Recent content by Vance Calgrave

Vance didn't need convincing. He stepped back with Edric and felt the copper bars along his limbs grow warm. He had his own feelings on the Republic, not many of them good. Vel Anir had gone soft, forgotten what made them great. That had to be true, because if it wasn't, all of the pain he'd...

Vance didn't catch on immediately. It was weird that the guy was coming back, though. The councilors hadn't officially surrendered, and based on the last half hour that should put them under twelve tons of rock by now. "Why isn't he killing them?" It wasn't until he turned his head and saw...

The elven woman showed a crack in her frustratingly beautiful face. What had been a mask of calm and confidence shifted to, dare she admit it, surprise. It did not last long, for the broken pieces of her prideful mask reforged themselves into wrath. She threw up her other hand, doubling her...

Vance sucked in a desperate, rasping breath just a few moments after Edric sent the life force through him. He coughed, and coughed, and turned himself onto his side to spit out the gobs of blood that had formed in his lungs. His vision was starting to clear while he panted. Everything hurt...

"I would, if they'd done to me what they did to him." Somewhere in Vance there might have been a wriggling sense of mercy, but wherever it lived had been very intentionally buried by the Academy. These people had made their own graves by taking a dreadlord of this caliber prisoner. Something...

Vance's breathing continued and the twitching slowed and stopped. The majority of the current had been directed outward, and luckily his friends had not been struck. Ella's words made their way into his mind. Even if he was not aware of them, they were there. Perhaps this would help.

Vance stretched and rolled his shoulders a few times before sheathing his sword. A night under a wet tarp hadn't done wonders for his joints. He inhaled the scents of burnt flesh and acid electricity that lingered in the air and kept a savage grin on his face. Until their charge spoke again...

The lightning came back as if it were enraged by being held at bay. The current surged through Vance’s veins and sent his body into full convulsions as it leapt out of him via whatever exit it found. His eyes blinded and his tongue tasted metal as the bolts crackled out like dragonfire. His...

Vance was getting angrier. That’s what he did when he didn’t want to feel what he was feeling. Fear and concern were weakening him, making him bend under these vines. The pain he didn’t mind, just the helplessness of being restrained. So he used the pain as a focusing lens. He let the vines’...

Ella had pushed their position too far. The bench flew towards the child who made no attempt whatsoever to avoid it. It broke on impact, splintering in half an arm's length from the elf as it collided with a shimmering barrier. She was angry, but it wasn't the hot anger of a child, it was the...

Vance's head was pounding so furiously he could hardly see. The sounds of the man's laughter dimmed to a background whine. Blood kept dripping from his flayed hands and there was a considerable volume accumulating on the ground around him. He could still feel the crunch of bones under his boot...

Vance's ears were ringing. He saw red, but that might be bleeding in his eyes. The pain in his hands was so constant that it almost blended into the background. He did not hear Everleigh, but he caught the piercing glint in the light where it fell. He wasn't thinking straight enough to work...

Vance allowed himself to fully revel in the carnage. All of the anger and frustration that had been pent up, all of the pain that the academy had wrought, he let it fly, and it felt good. He was light, he was death, and he enjoyed the fear he saw around him. It was especially grand to be...

Vance shot Ella a look when she offered to show them the map. The elves might be convinced if they saw it, but then again this could all be a plan to figure out where exactly they were trying to go. "You could have that map to trick people going through your bag." Vance hadn't even thought of...

The girl looked genuinely interested in Ella's response, and for a moment her eyes lost the childlike glow. It returned when she asked "But there aren't any Dreadlords in Elven lands. My mom told me that." She was right, even Vance knew that the treaties between the Falwood Elves and Vel Anir...