Cornelia served the Grand Wizard Elkhorne for many years, tending dutifully to his laboratory and making sure his robes were properly cleaned and mended. That was until Cornelia slipped and fell down the spiraling staircase from the orrey and broke her neck...and died.

Methinks we have hugely mistaken this matter of Life and Death. Methinks that what they call my shadow here on earth is my true substance. Methinks that in looking at things spiritual, we are too much like oysters observing the sun through the water, and thinking that thick water the thinnest of air. Me thinks my body is but the lees of my better being. In fact take my body who will, take it I say, it is not me.'

? Herman Melville, Moby Dick

The story of the Aurumic Staff is a story of deceit, murder, assassination, coercion, genocide, and war.

I have heard it all my life,
A voice calling a name I recognized as my own.

Police gear produced by LawMaster Industries

Tales grow in the telling and heroes grow in stature, even the tiniest can stand tall among their own.

Should we fail to deliver a good promised within seven days, whence it arrives it shall be delivered free of all charges.

Baldric and Frog's Semaine Promise

It is a common conceit that banks, loans, investment and other features of the banking and financial system are entirely modern. This is far from the truth, as long as there has been money, there have been people who profitted from holding it and manipulating it.

A brutal type of footwear.

No high school teens who turn out to be wonder-pilots here.

A collection of space habitats, space stations, space colonies, and anything else artificial that serves as a home to humans in SPAAAAAAAAAAAAAACE!

Not all of the mermaids and sea sirens are half fish, there are other things that live in the sea

A magic weapon common among the Orcish tribes

Few things shine as bright as the jewels of Hell

inspired by Cheka Man's 30 Boots submission

No long names, just a quick list of 30 archetypal Lords of Terrasquestone

Small bits of precious metal, and flawless jewels woven into the mane of a noble steed

Conosca abbastanza per essere impaurito, molto impaurito

Motto of Cinque-Parte Polygnostic