Hello!
Just a quick reminder that there will be no weekly novel update on Tapas or Patreon on 12/20. Regular posting will resume on 12/27. Thanks for your understanding, and happy holidays!
2024-12-17 18:52:02 +0000 UTC View PostALARIC MAER
The contents of the small leather pouch gave a crystalline clink as I set it down on the bar. The wrinkled little bartender scooped the payment away in a swift, silent movement, making it disappear behind the counter. Her beady eyes squinted and her lips pursed, deepening the craggy wrinkles of her face. She drummed her fingers across the bar once, then...
2024-12-13 18:00:15 +0000 UTC View PostTESSIA ERALITH
I blew steam across the surface of my mug part way to my lips as I let out a laugh. The wyvern, Avier, was standing in the middle of a small round table between Mordain, Lyra, and me. At that moment, the green-feathered, horned owl was hopping from one leg to the other and speaking rapidly.
“And then she looks up at me, head in her han...
2024-12-06 18:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostHello!
I wanted to share an update about upcoming holiday breaks for The Beginning After the End, the webnovel. There will be two one-week hiatuses on the following dates:
11/29
12/20
No updates will be posted on Patreon or Tapas on these two dates, but regular posting will resume the fo...
2024-11-22 21:35:37 +0000 UTC View PostAs Naesia had promised, it took a handful of hours to complete our ascent up the cliffs. Although strenuous, the rest of the climb was uneventful. Twice, flying mana beasts circled around to investigate our hunting party, but they were kept at bay by warning flares of mana. The mountain itself, which had birthed golems to test us, was silent.
At the top, the four phoenixes began to...
2024-11-22 18:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostThe feast continued for quite some time. Conversation eventually turned away from alliances, marriages, and even Chul’s appearance and lineage. Politics was abandoned in favor of rousing tales of history and legend. All up and down the long table, phoenixes laughed with leviathans and basilisks with dragons.
But I was not able to release the tension I carried.
We...
2024-11-15 18:00:15 +0000 UTC View PostARTHUR LEYWIN
Veruhn’s spell pulled at the ocean water, which flowed upward in a single tentacle-like stream. This tentacle of water curled in on itself, spiraling counterclockwise until a roiling sheet of living seawater hung in the air before us. The water grew clearer and clearer until it was like looking in a mirror. Between one breath and the next, the mirro...
2024-11-08 18:00:18 +0000 UTC View PostTESSIA ERALITH
“She’s going to be incredible,” I said, grinning. My fingers brushed over the soft leaves of a sapling nearly as tall as I was. “Varay was already powerful, but watching the way she can reach for mana now…” I turned to my grandfather. I knew I was gushing, but I couldn’t help it. “She’s mastered her Integration with such dignity.”...
2024-11-01 17:00:15 +0000 UTC View Post
Friends & Family Animated Desktop Wallpaper. (Note: The preview image is cropped. View the animation pan-through on Instagram. ) What you get: MP4 file of a 15-second animation loop in 4K resolution (3840 x 2160 px) How to access the file: The download link will be sent via PDF. Click the download link in the PDF file. Download the file from Dropbox and save the file to your device. Set your...
2024-10-25 19:10:34 +0000 UTC View PostARTHUR LEYWIN
I left town before the Epheotan sun had even risen over Ecclesia the morning after my visit to Agrona’s husk. Alone, I circled around Veruhn’s home to the World Serpent’s tail, which seemed to take me directly out of the city and into a wilderness of rocky beaches, overgrown forests that reminded me of Earth’s jungles, and a sky half consumed ...
2024-10-25 17:00:17 +0000 UTC View PostARTHUR LEYWIN
The rolling waves beat against the shoreline. Cool wind wove in between the three of us, each a lord of our clan, our race. In the distance, an Epheotan seabird cried a hollow, mournful tune, as if lamenting what was about to happen.
“Lord Indrath. Welcome.” If Veruhn was surprised by Kezess’s sudden appearance, he hid it well. “I...
2024-10-18 17:00:11 +0000 UTC View Post"But you are the head of your own clan now, and your decisions impact all asura. You can’t think only about yourself."
2024-10-16 19:05:01 +0000 UTC View Post
This iconic animated wallpaper features the cover of Vol. 11, Providence. (Note: The preview image is cropped.) What you get: MP4 file of a 15-second animation loop in 4K resolution (3840 x 2160 px) How to access the file: The download link will be sent via PDF. Click the download link in the PDF file. Download the file from Dropbox and save the file to your device. Set your favorite wallpaper a...
2024-10-11 18:10:50 +0000 UTC View PostARTHUR LEYWIN
A thousand worries—some small, others as large as the sea between Dicathen and Alacrya—vied for my attention as Windsom activated the teleportation artifact. I couldn’t help but second guess my return to the asuran homeland. Should I have delayed, or have planned to stay longer in Dicathen to begin with? Which was more important, the unfolding s...
