AN: This is going to be the last week of 7 posts. I'm out of manic 'start of book' energy, and I'm going down to a more sustainable 5 per week. There's a good chance that, like in BTDEM, that number will drop as the series gets larger. Still, I believe I'll be ending with 40 chapters in 40 days, which is solid.
I...
2025-11-10 13:00:14 +0000 UTC View PostWho’s who:
Felix Sutter: Poor boy living in Sacramento, recently found out magic existed. Hard worker, knows the price of everything.
Leona Thorne: 5th year Commander of Dragon house. Long black hair, casually throws around huge amounts of magical power.
Chr...
2025-11-09 13:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostWho’s who
Felix Sutter: Poor boy living in Sacramento, recently found out magic existed. Hard worker, knows the price of everything.
Leona Thorne: 5th year Commander of Dragon house. Long black hair, casually throws around huge amounts of magical power.
Chri...
2025-11-08 13:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostWho’s who
Felix Sutter: Poor boy living in Sacramento, recently found out magic existed. Hard worker, knows the price of everything.
Leona Thorne: 5th year Commander of Dragon house. Long black hair, casually throws around huge amounts of magical power.
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2025-11-07 13:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostWho’s who:
Professor Myra Mistvale: Mind Magic professor from Camelot. Gave Hazel her letter, and a very stern lecture.
Erik Morsin: Heir to the Duchy of the Emerald Isle. Just wants to play his violin.
Lance Thalorien: Grandson of the head...
2025-11-06 13:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostWho’s who (There’s a lot of people this chapter):
Felix Sutter: Poor boy living in Sacramento, recently found out magic existed. Hard worker, knows the price of everything.
Hazel Winslow: Ran away from an abusive cult. Awoke as a natural mind mage.
Erik Mo...
2025-11-05 13:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostWho’s who:
Professor Cedric Cold: Overweight Combat class professor. Ran orientation. Sword foci.
Felix Sutter: Poor boy living in Sacramento, recently found out magic existed. Hard worker, knows the price of everything.
Erik Morsin...
2025-11-04 13:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostWho’s who:
Professor Cedric Cold: Overweight Combat class professor. Ran orientation. Sword foci.
Felix Sutter: Poor boy living in Sacramento, recently found out magic existed. Hard worker, knows the price of everything.
Hazel Winslow 2025-11-03 13:00:13 +0000 UTC View Post
Characters!
Cedric Cold: Combat professor at Camelot. Overeats at dinner. Uses a sword as his conduit.
Felix Sutter: Poor boy living in Sacramento, recently found out magic existed. Hard worker, knows the price of everything.
Lance Thalorien: Grandson o...
2025-11-02 13:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostCharacters!
Felix Sutter: Poor boy living in Sacramento, recently found out magic existed. Hard worker, knows the price of everything.
Hazel Winslow: Ran away from an abusive cult. Awoke as a natural mind mage.
Erik Morsin: Heir to the Duchy of the Emerald I...
2025-11-01 13:00:15 +0000 UTC View PostSTUFF IS COMING OUT WOOO!!
I don't have an epilogue chapter for you. I DO have a small snippet of the webcomic that was made to help test everything. NSFW, in 4 parts. Lewd, not crude.
At the last minute!
It's not quite spooky.
I will say, the artist decided to push the boundaries more than usual, and this is the toned down version. Still, it's a little more than usual.
Characters!
Felix Sutter: Poor boy living in Sacramento, recently found out magic existed. Hard worker, knows the price of everything.
Vivian Merryweather: An expert on all things color, fashion, and of the heart. Gets seasick easily.
Alexandria Renard: Want...
2025-10-31 13:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostCharacters!
Felix Sutter: Poor boy living in Sacramento, recently found out magic existed. Hard worker, knows the price of everything.
Hazel Winslow: Ran away from an abusive cult. Awoke as a natural mind mage.
Erik Morsin: Heir to the Duchy of the Emerald I...
2025-10-30 13:00:13 +0000 UTC View PostCharacters!
Felix Sutter: Poor boy living in Sacramento, recently found out magic existed. Hard worker, knows the price of everything.
Hazel Winslow: Ran away from an abusive cult. Awoke as a natural mind mage.
Erik Morsin: Heir to the Duchy of the Emerald I...
2025-10-29 13:00:13 +0000 UTC View PostCharacters!
Felix Sutter: Poor boy living in Sacramento, recently found out magic existed. Hard worker, knows the price of everything.
Hazel Winslow: Ran away from an abusive cult. Awoke as a natural mind mage.
