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Chapter 599 - Here Be Dragons

Artemis being around was great. We had enough people trying to cram into our tiny cottage, too many settlers, and literal mountains worth of trees that we decided to move into a bigger plot.

Given how mobile most of us were - excluding Raccoon and Titania, who were a bit on the slower side - we rebuilt our home over the ruin of our old one, finding countless treasures that had been buried and collapsed. The material wasn’t as nice, the place wasn’t nearly as...

Chapter 598 - Those Left Behind

I proudly looked at the three surviving trainees, Raccoon not in their number. I didn’t bother with a fancy speech, they didn’t need one, they probably wouldn’t register it anyway.

“Congratulations. You’ve done it.” I told the three malnourished, sleep-deprived, shivering - well, I couldn’t call them trainees anymore, could I? They were Rangers now, through the same hellish initiation I’d gone through.

Two of them passed out on the spot, and I...

Chapter 597 - The Ranger, The Adventurer, and The Library

A year after the [Lifebringers].

The [Lifebringers] changed everything. It was hard to overstate their impact. From roosters crowing to wake us up to logs in the fire, from all the food we could want to mundane segisaurs nipping at the edges of herds, from milk to cocoa to sugar beets resulting in tasty, delicious hot chocolate, everything was different with the wave of a Classer’s hands.

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Chapter 596 - Lifebringer

A tidal wave of green was surging towards us. Down the mountains and through the valleys, it moved at about half the speed of sound. Iona and Nina stepped up next to me, and Fenrir came down to land near us.

My eyes could pick out dewdrops on leaves from several miles away, and that’s exactly what I was seeing.

Life.

Hundreds of trees, thousands of leaves, and millions of blades of grass unfurling in the green wake. Animals of all ...

The great Beneath the Dragoneye Moons fanfiction project

Top line tldr: you’re allowed to monetize fanfiction of BTDEM if you’re not a jerk about it.

Hello all!

I’m pleased to announce a project of mine has quietly been completed! You’re now able to make AND MONETIZE just about any btdem fanfiction!

I like fanfictions decently well. Never written any* (okay sure the annual April fools crossover probably counts), but I’ve enjoyed reading a few here and there. I always felt it was such a shame the ...

Chapter 595 - The Wheel of Time

It was winter, and I was sitting around the Auri-fire with everyone else, telling tales with a dramatic flourish as snow fell softly around our cabin.

It was spring, and I was pulling on the plow with conjured rope. One of those unexpectedly hard to replace items, we couldn’t afford to lose any more. We were attacked by shambling dead men infested with spores. The zombies had frozen over the winter, and were slowly invading as they - and their mushroom controllers - thawed ...

Chapter 594 - Smoke, no mirrors

AN: Reminder! I'm so sorry about this, but October is 2 chapters/week as I recover both my backlog and shake the last bits of being sick off. Posts are Monday/Friday. Normal chapters resume in November!

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It took ages to get us all settled. We were going to have a reunion right now, no matter the conditions. It was just a little difficult to find a spot that could accommodate all of us, then we needed to run and let Raccoon and Titania know ...

Book 13 is live on Amazon today!

Hey all!

I want to say thank you for your support over the years. Thank you, each and every one of you, for helping support Beneath the Dragoneye Moons, and making it a reality. I couldn't do this without you, and I'm forever grateful.

First! Books 1-3 are FREE on Amazon right now! Go grab a copy if you haven't already!

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Quite a f...

Iona Tier October Incentive! Back to Elaine!

Hey all!

Due to some artist things shuffling around, I've placed an order for twice the amount of incentive artwork! Hopefully it'll actually materialize....

We're back to Elaine!
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Chapter 593 - Monster Attack

“Are we worried about Fenrir yet?” I asked. I was huddled in front of the fire, wrapped in a dozen blankets and drinking hot tea by the gallon. It was the perfect hack. I was immune to fire, not a hot cup of tea, and it was warming me up nicely. I occasionally shot fowl looks at everyone else. Auri was content in the fireplace, being the great heater. Iona and Titania had stripped down in the heat, and Raccoon had thrown modesty to the wind. To them, it was warm and balmy, p...

