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And she had arrived to offer up Zevander, her second-born son, to it. Not by choice, of course. Lady Rydainn would’ve sacrificed herself right there and then, if it would spare Zevander from such a horrific fate. Unfortunately, the mage who’d demanded the exchange wasn’t interested in her pittance of an offer. He wanted her youngest son, and nothing more.
Excuse me?!?
The Eating Woods the villagers called it, because sometimes the carcasses of those cast off were recovered along the edge, their bodies having been stripped of skin and flesh.
That's rough... Imagine you just buried G-Ma & you see her the next day...no thank youuu
the boundary that, once crossed, awakened the monster on the other side.
Hmmmmmm???!??!!!
Curious as I’d always been to know what existed beyond it, I didn’t dare set foot inside that misty labyrinth of trees. No one ever did, unless prodded by force, because The Eating Woods never returned what was given.
Won’t be booking an AIRBNB there
I was no more than a few days old when I’d been found abandoned before that cursed arch in a wicker basket, a single black rose upon my chest. No one knew who’d left me there, but every villager speculated that, whoever they were, they must have hoped the woods would eat me, as well.
Talk about traumatic!
fanatical Sacred Men, the religious branch of the Vonkovyan armies that ruled with an iron fist over most of the continent. A small faction of defectors maintained a hold over Lyveria in the northern part of the continent, and my father had ventured there as a missionary, to convert the Lyverians for the glory of our good country.
Cool cool cool
I blamed the god who demanded blood. The revered god who ripped families apart and banished the innocent. An invisible entity, feared more than the creature that dwelled in the woods. The one to whom my father had pledged his undying devotion.
The "god" that was eating babes’ heads? Rough man..
To utter such a phrase would label me a heretic. A witch.
I'll just hop on my broom then
Until the parchment settled, and a new phrase appeared where mine had been, in the same hasty strokes of my own handwriting. God is Death.
GTFO
While I may have been shunned by the villagers, she was truly feared. The Crone Witch. Rumor had it, she’d murdered her husband and ate the hearts of children.
This just keeps getting better & better
I spied a five stars and moon, the symbol of the old gods, inked onto his skin.
They already seem way better
“God is Death,”
What A coincidence
“Unless he was talking in reverse, that was not Vonkovyan. It was entirely unsettling.”
Interesting...
On his forearm, he bore the mark of a predator. Rapax. Those who took advantage of children in one form, or another, either by sexual favors or abuse. The marks were issued by the Imperial Guard to identify them as molesters, and most served time in the mines of Solassia.
All is just & right in the world
The only portal into the mortal world, guarded by the king’s calvary.
Okay parinthian pt. 2
“In order to break your curse, I require the full complement of stones. All seven bloodlines.”
No way he'll actually break it, calling it now
“Seems like a lot of power for one man.” “Perhaps, but a necessary one. I’ve told you what I’ve seen.”
Said it first folks. Foreshadowing, at its finest!
“Except Cadavros is dead. Long dead.” The evil that had bestowed the curse upon Zevander had long been extinguished.
As it should!
While episodes like these, during which he’d sometimes lost control of the flame, were relatively rare, it was enough to trouble him. A testament to the unruly and unpredictable nature of his power.
This is so rare to find in a book I feel. Usually, powerful MMC have little to no flaws with their powers
“What brings you here, Brother?”
Umm...
the skin had tightened around the wound like vanes to a rachis, giving it the appearance of a feather.
So... What does this mean?
“Uncle Felix said you were actually dead for eight minutes and twenty-seven seconds. He tried to revive you.”
Reincarnated as a witch? I guess not "reincarnated" but none the less...?
I examined its rough surface, trying to imagine what it could’ve been.
Que GOT theme song
the ten rods that pierced the underside of his
I- IM SORRY WHAT DID I JUST READ????
I had told her that I wished she’d get trampled by a horse.
Oookay ms maam
This girl is the anathema, a witch, and deserves banishment to The Eating Woods!”
That seems a little extreme
As for the girl who was trampled? Well, it would seem to me, she’d have done well to watch for approaching carriages before stepping into the road.”
FUCK EM UPPPP OLD MANN
“He pretends to be kind, but he’s cruel, isn’t he?”
Figured as much
I stared into the milky-white eyes of the Lyverian girl from Moros’s manor.
That cunt of a man… BOTH OF THEM
“Have you told him?” “Yes.” I inwardly groaned. “Why would you do that?”
What did you saaaaay????😀
An egg, it seemed, but not one he recognized.
He’s watching HER
Fucking beautiful.
✋🙂↕️yes sir- steal our girl away
A stranger. A stranger in my room. A stranger in my room, staring down at me.
Crazy?! I was crazy once….
She was wrong. I shook my head, refusing to believe such a thing.
She was a Raven yea💃yea🕺
The Eating Woods?”
PAUSE: is that where the portal is?
“A gateway to another world. I was no more than your age when I ventured into that dark forest.”
MAYBE IF I WOULDVE FINISHED THE PARAGRAPH
His skin like the bark of a tree. Eyes soulless pools of black.”
Okaaaay but how did it get HERE??
Kazhimyr held the power to freeze it into ice crystals that essentially lysed the veins of his victims. His was a blood-born magic, though, an inherited power shared by the kin who had rejected him years ago.
Ice ice baby
Sinners were fed to the forest.
WE LEFT FOR 2 SECONDS!!!!!!!!!!!!
“These raptors … they would bear eggs like a bird, or a dragon?” “Yes. Large, black-scaled eggs, smelling of brimstone.”
👀 what had happened was…..
“If my vision is correct, the mortal I sent you after may be the first, or the last, of the Corvikae bloodline. She may carry the blood of the death goddess. And while I may be many things to many people, I am not the vehicle for mortalicide.”
OUR GIRL IS A BAD BITCH💃
“Surely, you would have, given your responsibility in the matter.”
Fuck him up
“Tonight, we will bear witness to two banishings!”
As he deserves💅
I reached out to Raivox, flicking my fingers. “C’mon, Raivox! Come here!”
Thank god
