Du Fillimont brought up their rear, leading his own household guards, magnificent looking knights in full plate armour that gleamed silver and gold in the morning sun, while from their red lances flew long blue pennants that fluttered in the breeze. As they rode past the crowds lining the square, children scampered forward to cast handfuls of petals under the hooves of their horses.
They looked impressive enough, but talk said they would be of little more use than the militia they followed. Still, no one would say that to their baron’s face, not if they wanted his continued patronage and friendship within the realms of Pontaine politics. That was a skill he very much possessed, by all reasonable accounts.
A crowd looking even worse off than the militia followed, but there was something in their gait that suggested a rare potency. They wore unclean clothing of greens and browns, but it was the dirt of the country that covered them, not the filth of the city. A mercenary band, they roamed the Pontaine countryside, offering their services to whichever feuding landowner paid the most or, as rumour had it, could serve the best wine.
Still more troops came, and with every salute, every blow of a horn, Grennar became more depressed. There was a damning inevitability to it all, as far as she could see.
Vos hits Pontaine, Pontaine hits Vos back. Pontaine gets stronger, begins to push Vos around. Sooner or later, a knockout blow would be delivered by one or the other that would consume them all. And for what? The lives of the common folk, who far outnumbered the nobles and soldiers, would not be improved. Quite the reverse.
She did not pray often, but Grennar hoped to God that Turnitia would not become like some hellish urban version of the Anclas Territories.
It was her home.
From her lofty vantage point, the army looked almost pretty, and she wished it really were a carnival.
The reality was altogether different. Pontaine was finally making its move against Vos.
A new war had begun.
THE END
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
With a solid history in roleplaying and miniatures game design, Matthew Sprange has written over three dozen gaming books, including the Babylon 5 and Judge Dredd roleplaying games, and has won two Origins Awards. He has four novels to his name, including his Twilight of Kerberos trilogy.
WITHIN THE CALL OF KERBEROS LIES THE DESTINY OF ALL HUMANKIND!
Silus Morlader is a fisherman working the Nurn coast; a simple man leading a simple life. But there is more to Silus than even he himself realises. A mysterious man on the run from the Final Faith tries to persuade Silus to join him on an extraordinary voyage, and when an ancient and evil race bursts from the sea and tries to claim him as one of their own, Silus is forced to flee his home.
Soon Silus becomes a pawn in a deadly game played between ancient races. On the forbidding Twilight seas, Silus begins to discover the extraordinary truth behind his burgeoning preternatural abilities. As he battles alongside the crew of the magical galleon, the Llothriall, he will find out more about his world and his legacy than he could ever have imagined. Hearing the call of Kerberos, he will fight to save existence itself!
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Silus Morlader and the crew of the Llothriall find themselves beached in the middle of a desert after a magical storm envelops their ship. Stranded with dwindling supplies and half their crew missing, Silus leads his companions across the harsh landscape in search of civilisation. What they find will change their view of the world forever.
A new race reveals to Silus that his god, Kerberos, is not all he appears to be; that everything they understand about life on Twilight may be wrong. When the truth is finally told, Silus and his companions must fight their way across a dying world, facing Final Faith fanatics, orcs and dragons. They must find a way to deliver a very important message to Katherine Makennon, head of the Final Faith, before war tears Twilight apart.
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“THE SENTENCE IS DEATH...”
Giant dwarven sirens rise from the ground and, all across Twilight, magic stops. Blamed for the emergence of these machines, Kali Hooper faces execution until a mysterious stranger offers her a deal. In order to keep her life, Kali is to help find the tyrannical head of the Final Faith, Katherine Makennon, who had been abducted by the Pale Lord.
Kali joins old enemies and unexpected allies in an epic quest that pits her against the dark machinations of the Pale Lord and reveals secrets not even she could have guessed at!
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“CHILD OF TRASS KATHRA... WELCOME HOME!”
One year after Kali Hooper defeated the Pale Lord, Bastion Redigor lives on in the body of Jakub Freel. The mysterious entity known as the Hel’ss, meanwhile, moves closer to Twilight, welcomed as the herald of their ascension by the Final Faith. Only Kali and her friends know the deadly reality of what this will bring, but they have been declared outlaws, hunted by the Order of The Swords of Dawn.
So begins Kali’s penultimate adventure, a quest far beyond the Stormwall to the mystical Trass Kathra, the Island of the Lost. Here she will suffer the trials of the Four to discover the true nature of Twilight’s gods and her own shocking origin in the chaotic depths of the Thunderflux. Kali Hooper is dead, and this is the beginning of the end...
