Excerpts

in Tales From The Compendium

World Codex

A Moment, Fractured

Prose | Jan 14, 2025

Time flows like a river. Ever moving, shaping the land around it, and it waits for none. Not even gods.
As Above, So Below

Prose | Jul 14, 2024

I hope the realms our gods inhabit burn, just as ours do now.
Brothers

Prose | Jul 14, 2024

Death never bothered me, I just took it as a fact of life. That is, until I couldn't stop seeing his face in my nightmares.
Dredged

Generic article | Oct 18, 2024

The best we can wish for is death when the end comes for us. Fate had other things in mind for me...
For the Waterlogged

Generic article | Oct 6, 2024

Why was I the only one? I miss them all, so dearly.
From the Ashes

Prose | Oct 31, 2024

This is the second, no, third time he's set fire to a building with me in it. It must be intentional at this point, right?
When Fog Marches

Prose | Jun 21, 2025

Blood and steel, two things we mortals rarely run out of. That day in which both were in excess continues to haunt me.

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