Erik Morsin: Heir to the Duchy of the Emerald I...
2025-10-28 13:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostAN: Posts will be going live at 2PM my time, instead of 4PM. That way I'm actually sitting down and working when posts go live. My kid comes home right before 4, and I like chatting with people over the launch. It was also daylight's savings just now, so if the schedule seems wonky, it is. I might switch to 3PM instead... we'...
2025-10-27 13:00:21 +0000 UTC View PostHey all!
Song of the Gift-Giver is now life on Royal road! Please come on over, follow, favorite, rate, and review! https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/137312/song-of-the-gift-giver
Now look, I know you're probab...
2025-10-27 10:59:26 +0000 UTC View PostCharacters!
Erik Morsin: Heir to the Duchy of the Emerald Isle. Just wants to play his violin.
Sora Park: Erik’s loyal friend. Loves flying.
Vivian Merryweather: An expert on all things color, fashion, and of the heart. Gets seasick easily.
Maeve Morsin: Erik’s mother. Duchess of Ireland in Logres<...
2025-10-26 13:08:59 +0000 UTC View PostCharacter Notes:
Felix Sutter: Poor boy living in Sacramento, recently found out magic existed.
Hazel Winslow: Ran away from an abusive cult. Awoke as a natural mind mage.
Professor Myra Mistvale: Mind Magic professor from Camelot. Gave Hazel her letter, and a very stern lecture.
Professor Pa...
2025-10-25 14:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostAN: I've got a lot of characters, very fast. I'm going to take a leaf out of several other author's books, and have brief one-liners about them at the start of the chapter, so your memory is refreshed.
Felix Sutter: Poor boy living in Sacramento, recently found out magic existed.
Paracelsus: The Immortal Alchemist. T...
Hey all!
I realize I've been sending a lot of characters at you very quickly. For those of you unsure of who you ACTUALLY need to care about and track, vs who's just filler. There's some MINOR spoilers for tomorrows chapter.
I'm not going to call the other characters throwaways - they'll be used to expand the wor...
2025-10-23 20:28:55 +0000 UTC View PostIn the hour before dawn, Alaric Morsin, traitor and coward, choked on his own blood, taken in sleep.
Dorian Morsin, storm-eyed and bitter, reached for his focus -
Too late.
Bjorn's axe split his spine.
No mercy was shown.
The children cried out - once.
Then only the crackle of fire remained.
Bjorn...
Ten winters and more did Bjorn ride the storm-winds of war.
His axe, forged from the soul-heart of a northern bear, drank deep.
In blood and thunder he taught himself the tongue of runes,
Not from scroll, but from scream.
He carved spellwork in flesh and fire, earning magic by mastery of death.
He s...
A bargain was struck.
Erik Morsin, now a boy of great potential and darker legacy,
Was engaged to Lady Alexandria Renard,
A noble of wide lineage and dangerous charm.
With this bond,
The Morsins tied themselves to the very throne they had once defied.
The Saga of Bjorn, Verse 53...
2025-10-21 14:00:15 +0000 UTC View PostAN: Originally I considered starting off Song from Erik's POV, not Felix's. Felix works better because he's new, but quite a few traces of 'I'm starting a series' can be found in Erik's chapters. Hopefully it's new framing on concepts, and not repetitive.
ALSO! WHAT'S THIS!? A CHAPTER ON MONDAY!?
Yes, that's rig...
Let the record show that this court is appalled by the jury’s verdict in the matter of The People v. Derek Mallory. The evidence laid bare during this trial left no room for ambiguity. Derek Mallory did not simply commit a crime; he committed an act of cruelty so calculated, so devastating, that it defies comprehension....
2025-10-19 14:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostAN: This is a particularly rough chapter, and I don't generally do content warnings, but this one needs all the warnings. Hazel POVs will be quite rare (8 in the whole series? I'll run out of epigraphs if there are anymore...), but a few early establish her character and a lot of the mysteries. Otherwise, she'll look like a g...
2025-10-18 14:00:14 +0000 UTC View Post
By hand and heart and spell beyond ken, Merlin wrought the Great Sundering. The weave of all things he unmade and rewove, casting the mundane unto one world, and our kind unto another.
Two worlds, alike in place and shape...
2025-10-17 09:45:10 +0000 UTC View PostAN: Surprise chapter! My writing is going extremely well this week, and I should have 4 or 5 chapters done. As a result, I'm posting 4 chapters this week!
Author note at the end.
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Prologue:
These entries I pen upon vellum wrought with silver ink, that they may endure should t...
2025-10-16 13:05:14 +0000 UTC View Post
