Anna was a bit lost about what to do. While her life before hadn’t been easy, she at least felt like there was a direction to go in. Now she wasn’t sure anymore. She could clearly recall that day Norman left her.
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She watched wi...
2023-04-17 12:00:20 +0000 UTC
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For the most part, Norman avoided Anna. What did he have to say to her? Honestly, he hadn’t thought about her hardly at all in the year before the Brotherhood attacked, and now she was here. He didn’t need the distraction or the headache at a ...
2023-04-14 12:00:04 +0000 UTC
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Norman woke up in a field, surrounded by the forces he had left outside the wall. A man was waiting nearby and handed him some clothes. “Thanks,” Norman muttered as he got dressed.
Dying again sucked, but at least the anti-mind control d...
2023-04-12 12:01:00 +0000 UTC
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The walls of Ashvale slowly appeared in the distance making Norman smile. He was returning at the head of a victorious army like some sort of conquering general. Which was not something he had ever expected to do.
The town looked much the sa...
2023-04-10 12:01:00 +0000 UTC
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Norman was pretty sure karma had it out for him.
The transition progress was moving along rather quickly and everything was going smoothly until the people that had fled the city started filtering back in. Once the returning people heard wha...
2023-04-07 12:00:59 +0000 UTC
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Despite what Norman had said, he was sad to see Pedro go. Norman was sure the man could have been another pillar of Ashvale like Grobert and Eugene if it wasn’t for the man’s disruptive form of magic. But Norman couldn’t dwell on losing a po...
2023-04-05 12:00:03 +0000 UTC
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It took another hour or so for Norman’s forces to secure the entire city. He was surprised they had managed it so easily. Surprised but happy. He had expected it to take much longer for his forces to eliminate the rest of the Brotherhood forces....
2023-04-03 12:00:04 +0000 UTC
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Noorani jerked out of her seat as a group of knights entered the sanctum. All but one of the knights faced the closed doors with weapons drawn.
“Why are you here? What is going on?”
The knight bowed, “Please forgive our intrusion...
2023-03-31 12:01:00 +0000 UTC
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After the Brotherhood forces took care of the nomads, the attacks in their territory came to an end. Whether or not the nomads were the culprit, it seemed Noorani’s message had been received loud and clear.
Within a few weeks, the city of ...
2023-03-29 12:01:01 +0000 UTC
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Noorani tapped her fingers on the arm of her chair in irritation. When she had originally taken over after the High Priest choked to death on a stupid grape, she had thought to change the Brotherhood into her idealized version of what it should be...
2023-03-27 12:00:05 +0000 UTC
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When Eugene set off from Ashvale, he took forty of the death knights with him, although, he didn’t take them all with him into the wasteland to attack the Brotherhood.
He decided to assign half of them to guard the border. With Ashvale bei...
2023-03-24 12:00:04 +0000 UTC
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Grobert’s premonition that the next few weeks were going to be exhausting, turned out to be a gross understatement.
Norman was lucky if he managed to get four hours of sleep a night between helping clear rubble and reviving more of the tow...
2023-03-22 12:00:59 +0000 UTC
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After reviving nearly ninety people, the process came to a bit of a halt. There were a few reasons for this. The first was that Norman had run out of magical powder. You might think just make more. Well no shit, sherlock. The problem with that was...
2023-03-20 12:00:05 +0000 UTC
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Norman felt exposed without his clothing, but there was no way in hell he was putting those filthy things back on. He wasn’t even sure he wanted to retrieve anything from inside the clothes but Grobert convinced him otherwise.
Norman used ...
2023-03-17 12:00:06 +0000 UTC
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Norman spent another full day in the cell without so much as an ounce of water or a scrap of food. It was clear these boxes were meant more as a way to torture someone until they died, rather than punishing them for a day. If it wasn’t for Pedro...
