazily across the wet road and glum buildings, cast by advertising hoardings. From the look of it someone had got into the display memories and overwritten...
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Lore Drop – Luma
The salt spray was a familiar friend as Luma stood at the prow of the longship. The winds were in their favour so this was merely the challenge of the sea as they forged their path home. To the North...
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