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“Huh.” Felix said. “Do you mind if I–?”
“Analyze? Sure.”
Voracious Eye.
Name: Archibald Ross
Race: Delven
Level: 72
HP: 4482/4482
SP: 3347/3347
MP: 3266/6533
Lore: A Lost Race, the Delven were early ancestors of the modern Gnome. They are a slim people, with prominent noses and an easy mastery over ...
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“This is the place?” Archie asked, his thick eyebrows lifted to the brim of his cap. “Swanky.”
“Mm,” Felix grunted. “Cost an arm and a leg too.”
“Oh? So you’re rich, huh?”
Felix just smiled and gestured across the courtyard, leading his shaky ally onto the wide steps of the Torrent’s Rest.
Getting Archibald—he preferred Archie—back to the inn hadn’t been easy. Felix had been quizzed...
2023-06-23 12:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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The low passage was uncomfortable, but it didn’t last long. After twenty or so strides they came to a set of stairs, and the ceiling there was far taller, allowing Felix to unbend his considerable height. The steps themselves were odd, built for shorter feet, but that just meant Felix skipped three at a time. A good thing, as the eyepatched bartender hustled up th...
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“That is a very big statue,” Felix said to no one in particular.
He stood at Shaper Square, as it was apparently called, just on the other side of the squeeze of streets that led away from the Torrent’s Rest. It was full dark but lamps sat at steady intervals down every thoroughfare and side alley. Their light was buttery yellow bordering on orange, and min...
2023-06-19 12:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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Finding the Torrent’s Rest was just as simple as Doric had promised, though perhaps they had an easier time of it than most. The ice sleds drew interest in the packed streets, but the Claw had grown into a fearsome bunch. The vast majority of the crowds were Apprentice Tier or lower, and while most people couldn’t identify one’s advancement at a glanc...
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The warding around the High Roads faded considerably by the time they had reached the gates of Birchstone, and the storm had reached its fullest measure. The whipping winds and blinding snow flurries had gotten so bad, that at one point Felix had been forced to shape it away. A difficult task, not only due to the amount of Mana it burned through but because he made an effort to be subtle about it. They still ended up pummeled by sleet and a bi...
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It was hours yet to Birchstone, and at first the journey was slow and silent as the ever-increasing snowfall. Accumulation didn’t bother them, not on enchanted roads that repelled the ice, but it did fill the air until their odd processional was marching through a column of white, cut only by the rarest glimpses of distant daylight. Golden sigils ignited along the for...
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Captain Doric of the Stoneheart Vanguard watched his men die.
He’d seen many die before, whether it was to Frost Giants raids or the monsters of the Rimefangs, and had thought himself inured to it—the blood, the stench. Each of their deaths had been for a greater cause, a noble victory. Now, facing down a clutch of River Trolls gone rabid, Doric could not...
2023-06-09 12:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post600 Chapters! That's pretty dang wild. Thanks for being here with me on this crazy journey, friends.
Wouldn't be the same without ya.
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It was far easier to hold onto his Abyssal Skein outside of the Dark Passage, even when Felix extended it across the entire company. Where before the ability squirmed from his control, now it merely felt as it always had: a ...
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The rift opened up into a massive snowdrift, and his Claw members floundered in the heavy banks for several long seconds before Felix emerged. He used Rime Shaping to clear a path.
“Thank you, sir,” said one of the scouts between shivers. “Just about drowned in all that snow.”
“Don’t mention it—”
Felix stumbled, his words ...
2023-06-05 12:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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The winged ship was very big, and Felix had designed it to more than accommodate all of the people who followed him. Rooms for sleep, to eat, and most importantly: rooms to train. Two entire lower decks had been made, reinforced as best Felix could manage, so that the Claw could spar and practice their Skills with little worry. There had been a few explosions ...
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The first thing Vess helped him do was clear up the grass in his field of statues. Some grass was left, but the vast majority was eliminated and the ground below it resolved into a pattern of concentric circles. Each of the circles was made of a metal-like chitin, bright green in color and somewhat raised from the Golden Death Beetle’s carapace...
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The Sailwhale floated through an infinite twilight, its crystalline balloon-thingie lighting up what was already a dim darkness. The Claw moved calmly along the gunwales, patrolling in case of another Void beast attack, but mostly it was silent. There wasn’t even a breeze, just the distant impression of mountains ...
Sorry for the delay on Monday's chapter. I flew back in late Sunday and it's been a heck of a time getting back up to speed. Chapter will be up on Tuesday, and normal updates resume thereafter. Thanks!
2023-05-30 05:22:18 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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Light, but this is excruciatingly boring.
The thought was inescapable as Mervin trailed behind the Dwarven Chanter Tzfell. She had requested some assistance from Loquis and had instead volunteered Mervin for the honor. Mervin was originally going to refuse—he had planned to get some extra training in with the other Blades—but that’s when Loquis ...
2023-05-26 23:06:57 +0000 UTC View PostSorry for the delay. I'm in another state right now, visiting my publisher. Here's Wednesday's chapter, and Friday's will come tomorrow, as usual.
