THE BLOG

"You should have let him keep the girl."

Threeves' voice echoed around the gardens like cracking ice on a frozen lake. Thunderous and badly restrained and dangerous - a tone no one used when speaking...

The Libarian – Part Two

The Hall of the Order was in flames.

How it happened was anyone's guess - there were hundreds, perhaps thousands, of wards and spells in the prison that activated once Jasper...

The Villa di Montedoro had stood in Florence for almost 3000 years. In that time, it had changed its shape to blend in with its surroundings - it had been a cave and a mountain and a villa. It had als...

Orion's mind was nearly set as he crossed the dark terrain. Nearly - because he still hadn't found one that ended well in every iteration of this story that he told himself.

Perhaps Varek was reasona...

For Orion, walking from Lucrezia’s villa to the local village felt like stepping into a world both serene and alive with activity. He trailed behind Lucrezia and Zephyra, conscious of the precarious n...

Jasper had never experienced weightlessness in his life – that was why, when he experienced it now, the term for such a sensation came to him slowly. The absence of tinnitus, aching joints, and a poun...

The country of Aramore, on the Northern end of the continent and great protector to the Sea, was a three week journey from Aetherill – or it would been if Bartholomew Threeves didn’t already have a st...

The Order of the Occasionally Occult or Arcane

Denmark, 749 AD

Rohan could see everything from his perch on the cliffside: the village tucked in the valley far below, the tiny houses nestled under a...

Poltergeist at Ravenscroft Manor – Part Four

It was always a terrible sight when a Knight of the Order returned from their mission unsuccessful; worse if they’d been recalled for poor performance. Th...

For a paralyzing moment, Jasper couldn’t see. He couldn’t move. He could only hear the horrible howling, like the souls of the damned climbing into his ear canals and refusing to leave. They were inex...

The Order of the Occasionally Occult or Arcane

Episode 002: Poltergeist at Ravenscroft Manor (Part Two)

In the Hall of the Order, heavy footfalls echoed across pillars made of ancient, hewn stone. B...