Othun of the Winds

 Age of the Legends
Approximately 4,000 Years Before the Emrosian Empire

 

Southern Firlos

The gathered warriors assembled near the border with Alhu. The Chieftain of the Drakniir Isles held her axe high, her commands carrying across the winds to all the warriors that followed her. This night their march would begin down through the mountain passes and into the Alheen territories to the central settlement of the Alheen tribes. As the moons waned their march would begin. And when the sky lacked the light of either moon, their battle would begin against the demons of the south.

The woman pointed her axe southward and gave a final roar. A heavy, chill wind blew from the north kicking up colorful autumn leaves in its wake. For the first time the Firlosii clans had united into a singular army against a common threat. The winds of change stirred in the south.

Massive, long horned drakniir pulled heavy wagons of supplies down winding mountain paths as the Firlosii clans began their march to the aid of the Alheen tribes. Quite possibly to the aid of the world.

*************************************

And here's a preview of the map of Firlos (unlabled, just the outline so far)

Split Paths

     I've been pretty beat most weekdays with the new job (which is going well) but have not been putting as much time into writing short stories to put up here. I will get back to it, but when I've had the time and energy to sit down and write lately I've been focusing on Book II.

    But, wanting to put something up here today, I've decided to show this off. While it's still a ways off, I decided to do some mock ups for the cover of Book II. I think it came out pretty good so far, and want to keep the whole series looking fairly uniform.

    Again, Book I is just releasing so it will probably be about a year before this cover is even needed, but it was fun to throw together.

    Remember, you can order your copy of Stone & Shield (or pre-order the eBook) here:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08FS2GP2F

As always, thanks for reading.

Update 7/13/20

    There will be no story posted today, while I've stuck with posting every Monday for several weeks now, I've been busy pushing toward releasing Stone & Shield and writing for the second book. I have been working on one short story (between writing new chapters for Book II and doing a, possibly, final push in editing Stone & Shield) but that is being saved for submissions to magazines for publication and cannot be posted here first.

    All that said, I do plan on posting the first few chapters of Stone & Shield as a sort of preview as I make my way closer toward publication. As I have already posted the prologue on here the first few chapters will begin going up shortly.

    In the meantime I've been busy working on odds and ends, such as the maps (like the continental map posted recently) and compiling/editing artwork to use for the cover (in which I will be having a good friend try his hand at, as I am in no way artistically inclined).

    But, here's something I was messing around with earlier:

Map of Northern Emros the Seat of the Empire

Map of the Ruins