Today, our heroes reach the Freehold -- and confront the problem of how to get past the Salandaras who are there to prevent anyone from passing! ----- Chapter 7. "We must be getting close," Urelle said. Victoria nodded, seeing the same signs as her niece. The path into Wisdom's Fortress was broad, not terribly difficult, but wound somewhat through the foothills. However, the way the slope of the path was changing, and the depth to which they had now penetrated the mountain range, argued that they must now be approaching the [ Continue reading... ]
GODSWAR: The Spear of Athena, Chapter 6
February 5, 2021 By 2 Comments
Our friends reach Salandar, and we learn something about these people that they're going to have to work with... ----- Chapter 6. Quester smelled Salandar before he could see it. There was a tang of fire and metal, the smell of forges at work; there was the faint understench of garbage and rot from the waste of many people living nearby, but no stronger than that of most places; Salandar must be reasonably clean. The scent of flowers, fields of gravelseed almost ready to be harvested, fresh water flowing; and the [ Continue reading... ]
GODSWAR: The Spear of Athena, Chapter 5
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And of course where there are heroes there are usually villains... ----- Chapter 5. Raiagamor smiled in quiet amusement, watching Kerlamion, the so-called King of All Hells, directing the actions of his wide-flung plan. Kerlamion did not realize that the entirety of his actions, of the plan itself, were mere distractions, parts of a shadow-play by the true King, Raiagamor's King, to allow him to reach a goal that even Raiagamor could only guess. No comments, my little tenant? he mused. No thoughts on seeing the world being [ Continue reading... ]
GODSWAR: The Spear of Athena, Chapter 4
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Well, they had a destination... ----- Chapter 4. "Ingram, have you taken leave of your senses?" Captain Pennon snapped. "If you are going back to Aegeia, we go with you!" "No, you do not!" Urelle saw the tension in Ingram's whole body as he kept his gaze locked on Pennon's. He's confronting the Captain of the Clan; I can't imagine how hard this is for Ingram, so soon after finding out that he wasn't the humiliating failure he thought he was. But it was his place to do this, and Urelle and the others had known it [ Continue reading... ]
GODSWAR: The Spear of Athena, Chapter 3
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They were looking for answers... ----- Chapter 3. "I can only afford you a few moments," said Calladan Mystraios. "Even for you, Victoria." "I quite understand," she said. "But I believe my friends' questions should be brief. But first, how have you been doing?" "Well enough until I found myself drafted into being King-in-Proxy," he said with a half-chuckle, half-sigh. "The Academy's been doing quite well, or was when I left. A nice new crop of students, about half sponsored in." His sharp black eyes looked distant for a [ Continue reading... ]
GODSWAR: The Spear of Athena, Chapter 2
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Quester and Ingram had had an unexpectedly enthusiastic greeting... ----- Chapter 2. Quester felt his antennae flick involuntarily – the equivalent of an astonished blink. "I am," he agreed, "but from whence this amazement?" The Sorter was still staring down at him, then glanced back at the Artan. "Excuse me a moment; Guild business, you unnerstand." Without waiting for the Querent to answer, the Sorter grasped both Quester and Ingram gently by the shoulders and guided them through a set of doors and down the hall [ Continue reading... ]
GODSWAR: The Spear of Athena, Chapter 1
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The Spear of Athena will be coming out fairly soon, so it's time to start snippeting! Let's take a look at what our heroes are up to... ---- GODSWAR: The Spear of Athena By Ryk E. Spoor Chapter 1. "By the Lady's Wisdom…" breathed Captain Pennon. Ingram chuckled, with a completely silly feeling of pride as he saw the reactions of his fellow Camp-Bels to their first sight of Fanalam' T' ameris' a' u' Zahr-a-Thana T'ikon, Zarathanton, the greatest city in the world. Less than a mile distant, the pearl-grey, [ Continue reading... ]
GODSWAR: The Mask of Ares, Chapter 18
June 15, 2020 By 2 Comments
Our friends were making their way through the Forest Sea... ----- Chapter 18. "Ingram," Victoria said, "How are certain are you that we are still on the proper course?" "About a hundred per cent," Ingram said. "Why?" Quester caught a hint of amusement from his friend. "Because I haven't noticed you stopping to take bearings much, if at all, in our travels. And there are so many ways to get lost in the Forest Sea. I've been through this general area before, and to make sure we were on the straight course meant one [ Continue reading... ]
GODSWAR: The Mask of Ares, Chapter 17
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It's time to look in on our adversary and see him having a family moment... ----- Chapter 17. "Of course I want you to succeed, my son," said his mother. "But there is only so much I can do for you without making my King and husband doubt that it is your success, and not mine, that he sees." He nodded, unwillingly, in acquiescence. Having Mother's whole-hearted support in his endeavors would make everything vastly easier, of course, but she was right; then there would be – would always be – the question as to whether [ Continue reading... ]
GODSWAR: The Mask of Ares, Chapter 16
June 10, 2020 By 4 Comments
Urelle and the others had come to a dark realization... ----- Chapter 16. Chaoswar. The word echoed menacingly through Ingram's mind. On its own it was a silly word. War was usually chaos. Putting the two together was near enough a redundancy. But as every living being on Zarathan knew, had been taught, had read in books or heard in legends or seen in ancient carvings, there was nothing whatsoever silly about it. "Chaoswar" was only the translation, anyway, of a phrase in Ancient Sauran that meant something more like "the [ Continue reading... ]
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