Tag: swords and sorcery
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The Blackswords S1:E2 ‘Lights Out’
The Blackswords is a serial set in my fantasy world, Olnezea, far to the south of the area in which my novel in progress takes place. In this second episode, the mercenary commander Ukhand is eating dinner with the commander who hired him, in the besieged city of Dorna. The…
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The Blackswords S1:E1 ‘Cheap Wine’
More than ten years ago, when I had recently embarked on my hubristically ambitious worldbuilding project, I started writing a serial for this blog. I posted several episodes, and then it petered out. As I’m now close to finishing a novel set in my world, I thought I’d revive the…
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The Blackswords: Episode 6
Amudr knew that their time in Tua was coming to an end. He was probably alone among the Blackswords in regretting it. The city was not large, but it was a cultured place, with booksellers and libraries, and good discourse to be found in its taverns. Soon he would be…
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The Blackswords: Episode 5
The dice were not favouring Rajir. He looked at yet another fistful of ones, twos and threes, taunting him from the table, and threw a handful of coppers at them, standing. ‘I’ve had enough of this, you whoresons,’ he grumbled. ‘Your luck could change at any moment, sir,’ said Falcon,…
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The Blackswords: Episode 4
The cabin shutters were closed, slicing the the sunlight into a gridwork of thin lines: thicker verticals at the hinges, or where the two leaves met, and fine horizontals that passed between the boards. Ashurra’s eyes traced the lines across the wall, and abruptly out, around the lean knots and…
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The Blackswords: Episode 3
Umbaral rode scout to the port, handing his lance to another rider and stringing his bow; being an archer usually let him keep a safe distance from the enemy, which was why he’d specialised as one, but there were other times it when condemned him to the van. It was…
Oliver Arditi 