2023-03-15 12:01:00 +0000 UTC
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After leaving the hostel, Norman quietly tucked the smoked meats from his bag into his clothing. The threadbare attire had many pockets and other storage spots underneath the folds of fabric. Norman probably would have done this sooner but he didn...
2023-03-13 12:00:04 +0000 UTC
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Norman returned to Ashvale with only one large dino, two twenty-footers, and ten of the smaller ostrich-sized dinos. Not ideal, but it was better than nothing.
It did mean he would have to rethink his plan to unleash feral dinosaurs on the u...
2023-03-10 13:00:05 +0000 UTC
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It took a few days but Norman did eventually come up with a plan for moving forward.
Knowing that he wouldn’t be able to resurrect his people until either Eugene or Grobert returned to the city to help him move the slab of stone that hid t...
2023-03-08 13:01:00 +0000 UTC
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In a small copse of trees, a hand burst forth from beneath the ground. Soon another hand followed. The hands flailed around ineffectually for a bit before a head pushed its way out of the ground. A mouthful of dirt was spat out by the grey-skinned...
2023-03-06 13:06:59 +0000 UTC
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Atalon of Razaria checked his pocket watch for the time. The beautifully crafted watch had been a gift from a very dear friend. The hands ticked over and he sighed.
“It’s time. The enemy city should be under siege by now. Gather the men....
2023-03-06 13:05:01 +0000 UTC
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Norman had finally managed to figure out how to power his AOE spells after nine days of exhaustive experimenting. Thankfully the plans Eugene and Grobert had implemented seemed to be working as there were no attacks by the Brotherhood in that time...
2023-03-06 13:05:00 +0000 UTC
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Grobert worried about Norman’s mental state. The kid was doing rather well dealing with being in charge and overcoming obstacles. It was a good way to learn who you were and what you were capable of. That being said this war with the Brotherhood...
2023-03-06 13:03:01 +0000 UTC
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The bastards that they were, the Brotherhood did not give Norman the time he needed to come up with a solution to powering the spell before they next attacked. He wasn’t even sure how they were traversing the distance between their city and Ashv...
2023-03-06 13:02:01 +0000 UTC
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I'm back! And with that comes a few changes some of you eagle-eyed patrons may have already noticed.
That's right! A new tier and an update to the $5 tier. Those on the $5 tier now get access to 15 advanced chapters as of today.
Anyway...
2023-03-06 13:01:00 +0000 UTC
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Norman stared at the recently revived greykin from his throne. God, he hated it, his throne, not the greykin. The greykin were all kneeling, hands over hearts in four ordered lines within the throne room. Ok, so maybe he hated the kneeling part.
2023-02-27 13:01:00 +0000 UTC
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Norman spent the next few hours along with six guards, digging through the ash and rubble remains of the ooraki village. They recovered the remains of over half the ooraki males Norman had turned into greykin but no sign of the last surviving fema...
2023-02-24 13:00:04 +0000 UTC
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After a week of no reprisal attacks, Norman thought they might have been in the clear. He was proven wrong on the ninth day.
Alerted to the attack by the bell – someone in town had erected – Norman jolted out of bed. His sleep-addled min...
2023-02-22 13:01:00 +0000 UTC
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Grobert laid out his reasoning for Norman to declare himself the leader of the village. It was the same tired argument Norman had heard time and time again from him.
“I told you before, I don’t want that responsibility. And who in their ...
2023-02-20 13:00:13 +0000 UTC
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There were two main goals Norman was striving for with this newest line of research. He needed offensive and defensive magic.
Technically he had both already covered. His offense was covered with his Orb of Decay, Corpse Explosion, and Conve...
2023-02-17 13:00:04 +0000 UTC
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The group exited the home and paused. About a dozen young men were waiting outside with angry expressions on their faces. What surprised Norman was the fact that they weren’t wearing any headwraps, which couldn’t be good in this sweltering sun...
2023-02-15 13:00:05 +0000 UTC
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