One of my fav characters I made in my book. He's a real menace, that is at best argued as a loose canon being an Orc Slayer, his hatred for the Horde knows no bound!
That said, his dialogue is fun to write, a mixture of cockiness, vulgarness and poetic flair, along with a northerner's accent to lace his voice.
He is brutal for all the right reasons but dangerously power-hungry. He's practically warped by his need for vengence, always on his one-man campaigns against the orcs for what they did to him in his past.

Of course now, he is called upon for a greater purpose than just endlessly slaying orcs in my book.

#fantasy
#epicfantasy
#darkfantasy
#worldbuilding
#lore

#character

Some powers destroy.

Some powers heal.

And some simply seek to understand why things are what they are.

Introducing Varna-Embun Goryeomātra, the Ancient Dew-Measure of Essence and Color. An enigmatic power of the Thousandfold Beyond whose alchemy concerns the hidden memories, colors, and identities woven into all things.

They do not command reality through force.

They listen to it.

#Calithrae #Worldbuilding #FantasyWorldbuilding #DarkFantasy #Alchemy

Developing and editing the second book of my saga is going smoothly, I believe.

The bloat is mostly gone, a few chapter rewrites have definitely enhanced the quality, and I’ve been adding smaller scenes to further enrich the characters beyond simply knowing them as a cool elf assassin, a rogue vigilante with a badass mask, or the rest of the companionship by surface alone.

Anyway, this means more lore will be coming to my world here on World Anvil, although I still have some empty articles I’ve yet to complete due to limited time. One of those is the Immortal Lords - essentially god-like entities who rule entire planets of their own out in the cosmos of my fantasy setting. Their direct influence on Kyfeia is small, which is why they often rely on their cults and followers.

With that said, I should soon write another character article on an important figure who will be featured in either Book 3 or Book 4 when the time comes:

The Makerbound Sovereign of Veros.

She is the 5th “Chosen Queen” ruling Veros, the land of the Wild Elves. Rulership in that realm is not traditional. It is not inherited by blood, nor seized by force.

It is gifted to someone deemed worthy of the title by the Makers.

Thanks for reading!

#WorldAnvil #FantasyWorldbuilding #EpicFantasy #DarkFantasy #HighFantasy #IndieFantasy #FantasyWriting #WritingCommunity #BookUpdate #LoreUpdate #FantasyLore #Worldbuilding

Finally did my article for "Ghouls" from my Epic Fantasy Saga! Have a look and tell me what you think!

#fantasy
#epicfantasy
#darkfantasy
#worldbuilding
#lore

Greetings, fellow world-builders and architects.

I’ve just released Issue 12 of the Raven & Quill, alongside the perspective shift moving between the isolating fog of Chapter 14 and the upcoming visceral nightmare of Chapter 15.

This week’s entry explores the unseen war at the drafting table: The Outline vs. The Draft. As a planner, I design deeply interconnected matrices looking out generations. But when you sit down to put meat on the bones, characters stop being compliant chess pieces. Forcing them to satisfy a contrived plot-post violates their internal logic. Two days ago, a major binary state in the timeline changed, and the plan had to be thrown out.

The wildest part of this structural shift is what I call Accidental Armor. The emotional hardening forged for Talathis in Chapter 14 was meant to prepare him for a plot trajectory that has now been completely deleted from the future timeline. Yet, the armor still holds the exact structural weight of the new reality.

In our next issue, we step out of the stillness and into Chapter 15, "The Flesh in Winter." We will plunge into the sickening reality of an autonomy hijacked, exploring the parasitic mechanics of a cage made not from metal, but from flesh.

When was the last time the outline of your world completely shattered, only to reveal that your subconscious had already built a bunker for the storm? Let's discuss how you handle it when your characters break their scripts.

