Tag: magic

Aug
15

Walk Between Shadows | Chapter 23 – Confrontation

 DISCLAIMER – This story features images of violence, adult language, and some adult situations. The following story is Copyright © 2015 Padraig O’C. Copying this story without permission from the author is strictly prohibited. The stairs passed through one more floor, and she ignored the locked doors on either side. Running past the landing she then made […]

Jul
18

Character Sketch: Johara Amal

I hate wanna-be bandit queens. Johara Amal cornerstone character developed after years of consideration and work. It was Johara that influenced the creation of many future characters that became central to the Oak Cross metaverse. In many ways Johara was just part of a long line of tragic characters created from my mind. In other […]

Jul
10

What the Sierd is the Shattered Era?

We war with ourselves, like a cancer it grows, till we shall all die with impunity. -Alcaen Philosopher, Robert du LeFaye The opening of the Shattered Era began with the fulfillment of the creation of Synethic Life, the eventual rebellion of the Homunculi against the Faeru. The wars that preceded the rebellion itself would lead […]

Jun
27

Walk Between Shadows | Chapter 17 – Widow’s Lament

 DISCLAIMER – This story features images of violence, adult language, and some adult situations. The following story is Copyright © 2015 Padraig O’C. Copying this story without permission from the author is strictly prohibited. A flurry of activity occurred within the first few hours after she spoke to Jack. She had perhaps half the day left, if […]

Mar
06

Walk Between Shadows | Chapter 2 – Contacts

DISCLAIMER – This story features images of violence, adult language, and some adult situations. The following story is Copyright © 2015 Padraig O’C. Copying this story without permission from the author is strictly prohibited. Bellingham, Washington. A town formed from four others in the past. It was not really a town, but a small city with its […]

Mar
05

Who the Sierd are Genics?

 Some say the Knights imperial could wield magic, Star-Gods to Honest magic! Lightning, and even the divine light of the holy ones themselves! Then they were gone, and we got them witches, the Genics instead. -A Commoner on Genics The power of the mind, and the ability to manipulate the energies of the body are […]

Nov
06

NaNoWriMo 2014, Walk Between Shadows

Last Saturday marked the beginning of National Novel Writing Month, or NaNoWriMo. I have participated for the past few years beginning in 2010 when I first wrote the piece known as “Weeping Skies” the first novel in the Age of Sky Sail series. The next year I wrote part of the sequel known as “Insurgent […]