fragments of a blue ruin
Desire contains the seeds of its opposite, and thwarted love can easily curdle to hatred. Perhaps this is what drives some men to abandon the faith of the Promised Sun and walk a darker path. The Children pray for the extinction of Urth’s red sun and the stillbirth of the promised successor, calling instead for… Continue reading CHILDREN OF THE DARKLING SUN
Dearest seekers, the crowdfunding launch for Vaults of Vaarn: Second Edition is now fast approaching! If you have not already signed up on the Backerkit preview page, hit the link above and do so now! I am preparing a special digital reward for people who back the campaign after following the preview page or pledge… Continue reading VAULTS OF VAARN 2E: IMMINENT LAUNCH UPDATE
Autarch Cults The Autarchs were gods in flesh, bearers of the polychromatic Peacock Crown whose dominion over other men was as natural as taking breath. Small wonder that they remain objects of veneration long after the Autarchy fell. Autarch cults can be found across the Urth and beyond it, the statues and relics of the… Continue reading MAJOR FAITHS OF VAARN
There comes a time in the evening, when the lamps have been dimmed and the mammut have settled in their stables, when one sits alone on the porch listening to summer rain fall upon the orange groves and the warm wind rummaging in the deeper forests about the estate. Work has ceased and the only… Continue reading THE HEGEMONY AND ITS DISCONTENTS
The word 'daemon' in Vaarnish parlance can refer to a number of different phenomena. What these disparate entities hold in common is that they are bodiless intelligences, often malicious, that seek to influence the material world or to inhabit the flesh of humans. The term is loosely applied: a swarm of invasive nanomachines might be… Continue reading QUANTUM DAEMONS
They were made to be devoured, a divine gift from GAEA to Her charges. Each adult weighs more than two men, the flanks beneath their soft white skin laden with fat. Their eyes and ears are weak, their legs likewise. They were never intended to run. Within the pliant confines of their frames, twinned… Continue reading FEASTBEAST
They are the inheritors of one of mankind’s oldest and fondest wishes: that we might join the birds we envy and fly with them in the unbounded vastness of the depths above. In leaving the ground they have lost none of their ancestors’ pride or taste for blood and the creatures are famed for their… Continue reading OF THE WALL’S HARPIES
The Construct Itself Of all the artefacts the ancients left littered across the cerulean sands of Vaarn, few are more imposing than the canted bulwark of pale ferrosteel that is known variously as the Great Wall, the Weeping Wall, the Backbone of the Gods, the Titanspine, and the Sacred Impediment. The Wall forms the western… Continue reading THE WALL
For eons unguessed at, the imminence of death has been a fearful black wing that unfurls across the minds of sapient beings. To escape mortality has been the pre-occupation of magicians, philosophers, kings, science mystics, gene-sculptors and demon-speakers and fortune-twisters alike. Throughout the long-faded eras of Urth, the means by which a mortal man could… Continue reading THE FIVE IMMORTAL PATHS
Some of the writing work I've been doing recently for Bloodheist has been in collaboration with Penny De Redful. Penny is the pseudonymous author of the weekly Scandal Sheet, a scurrilous rag full of gossip and rumours, a publication that every vampire in the Undying Empire decries as an atrocious breach of privacy when their name… Continue reading Penny De Redful Writes In
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