The people of Ethshar had been calmly going about their lives until the night something happened, and thousands of people woke up screaming. Hundreds vanished, never to be seen again; many were seen flying away, never to return; and many of those...
The means of making a wizard’s magical dagger was a closely-guarded secret, but Tabaea the Thief had spied on the lessons a wizard gave his apprentice, and thought she could do it herself.
She was wrong. What she made was not a wizard’s...
They told Dumery he had no talent for magic and could never be a wizard, so he set out to become one of the tradesmen to whom even the wizards had to humble themselves — a dragon hunter, supplying the dragon‘s blood the wizards needed for their...
Sterren was a street kid who made his living playing dice in the taverns of Ethshar — until an ill-tempered noblewoman showed up and informed him that he was the heir to the warlord of Semma. As warlord, it was his duty to defend the kingdom from...
The apprenticeship of orphaned would-be wizard Tobas of Telven ended suddenly when his master died after teaching him only a single simple fire-lighting spell. Left with nothing else, he set out to make his way in the world — and found himself in...
Ethshar and the Northern Empire have been at war for hundreds of years. Hardly anyone alive remembers why, or over what. The tempest, turmoil, and war are endless, and the killing more endless still. The war has become not just a way of life, but...
She was everything he wanted, and everything he had been promised. A fortune-teller’s prophecy had sent Kelder of Shulara to seek adventure along the Great Highway. He had been ready to give it up, and dismiss the seer as a fraud, when he met...