Tag: 2022
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Legacy of Steel
by Cora Buhlert in Issue 130, November 2022 ”Careful, Grandfather,” Gael said, “Don’t try to get up. You’re too weak…” Grandfather was old, frail, and – time to face the truth – dying, but nonetheless he shook off Gael with surprising strength. “No, boy, this is important. You have to listen…” A coughing fit cut…
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The Fulminous
by E. G. Condé All was still in the vale of the Legendwalkers. Beneath a rumbling sky, he could see nothing stalking about the ebon crags and the tiered slopes of the great rotunda, which gave way to a chasm of unfathomable depth. Legends walked with him, whispering from the heritage metals grafted onto his…
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Where Are You Roaming?
by Joshua Hiles He tasted blood and thick, black, soil as his face ground into the dirt. He felt the swish of the polearm descending. He scuttled away, spitting red and black, “wonderful land!” The three road agents looked uncertainly at each other. They were dressed in tattered finery, looted from travelers much richer than…
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Death Rides a North Wind
by Robert Mammone in Issue 129, October 2022 When Colcothar staggered into the clearing, he had been hunted for three days. His grimy furs were black with blood and his beard matted and filthy. A bruise purpled one eye, and fire had reduced most of the hair on his head to blackened stubble. Blood pulsed…
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The Eyes Have It
by Aaron Onyon in Issue 128, September 2022 Ferin was a thief. He was not a good thief. Not that it was his fault. The guild made life very difficult for freelance thieves. Before the Thieves Guild moved into Hearthstone times were good for a solo cutpurse. Ferin and his contemporaries had the small town…