Tag: 2018
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Clashing Blades
by Lawrence Raphael Brothers in Issue 83, December 2018 The dashing capitaine des fusiliers who called herself La Panthère glanced covertly at the sorcière de la Lune and smiled nastily. It was a chance encounter with her rival at the sumptuous sideboard of the Casino D’Or, one of the fancier gambling houses on the right…
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Festival of Rogues
by David Waid in Issue 83, December 2018 What was to become the most intemperate and inglorious debauch in the history of Nuboe commenced as any other festival might, swathed in tradition and observance of the country’s old forms. Rowan Stilko disembarked from his blossom-festooned chariot to the accompaniment of the crowd’s full-throated cheers. On…
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Two Silvers for a Song of Blood
by Jason Ray Carney in Issue 82, November 2018 In the city of Re, thirty mask-wearing oligarchs rule. They are the silver-faced lords, heirs to the blood of the most ancient and respected pilgrim-families that pitched the first sad tents of the settlement that bloomed into Re over the course of several hundreds of war-bloodied…
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They Would Be Brothers
by Sean Jones in Issue 82, November 2018 Unlike most army snipers, I grew up without longbow or arbalest in my hands. The first time I handled a crossbow? It was the Year of the Piebald Horse. I was nearly twelve and my father was home on furlough from the war with the Ravnens. My…
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The Bane of the Sword Rulers: A Review of ‘Corum- The Coming of Chaos’
by Anthony Perconti in Issue 82, November 2018 2018 “There are more things in heaven and earth, HoratioThan are dreamt of in your philosophy.”-Hamlet (1.5.167-8), Hamlet to Horatio In 1971, Michael Moorcock started a new fantasy series starring Corum Jhaelen Irsei, the Prince in the Scarlet Robe. The White Wolf omnibus edition, The Coming of Chaos, is…