KUNAI CRUSADE

AURORA MORTIS is out now, but I’m gonna continue posting about its backstory. Here’s Kunai Crusade.

“A hooded figure raced through the streets of Dirnwich, and Erdinus followed. When at last he cornered the stranger, a voice under the hood rumbled a warning about secrets buried ’neath the village: “Leave this place. Leave its mysteries for the dead.” And then the creature disappeared, as vapor, into the bustling throng.

The specter’s warning went unheeded, however, as young Athelard watched a winding trail form along the ground, like liquid torchlight. The path of slithering light led the young soldier to the edge of town, past a row of crumbling stone buildings, and seemed to arrive at a dead end—a wall framed with dead foliage. Erdinus traced the path of the glowing magic that had guided him here, ran his fingertips along the rough brick before him… And then he felt his hand slip into a space beyond. This was a portal.

He pushed further, feeling his way through the membrane of darkling aether, till his boots were no longer planted in Dirnwich but some jagged, dreamlike city: a ringed fortress with a spindly grand cathedral at its heart.

At once the eyes of countless archers were upon him; arrows rained down from the watchtowers overhead. But, swift as ever, Erdinus ran through the alleyways and found refuge in the shadows.”

Peace,

-Sam