Read Issue 12 of the Raven & Quill Newsletter here:
https://www.worldanvil.com/w/saga-of-the-silver-blade-val-saraven/a/the-ghost-in-the-outline-article
Read the latest chapter of Legend of the Silver Blade, "The Flesh in Winter," here: https://www.worldanvil.com/community/manuscripts/read/9648609273-val-huginn-book-13A-legend-of-the-silver-blade/7dd342fc-5e39-4dc1-92ed-cb97872dbbbc

-VS

#DarkFantasy #Novel #Fantasy #Worldbuilding #EpicFantasy #Writing

Talalae, a Wild Elf assassin whose story is less about cruelty and more about choice.

She is lethal with a bow, graceful in violence, and often mistaken for a simple hired killer by those who know only the rumors. But beneath the confidence, humor, and sharp charm is someone deeply burdened by the lives she has taken - especially the ones she should never have accepted.

What interests me most about Talalae is the line she draws for herself. She does not deny what she is, but she refuses to kill blindly anymore. Tyrants, abusers, predators, monsters those are the targets she allows herself. Anything else, no matter the coin or reward, is a line she will not cross again.

#character #wildelf #wildelves #assassin #archer #epicfantasy #darkfantasy #fantasylore #worldbuilding #redemption #antihero #veros #elves #fantasyraces

Vol. 2, Issue 11 of the Raven & Quill is up — and this one cuts close.

"The Harlequin's Mask" starts where every honest conversation should: everyone wears one. But in Aithyris, masks aren't social lubricant. They're survival architecture. And the question haunting Chapters 13 and 14 is what happens when the war ends, you reach up to take the helmet off — and there's no latch.

We're inside Cedrik Dawntreader's triple identity crisis, the quiet tragedy of Krysaalis's Court Mask (she didn't put it back on to protect herself — she put it on to protect everyone else from her), and Talathis standing alone at the helm in the fog, trusting the language her body told him instead of the frost in her voice.

Plus a preview of what's waiting ahead. The cages get worse.

If you've ever worn a mask so long you forgot how to take it off — the comments are open.

In Chapter 14, Talathis Dawntreader is alone at the helm of the Sea Wolf, deep in the Vapor Shroud, where the world shrinks to thirty yards of slick decking and black water. The fog has swallowed everything except the silence she left behind — and that's louder than the sea.

But the ocean doesn't let you grieve in peace for long. Before this chapter is done, we're plunging into the cosmology of the Drowned — what really happens to a soul when there's no pyre, no ceremony, no light to follow home. Grief. Islander pragmatism. And the specific horror of a ghost who doesn't know it's a ghost.

This is the newest chapter in Val Saraven's Legend of the Silver Blade — dark, literary fantasy with actual weight to it, set in the world of Aithyris. If you like your high fantasy atmospheric, rigorous, and willing to ask the hard questions, come find us.

Read Chapter 14 here: https://www.worldanvil.com/community/manuscripts/read/9648609273-val-huginn-book-13A-legend-of-the-silver-blade/ab987abb-01a1-4d7d-93df-0888914ce1a9

#DarkFantasy #Fantasy #LegendOfTheSilverBlade #WebFiction #IndieAuthor #NewRelease #Worldbuilding

How do you write characters who are useful, but dangerous?

I’ve been thinking about one of my own characters lately: Jake, a Heartlander battlemage whose command of destructive magic makes him invaluable in war, and deeply unsettling to fight beside.

He is not the heart of the group, nor its conscience. He is the edge.

The kind of companion who can break a stalemate, save lives, and terrify enemies… while also dragging the people around him closer to choices they may never forgive themselves for.

I find these characters interesting because they are not villains, but they are not exactly pure heroes either. Their usefulness becomes part of the danger. The group needs them, but trusting them fully may be impossible.

Do you have characters like this in your worlds, of allies whose power, methods, or temperament make them both necessary and frightening?
#character
#fantasy
#epicfantasy
#darkfantasy
#worldbuilding
#lore
#battlemage

I think it is crucially important to breathe history into a fictional world, not just as distant background, but as something that still shapes the present.

In my book saga, one of the most defining historical events is The Scarlet Carnage, or what I sometimes call the Orc Apocalypse.

