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A Gothic Symphony: Introductions

If he hadn’t known better, he would have thought it was a setup. Considering where things ended up leading, it might as well have been. All of it, just to meet that one girl.

Marlon was crazy. He owned a huge apartment in the expensive part of the city, and no one really knew where he got the money; he worked at a divorce attorney office, the kind that don’t require a spouse’s signature. He had first met Marlon when he still worked at the big law firm, and he’d fallen in with him right away – the guy knew how to throw a party.

He never quite figured out why Marlon left; something to do with his boss, who Marlon had never really liked. In his mind, that didn’t really justify leaving a cushy job with an almost infinite upward path for a downtown crap shack that got people out of your life for $300. There was no way he was making any decent money there, even if they kept things off the books (which was pretty likely). It didn’t change a thing; he’d kept the apartment, the expensive TV and white leather couches, and he still threw mad parties. […]

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The Redemption of Erâth: Book One Cover…First Try

Jumping guns being a favorite pastime of mine, I decided to try my hand at designing a simple, basic cover for Book One: Beginnings. I’m no artist, though I do understand basic design, so all I’m really left with is fooling around with photos and fonts.

The design and fonts are based on the wonderful banner destinare made for this site some time ago – I couldn’t replicate the exact font she used, but I was able to find a commercially usable font that was similar (I’d still like that original one, you!).

Anyway – it’s not much, and I very much would like a professionally illustrated cover before I go genuinely live with this (and don’t worry, that won’t be for some time – I still need to edit and proof the damn thing!), but for now it makes me feel that much closer to a real, live book!

Anyway…what do you think?

The Redemption of Erâth: History of Erâth – The Second Age (Part IV)

(v) The War of Darkness (Part 4)

The Breaking of the Bridge of Aélûr

When Goroth and his army had crossed the black river, Daevàr did not call upon his army to pursue them further; exhausted, weakened, and still in fear, they remained behind to recover, though they did not retreat further to the South. For a month, the army of Thaeìn rested, and recovered their strength. Daevàr knew Goroth would not be so easily defeated.

The Dragon Lords remained with Daevàr, and conferred much with him, and knew also that Goroth remained yet in Thaeìn, and would not leave their lands while strength remained in his army. The Duithèn had departed the South, and the oppression of darkness was beginning to lift from the kingdoms of Erârün and Kiriün. But both Daevàr and the Dragon Lords knew that at least one final battle would come before the War of Darkness would see an end. Their own forces were greatly reduced; of their army of ten thousand, little over four thousand remained between Daevàr’s army and the forces that had driven back the pirates and soldiers of Cathaï, now regrouped.

Before long, word reached Daevàr that Goroth was indeed regrouping his forces at the mouth of the […]

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