Samuel Wright
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I am a writer & tarot card reader in Oregon, TTRPG fan, love all types of sci-fi/fantasy books, movies, games, & read voraciously. All Hail Our Lady Of Darkness The Queen Of Shadows, Kelsey Dionne! Shadowdark Forever!
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Knights of the Eternal Dark: Taking the fight to the sunless deeps
Long ago in the kingdom of Stranghen, King Sturm so feared dying that he emptied the royal coffers to obtain a form of immortality, ruining the prosperity of his once powerful dynasty just to become a lich, gaining the title, the Deathless. Under the long rule of Sturm the Deathless the royal house eventually regained its status and prosperity, but it grew corrupt and morbid, leading the entire nation to revering the undead. One aristocrat after another turned to the Dark Arts to avoid death and hold onto the reigns of their power with bony hands. Life became cheap as the wealthy fed upon the poor, leeching the warmth of life from whomever they grew tired of to extend their false immortality. Love, joy, beauty, and compassion were gradually replaced by greed, hunger, vengeance, and cruelty.
By Samuel Wright2 years ago in Gamers
Knights of the Free Will: The Holy Liberators
The tyrant of Gothonor, the self-styled King Hiram, was once a common thief and trader of slaves. Under the very noses of a corrupt and incompetent aristocracy he had raised an army of slaves and taken over the nation in a bloody coup. Now the kind and generous people of that nation were suspicious and secretive. Citizens were constantly in fear of being “vanished”, taken away by their new ruler’s secret force of assassins and buried in the wilderness where none would find them. Paranoia was the order of the day. Children regularly turned in their own parents for being “seditious” (committing such terrible crimes as complaining about having to wait in line to buy bread or saying things had been better under the murdered aristocrats). No one was happy in the tiny kingdom, but no one was brave enough to say so.
By Samuel Wright2 years ago in Gamers
Knights of the White Shield: Keepers of the Peace
Snowy mountain peaks overlooked the tiny village of Cliffbottom that had sprung up by the Wathwend River, a waterway that meandered between the vast Snowmane Mountains to the sea. It was a small community of Halfling and Gnome farmers and merchants attracted by the traffic in spices that had grown as trade with the distant Hmomshai Empire to the South flourished. A small port on the winding river where farmers could bring their crops to trade for spices brought by ships bound for cities of the North, Cliffbottom had been built just inland from the coast on the river delta as part of the expanding colonies of the Duchy of Vairone, in a forested wilderness that was thought to be uninhabited virgin territory. The Vaironese settlers had no idea that the river they called the Wathwend was the Sacred Road used by the spirits of the dead to go to the Island of the Dead. They could not know that the river was bathed in to cleanse the soul of sins, that the trees they had cleared from the river bank were the reincarnated chieftains of a hundred generations of savage human tribesmen, and they were not expecting the barbarian warriors to be willing to die to purify their holy river of the taint of civilisation.
By Samuel Wright2 years ago in Gamers
Knights of the Pure Heart: Leading the Sinful to Redemption
The knight knelt down beside the murderous thief who sat on the ground bound with manacles in the gaol for his crimes. After the knight had captured him, the young man had been convicted of killing and robbing a merchant; he was going to be executed in the morning. “Be calm, my son,” he said softly to the criminal, “I mean you know harm. Just tell me, why did you do it? You don’t need to lie, you can tell me anything. I will never tell anyone, I am not here to condemn, just offer you a chance at peace.” The scurrilous cur spat at the knight and struggled against his chains. The knight did not flinch, just wiped away the spittle and smiled benignly and said softly “That’s okay, my son, I know you must be angry. Tell me, what makes you so wrathful?”
By Samuel Wright2 years ago in Gamers
The Fang Shih
Scholarly masters of chi magic from lands in the distant East, the Fang Shih character class combines the use of arcane spells like those used by wizards with the subtle geomantic art of placement to alter the flow of chi, the magical energy flowing through the world around them. Fang shih are welcomed by many communities as auspicious harbingers of good fortune.
By Samuel Wright2 years ago in Gamers
You Might Be A Half-Orc . Content Warning.
Since the Dungeons & Dragons game says some Half-Orcs can pass for human and with recessive genetic traits working the way they do, it occurred to me that some people may not know they have Orcish blood. So I'm thinking given the Orcish tendencies toward violence, barbarism, and cannibalism, there may be telltale signs, nothing certain, but if some of these are true for you, you might be a Half-Orc...
By Samuel Wright3 years ago in Humor
The Tale of One-Eyed Jack
Jack Corrigan was a cop with an eye for detail. He had a knack for spotting clues at crime scenes that others missed that was uncanny. Some of his colleagues swore he was psychic but he had no room in his worldview for magic and mumbo-jumbo, insisting it was just attention to detail and sharp eyes that let him notice things that lead to crimes being solved. Either way, everyone knew the young cop was on his way to becoming a detective in record time. Then, the one time he could not use those eagle eyes at a crime scene, he took a bullet to the head and everything changed…
By Samuel Wright3 years ago in Fiction