It was not merely an invasion. It was a continent-wide catastrophe that reshaped politics, military doctrine, racial hatred, and the way entire civilizations prepared for war afterward.

Centuries later, its wounds still bleed into the current age of my saga: why orcs and the “Uglies” are so widely feared, why the armies of Iolas have become harsher and more prepared, and why the people of the world remember how close they came to being consumed by something as profane n primitive as the Scarlet Horde.

For me, history matters most when it refuses to stay buried. Does your world have an event like this, something from the past that still shapes the present?

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#WorldBuilding
#novel
#darkfantasy
#Fantasy

Hello everyone! I have more concrete ideas now since I've been able to brainstorm effectively. As some of you may know, I have autism and adhd. Which means chaos meets routine, which never goes well. However, I've been trying apps for adhd and routine, and so far, it's working well. Here are some concrete ideas I have and did SOME research on.

Short story commissions (100-5,000 words), newsletter about book progress (Ko-fi), and exclusive short stories of the current book's characters (Ko-fi). These are the ideas I'm able to do along with social media posts, worldbuilding, and working on my books. Thank you for your support and patience as I figure this out. I'll write 3-5 short stories for a portfolio for the short story commissions.

Now with this figured out, I need to find LGBTQIA friendly social media sites. I don't care about receiving hateful comments every now and then, but the platform itself and general community needs to be open to trans writing if that makes sense. Hopefully I'll keep growing and be able to motivate myself to keep going even if I don't.

Once again, thank you for your likes and comments on my world and writing. We're almost at 20k page views, and I'm excited to hit that milestone. Eldabrand also hit 10 followers, with it being 11 as I'm writing this. Notta is on a back burner right now, but I appreciate the follows and likes nonetheless. Have a good day!

#darkfantasy #writing #romance

Greetings, fellow writers and creatives.

The latest update is live, bringing us to a profound crossroads in the Saga.

In Raven & Quill #10 ("The Predator’s Rust"), I dive into the behind-the-scenes of Chapter 12. We talk about the "Window of Decay"—a narrative constraint that strips away technical jargon to focus on how the world punishes the body. It is a study in the "Anti-Triumph": Qianna broke her cage, but her evolution has isolated her from the very people she saved.

In Chapter 13 ("The Silent Force"), we pivot to Krysaalis navigating the psychological warfare of the Captain’s Gallery. It is a chapter about the Somatic Debt of masks and the friction of a shandaryn lifespan witnessing human mortality.

I’m curious to hear your thoughts: Did the shift in Qianna’s demeanor catch you off guard, or did you feel the lock snapping?

Read Vol. 2, Issue 10 of Raven & Quill here: Raven & Quill

Read the latest chapter here: Link to Chapter 12

Stay bright!

-VS

#LegendOfTheSilverBlade #WritingCommunity #EpicFantasy #DarkFantasy #ThePredatorsRust #Writing #Fantasy #IndieAuthor

The Cascading Cost: Why Magic Isn’t a "Long Rest"

What happens when the universe demands a second miracle while your biological bank account is already overdrawn?

In Raven & Quill #9 ("When the Tank is Empty"):

• I explore the Cascading Cost—the brutal reality of performing a miracle when your tank is already in the negative.
• We revisit the aftermath of Chapter 11, where Krysaalis had to guide a trauma-birth with burned hands and zero magical reserves.
• I break down how this biological toll prevents the Grimdark Trap, ensuring that darkness in the story is always an earned, structural consequence rather than gratuitous misery.

New in Chapter 12 ("Rusty Cage"):

• We shift gears to Qianna, surviving her own freezing crucible in the Lorath woods.
• Witness the darkest evolution of the Cascading Cost: weaponizing trauma to survive when hope and agency are stripped away.

Endurance is the true equalizer. Read the latest to see how the flesh receipt is collected when the magic runs out.

#Worldbuilding #DarkFantasy #EpicFantasy #Writing #Fiction #Novel

I mistakenly posted an early version of this chapter last week.

Here is the full chapter 4.

