I'm not sure if Marcelene ever got around to talking about her idea, as our conversation meandered wildly...

"I do believe you have miscalculated," Verner Birke said. I turned to look at the Antixenarch. He'd come to...

Armies are expensive. Even when the main fighting force is provided by men fulfilling their duty to their...

A blue carpet ran from the doors to the street, lined with footmen in every conceivable livery from the...

The Imperial Diet met in an imposing building faced in black basalt with ornate spires and flying buttresses....

I had expected things to go faster once I'd reached Stirnberg. Instead, it was as if it all ground to a halt....

I didn't want to go to Stirnberg, but it seemed like I was out of options. I brooded all of the way to the...

Buying support from a skrael family was not difficult given the amount of money we were hauling around. The...

The bleeding tear started at Lothar's right hip and ran partway down the outside of his thigh. Either a...

All I wanted was for the year to end and to leave Arx Anade. For where, I did not know. Somewhere where I...