New Tiers Up!
New tiers are out! Legacy tiers are not affected!
Thank you, everyone, for all of your support! This project has had a lot of emotional up and downs.
2025-08-01 00:24:21 +0000 UTC View Post
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TO&FQ: Book 3: Chapter 14 (RAW)
Chapter 14 - Realization
Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.
- Ayn Rand.
The road to Meridian, at least so far, had passed without incident, which in itself became cause for unease for the girl. So still was the journey, so tediously calm, th...
2025-07-31 02:13:03 +0000 UTC View PostBook 6: Chapter 29 - Slash & Burn
As they say in the Land of Streams, Earth is stability, Water is flexibility, Fire is commitment, Wind is intelligence and communication, and the nothingness between decisions is where good judgment is found.
Hold a firm base, adapt your line, commit cleanly, keep information moving, and decide without undue noise unless that, too, is part of your plan. Strategy is control of time and distance; choose the hour a...
2025-07-29 10:05:54 +0000 UTC View PostRemoving Seraphina T-Shirts
Removing the T-shirt soon due to contractual reasons. Buy one before it goes forever!
2025-07-28 23:26:13 +0000 UTC View PostTO&FQ: Book 3: Chapter 13 (RAW)
Chapter 13 - Reunited
Lay this unto your breast: Old friends, like old swords, still are trusted best.
- John Webster.
Seraphina had sent Miriam and one of her Knights ahead to formally announce her arrival. If Miriam was not a complete dolt, and that was still up for debate, Lady Yanmei would have been informed well in advance by messenger. It wasn’t as though she were taking the de Laney...
2025-07-28 08:34:23 +0000 UTC View PostBook 6: Chapter 28 - Sympathy (RAW)
Bronzegate Hold, home to several clans of dwarves, lies nestled near the heart of Fire Mountain. It stands as a testament to the engineering skill of the stout folk, who channel the burning earth itself with rune-wards and harness its molten heart to fuel the forges that craft many wondrous things. The most wondrous of these, of course, are their Mechanica. Their golems and war automata of iron and rune, famed throughout the Grievin...
2025-07-26 15:35:27 +0000 UTC View PostWill be orphaning current tiers [no changes to current Patreons].
I will be reforming and re-evaluating the current tiers for Gilgamesh [apocalypse reaver] and the TO&FQ [the villainess is the villainess]. Anyone currently subscribed will not have their prices changed, benefits, etc. This will only be affecting new Patreons [I have been told, and observed, that my current pricing is ridiculously generous].
In short, this would be an awesome time to subscribe at the cheaper prices before I make th...
2025-07-26 06:53:53 +0000 UTC View PostTO&FQ: Book 3: Chapter 12 (RAW)
Chapter 12 - New Equipment
As men get older, the toys get more expensive.
- Marvin Davis
Pushing herself, really pushing herself, had left the girl a drenched, sweat-soaked mess. Still, it was not without its rewards as Seraphina had gained an extra point in Strength and Constitution.
But what truly pleased her, what disturbed her too, was the birth of a new skill: Endure. In the game,...
2025-07-25 06:21:02 +0000 UTC View PostSeraphina in period correct gear!
Seraphina in brigandine and plate!
2025-07-24 14:57:22 +0000 UTC View Post
Book 6: Chapter 27 - A Parting Blow
Beyond Narilmu’s northern walls, the jungle broods like a green ocean, forever hungry. Its canopy hides ancient ruins from before the Cataclysm; their empty halls a place of many other mysteries.
Dawn there smells of rot and orchid spice; dusk hums with unseen wings that bear fever on their whispers. Even the native Goblin tribes tread lightly, for vines move when no wind blows and pale eyes bloom amid blossoms brighter th...
2025-07-23 14:09:22 +0000 UTC View Post
TO&FQ: Book 3: Chapter 11 (RAW)
Chapter 11 - The Limit
The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.
- Arthur C. Clarke.
Though he hid it well, Sir Frest had been less than agreeable about this whole outing. Miriam had found him sour and silent, casting dice in the barracks with his old comrades. He had only just settled in, and in his mind was now being dragged off to anothe...
2025-07-21 13:52:50 +0000 UTC View PostIbn's Sword Ardent Moon
Ibn's long double-edged curved sword. The scabbard has been modified to allow for a fast draw despite its greater length. There is a clasp near the guard to hold the sword in place. Gilgamesh's swords are based on a similar design, but are shorter and single-edged.
2025-07-20 15:03:02 +0000 UTC View PostBook 6: Chapter 26 - Dignity (RAW)
There have surfaced absurd tales among the travelers frequenting the jungles north of Narilmu; rumors of a goblin of unprecedented size and muscular build, towering above its brethren, a monstrous brute nearly as tall as a fully grown man.