#anvilspace #SharetheLove #Novel #WorldBuilding #cyberpunk #darksciencefiction #spaceopera #sciencefiction #militarysciencefiction #hardsciencefiction

Into the Vapor Shroud!

Chapter 10 & R&Q Issue No. 7 are LIVE!

The Sea Wolf has sailed straight into the ambush. If you like freezing advection fog, terrifying naval clashes, and magic that demands a brutal physical toll... grab a warm drink and buckle up.

New in Legend of the Silver Blade: Chapter 10: Smoke on the Water is officially up! Talathis is steering blind through the mist, the Stornir are hunting in the wreckage, and Krysaalis is about to find out exactly how much muscle and bone it costs to bend the rules of the ocean. (Spoiler: The universe always collects its receipt).

Behind the Scenes: R&Q Issue No. 7 is also live! We’re diving into your questions, breaking down the mechanics of the world, and talking about the gritty realities of keeping the magic system bound to actual physics.

Drop a comment after you read—I want to hear your theories on how the crew gets out of this one!

Link to Chapter 10

Link to R&Q Issue No. 7

#epicfantasy #darkfantasy #novel

“I hear your command, and I know what you promise. I feel your fire—I know how easily it could be mine. But I choose my people. And I will not burn this city.”

The Priest can choose mercy over dogma. The Shaman can silence a dark omen. The Druid can shield a single sapling against the coming gale. The Warlock can bend a hollow patron’s hunger toward a light cause. Each stands on a knife's edge between two worlds: the crushing power behind them, and the fragile world before them.

The most profound act isn’t summoning the storm—it’s refusing to let the storm dictate the direction. Power only finds meaning when it is constrained by will. Otherwise, it is merely momentum. Momentum is power with no one home; it is a landslide, indifferent and inevitable. Will is the friction. It is the thing that turns against the grain. It costs something to hold back the tide, and that cost is exactly why it matters.

If will gives power its meaning, then beings without resistance—gods, immortals, eldritch horrors—are never truly alive. They are just cosmic momentum in motion. Perhaps the most human act isn’t choosing good over evil. It is choosing defiance over inevitability.

#DarkFantasy #FantasyWriting #WorldBuilding

And so they asked for forever. And Virelai, the Opaline Maw, answered. Immortality gave them everything they wished for. In return, it took everything they did not know they would lose.

#DarkFantasy #Calithrae #Veilborn #TTRPGlore #Worldbuilding #Lorecore #Immortality

Within the world of my epic saga, there exists a place called the Un-Spheres.
They're false timelines designed to test survival, supplies, and willpower.

Entire groups can be split apart and forced into different realities.

What’s the most brutal trial system you’ve created in your world?

#Worldbuilding #Fantasy #DarkFantasy #Lore #Character #EpicFantasy #Writing

Hey Peeps, another update :)

I am doing the March 31 Tales.
For the 2nd & 3rd, I have finished Chapter four for my novel Starfire.

Check it out here→ https://www.worldanvil.com/community/manuscripts/read/7170872822-lilrose18-book-one3A-starfire

If you would like to chat about this book or have questions, I have created a discussion board for Starfire→ https://www.worldanvil.com/w/eluvemar-lilrose18/board/the-starlee-trilogy-discussions

#Novel #Starfire #StarlessProphecyTrilogy #Eluvemar #Fantasy #DarkAcademia

Apologies for the delay! (I’m having a morning.) If you are still interested in the AHQ Survey, it is still up until Monday, 2/23/2026 @ 11:59 pm. Again, participation is not mandatory, but I would greatly appreciate your thoughts and responses! Click Here! - https://forms.gle/Yg4xHuHGe4gKSGq19

: The Fall Banquet begins at the Equinox Court. Geddeon reunites with his friends of across New Temperantia, while Nyxis finally returns for her grand debut since the Fallen Leaves Incident.

