Many Mages
Xilobrax, Lovrian, Driaith, and Borybran were hastily acquired, and Tultamaan, and Psajathrion and Rhosmanthus at Tultamaan’s recommendation. Eight dragons levitated in a circle around Mr. Norb’s...
View ArticleJaraswat’s Confession
Ten dragons — Itharieth and Evrath having added themselves to the party — confronted Jaraswat. Tultamaan took the offense, as often. “Jaraswat! You claim to be Extremely Educated. Wherefore we have a...
View ArticleConfession of Fraxtseng
“Fraxtseng! We must speak with you!” Tultamaan and Osoth were down to three companions, though their stories disagree on precisely who those companions were, and it doesn’t matter much, as the...
View ArticleNews from Kyspert: The Annunciation
News from Kyspert The Annunciation «I disposed of both prophets today,» wrote Roroku. «Vem-Thu and Ko-Go-Nwa, both relegated to footnotes in religious history, and Ko-Go-Nwa still living to see it,...
View ArticleThe Color from Beyond Space
The Color from Beyond Space «Oh! Do you remember ko-oc? The color that is “whiter than white, purer than pure” that only the truly blessed can see? I have decided that it is not a color per se, but...
View ArticleWhat You Do When You’re All Alone
What You Do When You’re All Alone «Want to know the best thing about having a world all to myself?» wrote Roroku one day. «Not having one’s husband’s thunderstorm collection wake one up in the middle...
View ArticleThe Law of Universal Gravitation
The Law of Universal Gravitation «I got a very strange world,» said Roroku. «I hope it is strange in a pleasant way,» I replied. «This one is strange in an it-doesn’t-matter way,» she told me. «Most...
View ArticleA Slightly Inconvenient Truth
A Slightly Inconvenient Truth «Those repulsory celestial objects are only half the story,» wrote Roroku, some years later (and well after the book otherwise ends). «Or a third, or a quarter! What have...
View ArticleSectarian Violence
Sectarian Violence «This angelic masquerade has its flaws,» Roroku grumbled. «Geiranthu never recommended it over direct conquest,» I reminded her. Geiranthu, as should be obvious to anyone who had...
View ArticlePerils of Prosody
«Prosody! They did prosody, like a bunch of shit-breathing unmarriageable-girl bethrustards!» And on for a while, cursing and swearing with every wicked word in Grand Draconic. (There aren’t that...
View ArticleDischarged
Discharged «You must remember the staff I won from the Quiet Lord, the great necromancer of Cussa,» Osoth wrote to me in one of our daily conversations. «The one where you proved the superiority of...
View ArticleBurial Customs
Burial Customs The exploring company never cared enough for exploring Narethy. It was nearly useless as a dragon-world, after all. If anyone wanted to conquer it, they had merely to fly over it,...
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So there was a fair bit of treasure-hunting among the less busy drakes, despite the mediocrity of the results. And, naturally, a concerted attempt to understand and glorify the artistic styles of...
View ArticleDying Memharsh
Dying Memharsh The hhejŝṧhyant deposited Itharieth on a vast steel deck beneath a fierce sky. The sun of Memharsh was a vast dim red globe; Itharieth could see tornadoes of starfire crawling on its...
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The yancibot had brought a rolling metal table or gurney. “For bipeds, such as ourselves, we have cars and carriages and rolling-halls and many other conveyances. Strangely-shaped alien visitors are...
View ArticleDegeps of Memharsh
Degeps of Memharsh The yancibot whirled back to point its weaponry at the degeps. Its telescreen crackled with Des-Cnidda’s urgent cry, “Itharieth, Itharieth! You are in the way! I cannot have the...
View ArticleEnough of Memharsh
Return to the Curator “You escaped the degeps!” said Des-Cnidda’s amazed voice from the yancibot. “There was never any doubt of that,” said Itharieth. “They were simply trying to rescue me, as they put...
View ArticleThe Doom that Came to Narethy
The Doom that Came to Narethy The end of the expedition took no more than two-thirds of an hour. I was asleep for it, thoroughly exhausted after a day of diplomatic looming and attempting to...
View ArticleThe Doom that Came to Narethy 2
And the doom kneaded itself in the sky, fading into and out of visibility and danger-sensibility, chewing on the divinity and life of Borybran. A god-dragon seemed to be a large meal, even for it....
View ArticleThe End.
Jaraswat — to pick an atypical dragon — started out in the typical way, in his hangar, tossing some of his hoard into a crate and hurrying to the portal. Itharieth, waiting by the portal-mouth, asked...
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