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Chapter 192 “What are we looking for?” Bredan asked. “Not looking, listening,” Darik said. The four of them—Bredan, Quellan, and Xeeta, along with the dwarf warrior—stood in silence atop the battlements of the Darkfall Gate. The dwarves had removed the bodies of their own fallen and the...

Chapter 191 The altered Tender turned to face Kosk. The dwarf did not know whether it was undead or something else, but he had already gotten a pretty good idea that it was extremely dangerous. And from the fading echoes of Glori’s thunderwave, he would have given good odds that there was at...

Chapter 190 Majerion came over to where Kosk was sitting on a low bench along one of the side walls of the house. The dwarf had pruned back the vines that had drifted down from the broken ceiling, clearing a space to sit while he waited for Loriellan to finish preparing the evening meal. “I...

Chapter 189 They reached the Tender outpost about an hour shy of sunset. At first, Glori did not even realize that they had arrived. It wasn’t until the Rangers stopped that she took a second look at their surroundings and saw that they’d reached their destination. The outpost was situated...

Chapter 188 It was a different group that met with them this time, though several of the faces were familiar. They were in a small meeting room instead of the more spacious Council chambers, dominated by a long conference table and a hearth that was currently black and cold. There were two...

Chapter 187 Bredan lay slumped against the solidity of the Darkfall Gate, utterly exhausted. His arms and legs felt as though they had been banded with iron weights. His wounds burned, but they were not too serious; a dwarf medic had examined him briefly earlier but had passed him up for...

Chapter 186 For a moment the companions just stared at this unexpected development in surprise. The remnants of the husk clung together just enough to give the trolls some pause, but the first one to shrug clear quickly focused on the four individuals standing there watching it. It snarled...

Chapter 185 Bredan woke in the middle of the night to a feeling of dread. At first, he did not remember where he was. It was dark and quiet. But then he remembered. Their quarters in Underhold were not especially spacious or well-apportioned, but they each had their own room and vents in...

Chapter 184 Glori was quick to check on Kosk, but the dwarf was not hurt as badly as it had looked at first glance. Turning to the front of the column, she saw that the fighting had come to an end there as well. A second owlbear, even larger than the first, had attacked just moments after...

Chapter 183 For a moment, overwhelmed by the sudden and incongruous appearance of the creature, Glori hesitated. That moment quite nearly cost her, but even as the owlbear reared up to strike Kosk slammed into it from the side. The end of his staff cracked into the right side of its face just...

Chapter 182 They got an early start the next day, at Shreskra’s urging. By the time that the faint rays of scattered sunlight that penetrated down through the canopy reached the forest floor they had already covered several miles. The forest was much the same as it had been the day before...

Chapter 181 Night in the Reserve was almost pure black. The forest was not quite still, as the breeze rustled the canopy high above and the soft sounds of nocturnal creatures provided a steady background noise. But in the camp, everything was quiet. The fire had burned low, the glowing...

Chapter 180 The next morning they got an early start into the Reserve. The outer precincts seemed much like any other forest, Glori thought. The sense of foreboding that she’d felt the previous evening had faded somewhat, although a hint of it lingered, a vague impression that something was...

I'm back! * * * Chapter 179 Under different circumstances, Glori thought that she might have enjoyed the journey from Tal Nadesh to the border of the Reserve. On seeing the conveyance provided by the elves, her first thought had been, Nice carriage… but where are the horses? The elves had...

Chapter 178 The morning sky was overcast and a cool breeze blew as Glori, Kosk, and Embrae made their way along a lightly wooded path on the western outskirts of Tal Nadesh. They were far enough from the core of the elvish city that they could have pretended that they were alone, save for the...

Story update: I just finished Book 8 today. I'm about 45 posts ahead at the moment, so plenty of story left to go. I envision that Forgotten Lore will go for a total of 10, maybe 11 books altogether. The story is currently at 281k words and probably has another 100k or so left to go. Just a...

I make no promises! * * * Chapter 176 The infirmary was located not far from the Darkfall Gate, in a side chamber just off the main cavern. A small waiting area with several benches gave way to a larger examination room flanked by partitioned spaces that each held one or two beds for...

Just a quick note that I will be doing some traveling starting at the end of next week. The story will be on hiatus for a few weeks during that time. * * * Chapter 175 The alien monster’s huge jaws swelled to fill Xeeta’s vision as the tentacle dragged her inexorably closer. She tried to...

Chapter 174 Making the decision to accompany Darik beyond the Darkfall Gate turned out to be easy compared to the elaborate production that was actually getting beyond the Gate. All of the dwarven sentries that they encountered seemed to know Darik, but that didn’t keep them from scrutinizing...

Chapter 173 The tour wasn’t even over yet, but Xeeta felt as though she’d walked to Severon and back. Darik was a competent enough guide, and seemed to know every detail about Underhold, but her legs were burning and her eyes were starting to feel like they had tiny weights attached to them...