Into the Hells
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Author’s Note
Hey guys and girls, your man Zeke here!
Just wanted to thank you for coming along on yet another wild ride in Brindolla with me and all my friends. Whoever is putting this thing into words has a lot more to say from me and the guys, and if he doesn’t, he gets an ear full, but I want to tell you personally—we ain’t done y’all. So come on back for some more fun, fighting, and general mayhem with your friends, y’hear?
About Christopher Johns
Christopher Johns is a former photojournalist for the United States Marine Corps with published works telling hundreds of other peoples’ stories through word, photo, and even video.
But throughout that time, his editors and superiors had always said that his love of reading fantasy and about worlds of fantastic beauty and horrible power bled into his work. That meant he should write a book.
Well, ta-da!
Chris has been an avid devourer of fantasy and science fiction for more than twenty years and looks forward to sharing that love with his son, his loving fiancée and almost anyone he could ever hope to meet.
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Dakota and Danielle Krout, a husband and wife team, strive to create as well as publish excellent fantasy and science fiction novels. Self-publishing The Divine Dungeon: Dungeon Born in 2016 transformed their careers from Dakota’s military and programming background and Danielle’s Ph.D. in pharmacology to President and CEO, respectively, of a small press. Their goal is to share their success with other authors and provide captivating fiction to readers with the purpose of solidifying Mountaindale Press as the place ‘Where Fantasy Transforms Reality’.
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Appendix
The Good
Zekiel Erebos (Zee-key-uhl Air-uh-bows) – Marine who loves gaming as a civilian with his buddies who are still in. Class: Druid. Race: Kitsune, has a tail.
Yohsuke (Yo-s’kay) – Zeke’s best bud/brother from the Marine Corps. Overlord, yeah you read that right. Class: Spell Blade. Race: Abomination (halfbreed Drow and High Elf)
Jaken Warmecht (Jay-ken) – Zeke’s friend who typically needs help catching up in the games the group places together. Class: Paladin of Radiance. Race: Fae-Orc.
Bokaj (Bow-ka-jh) – A friend from the gym who loves video games and is in a pretty wicked band! Class: Ranger. Race: Ice Elf.
Tmont (Tee-M-on-t) – A panther with a taste for tails who happens to not just be a walking bag of assholes but is also Bokaj’s pet. Mainly that first one, though.
Balmur (Ball-mer) – Bokaj’s best friend and another good buddy of Zeke’s who loves to game! Class: Rogue. Race: Azer Dwarf (Fire Dwarf) HIS BEARD IS A FLAME!
James Bautista (Really?) – Another Marine that Yohsuke and Zeke know and game with often. Class: Monk. Race: Dragon Elf.
Muu Ankiman (Moo Ahn-key-men) – Dragon Beast-kin with green scales and Zeke’s roommate on Earth. Liiiiittle crazy, but he’s okay. Class: Fighter. Race: Dragon-kin (it’s shorter!)
Kayda (Kay-duh) – A pretty bird with a shitty past and hopefully a bright future. Recently turned into a Storm Roc. Very protective of a certain flame wolf.
Coal – A flame wolf that Zeke is taking care of for a bit on behalf of the Primordial Flame Elemental. He’s got a good temperament—a little heated at times, but he’s a cool pup.
Locals
Sir Willem Dillon – Owner of the tavern in Sunrise Village (the starter town) and Paladin of Radiance. The first guy the group meets and doesn’t try to kill. (Or do they? MUAHAHAHA—No really, do they?) Jaken’s trainer.
Dinnia (Dih-nee-uh) – An Elven Druid who takes pity on poor Zeke and brings him into Mother Nature’s good graces. Zeke’s trainer.
Sharo (shah-row) – Another panther who assists his partner in crime, Dinnia, in training her student. Not a walking bag of assholes.
Kyra – Queen of the bears and good friend of Dinnia’s. We like her.
Marin (mare-in) – We, uh… we don’t talk about her. 10 out of 10 though. Kick ass dire bear.
Rowland – Blacksmith in Sunrise who decides he likes the travelers, especially the one with the tail—no bias.
Maebe (may-buh—soft buh—if she hears you talking shit, I’m not responsible, yeah?) – Unseelie Queen of Winter and Darkness who somehow gets thrown into the mix. Also Zeke’s girlfriend. I know, right?
Thogan (ThO-gun) – Champion of the Unseelie Fae and a rather clingy Dwarf with a rough complexion.
Titania – Former Queen of the Seelie Fae, who has a predisposition of being a raging bitch to anyone and everyone she doesn’t like. Like outsiders.
Craglim (Crag-limb) – Rowland’s cousin. Racist piece of shit—but he’s a good fighter.
Zhavron (Zah-vrun) – Orc Fighter with a sordid past. Muu’s trainer in all things fighting. A little intense at times.
Pharazulla (Far-uh-zu-la) – A Bard of some renown, though a bit of a stuck-up asshole.
Vrawn – A lovely Orcish woman with a soft spot for our local Druid. She’s built like a busty, brick shit house.
Sam – Mayor of Sunrise village. A fair man whose Bear-kin wife and Half-Bear-kin children believe in him wholeheartedly. Prefers to hunt for the village rather than govern.
The villagers of Sunrise – Great people who recently went through a lot of bullshit. Go easy on ‘em, yeah?
Set – A decent little Fae-Orc kid, duped into hunting a belgar.
