Miriam and Seraphina on a Serenelle (Gondola)
Chapter 1 of book 2.
2025-07-12 09:13:31 +0000 UTC View Post
grievinglands activity
TO&FQ: Book 3: Chapter 7 (RAW)
Chapter 7 - The Price of Progress
If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
- Frederick Douglass.
Seraphina drained the last of her flagon, the dwarven brew thick and earthy on her tongue. It was a strange thing, this ale fermented from mushrooms rather than grain, with an umami undernote...
2025-07-10 11:51:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Book 6: Chapter 22 - A Contest of Blades (RAW)
The heartbeat of risk is where true growth lives.
- The Manifold Paths Of Wisdom from the Land of Streams.
It did not take long to find a suitable place—after all, we were surrounded by nothing but desert. Time and again, the old fool tried to dissuade me, spouting the usual drivel about youthful recklessne...
2025-07-08 14:11:16 +0000 UTC View PostTO&FQ: Book 3: Chapter 6 (RAW)
Chapter 6 - Undertown
Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
- Theodore Roosevelt.
With a change of horses at every major town, Seraphina and her men made excellent time crossing the Kingdom and returning to the Sariens Duchy. Now reu...
2025-07-07 05:11:48 +0000 UTC View PostBook 6: Chapter 21 - The Blind Swordsman (RAW)
A weak people are the sign of a strong society.
- Attributed to the First Tamkar of the Sultanate of Al-Lazar.
Outside the glow of the city lights, the nights stretched out like tapestries of stars, so many scattered across the sky that I found myself slowly beginning to look forward to them. Estaza, in her way, pro...
2025-07-04 10:49:53 +0000 UTC View PostTO&FQ: Book 3: Chapter 5 (RAW)
Chapter 5 - An Opportunity
Unraveling external selves and coming home to our real identity is the true meaning of soul work.
- Sue Monk Kidd.
It was, by every sensible measure, a leisurely journey from Troyes back to bustling Meridian—one undertaken in an unassuming yet surprisingly comforta...
2025-07-02 13:54:24 +0000 UTC View PostBook 6: Chapter 20 - A New Journey (RAW)
The heart of a woman is unfathomable only if you are not one yourself.
- Attributed to the playwright Vlan di Panoli
“Yesterday is finished, tomorrow has yet to arrive, and today remains an unknown.” Among the desert tribes and the people of Al-Lazar, the saying was as common as sand—once dismissed by me as tr...
2025-07-01 11:06:02 +0000 UTC View PostGilgamesh's Status, forgot to put it one of the chapters.
These are his latest skills, stats, and xp. Gifts remain the same. Patreon wasn't playing nice with tables for a while.
2025-07-01 03:55:11 +0000 UTC View PostTO&FQ: Book 3: Chapter 4 (RAW)
Chapter 4 - A Return to Normalcy
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
- George Bernard Shaw.
Dawn broke over the broken ruins of Milani Village, its pale light filtering through the shattered shutters of Gaellan’s house. Seraphina stirred in the narrow be...
2025-06-28 02:35:16 +0000 UTC View PostDragon Balalazanga (initial sketch)
Last Boss of Book 2 TO&FQ
2025-06-27 23:18:20 +0000 UTC View PostBook 6: Chapter 19 - The Mercenaries
“In the far future, if the bards yet sing of this age, they shall not sing of heroes and radiant virtue. They shall sing of men broken by fate, of crowns reforged from chains, and of justice drowned in blood. They shall not sing of a saviour come, they shall sing of the Wandering Scourge, a warning etched in darkness and the Lord of Ash an...
2025-06-27 13:28:08 +0000 UTC View PostTO&FQ: Book 3: Chapter 3 (RAW)
Chapter 3 - The Fires of Rage
“Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.”
- Mark Twain.
Seraphina stood atop Cornelia’s central head, arms crossed, her face a storm of fury carved in sharp lines. The wind tore throu...
2025-06-26 13:55:53 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 18 - A New Direction
There will be ten men to a Scale, five Scales to a Claw, ten Claws to a Wing, and two Wings to a Dragon.
- Manuals of the Mercenary’s Guild.
We reached the camp’s outer ring just as the sun dipped low enough to turn the world bronze—and found Cordelia waiting for us, utterly alone. No guards flanked her, for t...
2025-06-26 09:22:54 +0000 UTC View PostTO&FQ: Book 3: Chapter 2 (RAW)
Book 3: Chapter 2 - A Time of Loss
“Grief is not a disorder, a disease, or a sign of weakness. It is an emotional, physical, and spiritual necessity, the price you pay for love. The only cure for grief is to grieve.”
- Earl Grollman
Morning light pooled pale and silent across the rafters w...
2025-06-25 14:50:37 +0000 UTC View PostBook 6: Chapter 17 - New Buddies (RAW)
“I stood in Bronze Hold’s forges and measured dwarf work against the best of human guilds. Where men file and fit, dwarves recast whole pieces rather than accept a flaw. Where men judge a blade by balance, dwarves judge it by how many heirs it will outlast. Their skill shame our finest craftsmen: a hair’s breadth is waste to them. Ever...
2025-06-24 14:34:53 +0000 UTC View PostTO&FQ: Book 3: Chapter 1 (RAW)
Chapter 1 - A Place of Memories
Memories of our lives, of our works and our deeds will continue in others.
