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The soil of the floating mountain of Summit was bountifully fertile. Some of the bright minds at the College of Agriculture believed it was due to floating above the Crystal Horizon—out of reach of the …

Orlias Krell ducked as the spiny, multi-legged creature sailed over his head like a cannonball, thrashing angrily. Somehow another Tumblespine had broken loose from the containment area in Evera’s workshop, and this time they had …

The child was half-starved and shivering when Gristle spotted him from the porch of the Grove. He’d had his feet up and was about to light his pipe when the urchin spoke from the darkness …

The MoltenKor mines were no place for a child. Yet there he was.  An orphan, he had no name. They found him hiding in one of the woodcarts, nearly frozen. It took three hours before …

Caleb Drask woke from the dream as always, swimming amidst the damp river of their sheets. The dream quickly faded before the cold grey light of morning, but Caleb could still remember snatches of it. …

The tavern went silent as soon as the two strangers walked through the door. The bald one wore a scowl as dark as the icy gaze he was currently receiving. The one with the wide-brimmed …

  It’s the scent that I’ve mastered. For most, the iron catch of blood in the back of the throat, the excrement stench of spilled entrails, and later, the choking clouds of burning meat on …

Kell shuffled through the dwindling late afternoon Red Market crowd, slipping in and out of the dusky red shadows created by the crimson awnings overhead. Skirting a small group at the kebab stand, he heard …

Amidst the sky of Axia, above the poisonous cloudline that stretches from horizon to horizon, floats the mountain of Summit. Upon its peak sits the city of Sparkstone. On the steps of the old city …