The Tale of Yideehg and Nliurg
The brothers of the crimson fist are known by many names, most of which have become curse words in the time since their most dreadful existence – I shall not offend you with any of them.
Following the fall, many robber barons and slum lords rose, as well as some men [...]
Iron hands gripped her about the waist, and the ground flew away as the Iron God Ascended to His heavenly abode. The great cloud-castle was a mass of white balls, like puffball fungus, with countless black rope bridges and towers and things hanging between them.
The Iron God landed, the flames from his feet dying out, [...]
Dappled lights played across its armoured hide as it lumbered slowly through the thick forest. It did not know where it came from or how it got here, all it knew was it was sad.
It had all it needed to eat, it had all of the light and air it needed for its hide to [...]
As the sun sank once more, brought low again by the monstrous dragons of night, a clamour arose in the halls across the land. Feasting and celebrations, dancing and drinking, the noise of speech and story telling, the smell of wood smoke, all inside was light and warm as a midsummer day. None thought of [...]
Night swept in from the east, the dark hordes, led by twelve dragons, charged across the blue fields of the sky, claiming the clouds and turning them red with the blood of their inhabitants.
Over the next few hours the hordes covered an incalculable distance, before finally reaching the now elderly scion of glory at the [...]
The iron-hard membrane shattered, and the beast’s internal organs flowed out in a gruesome torrent. Triumphant, the knight turned from the grisly scene, leaving his enemy for scavengers and hunters who desired the remains of the creature’s entrails and powerful meat.
He rode out of the narrow valley and onto the plains beyond, an empty moor [...]
It was warm to the touch. Oddly warm, in fact – no lump of rock by the side of a river should be that warm, even after a day in the sun. Perhaps the light was magnified by the waves or something. She shrugged and walked on, briefly puzzling over it as she walked to [...]
Oeirh looked out at the marbelled clouds above, pregnant with rain. It was a bad omen for one about to head out on a long journey.
He nodded to the woman beside him and she hauled at the pulleys that lifted the portcullis that protected the tiny bailey from bandits and vagabonds. He liked not leaving [...]
He spent his life staring at ceilings.
He was comfortable that way. And, being the king, he had the means to do it. All of his food was brought to him and spooned into his mouth. He would not sit up – he did not see why he had to. Works of literature were held before [...]
The wind grew and whipped her scarf across her face. The moor was empty, illuminated by moonlight that seemed to do little more than accentuate the shadows.
This was a dangerous place in dangerous times, for all manners of horrors were said to lurk in the darkness. But she did not care, she did not think [...]