Epic Fantasy
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Ink and Wonder
The evening light filtered through the tall windows of the Lumenvale Daily Chronicle building, casting long shadows across Edmund Silverquill’s cluttered desk as he leaned back in his worn leather chair. His fingers, permanently stained with ink from two decades of column writing, traced the edges of the letter that had arrived that morning—another piece Continue reading
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The Warrior’s Rest
Grasha Ironquiet pulled her woolen shawl closer as she stepped onto the stone porch of her cottage, the morning air carrying the crisp promise of autumn’s deeper embrace. From her doorway, she could see neither Lumenvale’s towering Crystal Spires nor the market square of Thornhaven, though both lay within an easy hour’s journey by horseback. Continue reading
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The Light That Finds Us
The first light of dawn touched the Crystal Spires as Matthias Lightbringer knelt in the small chapel attached to his family’s home, his weathered hands pressed together in the familiar ritual that had shaped his mornings for thirty-seven years. The ancient stones around him seemed to breathe with accumulated prayers, their surfaces worn smooth by Continue reading
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Following The Current
How do you plan your goals? Coral-singer Delian Tidescale drifted through the kelp forest gardens of Pearlheart, her scaled hands moving in practiced patterns as she coaxed new growth from the luminescent fronds that swayed in the city’s artificial currents. The kelp responded to her touch with gentle pulses of blue-green light, each strand reaching Continue reading
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The Compass Within
Kharis Sandstrider pressed her palm against the crystalline surface of the scrying bowl, feeling the heat that radiated from its core—a fragment of concentrated ruby dust that held the memories of a thousand desert storms. The bowl’s surface shimmered with heat mirages, but these weren’t the false visions that plagued ordinary travelers. These were deliberate Continue reading
Chadwick Rye 