As a bonus, this chapters a bit longer than usual. Enjoy!
Note: I realized I made a mistake with some elemental names. The Frostfather has been changed in my master doc to a Supreme Elemental as his Type. The Cinderwing and Greater Gold Obelons recently in the Starfield Step are all Greater Elementals still.
2023-05-25 13:52:48 +0000 UTC
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A little check in with our friends.
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“Would my lord wish for a menu? Or perhaps just a wine list?”
“No, no, I’m still waiting,” Atar said. “He’ll be here, any moment. My apologies for the trouble.”
“For the esteemed Glyphmaster, it is no trouble at all.” The server gave a wide smile and retreated back...
2023-05-22 17:01:18 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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The objects within the Chest sang with power, exciting the storm of Mana that gathered above it. He could have just eaten the accumulated power, but it would only return. Some items simply had that effect on ambient Mana. So he ignored it, squinted through the chaos, and spied three items nestled atop a padded interior.
He lifted the metallic piece fir...
2023-05-19 16:15:27 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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It’s a Memory, Felix realized. He’d seen more than his fair share…just never out in the real world. What is—is the Seal projecting this?
He ran his hand through the ghostly Dwarf, and it felt much the same as when Knowledge had appeared in his Stronghold. This time, however, the illusion spread, until it described a sphere approximately thirt...
2023-05-17 15:53:08 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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Beef was done with all the fighting. It had crawled up his spine, an old familiar feeling from back home—from his parents. It had taken all of his Willpower not to lash out at the nearest giant. When Felix mentioned the wall, Beef didn’t have to think. He needed out.
The wall, however, was much less than he expected.
“AH!” Beef shot through ...
2023-05-15 23:27:49 +0000 UTC View PostA bit late. My daughter stayed home sick, so she was the priority today. But! Still wanted to get this out relatively on time.
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“Do you think it is safe?” Vess asked.
“I really doubt it.” Felix peered into the dark hall beyond the Gloaming Gate. It was bored straight into the Kingsrock, and the thick shadows were unmarred by the inscrip...
2023-05-13 05:48:36 +0000 UTC View PostFriends, Fiends, and Folks of the Continent!
You all voted and I am here to deliver! Up now on my publisher's storefront are two items: Book 1 - Dissonance (only 20 individual copies currently available!), and Books 1-7 (only 50 sets currently available!) bundled together!
Book 1 - Dissonance Only (signed by me)
2023-05-11 19:14:09 +0000 UTC
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7:21 remaining…
Felix bobbed and weaved around the Forge Knight’s swings. The weapon wasn’t huge, but it was hefty, and the arm behind it was tireless—and talented. Every move from the Dwarven warrior was precise, each hammer blow carrying the momentum of the previous one, and its shield was just another weapon in its hands. The undead dis...
2023-05-10 17:33:23 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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“I’ll take the little ones,” Pit said. “You take the big ones.”
Felix grinned as the undead trundled forward. They were faster than he expected for corpses, but not fast enough. “Are those your tactics books talking?”
Pit nodded, giant eyes serious. “‘Divide and conquer.’”
“Right. Go.”
They split, Pit strafing aroun...
2023-05-08 12:45:35 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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“We made it!” Pit cried out. His Companion was right up against him but the roar of the winds almost drowned out his voice. “Felix! Let go!”
“He cannot hear us!” Vess reached out and hissed in pain as the light around Felix intensified. “I cannot reach him!”
“I got it! Convergence!”
Pit vanished and r...
2023-05-05 15:44:11 +0000 UTC View PostBook 7 Releases Today! Abyss is available now on Amazon and Audible!
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Thank you everyone for your continued support!
Onward to the chapter!
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The blade bent and groaned as it impacted his Adept Tier Body, but his scales were seconds too la...
The day has come! Book 7 is out now on Amazon (ebook and Kindle Unlimited) and Audible!
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The moment they pierced the boundary ward, it was like a mountain falling on his ears. Glaciers hurled into the sky, thrown vertical as well as horizontal by some insane force, only to collide with one another in cataclysmic impacts. Those savage detonations tore at his ears and shoved at his chest like a mattress filled with pure lead.
“Laur! Shields!...
2023-05-01 13:53:37 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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The sound of skis over frozen tundra was almost as loud as the wind that whipped down from the distant mountains, interrupted only by the heavy pants of the scarred Hoarhounds yoked to each of their sleds. Night had well and truly fallen, but the dark was a fleeting thing due to the waxing moons above; the snow-reflected light was enough to cut the shadows into a false twilight. Felix sat at the front of their company, first among a fleet of thirty ...
Are you interested in purchasing signed copies of Unbound? I've had a few people ask about them, and I inquired with my publisher. They can make it happen, but I need some info from you all first!
They would be paperback copies, signed by me. They would be available starting in June for purchase on my publisher's website (Mountaindale Press).
Unbound Book 1 - Dissonance - approximately $29.99 + Shipping & Handling + taxes
Unbound Series (So Fa...