When the night had gone, I found my thoughts restless, stirred up from beneath by some cold and meandering current of unease. It was not as though the druids were celibate. Far from it, in fact—now and again I had stumbled across some pair of our hosts…or upon one memorable occasion, more than two—and […]
The Hall of Whispers was small by the standards of Raven Lake. Its stone ceiling was low, and there were no grand structures herein; only low-slung curbs of wood that demarcated regular spaces throughout the chamber. Here, far from the fires of the Ix-akad, the air was cooler, and rush mats served to cushion not […]
I stood in a vast and empty space. A cavern. A gulf. A cathedral. Once it had lived and breathed the Holy Writ, animated by the fire of light through stained glass. Now all that remained of its architecture was a span of broken cobblestone and the base of a fractured pulpit. At my feet, […]
The sun ascended inch by inch into the thick and snow-heavy clouds of the receding storm, and the shadow of that passing blizzard fell over the shores of Raven Lake like a funeral shroud. The golden fog began to wane even as we broke from the trees, the main part of our forces emerging from the […]
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