Ampharia (Am-far-ee-uh) – An elder green Dragon friend of Mother Nature’s who comes to give Muu her blessing and teach him how to fight Dragons.
Natholdi and Granite(Nath-ol-dee) – A good, humble Dwarven family that both Muu and Zeke love dearly. Newest additions to the Light Hand Clan.
Fainnir (Fae-near) – Son of Natholdi and Granite and the very first Dwarven Mage! His specialty is earth magic, and his assistant Pebble thinks highly of him.
Farnik Mugfist (Far-nick) – Leader of the Mugfist clan and good friend to the party. Loves a good cup of mead and song.
Shellica Light Hand (Shell-ih-cuh) – Leader of the Light Hand clan and a grandmaster Enchanter. Crazy as shit with a diabolical wit. Zeke’s trainer, unfortunately.
Silvannas (Sill-vahn-us) – Queen of the High elves on the Prime plane of existence. Sort of a role model to Maebe.
Questis (Quest-ihs) – A High Elf Druid enchanter who has a soft spot for kitties and bait. Pretty awesome guy. Seriously loves cats though.
Fern (Like the plant) – A saber-tooth cat that has a serious god complex. Loves to be fed and worshipped. Gives his Druid Questis hell all the time.
Telfino (Tell-fee-no) – Son of Queen Silvannas and inheritor of the throne. He’s a good kid with a seriously strong class.
The Bad
War – Galactic conquerer who probably suffers from only child syndrome. Probably needs a hug, or he will keep trying to take over the universe.
Minions of War – Not the lovable minions everyone loves. You know, not the yellow ones, or that fish from that one Wil
l Ferrell animated move. These guys seek to undermine the strength of the gods by eroding the world around them slowly, and they serve the other assholes in this list.
The Generals – A number of War’s better warriors capable of taking out the strongest people upon the planet—and together they did. Dick move.
Rowan – I’m not gonna say much about this guy—read the book then you’ll know what a dickbag he is. Haha, was—sonofabitch is dead now.
Pastella (Pahs-tell-uh) – Crazy Elven woman with a taste for torture and violence.
Tarron Dillingsley (Tair-run Dill-night-slee) – Gnomish enchanter who—let’s face it, shall we?—sucks as a teacher for various reasons and, lest we forget, the asshole in charge of the Children of Brindolla.
Children of Brindolla – A group of misguided citizens who believe they are the only ones who can truly save their world. They found themselves on the receiving end of an ass kicking—but was that all of them?
Decay – A Greater Fiend who held his own against the party and Maebe. Fell due to a brilliant plan and a little bit of finesse. Okay, the plan was half-cocked, and the finesse resulted in some bullshit—happy now?
Spiders – Just a bunch of overgrown pests that needed an ass kicking. Nightmare fuel FOREVER.
Lothir (Low-theer) – Big ol’ wanna-be snake goddess who has a village of elves, Orcs, and Fae-Orcs under her command and demands sacrifices to restore and keep her beauty. All of that means that she’s coo coo for Cocoa Puffs.
Melvaren (Mel-vah-ren) – General who took claim over Balmur and tortured him in the Hells for his entire tenure there. We killed the shit out of him. But not before he whipped our asses. Still dead though.
Archemillian (Ark-em-illion) – The demon who Yohsuke summoned and gets his warlock powers from. Has a huge hard on for souls, but he helped us this once. Didn’t mean he was a fucking good guy, though.
Riktolth (Rick-talth) – The great black Dragon who killed a mother red in a bid to die in combat. Yeah, you guessed it. We kicked his ass.
And The Ugly
Insane Wolves – Think crazy wolves, but you know, crazier and angrier for some reason. Due to proximity to a minion of War, the minds of these animals have eroded to nothing but the drive to kill and eat anything that is not them or another wolf.
Undead creatures – As you can imagine, due to proximity to a minion of War, these poor bastards rose from the dead in order to protect their alien masters. Even the stronger versions are worthy of a small bit of sympathy—they sure as hell didn’t get any, but they are worthy of it.
Bone Dragon – I mean, pretty self-explanatory, right? It’s a Bone Dragon! No skin, no muscle—all bleached bones and hate for the living.
General of War (Blight) – The asshole who did some truly terrible things, sent us on a supposedly one-way trip to the Fae realm, and got his ASS kicked. Yeah. That guy.
Ursolon – Think of a giant, striped bear with an anger management issue the size of North Dakota. Yeah. Now go fight one.
Werewolves – The heroes in some tales—but not this one. Oh no. These guys suck, big time! Hairy, needy pieces of crap.
Alpha Werewolf – The jerk in charge of the other jerks above. Bigger, badder, stronger, and usually way more cunning and ruthless.
The Wild Hunt – A flock of assholes (read Demons) who patrol the realm of the Fae and take out anything they believe doesn’t belong there.
Order of the Prime – A bunch of human wizards bent on controlling the elements and restoring mankind to their rightful place as rulers. Some real xenophobic asshats, these ones.
Spiders – Oh, I mentioned these already? Because there were a lot of them. With fangs. And all the feet. Seriously, I need to book an appointment for therapy now.
Belgar – A rhino-like Fae creature with a surprising sense of honor and code that it lives by. Big as shit and it will run anyone in its way through.
Dofilnarr (Dough-fill-nar) – A Fae creature thought to have been hunted to extinction that takes the forms and abilities of creatures it touches while in its base state. Highly vulnerable to Fae Iron.
And other random jerks too unimportant for now to mention—they know who they are. Bunch of assholes.
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