A character saga
Read 3 complete PicWar fantasy battle stories featuring Tharok 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 salt wind came off the cliff in long gray sheets, snapping at the fur trim of Tharok's armor and dragging the black-and-silver plates against the thick muscle of his arms. He stood with his boots planted wide on the…
Read the storyThe gray dust of the dead moon had not yet settled from Tharok's landing when he heard the voice—not with his ears, but behind his ribs, in the marrow, a pressure that wanted his knees to fold. He stood amid the wreckage…
Read the storyThe arena was a shallow bowl of black glass, its rim ringed with broken pillars that leaned like rotted teeth, and Tharok had been standing in the center of it long enough for the sweat to dry on his shoulders twice…
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