"The Dark One, he looks like anybody you see on the street. But when he grins, birds fall dead off high places. When he looks at you a certain way, your humors freeze and your urine burns. The grass yellows up and dies where he spits. He's always outside. He came out of time. He doesn't know himself. His names are legion as are his faces. He's afraid of us. He is always on the outside looking in; hating people who have good fellowship and good conversation and friends - things he can not have. We're inside. He knows magic. He can call the Night Beast and live in the shadows. He's the king of nowhere. But he's afraid of us. He's afraid of . . . inside." The Book of Cauldius, found in the Royal Archive 828 by Arthurus the Wise

Not every wolf can be tamed, and in time, the feral are certain to bite the hands that feed him. But what punishment can be leveled upon the wolf? Should he be cast out into the wilds, knowing even better now the habits of shepard and sheep? And should he be slain, what should become of his fur and fang?

How much worse can be a man than a wolf?

A sweet old Herbalist with a secret, how old is he really?

He is the master of more than just the piemakers.

She's everywhere. And she won't stop coming until she has the throne.

These be the tales of The Golden Prize, the most feared ship on The Liquid Sky.

Good and evil? I see neither, I only see law and order opposing chaos and anarchy. Anarchy means blood, death, and poverty. I'll take order and riches over that.

Sokolov the Axiomancer

They came from nowhere suddenly.

Desperado, oh, you ain't gettin' no younger:
Your pain and your hunger, they're drivin' you home.
And freedom, oh freedom,
Well, that's just some people talkin'
Your prison is walking,
Through this world all alone.

First, you get the gold. Then you get the power. I could care about the women, I've had the men in the palm of my hand since I was 17.

Memoirs of Wealth, excerpt

The Commander of Confederation Special Operations Unit 13, the Star Falcons, Peregrine-0004.7 is an extravagant, yet highly effecient soldier. Time and time again, he has lead the Oraki black-ops teams to success, keening his unnerving war-cry.

Kor’na’Nath is the man who has done what, in ancient times, was considered impossible. He has united the men of the Kel’Regar, to provide a skeleton by which they may survive the world outside Regar.

The high ambassador of the Kel’Regar to the Earthling federation, the unearthly Ku’ar’Riss is a terrifying creature to behold, her desires as dark and alien as her skin.

Magic is a blessing and curse, life and death, birth and undoing, a goal and a way.

Yet another list of 30, this time fiendish foes, vile villians, and and dastardly do-badders.

An outcaste goblin with a sadistic streak and a secret talent

Renik Kavios is the leader of the dockworkers' union. He is also a smuggler for stolen goods and illegal contraband. Through his power, he has the leaders of a city locked under his control.

The Unification War was a travesty, an act of naked fascism against frontier worlds so diverse and destitute that their submission was not worth the cost in lives, material, and hostility garnered. We, gentlemen, have created generations of enemies.

L. C. Vallandigham

Mercenary. Hacker. Charm school graduate. Teddy bear collector. Raver. Troll.

With enough will, determination, and intelligence, we will remake the world in our image.