Chapter 592 - Law and Order

Every eighth day was ‘community day’. Most everyone got together in the morning to talk and socialize, and the afternoon was for community efforts. From sweeping the roads clear of snow and ash to digging wells, there was always something we could band together to get done. The goblins were strangely enthusiastic about the whole thing, shovels and mud flying everywhere as they worked twice as hard as the humans next to them. 

I had no idea what that was...

Chapter 591 - Snowflakes

The ashes came up to my shins now. I couldn’t decide if I wanted to walk on the ashes without leaving a trace, or sink through, leaving swishing footprints in the grey remnants of life and civilization.

It was cold far earlier in the year than it had any right to be, and I suspected we were in for a particularly harsh and brutal winter. Auri was going to be a literal lifesaver hundreds of times over - without easy access to firewood to burn, with limited reserves, the fact ...

Chapter 590 - Cleanup

The Guardian vanished moments after I let the harpy die, and I shuddered at the thought of the Vorler running around loose. His title of ‘The Merciful’ didn’t exactly inspire pretty images either - I could only imagine what a vorler considered to be ‘mercy’.

I paced back and forth, considering my next moves, envying Raccoon’s ability to sleep through anything. Which was a bit of a surprise to me, I would’ve expected goblins to sleep ...

Major Schedule Change for October - READ ME

Hey all!

I'll get right to it: I'm sick, I've been sick ever since I caught covid, and my writing pace has tanked massively. I've managed to keep my quality up, but my quantity is suffering quite a bit, and I've been burning backlog to stay on top of it.

My backlog's officially redlining right now. It's too small, and I'm taking drastic measures to not end up writing against the deadline, which will MURDER quality super duper hard.

I'm dropping to two chapters a we...

Chapter 589 - Plague Wind

Raccoon was a new and interesting presence in our lives. I was less than impressed with her desire to learn ALL THE VIOLENCE from Iona and her reluctance to do the hard, needed farm work, but Iona managed to get her round.

Weeks passed, and carrots died. The hardiest ones were growing into small and scraggly little things, but by the gods, they were alive. Growing, promising more food, promising to extend our stores.

Raccoon ap...

Chapter 588 - Raccoon

Titania showed up about three minutes after Iona and I were done with our inspection. She snapped her fingers, and all the sawdust, tracked mud, and general mess that was the aftermath of a construction site vanished. Nails and other such useful items slid across the floor and whizzed through the air until they were neatly stacked and arranged. We were in the middle of giving her an enthusiastic tour - earnestly explaining why the trapdoor was a great idea, and pla...

Chapter 587 - Hammers, Nails, and Shovels

Everywoman: You’ve dabbled in a little bit of everything. From sewing like a tailor to enchanting fields, from studying biomancy to being a Ranger, from chopping down trees to telling stories, from meditating as a monk to running missives as a courier, growing gardens and tilling fields, working as a carpenter and casting spells as a wizard, healing people and fighting monsters, you’ve touched upon a thousand professions. Now go forth, and touch ten thousand more. Im...

Chapter 586 - Sing

I lost the bet by hours. One of the gods fucking with things was outside of my calculations, and the sun was high in the sky by the time I finished my network.

I felt passingly clever over the whole thing, even though I was cribbing from ‘Wizard poles’, thick pillars of stone and arcanite engraved with enchantments, usually found in more rural areas where centralized networks didn’t work. I couldn’t make an entire field-wide enchantment - but ...

Chapter 585- The First Seed

The Potentials had gotten varying [Surveying] skills, and many hands made light work. The grid for New Orthus sprang up with minimal problems, and the more important work of marking out farms and plots started, and quickly got to the stage where we could start the farming process.

The math on how large each plot should be was fascinating. Assuming wheat - the dominant crop of the region - one acre was about 4 million calories, and a person needed about 7...

Iona Tier Incentive for September

Hey all!

Continuing the 'other girls' theme, we have Skye! Enjoy!

