HISTORIAE MUNDI: A HISTORY OF THE KNOWN WORLD is a collection of stories, legends, maps, and illustrations detailing the history of the Known World, the fantasy setting of Mark Smylie's Artesia graphic novels, the novel The Barrow and its (eventual) sequels, and the roleplaying game Artesia: Adventures in the Known World (with any luck to be released in a new edition called... [click here for more]
The last survivors of the raid on the Barrow of Azharad are faced with difficult choices and new revelations, hard truths and visions of the future. This is the third and final part of BLACK HEART (sequel to THE BARROW and a prequel to the ARTESIA graphic novels): THE SACRIFICIAL ALTAR.
Includes illustrated chapter breaks. WARNING: Contains graphic violence and sexual situations.
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The last survivors of the raid on the Barrow of Azharad find themselves slipping further and further into webs of danger and intrigue. Erim, carrying a special burden, finds death behind the pleasant facade of the Tournament of Flowers; Godewyn Red-Hand enters into the service of men of power and ill intent; Stjepan Black-Heart walks high trails in the wild hills of the Manon Mole; and Annwyn of the... [click here for more]
"Do you know who I am?"“I don’t, sir. I don’t. And that’s not the best way to ask for special—”“No, no, I mean, do you know who I am? I’m having trouble remembering right now.”
Thus begins these excerpts from the columns of the Nova Age's most opinionated freelance journalist. Swine and Cheese Partycontains... [click here for more]
Look around at the world we live in.
Isn't there something wrong?
Don't you feel powerless to make a positive change? Don't the problems of the world feel so big, so overwhelming, that you feel defeated? Like you can't possibly make a difference? So you don't even start?
What if I told you, you could change that? What if I said that the interests and influence of a select few groups have purposely... [click here for more]
Madame Portentia didn’t know what she was getting into when she dug through the refuse in the fabled Kelp-Master’s Stinking Shack on the shore of the island.
Driven to desperation by a lack of decent recyclable rubbish with which to supplement her income as the island’s one and only fortune teller, she dared to unlock the creaky wooden box she uncovered in the tumbledown shack.... [click here for more]
Vagrond the giant space lizard and Bryan Orion the human have been called upon by their boss (also a giant space lizard) to capture an alien invader. But how do you capture someone when they’re an immaterial cloud of "dense air?" Vagrond and Bryan must solve this problem soon, for Plandeux has great diabolical plans that will come to fruition if he makes his way out of the spaceport... [click here for more]