#OriginalFiction #High Fantasy #DarkFantasy #Worldbuilding #Novel #SwordsandSorcery #Slowburn

Good Morning, Afternoon and Evening to all! If anyone read the bottom of my update post, I have something else I want to share. It will remain open until 11:59 pm Monday, 2/23/2026, so you have until then to submit your answers. If this format works, I will use it in the future. (https://forms.gle/Yg4xHuHGe4gKSGq19 )

In preparation for the Fall Banquet, Geddeon learns about the circumstances of the Equinox Treaty and the royal family’s obligation to attend. Meanwhile, Nyxis comes to grips with fallacies of her teachings and vows to learn the ways of the world from a different source.

#OriginalFiction #High Fantasy #DarkFantasy #Worldbuilding #Novel #SwordsandSorcery #Slowburn

Read it here -->https://www.worldanvil.com/community/manuscripts/read/7170872822-lilrose18-book-one3A-starfire

#Novel #Starfire #StarlessProphecyTrilogy #Eluvemar #Fantasy #DarkAcademia

Hey Peeps!

So I've finally decided to share something I've been working on for over a year now. I started writing this novel ages ago but put it aside, and now that I've built out so much more of my world (Eluvemar), I've gone back to do a proper re-edit. Fingers crossed someone here enjoys it!

Starfire: Book One of The Starless Prophecy Trilogy

She fell through fire and lightning, from a world of ash into one where stars still burn. Sera wakes in the Harrowing Grounds with nothing: no name, no House, no understanding of how she came to be here. Only the stranger's last words echo in her skull: survive. And the certainty that this place is wrong in ways she cannot yet name.

The Vylerrian Institute of Thaumaturgical Arts takes her in, not knowing she was never meant to be their student. They train her. Test her. Find her magic wild, her instincts feral, her eyes fixed on shadows that do not exist for others. Sorted into House Valthar, Sera learns to fight, to burn, to survive at any cost in this unknown place. But survival is not enough. Not when the stars above match no constellation she knows. Not when the gods walk distant and unworshipped. Not when her own power answers to rage and grief she cannot explain.

Something is coming. Something that will unmake the sky. And Sera, who has seen the dark that follows, must choose whether to save a world that will call her mad, weak, powerless, or let it burn again.

Chapters one and two are already up if anyone wants to read them! Would love to hear what you think

Read it here -->https://www.worldanvil.com/community/manuscripts/read/7170872822-lilrose18-book-one3A-starfire

#Novel #Starfire #StarlessProphecyTrilogy #Eluvemar #Fantasy #DarkAcademia

On , I will roll out Phase One of my master plan. My goal is to produce more articles with chapter releases, but in the event the chapter is longer, I will do my best to drop the articles in between.

• Chapter 9 - Saturday, 2/21/2026 @ 10:30 AM EST
• Chapter 10 - Sunday, 2/22/2026 @ 10:30 AM EST

• Chapter 9 - Saturday, 2/21/2026 @ 11 AM EST
• Chapter 10 - Sunday, 2/22/2026 @ 11 AM EST

If you made it to the bottom, I also have another little something. Keep an eye out.

#OriginalFiction #swordsandsorcery #romance #slowburn #OriginalIP #Darkfantasy #highfantasy

"Art is born from authentic intent to share a personal truth. The method of delivery is just the mailman."

Raven & Quill Issue #5 In this issue, I’m pulling back the curtain on the Saga of the Silver Blade to show the structural engineering beneath the metastory.

We’ve all been there. You spend forty hours a week pushing the "Sisyphus stone" of the day job—navigating a hamster wheel of UI updates and notifications—only to find that your creative spark is buried under the friction of reality. This week, I stopped running up that hill and started carving through it.

The Feature: Chapter 8 — "Hand of Sorrow"

The latest chapter is now live. Witness the moment Qianna Lockstone stops trying to be Iron (rigid and breakable) and chooses to be the Rust. It’s a dark, visceral ride into the "Architecture of Silence" and the price of survival in the Lorath Forest.

Whether you’re a writer, a worldbuilder, or a "previously blind" visionary finding your sight through new tools, this issue is a manifesto for the Architect in all of us.