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Title
Indicia
Series
Introduction
Map of Twilight
Shadowmage
Shadowmage: Prologue
Shadowmage: Chapter One
Shadowmage: Chapter Two
Shadowmage: Chapter Three
Shadowmage: Chapter Four
Shadowmage: Chapter Five
Shadowmage: Chapter Six
Shadowmage: Chapter Seven
Shadowmage: Chapter Eight
Shadowmage: Chapter Nine
Shadowmage: Chapter Ten
Shadowmage: Chapter Eleven
Shadowmage: Chapter Twelve
Shadowmage: Chapter Thirteen
Shadowmage: Chapter Fourteen
Shadowmage: Chapter Fifteen
Shadowmage: Chapter Sixteen
Shadowmage: Chapter Seventeen
Shadowmage: Chapter Eighteen
Shadowmage: Eilogue
Night's Haunting
Night's Haunting: Chapter One
Night's Haunting: Chapter Two
Night's Haunting: Chapter Three
Night's Haunting: Chapter Four
Night's Haunting: Chapter Five
Night's Haunting: Chapter Six
Night's Haunting: Chapter Seven
Night's Haunting: Chapter Eight
Night's Haunting: Chapter Nine
Night's Haunting: Chapter Ten
Night's Haunting: Chapter Eleven
Night's Haunting: Chapter Twelve
Night's Haunting: Chapter Thirteen
Night's Haunting: Chapter Fourteen
Night's Haunting: Chapter Fifteen
Night's Haunting: Chapter Sixteen
Night's Haunting: Chapter Seventeen
Night's Haunting: Chapter Eighteen
Night's Haunting: Chapter Nineteen
Night's Haunting: Chapter Twenty
Legacy's Price
Legacy's Price: Chapter One
Legacy's
Price: Chapter Two
Legacy's Price: Chapter Three
Legacy's Price: Chapter Four
Legacy's Price: Chapter Five
Legacy's Price: Chapter Six
Legacy's Price: Chapter Seven
Legacy's Price: Chapter Eight
Legacy's Price: Chapter Nine
Legacy's Price: Chapter Ten
Legacy's Price: Chapter Eleven
Legacy's Price: Chapter Twelve
Legacy's Price: Chapter Thirteen
Legacy's Price: Chapter Fourteen
Legacy's Price: Chapter Fifteen
Legacy's Price: Chapter Sixteen
Legacy's Price: Chapter Seventeen
Legacy's Price: Chapter Eighteen
Legacy's Price: Chapter Nineteen
Legacy's Price: Chapter Twenty
Legacy's Price: Chapter Twenty-One
Legacy's Price: Chapter Twenty-Two
About the Author
'The Call of Kerberos' by Jonathan Oliver
'The Wrath of Kerberos' by Jonathan Oliver
'Engines of the Apocalypse' by Mike Wild
'The Trials of Trass Kathra' by Mike Wild
Table of Contents
Indicia
Series
Introduction
Map of Twilight
Shadowmage
Shadowmage: Prologue
Shadowmage: Chapter One
Shadowmage: Chapter Two
Shadowmage: Chapter Three
Shadowmage: Chapter Four
Shadowmage: Chapter Five
Shadowmage: Chapter Six
Shadowmage: Chapter Seven
Shadowmage: Chapter Eight
Shadowmage: Chapter Nine
Shadowmage: Chapter Ten
Shadowmage: Chapter Eleven
Shadowmage: Chapter Twelve
Shadowmage: Chapter Thirteen
Shadowmage: Chapter Fourteen
Shadowmage: Chapter Fifteen
Shadowmage: Chapter Sixteen
Shadowmage: Chapter Seventeen
Shadowmage: Chapter Eighteen
Shadowmage: Eilogue
Night's Haunting
Night's Haunting: Chapter One
Night's Haunting: Chapter Two
Night's Haunting: Chapter Three
Night's Haunting: Chapter Four
Night's Haunting: Chapter Five
Night's Haunting: Chapter Six
Night's Haunting: Chapter Seven
Night's Haunting: Chapter Eight
Night's Haunting: Chapter Nine
Night's Haunting: Chapter Ten
Night's Haunting: Chapter Eleven
Night's Haunting: Chapter Twelve
Night's Haunting: Chapter Thirteen
Night's Haunting: Chapter Fourteen
Night's Haunting: Chapter Fifteen
Night's Haunting: Chapter Sixteen
Night's Haunting: Chapter Seventeen
Night's Haunting: Chapter Eighteen
Night's Haunting: Chapter Nineteen
Night's Haunting: Chapter Twenty
Legacy's Price
Legacy's Price: Chapter One
Legacy's Price: Chapter Two
Legacy's Price: Chapter Three
Legacy's Price: Chapter Four
Legacy's Price: Chapter Five
Legacy's Price: Chapter Six
Legacy's Price: Chapter Seven
Legacy's Price: Chapter Eight
Legacy's Price: Chapter Nine
Legacy's Price: Chapter Ten
Legacy's Price: Chapter Eleven
Legacy's Price: Chapter Twelve
Legacy's Price: Chapter Thirteen
Legacy's Price: Chapter Fourteen
Legacy's Price: Chapter Fifteen
Legacy's Price: Chapter Sixteen
Legacy's Price: Chapter Seventeen
Legacy's Price: Chapter Eighteen
Legacy's Price: Chapter Nineteen
Legacy's Price: Chapter Twenty
Legacy's Price: Chapter Twenty-One
Legacy's Price: Chapter Twenty-Two
About the Author
'The Call of Kerberos' by Jonathan Oliver
'The Wrath of Kerberos' by Jonathan Oliver
'Engines of the Apocalypse' by Mike Wild
'The Trials of Trass Kathra' by Mike Wild
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