SWARM TIME ON MARUZAR, by Dariel R. A. Quiogue   Of the seven who had attempted to escape the mines of Sommathar through the fabled Ancients’ Way, only Lakann came out to see Maruzar’s gold-banded night sky again. He breathed the chill air and suppressed a shiver. Free.  But cold, hungry, and so tired, body […]

CROWN OF AZT’NYR, by Mike Adamson, with art by Miguel Santos   Each Age shall know its hero. When times demand, unbeknownst to the man or woman whose stout heart shall be chosen, valour shall be demanded, and answered in full. When night would do battle with day, a mighty hand shall be raised in […]

THE WAKING GODS, by D.H. Rowe, with art by Simon Walpole   The jungle island of Iakala pierced the ocean. At its highest point a colossal structure rose above the canopy. The native people of the island called this the Tomb of the Giant Kings, as it was said to house the remains of the […]

THE PATH OF TWO ENTWINED, A TALE OF AZATLÁN, by Gregory Mele   Tehanuwak, the Land of Obsidian and Bronze, is a sweeping vista of ancient city-states in misty highlands and steaming jungles of the deep south to the vast grasslands and burning deserts of unmapped north. At this vast land’s heart lay the Three […]

CARPE CAPUT, by Evan Dicken, with artwork by Pen Anders, Audio by Karen Menzel, Music by Kevin MacLeod     Nastazo Balicosta was thinking of dinner when his client tried to strangle him. This shouldn’t have been wholly unexpected–the woman had murdered six city guards. Still, she was securely restrained, and it was Nastazo’s last […]