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What happens when you wake up? It's a struggle to activate reality, a battle between synapses in your brain and consciousness. Won only...

drip. drip. dripdrip. I desperately imagine the water in the cell as the sound of freshly filtered coffee squeezing its way past a new...

Journal of Dev'ti So then, what drives my search? I may be the last mage alive that practices a type of Magic called Rune Magic. Let me...

Journal of Dev'ti Magic doesn't care how much you want to study the intricate secrets of the arcane. It doesn't care about your drive,...

It's cliche in our lands, to claim that "none alive know when Magic first came to be." The truth, as scholars have long known, is that...

"Four Towers stand at the corners of the world. They rule the generations, forcing war and misery upon the land. Scholars, Generals,...

"Gah, I hated my old life," Dendre, the smith says. His hands are rough as well as his hair, and a long beard runs down the front of his...

Amongst the ruins of a once-great city, the anomaly of the enormous crater was a shock to all those who came across it. Ruinously large,...

There, between two broken cupboards in an abandoned and blasted home, hovers something completely out of place. A white sphere, about...

Standing alone, across the wide glacier, stands a tower. Appearing intricately carved from the stone mountains surrounding it, ridges...

The lands blasted of all life stood before him. He mourned for the days past when his travels would take him here. It used to be so...

Alsid gaped at the boulder in front of him. His companion, Shylan, huffed impatiently at him. "You are supposed to be the strongest...

With the demon slain, the adventurer sighed heavily and picked up her warhammer. As he cleaned and inspected her own weaponry, the...

Across the street, the barn raising was going well. Heavy beams being pounded together with sturdy nails, tied to strong rope. The...

The first cold of the season was beginning to set in, and the weary travelers had yet to find a safe haven. Off in the distance, they...

The scholar wrote frantically, words pouring onto the page nearly as fast as they were filling his head. The incantation had worked,...