A character saga
Read 4 complete PicWar fantasy battle stories featuring Varkhaz 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 street was already dead when Varkhaz walked into it—windows blown out, asphalt fractured into crooked teeth, and a thin rain turning the dust to gray paste under his boots. He rolled his shoulders once, feeling the…
Read the storyThe lunar dust hung in the low gravity like grey snow, and Varkhaz hated every floating speck of it. He planted his boots on the cracked basalt ridge and rolled his shoulders, feeling the old iron pauldron settle against…
Read the storyThe firelight threw Varkhaz's shadow long across the stone, and the thing standing opposite him threw no shadow at all. It was a stick figure. Black lines, nothing more—a crude sketch of a man, with two sharp wing-like…
Read the storyThe wind came off the fractured cosmos in slow, deliberate waves, carrying the smell of ozone and old stone. Varkhaz planted his boots on the cliff edge and rolled his shoulders once, feeling the iron pauldron on his…
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