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"my ... family's burden". Hmm.

However, the City of Brass described in One Thousand and One Nights is pretty distinct from that of the D&D multiverse, being a ruined North African city visited by a group of Arabic adventurers seeking to discover bound Ifrits.

Rartigan There are enough stories about the various deeds of the wizard called Rartigan -- no adjective, thank you, he just goes by his name -- that even those who believe many of them suspect that they cannot all be true. Less credulous commentators claim that the wizard blithely accepts the...

Kestreks Art by Sandra Duchiewicz Out of the Bandit Kingdom rode Kestreks the Killer, astride his warlizard Mahalana, seeking what employment he could find as a mercenary soldier. He chose, for the most part, to take the distrust that most prospective employers had for him as appropriate fear...

Maggan Art by Danila Kalinin. Much like the island of Teyango, the Paaxetani archipelago was absorbed into the Empire of Troas long ago but treated just as a source of sorghum rather than a potential colony. Unlike the people of Teyango, who were content to largely ignore their rulers in...

Elwasse Everyone knows that bards are spies. Everyone takes it for granted that, as the bards wander about looking for tales to turn into songs, they learn all sorts of other interesting and dangerous things that they invariably pass on to their patrons, who are typically magnates of the...

Eh, maybe you're right.

I mean that that's his father, pretending to be Julia. And Roy knows it, but is playing along with the attempt at deception.

Last one: "Dad always seems to know when I'm alone." This one: "I mean, you were there."

Well, maybe, but I'm not sure what that has to do with this conversation, because I don't think that's Julia. And I'm pretty sure Roy knew that in the previous strip.

Alharund Three are the stereotypical traits of the wood elves of Elphaim, and to an extent of all elves. They are all skilled magic-wielders. Utterly false, even absurd -- sorcerous abilities are not given to every member of any of the peoples of the world. They are all brilliant archers...

Nyx Art by Jacob E. Blackmon Long ago -- longer ago than this language has words to describe -- a group of extraordinarily powerful entities, whom we could call the Old Ones, realized that they needed still more power in order to accomplish a task that they had set for themselves. The...

-Not worth it.-

Magnificat In the years after Tanelorn was established, and its interdimensional gates began to see regular use, it saw many arrivals from other worlds, both sapient and otherwise. While the portals could be controlled, and dangerous visitors were usually prevented from entering, things...

Connor Roberts Imagine being a kid with superpowers. Now imagine being a kid who wanted to have superpowers, and now has them ... but finds that they do nothing to make people, especially those who also have powers, accept him as an adult. Such is the life of Connor Roberts, made slightly...

Biānpào/鞭炮 As one of the most publicly visible members of the Sīfa Zhuānjiā, much has been revealed (and confirmed) about the personal history of Yang Dongmei, alias Biānpào ("Firecracker"). Born in Beijing in 1992, she was only thirteen years old when, for the first time in decades, fireworks...

The Erlking There is a romantic notion that the further one goes back in time, the more that people of that time had respect for the natural world. From a certain perspective, that is true ... but only if one confuses respect for fear. In the world lit only by fire, most people regarded the...

Jerry Gimlin Art by Gary Hanna Back in September, things were going pretty good for twelve-year old Jerry Gimlin. While the summer camp that he and the rest of his Boy Scout troop had been planning to attend had been delayed because of that whole alien invasion thing, so had the start of the...

Blakestone (I, II, III) When Jennifer Chase won a riddle game with the spirit of the House of Riddles in 2004, she had already learned a few details about the previous individuals to win mastery of the House and with it the name Blakestone. In the years since then, she has continued to seek out...