Tales of Exterminis
The world of Exterminis is a place of great sorrow and suffering. The dead ahave risen from their graves to torment the living. Demons from a hundred thousand hells pour into the world, bringing death and destruction with them. An invisible, undetectable, and chaotic energy floats across the land, corrupting everything it touches.
The grand cities and mighty nations of the past have fallen into ruins, and people everywhere have been nearly eradicated. Life itself barely survives, and love, hope, and peace are nothing more than distant memories of a better time.
Freedom
A powerful entity known only as Blood orders a small group of long-time friends to investigate a mysterious ship that has anchored in their home city of Bloodshire. They manage to get hired on as crew, but it doesn't take long for them to realize it might have been a...
A Father’s Love
Aelaria stared into the flames consuming her father’s body. “I’ll find them, Papa. I’ll find them, and when I do, I’ll make them pay. And then I’ll find more like them, and I’ll make them pay, too. I’ll make them ALL pay, Papa, and the whole world will know the fury...
Aelaria in Hell
Aelaria has always lived in fear of herself. A deep rage has always boiled within her heart, threatening to consume her. Knowing that it will one day destroy her and and anyone who gets close to her, she has always kept herself apart from other people. Fate...
Erevan
"It's a kucheri, Kiran. What are we going to do with a kucheri child?" "Love it, Peliandor. We're going to love it and raise it as if it was our own child." "Our own child, Kiran? What do either one of us know about children? Especially kucheri children? I know only...
Erevan Earns Respect
The journey had been long, and the day had been full, when the party made camp for the night. Piker used to be a soldier, and so he taught the rest of them how to set up camp quickly, quietly, and (most importantly), efficiently. By the time the sun had fully set, the...
The Swamp Witch
Deidre couldn’t believe her luck! Not only had the shopkeeper undercharged her, he had given her too much change, too! She suddenly found herself a full silver piece richer than she should be. She knew that she should return the money, but things had been so difficult...
Love Child
"She giggled, Miriam." "It certainly did not giggle, Sarah. It is a fucking snake, just like all the rest of them. It is a cold-blooded reptile, completely devoid of all emotion. It only knows hatred and hunger, neither of which is expressed by anything so human as a...