Daniel Thompson
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My magic is settling down, and with that, I’m getting a better hang of my emotions. It always feels a bit like rubbing the gunk out of my eyes after a long rest. Felix and I are walking down one of the busier roads in the North Quarter of Santafaria, Felix just a step ahead of me. Her head is down and her back is hunched a little, and there’s a limp to her step, but she’s still smiling. She’s navigating the crowds better than I am. I can’t help but bump into people and I have to jog to keep up…-
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I woke up with a deep intake of breath. Not a gasp filled with the cloying black tar that clung to my throat and clogged my airways, but pure, fresh air. I was alive! I was alive? My eyes fluttered open, then squeezed shut. It was too bright. The ceiling above was made of some white stone that practically glowed in the sunlight pouring in from a floor-to-ceiling window to one side of the room. The glimpse I’d gotten did reveal some things. I was in a bedroom, a very nice one. I... didn’t recall…
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“Go away, girl,” one of the thugs says. I’m not calling him a thug to be insulting or anything, that’s what he is. I eye him and his two buddies up. They all have two classes, nothing above Initiate. That makes them... kinda really weak. They all look adult too, though one of them is young enough that he might just be an older teen. I’m beginning to wonder if everyone is this weak here. Mom wouldn’t be too happy if I reached adulthood and was only at Initiate. It would be a bad…
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I whistle as I walk towards Santafaria in the distance. It’s a nice day for whistling, I think. Unfortunately, I’m really bad at it. Mom always gives me this I even asked her if that was a magic trick and she did it right then and there to prove the point. I... kinda miss Mom. I know, it’s silly, I’m only a few hours by wyvern away from home. Maybe two days on foot. I could get back there no problem. Still. It’s hard to tell the monster pups that they can’t come with me, but eventually I…
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The wyvern beats its wings, clawing across the sky with heavy thumps. Each one makes it climb then drop a little. Behind it, behind us, half a dozen more dragon-like monsters hover in the air, eyes twisting around and searching for prey and trouble in equal measure. I’m clinging on the back of the largest wyvern’s neck, hands wrapped around a pair of spikes. My fingers are numb, the leather gloves I’m wearing doing nothing to fight the cold air. At least if they freeze there, I’d be that much less…
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Duke Araujo of Guimadora regretted many, many things in his life. He wasn’t an awful man. Oh, he wasn’t sinless. No man was, he found. He had risen to the rank of twice, and once. A three-classed man of noble privilege. A thinker more than a fighter, but he had been able to hold his own in a scrap, when he was a decade or two younger. Now... now he feared that he might have to test that ability once more. Duke Araujo had much time to consider regrets as he ran up the many steps of one of the…
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There are a few pages torn from one of Valeria's books, an older Guide to the Gods of Monsterra, written to be used as an aid to explain the various deities to…
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There are a few pages torn from one of Valeria's books, an older Guide to the Gods of Monsterra, written to be used as an aid to explain the various deities to schoolchildren. Art by: Giuseppe…
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There are a few pages torn from one of Valeria's books, an older Guide to the Gods of Monsterra, written to be used as an aid to explain the various deities to schoolchildren. Art by: Giuseppe Arcimboldo *** If you guys enjoyed this little glimps into the world, then I'll toss up the next pages. The pantheon has thirty gods within…
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Vector art by Firsik Typography by RavensDagger Vector art by Firsik Typography by RavensDagger Adding it here because RR's cover size is minuscule, and I paid for the whole cover so I wanna use the whole cover. Monsterra Map by Ravensdagger AOA Assets used. Santafaria Map by Ravensdagger Terrible Emotion wheel with names of Gods by RavensDagger I need a bigger art budget... or a smaller food budget? Either way, this is ugly. Valeria, by Oleg Tsoy Small Valeria, by SweetCircles! Valeria and…
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