2024-10-11 17:00:14 +0000 UTC View PostALARIC MAER
Our combined footsteps were uncomfortably loud in the confined stairwell. The thud and creak of the wood resounded sharply from the rough stonework of the walls. With only a small amount of mana to support myself, my aged body was already feeling the strain of so much exertion
And all of this without a drop of alcohol to dull the pain.<...
2024-10-04 17:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostCAERA DENOIR
I stood high up on the curving road that ran around the outer wall of Vildorial’s primary cavern. The highway connected the lowest levels, from which hundreds of interconnecting tunnels branched out, all the way to Lodenhold palace at the top of the cavern. Dozens of roads and hundreds of homes and businesses were built into the walls along the path....
2024-09-27 17:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostALARIC MAER
A low roar, like the lapping of waves on a distant shore. Hot red light pushing through closed lids. Pain, fuzzy around the edges.
I opened my eyes, regretted it, and closed them again. In that brief, blurry look at the world around me, I confirmed only that I was in a small dimly lit room. More carefully this time, I opened only my left ey...
2024-09-20 17:00:14 +0000 UTC View PostARTHUR LEYWIN
As I watched Tessia walk away from me, my fingers went automatically to my lips, where I could still feel her kiss lingering. Her words played over and over in my mind: “I’ll cherish that moment forever, but I won’t cling to it at the expense of the wo3rld’s future.” It was exactly as I’d feared: too much had happened for us to si...
2024-09-13 17:00:10 +0000 UTC View Post
The Beginning After the End, Vol. 11: Providence available now on Kindle.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DF4FZRPG
Thank you to everyone who picked up a copy! Hope you enjoy!
2024-09-06 12:41:57 +0000 UTC View Post
I wanted to share this with you before it's released later in September. Hope you like it!
2024-08-23 23:08:37 +0000 UTC View PostThe cover reveal is here! The Beginning After the End, Vol. 11: Providence is available now for preorder. It officially releases on 9/6. Hope you enjoy!
2024-08-23 23:01:55 +0000 UTC View PostARTHUR LEYWIN
It was Lord Eccleiah who met us inside the entrance to Indrath Castle, not Kezess. Although I wasn’t surprised by his presence, I was pretty damned surprised to be there at all, regardless of which asuran lord stood in front of me. I had expected Kezess to shut down Veruhn’s idea—that I should be recognized as a new branch of the asuran race...
2024-08-23 17:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostHi everyone,
I have an important update regarding the Comic tier on my Patreon. As you’ve all heard by now, the comic is currently on hiatus. After careful consideration, we’ve decided to discontinue the Comic tier for the time being as this tier has been inactive for some time.
Please rest assured that this decision does not mean anything for the comic itself. It...
2024-08-22 18:10:51 +0000 UTC View PostSERIS VRITRA
I stood silently, surrounded by a collage of orange, purple, and aquamarine crystals sparkling with yellow and white. The Hall of Lords within Lodenhold was a surprisingly pretty place for the gruff dwarves to convene, but I’d always found the dwarven people to be a cautious alchemy of pragmatism and romanticism, even though they would certainly find...
2024-08-16 17:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostALARIC MAER
Leaning forward, I let my forehead knock against the rough surface of the table with a dull thunk. “I’ll go myself,” I grumbled, the words half smothered by the wood. “We’re pissing in the dark, here.”
“That’s a horrible idea,” Darrin answered matter of factly. The others quickly echoed the sentiment. “We don’...
2024-08-09 17:00:14 +0000 UTC View PostARTHUR LEYWIN
The city of Everburn looked small against the sprawling foothills that climbed consistently toward the base of Mount Geolus. Although I could no longer see the small garden we had just left, I could feel Tessia’s mana signature even among the thousands of more potent auras. ‘Be careful, Arthur,’ Sylvie repeated as I sped away, flying at...
2024-08-02 17:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post"You cannot know what you know, Arthur Leywin. Alive, you pose too great a danger."
A/N: Previews are back...but at my whim.
2024-07-31 19:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostAs the Epheotan sun rose, I joined the many dragons who gathered to meditate around the fountain that gave Everburn its name. For the first couple of days, I had stared around at the dragons, entranced by their variety. Being in this city made me realize just how little of the asuran world I had seen. Now, though, with King’s Gambit burning on the small of my back, I only paid attention to my...
2024-07-26 17:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostARTHUR LEYWIN
“Hello, Arthur.”
The voice drifted to me through a haze—distant and ethereal, but familiar. I was drowsing, nestled deep within a cozy blanket of thoughtless fatigue. There was something exciting about the familiar voice, but that alone wasn’t enough to draw me out of my metaphorical nest. As this thought pierced the fog of my sle...
2024-07-19 17:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostARTHUR LEYWIN
The suppressed memories of yet another drifting and uncertain life flooded through me, homogenizing with the many before it into a muddled cloud of half-experience.
As I floated in the afterbirth of that life, my mind haunting my own infant body like the ghost of an ancient, restless spirit, I acknowledged it for the first time: I ...
2024-07-12 17:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post