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ASHBORN PRIMORDIAL 2

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CONTENTS

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Ashborn Lore

1. A New Dawn Breaks

2. Guardian of the Ash

3. Squad Leader Maiya

(Part One)

4. Squad Leader Maiya

(Part Two)

5. Zorin - Town of Rainbows

6. Bargains & Brotherhoods

7. Spear’s Edge

8. Cave Patrol

9. Aryan

10. Bonds of Kinship

11. Avi—City of Water

12. The Road to Vir

13. The Banquet

14. Ekavir — Dungeon Diver

15. Ash Biter

16. Prana Blade

17. Narapazu

18. Way of the Giant

19. Party Time

20. Pure Seric

21. Force Multipliers

22. Breakthroughs

23. Princess Ira Kin’jal

24. Aranya Forest

25. Monsters of the Deep

26. Reconnaissance of the Shadow Demon

27. Predator and Prey

28. Guerrilla War

29. Brood Matron

30. Parai the Ancient

31. Retribution

32. The Princess and the Ravager

33. Of Bonds, Broken and Forged

34. Pagan Summons

35. Shattered Edge

36. Balindam

37. Lord Reth

38. Sanctuary

39. The Undercity

40. Voidlands

41. Unexpected Company

42. Raiders of the Night

43. A Clash of Red & Gold

44. Counterstrike

45. The Raid

46. Yesterday’s Friends

47. Today’s Enemies

48. Whole Again

49. The Same, Yet Different

50. Shackles of the Past

51. Destiny

52. To Cross the Ash

53. The Era of Demons

54. Upgrades

55. Prana Channeling

56. The Hardest Farewell

57. Hot Pursuit

58. The Ravager and the Shadow

(Part One)

59. The Ravager and the Shadow

(Part Two)

60. The Ravager and the Shadow

(Part Three)

61. The Akh Nara

62. Sarvaak, of Garga

63. Into the Ash

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1A NEW DAWN BREAKS

“Wake up,” Princess Mina Hiranya commanded, standing with her arm on her hip and her chest puffed out. From her haughty expression to her upturned chin, her every feature exuded an aura of overwhelming superiority.

Were a commoner to see her, they’d prostrate and grovel, even in her disfigured state.

Wooden limbs had replaced her disfigured ones, and while she hadn’t gotten used to walking on a peg leg, she didn’t need walking skills for what she was about to do.

The four-armed demon slowly opened his eyes. He leveled a stare that made Mina take a reflexive half step back, nearly stumbling over her peg leg.

The enormous chains that bound his neck, arms, and ankles each weighed as much as a man, and yet barely interfered with his motions. They jingled lightly as he shifted his body to a lounging position. Thick, sturdy steel beams separated the demon from the princess and her cadre of knights and mejai.

“Too much gold,” the four-armed giant said from within his oversized dungeon cell, eyeing the half dozen knights in full plate that ringed the princess. He paid the other six mejai that stood before him no mind. “Gaudy and hollow. That face you wear? Fake. That image you project? False. What are you, really?” the giant thundered, cracking his thick neck.

“Disregard his empty threats, princess,” a man said from beside Mina. A Mejai of Realms, and one of the finest in Hiranya. “The giant speaks grandly but look at him. He has not a shred of power left.”

“Half giant,” the demon corrected. “True demon giants would never fit in your tiny halls.”

“Tall tales!” the Mejai of Realms replied.

Mina ignored the mejai. “You speak as if you know me, half giant. Yet we have never met.”

“Girl, after four hundred years, a demon learns a thing or two about wearing faces. Why have you roused me from my slumber? Speak.”

By all rights, Mina was the authority figure here. She was not the one bound in heavy chains, nor was she subdued by an obedience collar that suppressed her powers and shocked her when she misbehaved. She was the princess of this kingdom, surrounded by some of the most powerful mejai and warriors the kingdom had.

And yet, to all in the room, it felt as if it were the opposite. They were like vassals prostrating before a god. The blue and gold tribal tattoos that covered every inch of the giant’s body only amplified the image. They spoke of an arcane power. A power lost to time, from an age long forgotten.