Recent content by Kade Anvar

How were there more of the Things now? This was the scary part about magic, the fact that to Kade it was all just one big monolithic unknown. No, make that Unknown with a capital U. By definition it defied all that Kade knew of the natural world. It made the impossible possible, and here now, no...

There! His big chance! Everything seemed to move in slow motion before Kade's eyes for a moment. The Empress Regent herself, Medja, had come from inside the Palace. And, hot sands, did her magic ever make short and simple work of these monstrosities. Now Kade didn't (and really, couldn't...

First sword he'd ever earned. Okay, well, second—he'd bought that rusty sword sword to use during the Trial of Tribulations in Annuakat. Buuuut...that thing was like an awful first kiss: best forgotten, so you can try at a first time again. And what a turn of events from who handed him this...

Pitch black was something fairly rare to experience. Yeah, indoors you could find a nice set of four walls with no windows and whatever light which might leak through the bottom gap in the door blotted out with a towel, but outside? Outside? The moons needed to be just right, plenty of thick...

"Yeah," Kade said, this by reflex more than anything else. Almost as if chastising him for his little fib, a fresh wave of soreness rolled over him when he tensed his jaw. He scrubbed at his mouth with the back of his hand then. To wipe any blood if there actually was any, of course, but also...

A fist landed right into Kade's jaw. Kade went reeling back. Distantly he heard other Hands, the Sipahi who arrived with that important guy, Palace guards, probably a mixture of all of them, shouting "Order! Order! Order!" Distant, these shouts and the wild commotion of the crowd, because...

Yeah, Kaluum was the name of the town. Kade heard it right from one of the locals when he stopped to ask about an inn. The local Kaluum man, friendly enough, was still a bit surprised. Oh, travelers. Nah, caravaneers, heading south to Nymenur. Well, the man had said, either way Kaluum didn't see...

Kade's life had changed forever following his trip to Annuakat. What a wild ride, right? What an absolutely wild ride. From the Tower of Tribulations, to meeting Empress Medja in person, to finally being inducted into the ranks of the Imperial Hands, one thing had led to another and here he was...

"Yeah! Try that! If it helps, I'll wiggle my fingers too!" Kade said. Anything was better than just leaving her to whatever fate she'd found in those flames. They had to at least try something! Kade didn't think he'd be able to live with himself if he didn't. By the Six, the guilt and the shame...

Despite being cross with Fiera, feeling as if she had backstabbed him (hey, could have at least asked him first before shoving him into a gaping bowl of eldritch fire), and despite the horror, however much it had dwindled, that still trembled his arms and his legs, Kade nevertheless saw what...

...or shall I say, 'dreamt of you?' So this is what being a statue felt like. Yup. Completely petrified. Can't move. Stuck like this forever. Finally, though, the war within was at an end. He felt like he was going mad over contemplating it, arguing with himself day in and day out over whether...

The little tug of his pants, pinned by the knife and refusing to let him go without a least a modicum of a struggle, made him stop for just a brief second. And the brief second was truly what he needed. Amidst the utter horror and panic, there was the quiet and rational part of his mind which...

"Hey! HEY!!" was all Kade could yell as he fell into the fire. One of the last thoughts before his body touched the flames being a strangely calm and cool one: Oh, this is what it feels like to be stabbed in the back. The flames, green and bright, were all around him. And he didn't stop...

When you got right down to it, Fiera was a really funny woman. Jokes aplenty from her. Yeah, her humor was as dry as the desert in a drought, but once you got your ear tuned to it she was a font of mirth. And hey, that was something Kade thought was a good occasion to give his shoulders a...

Home sweet home. Ragash. Kade's trip to Annuakat for the Tower of Tribulations was absolutely the most storied excursion of his life. Master Jalil had sent him here and there before for a rare ingredient or two, and sometimes things could get a little dicey, but none of these apprenticeship...