Let me unequivocally dismiss these fanciful accounts as nothing more than Bard-born nonsense. Goblins, though varied in stature, simply do not grow beyond the height of a tall...
2025-07-19 15:47:36 +0000 UTC View PostDiscord Server Made
Seraphina and Gilgamesh now come with added discord: https://discord.gg/9WVxTDkyQV
2025-07-19 09:24:59 +0000 UTC View PostTO&FQ Book 1: Chapters 22-30 [Edited]
Chapter 22 - Matters of the Heart
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2025-07-18 11:26:47 +0000 UTC View PostTO&FQ: Book 3: Chapter 10 (RAW)
Chapter 10 - Escape
For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.
- Nelson Mandela.
Her father’s face grew serious, his mind engaging in something it was rather unaccustomed to.
“Now, Seraphina, I know that it is perfectly fine to make friends with all sorts…” Anatoli began in a tone meant to be sol...
2025-07-18 11:24:27 +0000 UTC View PostIdea sketch of Seraphina with a minigun.
Seraphina with a minigun.
2025-07-18 00:36:15 +0000 UTC View PostBook 6: Chapter 25 - The Sword of Dread (RAW)
“Only two roads lead to power: one is paved with untouched corpses, the other with unburied friends. True power is always attained through sacrifice, and better this be the sacrifice of strangers than your own.”
- Atraban Qahtani, Meditations on Crown and Sword 237 A.C.
After the debacle with the boys, it was ironically easier to slot the two elven girls into the daily running of… well, me, as they took th...
2025-07-18 00:33:43 +0000 UTC View PostUnit-00 Ballista vs Balalazanga
The last battle between the mech and the great dragon.
2025-07-17 07:03:48 +0000 UTC View PostSeraphina with halberd [different style]
![Seraphina with halberd [different style]](https://img5.doujintrends.com/storage/4/os/eo/90a5d8-019e8b75-eefe-7c5e-a724-f9c6b8f5010d.jpg)
Seraphina in the forest in book 1 in a different style.
2025-07-17 04:57:16 +0000 UTC View Post![Seraphina playing GO [baduk] with Ibn](https://img5.doujintrends.com/storage/2/gt/ht/90a5d8-019e8b75-ef20-7a4b-9a6e-248024429b9a.jpg)
TO&FQ: Book 3: Chapter 9 (RAW)
Chapter 9 - Food, Glorious Food.
There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
- George Bernard Shaw.
Instead of taking her luncheon alone under the rafters of the great hall, Seraphina had chosen the warmth of the kitchens, where the air was thick with the scent of woodsmoke, butter, and slow-boiling marrowbones. It was a clattering world of ladles and laughter, copper pots swinging like...
2025-07-16 14:45:18 +0000 UTC View PostDecoupling TO&FQ and Gilgamesh [Apocalypse Reaver]
Due to potential future contractual reasons I will be officially decoupling the settings for the two series. There will be a few changes to names, and certain crossovers [e.g Summoning Gilgamesh to do something] will no longer be possible. Apart from that, there will be no changes to the overall story or direction.
2025-07-16 03:27:58 +0000 UTC View PostBook 6: Chapter 24 - The Price of Kindness (RAW)
In the age of the Cataclysm, the dark elves, cousins to the First Children, were cast out to wander the scarred surface while fires of mindless ruin swept the world and their kin retreated to their hallowed halls deep underground. Thus, say the chronicles, a lingering curse took hold of them. Burned by the touch of an unkind sun, their years remain long, yet fall well short of those enjoyed by their purer kin, and that very limit ties them...
2025-07-15 14:34:43 +0000 UTC View PostTO&FQ: Book 3: Chapter 8 (RAW)
Chapter 8 - Real Estate
When crims begin to pile up they become invisible. When sufferings become unendurable the cries are no longer heard. The cries, too, fall like rain in summer.
- Bertold Brecht.
When the winds turned, it became a simple matter to burn the woods.
Barrels of pitch were brought to the young noblewoman, their sides stained and seeping. Seraphina herself tossed one af...
2025-07-14 09:27:38 +0000 UTC View PostSketch Seraphina & Ibn playing GO
The gang doing their thing while Ibn & Seraphina play go
2025-07-14 03:28:35 +0000 UTC View PostSeraphina T-shirt is out!
Removing soon for contractual reasons.
2025-07-12 14:00:39 +0000 UTC View PostBook 6: Chapter 23 - The Reaper (RAW)
Tears block the path that the departed must take on their path to Heaven.
- A saying among the Nas Al-Rimal.
“Get up,” I commanded, my voice cold as cut stone. “Get up, if your so-called murdered kin ever meant anything to you. Though I suspect that tale is a lie, like everything else that drips from your mouth. And if not, then let me say it plain—I spit on their memory.”
His hand went to t...
2025-07-12 10:14:42 +0000 UTC View Post