fantasy

A swaggering adventurer named Morag the Mighty is indignantly turned away at a city gate by thoroughly unimpressed guards.

After months crossing a lethal desert, a desperate traveller arrives at a mysterious ancient colossus and begins the perilous climb to claim the legendary Bloodstone held in its grasp.

On his deathbed, legendary dwarven warrior Grangal is haunted by the one quest he fled from — a crumbling castle staircase where a Lich's nightmare curse brought him to his knees in guilt and shame.

On her first day as a dungeon cleaner, goblin Azravel gets an earful from her veteran colleague Grengel about the particular misery of cleaning up after elemental spirits.

A legendary house in an ancient city has swallowed every visitor who dared enter — and now a plucky young traveller, spurred on by her peers and an unrequited love, pushes open the door.

A minstrel performing for his life before Malfor the Mighty — a tyrant who executes anyone who bores him — talks his way off the chopping block by offering the one thing the jaded king truly craves.

A battle-hardened army camps on the eve of their assault on a great walled city, drinking and gambling as their officers contemplate the uncertain fate awaiting them at dawn.

A buyer finally takes delivery of a legendary, history-shaping artefact from its reverent seller.

Two old friends reminisce in a cosy tavern about the chaotic days when magical gates spat unpredictable creatures into the world — and they decide to have one last adventure.

A weary government clerk works through a long list of furious, blustering wizards to inform them that magic is being banned.

Cthulhu receives a deeply unsettling vision — not of apocalyptic triumph, but of a plan that was never going to work — and is forced to confront an existential mid-aeons career crisis.