Recent content by Iffi Vellane

I did not realise it, but my jaw was clenched so tightly that should the scene have been silent, I would have been able to hear the grinding of my teeth. As it was, everything was drowned out by the clash and clatter of armour and weapons. My heartbeat joined the cacophony, thundering against my...

I was not far behind the warband, yet by the time I reached the village devastation and destruction had already carved its way through the sleeping hovels of peasant men and their families. The walls were painted a sticky red that rolled in thick globules down wattle and daub walls, sinking into...

I stood at the edge of the forest, watching the sun's waning light disappearing inch by inch behind a rippling horizon of mountains and grasslands. In the half darkness, the in-between state between day and night, the shadows of the warriors riding from the forest rippled over the grounds like...