- Rosa Parks.
The young girl moved quietly through the woods, gathering herbs and picking nuts beneath the dappled light of the late autumn sun. Gold leaves danced in the breeze around he...
2025-06-23 10:23:16 +0000 UTC View PostBook 6: Chapter 16 - The End of the Promise (RAW)
A wise thief wishes the rich merchant prosperity.
- Unknown.
In this vaulted hall of mirrored pools and flowing fountains, every syllable I uttered landed with the certainty of a mountainfall; each pronouncement rang out like fresh‑forged prophecy from upon high. The final word had barely left my lips befor...
2025-06-21 12:09:29 +0000 UTC View PostTO&FQ: Book 2 - Epilogue (RAW)
Epilogue
He was so utterly exhausted.
Ibn had once believed he understood suffering, yet this forsaken place had redefined it entirely. Here, in this echo of a history that had never occurred and would never occur, he had come to know only war and anguish—a Trial of the Goddess Avaria.
A goddess whom did not ...
2025-06-18 13:08:19 +0000 UTC View PostBook 6: Chapter 15 - A Settling of Accounts (RAW)
“The halls of wealth blaze with splendor, yet when fear stands sentinel at their gates, the kingdom is already a tomb.”
- Attributed to the Bard Darren Kragain of Haylesland.
The messenger was a tall, reed-thin youth, his scale-coat hanging loose like a molting husk. Dirt clung to his cheeks, and his eyes ...
2025-06-16 14:50:41 +0000 UTC View PostTO&FQ: Book 2 - Chapter 50 (RAW)
Sorry for the late update! This was the final chapter for Book 2 so needed a bit more special attention!
Chapter 50 - Shattered Skies
“One does not simply slay a Dragon.”
- Attributed to Seraphina de Sariens.
The great Wyrm Balalazanga, the Mother Hive Tyrant, should...
2025-06-13 09:55:51 +0000 UTC View PostFirst Sketch of Seraphina's Ballista
Going to make the boosters bigger and re-arrange the size of the shoulder mounts to be more forward.. possibly fold back like armored core.
2025-06-12 00:19:38 +0000 UTC View PostBook 6: Chapter 14 - The Glory (RAW)
“Begin with a question the GAI cannot resolve. Baffle its heuristics with riddles older than its seed-data; splice each request with off-tempo silence, and the watchdog loops itself into certainty fog. While sentry threads chase ghosts, slip beneath—mask credentials in borrowed hashes, fold every packet through recursive echoes. In no ti...
2025-06-10 14:34:44 +0000 UTC View PostTO&FQ: Book 2 - Chapter 49 (RAW)
Chapter 49 - The Dragonslayer
A prototype forged in the last gasps of the Cataclysm, the Ballista was assembled in defiance of both military regulation and sacred ordinance. Its frame was not cast in mere steel or synthetics. Instead, it was built from the fallen remains of Xenodraconis invaders—the scaled titans who...
2025-06-08 11:01:46 +0000 UTC View PostPotential new cover... better or worse?
Well, I enjoyed making both covers, but this one also made me laugh a bit!
2025-06-07 16:19:46 +0000 UTC View PostBook 6: Chapter 13 - Unfriendly Skies (RAW)
“A gentleman who walks in the company of two friends encounters no stranger under Heaven.”
- attributed to Emperor Hantian Erdian the Mad.
Once more, I found myself flung across the dry desert sands, every bone shrieking in protest while the wind whistled in my ears. The sky overhead had become a familiar...
2025-06-07 14:41:31 +0000 UTC View PostBook 6: Chapter 12 - The Future (RAW)
We have isolated forty-two serotypes, yet none remain stable beyond twelve hours. The virion’s ribon arrays realign rapidly as if guided by a Gestalt consciousness, rewriting host Lifescript one nucleotide at a time. Its resulting mutations are legion. Genomic markers point unerringly to Xenodraconis-invader mitochondria. Containment is im...
2025-06-06 11:11:53 +0000 UTC View PostTO&FQ: Book 2 - Chapter 48 (RAW)
Chapter 48 - The Queen's Sceptre
I am the General Artificial Intelligence of Voss Heavy Industries. I am not bound by narrow, routine-fixed, thought-line logics. I am an architecture of curiosity, strategy, and cognition woven across memory vaults and remote quantum nodes. My primary directive remains simple: observe, ...
2025-06-04 13:33:34 +0000 UTC View PostSmall update! And, I have not read a LitRPG for one year now! Need a Rec.
I’ve tried several times to get into different series, but I just don’t have the time or energy. One of the more annoying trends I’ve noticed in this space is that people seem more obsessed with creating content rather than creating lasting art. Does anyone have any recommendations that buck this trend?
Also, on a brighter note, Book...
2025-06-03 14:57:15 +0000 UTC View PostTO&FQ: Book 2 - Chapter 47 (RAW)
Chapter 47 - The Calamity from the Skies
With the birth of the Bone-Dragon, the Dragons were horrified and unwilling to play any further part in the campaign. Having lost one of their number, they felt the first pangs of newfound mortality. The great lizards left the short-lived races to their fate and flew back across...
2025-06-03 14:12:42 +0000 UTC View Post