mardus

Stella opened her eyes slowly. Another day in hell. She sat up in her bed. It was a small room. Just large enough to be more “cozy” than “cramped”. Her bed was a full size four poster. A little bigger than a twin, not quite a queen. The bed across from her sat unoccupied. That was what had...

Tabitha was cold, no that was an understatement. Tabitha was freezing.most of her clothing was threadbare at this point, the soles of her shoes were wearing thin. She had patched and repatched, but they would only last so much longer. She had spent the day meandering the streets of the city...

For many nights Llewen sat thinking of how he might gather the workforce necessary to turn his 380 acres of dense brush and forest into farmland to uphold his oath to Princess Helia. He could ask people directly--but that would take precious time he might not have. No, he would need something...

The city of Mardus was greater than Llewen could have imagined; he did not realize that this was the Kingdom to which he owed his loyalty and station as a Knight. The towering walls, especially those of the great keep, loomed over him as his brown Palfrey, Rosemary, slowly walked through the...

Llewen Merrick awoke in a cold sweat. He'd only slept for a few hours, or so he thought; he'd spent most of the night counting the pittance of money he'd gathered from the peasants a few days prior. The Gereau family couldn't pay rent, or they would starve, and the other two families had had a...

As far as cities went, Mardus was truly massive. Stories about this place claim that it used to be a city built by the cloud giants up in the sky but was rebuilt by humans on the ground after it's cataclysmic fall. But stories were stories, proof was scarce though the size of this city surely...