Shine Bright,

—VS

www.sagaofthesilverblade.com

#Worldbuilding #SagaOfTheSilverBlade #WritingCommunity #DigitalCarving #DarkFantasy #Harmonism #WorldAnvil #IndieAuthor #LoreArchitecture

Accuracy is the Gravity of My World
R&Q Issue #4 & Legend of the Silver Blade : Chapter 7 are Live!

Greetings, Twilight Seekers!

This week in the Scriptorium was a battle of the "Gears." I conducted a climatological audit of the Five Seas that nearly broke my naval routes, but the resulting "dissonance" led to something better: the discovery of the Orfian cliff-dwellers and a finalized, "Gregorian-offset" calendar system.

Inside this update:

• Raven & Quill #4: "Recalibrating the Horizon " – A deep dive into reverse-engineering deserts, glacial canyons, and the Aeolian rigging that lets the Sea Wolf defy the Frostfang Current.
• Chapter 7: "The Truth Beneath the Rose " – Witness that geography in action. Join Talathis Dawntreader as he strips the mutes and forces the ship to plane against the Lithrys tide.

What do you do when the physics of your world fights your history? You build a better lie.

Shine Bright! — VS

#SagaOfTheSilverBlade #Worldbuilding #HardFantasy #Cartography #WorldAnvil #Lore #NavalFantasy #RavenAndQuill #DarkFantasy

I hope everyone is doing well this week, drinking your water and taking your time! I took yesterday off for my birthday

Earlier this week, I mentioned that I would be dropping articles that I’ve been working on, but I’ve also made some minor changes in WA; , , , or

I’m happy to say that I’m comfortable with sharing everything now. As promised, the articles are below and the updated info is already in place, excluding the timelines.

That’s it for me!

#OriginalFiction #DarkFantasy #SwordsandSorcery, #slowburn

I hope everyone is doing well and having a better year so far!! I’m forever appreciative of all of you, whether you’re just reading or page watching

I’ll be dropping mostly finished articles for the next week!! ( )

#OriginalFiction #Action #HighFantasy #Swordsandsorcery #Romance #DarkFantasy

- Back in November, I promised you all 2 upcoming chapters for All Hallows Queen, but I failed at my task and my promise. I got too into my head regarding likes and follows that I lost sight of the fun part: building the story. I thought if I just kept writing, I would iron out all the kinks later, but I spiraled, HARD. I let my mental health decline to a significant point to where I couldn’t create anything for a month, and for every day I didn’t write, I felt like I was letting you all down.

- This year, I’m looking to make some . I’m working on a . (It’s also a little easier to update from my phone). I’m thinking about a , but 1 thing at a time.

- - Thanks to some suggestions from some helpful people on Reddit, I’ve spent a lot of time going back to the world building and story building basics. @temperantiachron.bsky.social

#TempChron #DarkFantasy #OriginalFiction #Highfantasy #Romance #Action

The Unseen Cords | Raven & Quill #5

December vanished like a ship slipping into the Vapor Shroud. One moment it was Thanksgiving, and we were launching the site; now, the holidays are half-gone. But looking back at the wake we’ve left behind—the launch of the Saga, the introduction of Krysaalis and Talathis, and now the complex web of Qianna Lockstone —it has been a monumental month.

In this week's issue:

Feature Focus: The Girl Who Sees Strings We step into the mind of Qianna, a character whose "magic" is less about spells and more about survival. She sees the world as a tangle of cords and wires—dissociating from reality to see the connections between people. Her chapter sits like Atlas in the background, quietly holding up the heavy lift of the Saga's lore.

The Architect’s Journal: Echoes of an Old Game Qianna is the first POV character directly inspired by a PC from the TTRPG campaigns that birthed this world. This issue is dedicated to the player who originally breathed life into her.

Read the full issue and Chapter 3 below!

Read Raven & Quill #5

Read Legend of the Silver Blade

Chapter 3: The Winter Inside

Keep shining.

