As your fairly typical Fantasy setting Realmgard (by the way, Realmgard is the continent; Terrace is the planet), brave adventures often come home with assorted strange and ancient things as their prize for an adventure well, um… adventured.
Occasionally, those strange and ancient things cursed.
Of Late Realmgardic-era Epigraphy
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“There’s no indication that this site is a tomb or a burial ground. All the evidence so far suggest that this was some kind of military outpost.”
“Oh, good,”
“Of course. That doesn’t preclude the possibility that there’s still some kind of burial ground nearby for the outpost.”
Kat, Prima & Vera: Pondering Their Orb
And what are we going to do with it?” Vera continues.
“Bury it,” Kat offers. “Lock it away. Drop it down a mine shaft. Throw it into the sea.”
“Could we sell it to somebody?” Prima asks.
Vera gasps with excitement. “We could eat food for a month!”
“If you’re hungry,” Kat offers from behind her table. “I’ll buy you dinner. You don’t need to mess around with magic orbs!”
The Four Horsemen vs. Ancient Tanithite
An unfortunate magical mishap has left Tenebella trapped in a small, child-like form with much-reduced magical powers. As the five members of the Four Horsemen of Castle Ansangaar — including the female Gwaedbran, who objects to being counted as a Horseman — feverishly pore over an entire library’s worth of magical tomes for a potential solution, Kat works to keep up Tenebella’s spirits.
And resist an overwhelming urge to pinch her cute little face…
The Lyte Brigade and the King in a Box, Part 1
“They’re not paying me enough to get cursed — especially not in the middle of the night. That’s, like, the most horrible time to get cursed!”
The Lyte Brigade and the King in a Box, Part 2
“Ten thousand maledictions upon those who have disturbed my slumber! Terrors heaped upon terrors without end! Misfortune and woe! The crows shall peck at your faces! The dogs shall gnaw at the cuffs of your pants! The bears shall steal your picnic baskets!”
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