A character saga
Read 6 complete PicWar fantasy battle stories featuring Shadow Vex 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 moon hung low over the gothic cityscape, its wan light spilling between crooked spires and staining the cobblestones silver. Shadow Vex moved through the alleys as he always did—a drifting patch of darkness, silent…
Read the storyThe moon hung low and fat over the gothic rooftops, its pale light bleeding through the tattered hem of Shadow Vex's cloak as he pressed his back against the cold stone of a bell tower. Below, the city sprawled in jagged…
Read the storyThe Weight of Static Order The rooftop gave way beneath Shadow Vex like a shadow dissolving into deeper shadow, and he let the city's gothic spires blur past as he fell—not fleeing, but *seeking*. Somewhere below, in the…
Read the storyThe fog lay thick over the gothic harbor, swallowing the moonlit spires until only their broken silhouettes remained. Shadow Vex moved through that grey soup like a wound that would not close, his tattered cloak drinking…
Read the storyThe moon hung low over the gothic spires, a cold silver coin sliced by the ragged silhouettes of gargoyles. Shadow Vex stood motionless on the rooftop of a cathedral, his tattered cloak stirring in a wind that carried…
Read the storyThe moon hung low over the gothic spires, a pale coin scarred by drifting cloud, and among the rooftops two shadows learned to breathe as one. Shadow Vex pressed himself against the cold stone of a gargoyle's flank, his…
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