A character saga
Read 6 complete PicWar fantasy battle stories featuring Vorgûl, the Flame-Tyrant across different rivals and endings.
The saga shelf
Each short stands alone, but together they trace how this character changes when the rival and circumstances shift.
The heat came first—a wall of it, rolling through the server hall's climate-controlled corridors like a forge door yanked open. Vorgûl, the Flame-Tyrant, ducked his horned skull beneath a cable tray and let the smoke…
Read the storyAsh fell like grey snow over the broken plaza of Lumeia, and where it touched the paving stones it hissed into steam. Vorgûl, the Flame-Tyrant, stood at the center of that slow decay, and the ground beneath his blackened…
Read the storyThe corridor was gone. Last time it had been a stone throat that swallowed them both, and last time the silence had won — SKT T1 FAKER had let Vorgûl pour his furnace-heart into a dead end until the tyrant's own fire…
Read the storyThe blackened iron of Vorgûl's hide cracked open with veins of forge-fire as he came down the obsidian stair, each footfall a verdict. Smoke coiled from his tusked jaws like a banner unfurling before war. Behind him,…
Read the storyThe sky above the shattered causeway had gone the color of a wound, and Vorgûl, the Flame-Tyrant, stood at the top of the broken stair with the whole world beneath him. Fire bled through the cracks in his blackened iron…
Read the storyThe blackened iron of Vorgûl’s hide cracked wider as he climbed, each step splitting the basalt shelf beneath him, fire leaking from the fissures in his arms like the veins of a mountain about to birth a caldera. Below,…
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