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Rael was born in the night of the 15th Sun of the First Umbral Moon, in a small village deep within the Golmore Jungle. It was an uneventful birth, on an uneventful night, and none could tell looking at the squalling babe how many lives they would shape in the...

When an older Viera, it was impossible to say how much older, found them he did try to be comforting.But his words were spoken to soothe the wrong fears. Staring up at the far darker skinned man, with his white hair clipped short to prevent anyone using it ag...

or saw no need to do so. In the end, it mattered little. After a night spent trudging through the jungle, the first rays of sunlight revealed a break in the treeline. Yet what awaited the feeling kit only filled them with dread. Stepping out from the trees, th...

The man brought one huge paw to his chest. “I am Hrvoje Verasch. Why you here, Rael?” “I have no home to return to,” they replied, looking to one side, where they thought the jungle might be. Hrvoje’s face scrunched up, a motion similar enough to a Ravan’s fo...

In the days that followed, they traveled slowly across the desert towards Dalmasca, Hrvoje setting a deliberately slower pace to allow the young girl to start to recover. It would strain his supplies, but he knew the desert well, and how to plumb its hidden su...

“I found her in the desert, running from the jungle,” Hrvoje replied calmly. “She is my daughter now.” The man blinked a few moments, then his eyes widened. “O-oh! She’s one of those kinds. I understand,but…” he trailed off, pulling a thin journal from below ...

know. “You now Ashlyn Verasch.” Tears, happy ones this time, formed at the young girl’s eyes, and she felt something in her change in that instant. A feeling of contended belonging, unlike anything she could remember even in the idyllic days of her youth. It ...

The rain fell steadily, wind threatening to blow the cold droplets onto the tiny campfire. Ruby coughed and groaned in pain, fumbling in her pack for a vial that kept escaping her clumsy fingers. Finally, she grasped it and pulled out the stopper, choking and ...