Radiant Agility

It is a simple thing to insult a troll. A bristly and contentious race, trolls flourish on disagreement and conflict, missing no reason to raise their voices in argument. Males grow to maturity in subterranean compartments beneath their matriarch’s residence, feeding and amusing themselves while contributing zilch. Often they stay for years beyond the age of maturity, while the matriarch provides [Read more…]

No one has ever seen the face hidden underneath the mask of Yurnero the Juggernaut. It is only conjecture that he even has one. For defying a dishonest lord, Yurnero was banished from the primordial Isle of Masks–a sentence that saved his life. The isle soon after disappeared beneath the waves in a night of merciless magic. He alone remains to carry on the Isle’s long Juggernaut folklore, one of [Read more…]

After serving through a life span of wars, disturbance, rebellions, and insurgencies, the brass figured Aurel had seen an adequate amount. In addition to a few ornaments and his significant pension, the one-time engineer left with something far more attractive: a long-forgotten, unfinished chart for a Gyrocopter, the world’s first manned, non-magical flying machine. [Read more…]

Ulfsaar the Warrior is the fiercest member of an ursine tribe, defensive of his land and his people. During the long winters, while the mothers sleep and nurture their cubs, the males guard the lands above-as diligent, cautious defenders of their primordial customs. Hearing muted but mounting rumours of a spreading evil, Ulfsaar started out beyond the borders of his wild woodland home, [Read more…]

When the sought after tell tales of Gondar the Bounty Hunter, none is sure of which are true. In whispered tones, they say he was abandoned as a kit, acquiring his skill in tracking as a matter of plain survival. Others hear he was an urchin of war, taken in by the grand Soruq the Hunter to learn the master’s skill with a blade as they scrutinized the dark forests for big game. [Read more…]

Riki was born middle child to the vast house of Tahlin. With an older brother inline for the throne, and a younger brother cosseted and kept, Riki, the diminutive middle son, appeared born for the art of invisibility. It was an art he nurtured, and one, which in due course saved his life on the night that his people were deceived and his family massacred. Of all the royal line, he alone escaped. [Read more…]

Kardel Sharpeye was born deep in the mountains of Knollen where, since time immemorial, Keen Folk have endured by hunting the weird, cliff dwelling steeps talkers above their community, shooting them from a distance and gathering the remains where they fell. Sharpeye was among the best of these bizarre mountain devotees for whom projectile armaments are but another accessory, and to shoot is as natural as to touch. [Read more…]