Intrigues and adventures within the glittering courts of the land's nobility: A collection of Tales of Adventure

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The final triumph of a twisted astrologer, this splendid sphere hides a terrible secret.

Considered to be misshapen freaks or demonic menaces by the superstitious, these many-armed people dwell as outcasts on the fringes of human society, abused and reviled.

The villagers paid dearly after they slew the stuttering old crone!

The city of the Bright People fell, but the spirit of its people remains. A legend of the Ouzquin Dremorix.

Legends even to the merfolk, the reclusive Trench Dwellers are a race alien and strange beyond human reckoning.

When you face a foe in desperate life-or-death combat, there's nothing like getting good and liquored up first...

Crawling among the garbage and offal, the detritus of what men call civilization, the myrie bugs claim their own small domains. They eat, and breed, and wait…

Kranno the Goblin didn't know what to do with his mastery of the art of skulking until he met the frustrated poet Vonyich Festelgabber.

Shrouded in rags, this fallen foreign nobleman serves as the lethal right hand of the queen of the beggars.

Last of the Lineage of Senach, young King Nemeroud gave his heart to an Aelfen enchantress and vanished from the lands of men, plunging the land into chaos. If only the tale had ended there

The beautiful Fairy Castle of Princess Callia, favored daughter of deranged Emperor Sentatian.

Before the honored dead are placed in their sarcophagi of alabaster, they come to the Villa of the Embalmers.

The ancient sages knew: To see beyond the veils of Death, you must become as one dead.

Few men truly know the Earth Children and their enigmatic rulers, the Loresingers. These keepers of ancient secrets are among the greatest allies, and the most subtle enemies, that humanity could ever know.

Few are the sons of men who have come to understand the ways of the Volgotoi, the huge warrior race commonly referred to as Ogres.

In every great film, the seed of a corny adventure can be found...

The customers who find this elusive little shop may leave with more than a simple love potion in their pocket.

The power of the runes comes with a price, one the apprentice Tamford wasn't ready to pay

The Gohhi tribesmen of the Sallvian desert preserve the worship of an ancient goddess...