Category Archives: Fantasy

“Must you do that now, Brainbox?” Witsith didn’t look up from the book of crosswords they were puzzling over. “It keeps me sharp.” Feodore scoffed. “Well, in that case you’d better be sharp now. Perse is pretty sure we’ve found the last puzzle.” Witsith heaved themselves to their feet and pocketed their crosswords. It wasContinue reading “Of Crosswords and Eternity”

“You know what this means?” Greamas looked seriously at their two companions. “We have to go into Chaos.” They paused for effect, but Siopha and Lemmant didn’t react much so they continued on. “It won’t be easy. The Chaos Realm is utterly directionless. One step forward and you could be lost forever.” “Oh? So howContinue reading “A Special Kind of Map”

Bastian tore off her headset with a growl. She had no idea why it wasn’t working. Since the launch of Sword and Sidhe, the war effort had gone from strength to strength. The recruitment of human warriors through the guise of a multiplayer role-playing game had proven more effective than expected, and the enemy hadContinue reading “Paradise Found v. 2.3.7”

The Palace of the Archifex had never looked so resplendent, thought Rafaen, as his carriage brought him up the broad drive towards it. The great façade of the Palace was an impressive sight at its very least. Once a fellow ambassador had described it to Rafaen as an altar frontispiece writ large, and the imageContinue reading “The Approach to the Archifex’s Palace”

Down was not always the wrong direction. It was through falling downwards that Combachta had first truly felt the embrace of the Parents. Granted, that was because he’d been thrown, but that was martyrdom for you. Why do we fear to go down into the depths of the earth? Is it because of the darkContinue reading “In the Cave of St Combachta”

“Sister Skuld?” “What is it, child?” Child. That still smarted. She might still be the youngest Norn, but Aevi still yearned to be seen as their equal. She was never going to become that in their, however, if she kept asking questions the way she did. Sometimes, though, you really had to. “What happens ifContinue reading “Looming Disaster”

They made me to be a weapon – me and all my siblings. Then they decided they didn’t need us any more. They’re all gone now, all those who marched beside me to a war we were born for. I watched them march into the very furnaces that birthed them, at the command of ourContinue reading “Witness the Reforging”

The judgement of the council was unanimous – death. There could be now other outcome for such a crime. Then the defendant spoke. Was there not a point of law, he asked in his low, steady rumble, that allowed a debt to be repaid by commuting execution to outlawry, with the customary day’s grace ofContinue reading “Of Debts and Judgement”

“Now, where did I put the blessed thing?” muttered Brother Manatos to himself. The thing was indeed blessed – a thurible needed for the consecration ceremony that afternoon. He wandered the vestry, brow knotted in consternation. He was certain he had brought it into the church-to-be, but where in Thiaz’s name had he put it?Continue reading “Consecration Consternation”

I was a thing of legends, once. Now, standing here, where it all began – or ended, depending on how you look at things – I realise that now I’m simply becoming a part of history. These ruins, of a one-time temple where my companions and I felled a god (a god!), are full ofContinue reading “Slipping from Legend”