Albrýndaer. Vælírian Year 1150 Stirred to reflection by the pain that he witnesses, by the combat and slaughter that are now happening all around him, and by the loss of the person most precious to him in the world, Albrýndaer’s thoughts turn inward once again. He also sees cropping up like shoots from the soil … Read More “Dawnbringer: Legacy 1. 8 – A Story of Origins” »
Hældáris. 3rd T.A. 29 (V.Y. 1174) He finds himself engulfed in darkness and deafening silence, and he is at first aware of nothing but pain: a deep ache across almost his entire body and a sharper throbbing from the area of his left shoulder to his lower back. Even before he fully realizes that he … Read More “Dawnbringer: Legacy 1.7 – Remnants” »
Hældáris’ mind passes in and out of thought and awareness, in and out of dreams and reality, tasting hope and tasting despair, tasting reality and tasting the fear of nothingness. And all throughout he seeks for the light beyond the darkness, for life beyond death, for an end to this story different than the one … Read More “Dawnbringer: Legacy 1.6 – In Heart’s Sanctuary” »
Albrýndaer. Vælírian Years 1147-1150 (2nd T.A. 990-993) The taste of death during his first hunt was difficult to stomach, and especially the act of killing. For Albrýndaer had a deep and abiding sense of the preciousness, indeed the sanctity, of life—of all things that lived and breathed, acted and grew, brought forth young and died. … Read More “Dawnbringer: Legacy 1.5 – Ötûnr” »
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, far from the light of sun, moon, or stars. He knew not the elegance and nobility of mountain, valley, tree, and flower, or even the richly woven tapestry of the culture and artifice of humankind. But even so, he was born in … 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 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 in … 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” »