— VS

#WorldAnvil #WorldEmber #Worldbuilding #DarkFantasy #WritingCommunity

#SagaOfTheSilverBlade #RavenAndQuill

Working on my flagship setting, one of many, but this one is my favorite. #DungeonsandDragons #DarkFantasy

The Archives Open to the Sea | Raven & Quill #4

The static silence of the Omnium is behind us. This week, we hit the open ocean.

Chapter 2: In the Wolf's Shadow is LIVE.

In this chapter, we step aboard the HMS Sea Wolf with Talathis Dawntreader. He is a pilot who steers not by the compass, but by the "Howl"—the acoustic song of the ship's rigging when it hits harmonic resonance.

New Lore: The "Race-Built" Frigate Alongside the chapter, I’ve released a deep-dive article on the Sea Wolf itself. I tackled a specific worldbuilding challenge: How do you have advanced naval combat in a fantasy world without making gunpowder ubiquitous? The answer involved "Aeolian Rigging," Klash-kal alchemy, and a hull built to deceive.

Come check out the specs and let me know what you think of "Flintlock Fantasy" without the flintlocks!

Read Raven & Quill #4

Read Chapter 2

Learn about Talathis Dawntreader

Inspect the Sea Wolf

“She looks like a wolf sitting among swans.”

The Sea Wolf on patrol somewhere in the Eleysian Islands. by Val Saraven

#WorldEmber2025 #DarkFantasy #Navy #Sailing #Ships

Chapter 8 is up and ready to read! Come join us!!

#darkfantasy #swords #sorcery #romance #slowburn #originalwork

For Those Who Walk After Sundown

Felt the dark tugging today, so I wrote something to match it.
The Hunters of Duskworn are finally inked—those grim souls who keep the night from swallowing the rest of us.

If you’re curious what stalks the dusk, take a look.

#hunters #dark-fantasy #gothic

I thank all of you who had read/are reading I know it’s been a minute, and I want to thank you all greatly for your patience! My attention was scattered across a lot on the back end: timeline, story structure, meta, amending articles, and making new maps with markers, on top of writing. I have a lot more to add, so bear with me!

I’ll be changing up the Aeon Homepage soon and adding more of the world, so don’t be surprised if things look a little different. Also, I am going to try to provide more updates more frequently in the coming months, via Bluesky!!

Geddeon continues his duties as General and Prince, until a change in schedule pulls him and Fitzgerald into a sparring session. Neither are thrilled, but with their distain for each other growing daily, neither refuses to hold back.

#darkfantasy #swords #sorcery #romance #originalwork

Another 5 Chapters!

Last night, I found myself completing chapter 10 of Bound by Silver. So, I'm publishing them here once again. This has pushed me 13,700 words this NovelEmber, and here's to many more! I don't even think I'm 1/5 of the way through the novel yet, either.

#dark fantasy, #NovelEmber, #novel #manuscript

Day 5 of Novelember

Current Word Total: 8,771 words!

I have been working hard to get back into writing and I think this month has paid off. For over a year I have been stuck in a rut, unable to write more than a few sentences or even a paragraph. Now, I have eight chapters written and another on the way.

However, I have only posted five chapters here as I keep finding plot holes as I discover things along the way and need to tie them up before I lose my mind. Still, I am chugging along and spewing out words like a fire extinguisher dousing the flames of writer's block!

Bound by Silver is the first novel of the Silver Chronicles, and at least eight books have been planned out. Below is the summary of the book and the link to it.

Astaroth Angelus is the heir of the most powerful dragonthorn in existence, King Zadicus. His lifestyle congregates around money, fame, blood, and maspet auctions. It's only when the son of a werewolf Alpha is being sold at one of the many maspet auctions does Astaroth's life turn upside down.

Kane Sullivan, the heir to the Hollow Claw Pack, finds himself being sold off at a maspet auction. He thinks his worst fears are coming to life....oh, how he's wrong. The moment Kane finds himself being bought by Prince Dante Angelus, he learns that perhaps not all dragonthorns are heartless.