PS: It'll probably be Elaine next month!

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Book 13 epub and preorder!

Hey all!

I'm trying to balance recovery with not leaving an absolute disaster for Future Selkie.

Book 13 epub and pdf! I'm trying something new to make it ~very pretty~, and I think I succeeded!

Get them NOW.

I'm trying something a little different.

I heard all of you when you mentioned 'hey, we pay for patreon, but Amazon gets the story at the same time! We pay more here', and yeah. I'm all for that.

So for book 13, you all got the end of...

No Chapters next week

Hey all!

I'm SICK.

Covid got me and my family on Monday, and I've been steadily getting worse the entire week. I've gotten SHIT done, and I'm in worse shape than when admin week started.

I'm so sorry.

I feel really bad about this, I do. Especially with needing two weeks in July to move, then two weeks in September? I'm beating myself up over this quite a bit. It's not what I've promised all of you. It's not the commitment I've made.

...

Chapter 584 - The First Pillar of Civilization

My mango trees were burning.

Half the mountain was burning, one of the endless wildfires dotting the landscape. A cursory look suggested some asshole Classer had dropped a [Firebomb] or something similar on our villa - it was nearly charred black, with burnt and blackened trees surrounding our home, followed by a ring of fire around it. Trees crackled and popped, sap boiling out and exploding, while flaming branches fell over, spreading the fire more. Th...

Chapter 583 - Nadir

We flew, we healed, we fought and we ran. Levels rolled in like the tide. We got hit by Lightning, buffeted by Gale winds strong enough to move Fenrir, and almost smacked by the Sea of Stars as something tried to ‘lift’ the entire thing up.

We’d followed the coast of the Sea of Stars, civilization sprouting where water met land like moss on a stone.

We were in Nippon-Koku when the sky turned to flames. I wasn’t being metaphorical - from ...

Chapter 582 - Decisions

AN: Quick announcement!
Between feeling sick and my daughter's baptism, I'm taking the first week of September as Admin week to try and recover/celebrate with family coming in from out of town. There's a slim chance I'll be slowing down in the month as well. I really, REALLY don't want to, but my head's been in a bad place over the last two-ish months writing wise, and it might be time to readjust/recover. I'm also looking into getting back on ADHD meds, which I've been off for a little mo...

Chapter 581 - I will not discriminate who I heal

We were at war.

There was no debate about it, no question. The only true ‘question’ was whether Exterreri even continued to reasonably exist. The potential collapse of enough aspects of government and communication could have erased the realities of the nation. 

Everyone was at war, with some Classers seemingly hellbent on extermination, while others fought to protect people. Some fought for love, some for hate, and many hid. I found, i...

Chapter 580 - Unsafe Travels

We had Valytheria. 

A trio of notifications rang in my ears, shared experience with Auri leveling both [Sage of Tomes] and [Seraph of the Dawn]. Far better than the kill notifications - the System was overly generous sometimes, considering us part of the same party. Then again, to be fair, we had been the distraction while Auri went raiding, so perhaps it was more clever than I gave it credit for.

There had probably...

Chapter 579 - Interlude - Auri - Valytheria, the World Sunderer

AN: This was the worst admin week EVER. I need a break to recover from this admin week... the RR publishing announcement and all the stress around that, selling the house woes, kiddo got sick then I got sick... cripes. Only got half of my TODO list done.

However! I've made my commitments! The show must go on! Just keep in mind next admin week is likely to be more early September instead of later in the month (Sorry!) My daughter's getting baptized, there's lots of family coming in from...

Iona Tier Incentive for August

Before I forget...

Reinhard! Elaine's kirin roommate from the School!

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Announcement - Next week admin week

Hey all!

I was trying to power through until the end of August, but my head isn't there and I don't think I can do it and deliver good chapters.

We already saw that this week where TWO of the chapters were a little undercooked, and still needed more editing. I completely punted, that's on me. I've gone back and fixed Wednesday's chapter (Patreon NOT updated yet), and I'll be fixing Friday's chapter later tonight.

I've also had a hell of a time with writing and my head thi...