Tales from FAR Manor

Boom! And… there’s the Launch Cannon! The sixth story in the Accidental Sorcerers series, Beyond the Sea of Storms , takes Sura, Mik, an...

With fridayflash.org winding down this week, I thought I’d write something about closure as well. It’s not nearly as fun as Chuck Allen’s Cl...

The conclusion to last week’s post … Matos stood quiet a long moment, then heaved a deep sigh. “No. But how…? We have children!” “Yo...

I have a two-parter this week. It’s a Termag story, from the distant past before the Makers departed for the City of Refuge. The line "...

This one runs a little long, not quite 1300 words, so I hope you’ll forgive me. This is Bailar the Blue’s “origin story,” which takes place ...

Lots of ground to cover this week, so I’ll get right on it… • • • First off , Angela Kulig’s mini-anthology Coffin Nails is free throu...

The fourth Accidental Sorcerers  book is just about ready to depart! Sura, Mik, and Bailar set sail for the Northern Reach, with Lord Dar...

Whew! Zharcon the White is the leader of the Westmarch Conclave, and the mentor for Mik’s friend Charn sim Bas. Accidental Sorcerers ...

This post is really about dialects and idioms. Although Camac’s empire is long past, the language that it spread across the world either rep...

This was actually a place (with a name) before I started the Challenge. It’s the ancient town in Water and Chaos . Xorsecc is one of the l...

Woldland lies on the eastern side of the Gulf of Camac, a vast grassland of plains and rolling hills. The inhabitants, the Wolds, are a semi...

In the time of Camac That Was , Vlis was a small but important city, upriver from Koyr . Surrounded by forest, Vlis supplied Koyr with the l...

Quoting the creation myth: “The Evil One persuaded many people to worship the lesser gods, but a few refused. Those few withdrew from others...

Its official name is A Compact Among the Civilized Nations, Concerning the Use of Magic in Battle , but sorcerers (and nearly everyone else)...

Sorcery, harnessing the classical elements (Earth, Air, Fire, and Water) to produce a physical result, is one of several kinds of magic kno...

Captain Rietha may well be the single most influential figure of the modern age. Born Lady Rietha, of House Chelor in Dacia, Rietha was Chel...

Queensport, formerly Stolevan, is the capital of the Stolevan Matriarchy in the modern age. In the time of Camac That Was , Stolevan’s pop...

Maintaining a far-flung empire without instant communication and rapid transport has always been a problem. Rulers, of necessity, have to de...

[I had a different O entry written, but I think more people will like this one.] Oakendrake : see Deep Forest Tree Dragon . One of the L...

The Northern Reach is a long peninsula on the west side of the Straits between the Northern Sea and the Gulf of Camac. It stretches north, t...