Author's Note: People didn't seem that interested in the last codex, so this will probably be the last one. I'm only submitting it because I already had it done. This is the history of the gem that Datoran gives Lyriena in chapter one. **** 69 years before the beginning of the current Age of Peace, the Moon of Deznessuian was found in a mine on the isle of...
When I was young, I believed that the gods were our perfect caretakers. They blessed us with bountiful food, the greatness of Sparta, and powerful mystics to give us direction in life. But those powerful mystics were the very same who robbed me of true life, true freedom, and those gods were the same gods who let me rot in my husband's cold prison of a palac...
Silvertree Chronicles Book One, The World Awaits, Chapter 30, (Enhanced Edition) Synopsis: The life of Eldar Silvertree from graduation at the prestigious Elven Academy and desire to leave it behind. Only to return full circle to shake Elven Society to the core. ***Inspired by multiple fantasy environments. Not endorsed by any of them. © EmotionalStorm Apr...
Tina was doing her thing when I got back to the office. She had sent off email enquiries to all the relevant authorities and was now sitting at her desk perusing the land registry plan and comparing it with a large scale map she had brought up on the computer. "You know there's a house on this property, don't you?" "I wouldn't say a house; I thought it was...
A single candle, and ten thousand shining eyes to watch its light. That's the way I feel now, siting here in my pool of light. I now only know when there are souls on the quay when I hear them scream, as the demons take one of them, or when Charon arrives and his lantern lights their frightened faces. Occasionally one of them comes to try and congregate at m...
It should have been a fantastic day for me I had just turned 25 and as such I was to inherit the empire my unmarried Uncle Salvatore had left behind after his brief illness that fateful evening 8 years ago. Uncle Salvatore had interests in clothing, aviation, real estate and a host of other businesses which he started and within a short span of 25 years buil...
You could see the castle slowly burning to the ground, the home of your family for the last 1000 years. Your father the king must be dead by now, punished by his greed. You barely escaped the onslaught together with your two of your sisters. If it hadn't been for your mother the queen you would have perished too. All your brothers fought in the battle, while...
You are a private detective named John Doe, living in London. You have a small office over a pub that has good Shepherd's Pie and excellent stout on tap. You have a secretary/bookkeeper named Marie, who comes in three days a week to catch up on bills, correspondence, and cleaning. She is a dark-haired beauty, though you haven't made any moves on her. She's o...
Artemis White was the youngest daughter of the warlord and royal Nahuel White and his wife, Kainda. The White family had presided over a large part of Northern Europe for nearly two centuries; independent from the human ruling powers though of course the humans didn't know this. They were among the oldest of the royal shapeshifter families in Europe that sti...
The final notes of Pratallix's 12th Concerto for Kalushtra hung in the air, like fine crystal, before the audience broke into thunderous applause. Farrah Farruhz, the celebrated virtuoso, stood up from her instrument and fluttered her white-feathered wings, acknowledging the 15,000 aliens who had gathered into the Galos City Centennial Concert Hall to hear h...