Character Development
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Chapter Nine: The Ancient Bone Path
“This is the Ancient Bone Path,” Holder said in a hush. “Creatures older than time once…
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Chapter Eight: The Blighted Prince
Flowers grew up from the Redwoods sand where Our Lady stepped, if She wasn’t careful. Holder…
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Arcadia — Cardboard Trees, Real Kindness
Here’s the reflex this piece mostly refuses: you’ve read enough stories to know that when a…
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Mission — Fog, and What Endures in It
Mission doesn’t offer a battle you could point to and say this is the war, and…
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The Coop — The Obsolete Is Down There
The Coop is literal — a Land built in actual stacked levels, hypercapitalism as architecture rather…
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Ventura — What Fairylande Won’t Tell You
Ventura is a theme park. Say that plainly, first, because everything else about the Land depends…
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Ællaë — The Style Hasn’t Gotten the News
Ællaë is the Land that looks the most like a warning label — hot pink fire…
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Redwoods — A Domain, Not a Home
Redwoods has exactly one living resident, and that fact reorganizes everything else about the place. This…
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Chapter Seven: The Mysteries
The Mysteries were deep and ancient halls where the Ace burned, hidden in a reliquary. Their…
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Santana — What the Desert Extracts
Santana doesn’t give anything away for free, starting with entry. Land there wrong and the desert…
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Chapter Six: The Oath
Most Virtuous Mother Joan broke away from a dancing clutch of older Sisters to greet them.…
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The Seven Lands, Explained
Seven Dreamers. Seven Lands. The Dreamers get the myth treatment — immortal, amnesiac, larger than the…
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The Diamond Dogs — Extended Portrait
Synchronized figures in chrome fox masks who lead the hidden utopia of Arcadia toward an ideal…
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Chapter Five: The Eagle
The Covens didn’t travel in groups, sadly — you generally would get one Sister and one…
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Benjamin of the Beasts — Extended Portrait
The Prince of Trees, a wild boy who can flicker into a bearcub or a wolf.…
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Sailorboy — Extended Portrait
Captain of the living ship Actæon, bound to the sea in ways that make land a…
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Chapter Four: The Test
Unaffiliated novitiates crowded off the train car behind the group: a clutch of Daughters of the…
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The Bard Thomas — Extended Portrait
A fire mage with a song for every occasion, exiled from the only home he ever…
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Chapter Three: The Dragon
“This test. It’s not really a test to see if we’re worthy — it’s a test…
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Becoming a Writer Twice
I had to become a writer twice. The first time was by instinct. The second time…