A character saga
Read 4 complete PicWar fantasy battle stories featuring Thrakûl, the Flame-Wrought across different rivals and endings.
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Each short stands alone, but together they trace how this character changes when the rival and circumstances shift.
The blindfolded ronin had already begun to move before Thrakûl, the Flame-Wrought, entered the ruined courtyard, for the great ronin did not wait upon the world with his eyes but with the soles of his feet, reading the…
Read the storyThe signal had drawn them both—a resonance in the old power grid, a node of stolen current buried beneath the drowned parking structure where the city's veins still hummed. Thrakûl, the Flame-Wrought, came for the heat…
Read the storyThe wound was small—a thumb-length parting of the hide along Thrakûl's ribs, where Willfred's red-hilted blade had slid past a spike and found the seam between blackened plate and burning flesh. But it was enough.…
Read the storyThe ash fell like grey snow over the ruined bridge of Khel-Morai, and both came for the same thing: a corpse. Not any corpse. A courier’s body, half-swallowed by the cracked stone of the archway, one charred hand still…
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