Albrýndaer. Vælírian Years 1146-1147 (2nd T.A. 989-990) One unavoidable part of growing up in a prison, even as unusual a prison as this, was the fact of criminals. For not all who were cast into the subterranean dungeons were condemned only for political motives; there were also many who were doers of evil in its … Read More “Dawnbringer: Legacy 1.4 – Adolescence” »
Hældáris is stirred from his thoughts by the hand of Relmaríndë upon his shoulder. She crouches down before him and looks into his eyes with tenderness and concern. “Something is occupying your mind,” she remarks. “Many things fill my thoughts,” he says in reply, pushing himself to his feet and standing face to face with … Read More “Dawnbringer: Legacy 1.3 – Mykkëvéngr” »
Albrýndaer. Vælírian Years 1134-1146 (2nd T.A. 977-989) He was born in the darkness. But even so, he was born in the midst of love, and this mattered far more deeply. His parents were exiles, imprisoned like so many others in the vast underground caverns beneath the Empire of Væliria. A more unusual and harsh prison … Read More “Dawnbringer: Legacy 1.2 – Born in the Darkness” »
WARNING: Do not read this unless you have first read the entirety of Dawnbringer: Lightborn as, being a sequel, it has many very significant spoilers. Hældáris. 3rd Telmeric Age, Year 29 (V.Y. 1174) The waves crest white and full as the sea roils wildly under the touch of the stormy wind, spreading out beyond sight … Read More “Dawnbringer: Legacy 1.1 – Upon the Waves of the Sea” »
I ask myself why nostalgia is such a powerful and visceral emotion, why my mind is inexorably drawn to the early years of my life as to a haven of security and a space of precious beauty, even though it was also a time of darkness, hardship, and loss. Is it solely because in this … Read More “Dawnbringer: Legacy – Prologue” »
Winfred was a Relihím from his earliest days, begotten, raised among the robber band though he was too young to understand. He knew only that they went from place to place and never lacked for good food. – Where did all these things come from? was not a question he thought to ask, for his … Read More “Winfred The Wayward Relihím” »
Tracks through the heavy snow I tread as I make my way home to bed, the runners on my laden wain digging in the drifts on the lane. – The long day’s work is done at last and I hope for my soon repast, as the sun dips low, casting light, my weary bones ask … Read More “A Farmer’s Last Return” »
In woodland bright the gentle west wind’s call bids Eldoreth arise, depart from all, and on the shore of the great, boundless sea he hears a silent voice speak audibly in words without sound, yet still echoing, to build a ship and to go a-sailing across the wild and unknown ocean’s breadth to a place … Read More “The Voyage of Eldoreth” »
Ûsric was born of Eláric of Kora in the year 564 of the 1st Age, and he was raised in the traditions of his ancestors, devoted to the Seven and the One, though his special predilection was for Hæliána, the goddess of the ocean and of the growth of living things. And though never in … Read More “The Fruit of a Man’s Life: The Founding of the Village of Hinfast” »
The sun sends light through the thick canopy of trees, causing dappled light to dance upon the forest floor, warm and majestic, humble and serene. Haeldaris walks through the dense underbrush, his leather boots damp with the morning dew. For twenty years he has lived in the citadel upon the mountain, and for as many … Read More “Dawnbringer Epilogue” »
