Stories

Luna stands in the Ironspire glassblower's workshop, the furnace glowing orange behind her, colorful pyrex glass spiral taper gauges displayed on the stone counter in front of her catching the furnace light

The Glass That Doesn't Forgive the Floor

Ironspire has a glassblower. The shop has no sign — what it puts into the street at night is enough. Luna found it the way she finds everything worth finding...

The Glass That Doesn't Forgive the Floor

Ironspire has a glassblower. The shop has no sign — what it puts into the street at night is enough. Luna found it the way she finds everything worth finding...

Luna stands at the roots of the great timber in Fenrisheim holding the gold and steel Covenant Knot Celtic triquetra cross pendants, Cinder the wolf watching behind her in the ancient mist-wrapped forest

The Ones Who Came Correctly

Before Halvard built the Hall of the Three Oaths, before the Norse skalds had words for Fenrisheim, a Celtic people arrived at the tree line with empty hands and waited....

The Ones Who Came Correctly

Before Halvard built the Hall of the Three Oaths, before the Norse skalds had words for Fenrisheim, a Celtic people arrived at the tree line with empty hands and waited....

Chelle stands at the Aether-Reach threshold holding an amethyst cone pendulum on a silver chain, crystal droplets hanging mid-air in the falling rain around her, two worlds bleeding into each other in the liminal mist behind her

The Question It Actually Answers

The pendulum does not answer the question you ask. It answers the question you actually have — which is not always the same thing, and is frequently the thing you...

The Question It Actually Answers

The pendulum does not answer the question you ask. It answers the question you actually have — which is not always the same thing, and is frequently the thing you...

Gold-tone and silver-tone Spire Lotus 7 chakra pendants on ancient mountain stone at dusk, the mist-shrouded Spire rising behind them and Ironspire glowing faintly in the valley below

What Rises from the Dark

Above Ironspire, above the market quarter where you don't ask where things came from, there is a mountain the city has entirely forgotten. The people who live there have been...

What Rises from the Dark

Above Ironspire, above the market quarter where you don't ask where things came from, there is a mountain the city has entirely forgotten. The people who live there have been...

The Observatory at the Edge of Both Worlds

The Observatory at the Edge of Both Worlds

In the Aether-Reach, the veil is thin enough that both worlds' skies are visible at once — and the stars above the clearing do not match any chart on either...

The Observatory at the Edge of Both Worlds

In the Aether-Reach, the veil is thin enough that both worlds' skies are visible at once — and the stars above the clearing do not match any chart on either...

The Watcher in the Mist

The Watcher in the Mist

The Hidden Mist Valley does not announce itself. The mists are not weather — they are a defense older than memory, and what they do to the wrong person is...

The Watcher in the Mist

The Hidden Mist Valley does not announce itself. The mists are not weather — they are a defense older than memory, and what they do to the wrong person is...