Kane and Astaroth make the most awkward match among their respected species, but can they do whatever it takes to stay together? With in being weeks away from Astaroth's royal marriage to Lady Morgana, it's a race against time for the fated couple to seal their love into the history of their world.

— --Bound by Silver summary

#darkfantasy #fantasy #dragons #werewolves #magick

Novelember is here!

#Novelember has started today and I'm posting the first few chapters of my novel for the month (chapters 1 and 2 were written BEFORE Novelember, so they don't count)!

Now, I'm off to continue writing chapter four!

#darkfantasy #fantasy #moderntech #dragons #werewolves

I hope everyone is doing well, enjoying that Fall weather, and staying hydrated!! As usual, I would like to give my many thanks to everyone that is reading/has read All Hallows Queen; I appreciate each and every one of you, each and every day of writing! This post is going to be long, but not corny, so prepare yourself.

No Chapters this evening. I’m diligently working on the next chapters and my plan is to be able to line up the story with the actual calendar year. (The official Story of All Hallows Queen starts on the 1st of Novembris, so if you know, you know.)

Firstly, I DIDN’T KNOW THAT I NEEDED TO ADD A FOLLOW BUTTON TO THE WORLD JUST TO TALK TO YOU ALL. I feel dumb for that and should’ve been paying more attention to learning WA.

I have been working on the map of New Temperantia for the last year, with minuscule knowledge on how to even make one (Shoutout to MapEffects. Not sponsored but damn, it helped soooo much!!) It is also public to view in the world, but please excuse the map markers. I made them from scratch and I’m trying to shrink them down without losing definition. Bear with me, I’m always learning something new. (I would suggest zooming in to see true placements). Information will be filled in as the story goes.

This story is ONLY posted on World Anvil and Royal Road, but I am considering sharing this to a 3rd site. I’m still doing my research on where, but if anyone has suggestions, by all means, share your thoughts. (SquareSpace has been pitched to me on every YT video I watch, so that may also be a thing…)

#AllHallowsQueen #Aeon #swords #sorcery #darkfantasy #romance

Scrug Wars - a new LitRPG story

If you have read The Amatherean Tales, you will have heard of the Scrug Wars.

Set in the world of Amathera at a time when the gods still played, the forces of darkness and light contest for power.

Book 1 - A Knight of Death starts being released today

The first 10 chapters are currently available to read.

I will release five chapters per week, starting next week. Mon-Fri.

Blurb:

Once, Harmonious Scrug was an adventurer, a hero. Then he laid down his sword to raise a family and live a quiet life on his farm. But when treachery strikes, he falls hard.

Left with nothing but grief and rage, what begins as survival soon becomes something greater: vengeance, leadership, and the stirrings of a rebellion.

Bound by an ancient artefact and armed with his trusty blade, Florence. Harm must unite those around him, forge new friendships and confront a corrupt regime. But as he rises from his despair, voices pull him into a world of uncertainty… perhaps at the cost of his very soul. As Harm falls further, he faces the ultimate choice: reclaim the man his family loved or embrace the monster he may become.

Dark fantasy meets LitRPG in this brutal tale of strategy, vengeance, and power. Manage resources, command clans, and carve your path through a world where morality is fragile and every victory demands sacrifice.

https://www.worldanvil.com/community/manuscripts/read/5683789499-bosloe-scrug-wars

Content warning: Adult 18+ due to content. Please review tags for suitability.

#grimdark #darkfantasy #litrpg #bosloe

I hope you all are well and staying healthy! I want to thank everyone that started reading and are still reading All Hallows Queen. This story is coming straight off the dome, so I appreciate every view. Although, you guys scare me with how quick you read, but I bet you all go through whole books a day.

Synopsis: After Nyxis and Bast defeat the creature in the Valkyrie Forest, the Elves return to Chakram where the Commander learns about the ever-present concern past diplomacy: The Void and the things it creates.

#AllHallowsQueen #DarkFantasy #SharetheLove #HighFantasy