A dark fantasy serial · Season III
Baltia
Sudden Death
Dragons, guilds, debts and old blades. A dark medieval fantasy, painted chapter by chapter. Free to read.
Season III
The Chapters
Chapter 1
The Statue's Gaze
On Jul, ninety days to midsummer, Madison turns out her road money on Ossery's counter, wins a line from Thorne, and closes her hand on her father's sword. It shows her Southport, and something hitting his shield from behind.
15 min read
Chapter 2
Two Years Late
A Haze envoy drinks Rosemary's tea and asks whether Maximo wrote to her. Then his squire Ostin arrives, two years late, with the letter: they are making the stones again. She burns it, gives up her ring, and sails for the desert with Lyrra and Eloise.
16 min read
Chapter 3
The Old King
Pharus Sandspell, a hundred and four, can no longer lift one grain of sand. Markwin's minotaur smells the cold room on his son, his eldest sends a rider of his own, and the old king spends himself opening a Door to Dron.
15 min read
Chapter 4
The City of Trials
In Haze, Madison carries a cask up the Salt Stair, cuts a bone-beast apart in the guild pit, and finds the Council already has a folder on her mother's blue door. Hegal tells her the man who signed her father's order was dead a month before.
15 min read
Chapter 5
Small Work
Collecting taxes in the villages east of Haze, Madison writes a farmer's shortfall against her own pay, gives his son's letter to Nocta, and signs a Stoneheart contract under the same dead man's signature.
14 min read
Chapter 6
Stone Remembers
At Stoneheart, Hugar defies his speaker to go down the mine, a southern merchant offers gold for the black seam, and Madison turns down a bribe that would pay Ossery. Deep in the Seven, a crack opens from the other side.
11 min read
Chapter 7
Coming soon
The next chapters are being painted.