William F. Burk|Worldbuilder

- Levin the Spellsword: Hume. Captain of the group. Lightning mage with a secret power. (shhhh gotta read to find out)

- Bonecrusher(Bones): An Orcish ex-paladin, expert fighter, and pyromancer. Second in command.

- Xaia Vell: Youngest of the group. She's a Woodland Fae, trained in alchemy, but she has long since sworn that she will only make poisons.

- Zashazyn: Dark Elf. An ex-spy, special operations from the Midlight Sands. She's a deadly shot with a bow. Born under the moons of the Spider, she keeps her abilities to herself.

- Merciardo Avento: A mysterious Hume bard with a strange Dwarven accent. He is endlessly optimistic and a savage with a rapier. His music can hypnotize others into doing his bidding, but he must first play 6 notes on his flute.

- Irenaeus the Insane: a Grand Elf professor, exiled from the Academy for reasons not known. Whatever happened to him left him mentally ill. He has conversations with nothing...or at least the HOPE it is nothing.

Greetings, Brave Adventurer!

The most poisonous ingredient in the world is Faerie blood. Because of this, it is highly sought by poisoners and potion-makers alike, and, 99.99% of all who ingest it die within 3 seconds…

But there is a legend…

Legend has it that, for the .01% that survive the poison, a change happens. They become stronger, faster…

So like, it’s free on my itch.io. I basically just made it because it just seemed like a fun thing to do. I’ll link it below if you wanna play. It’s basically just a short little quest.

I made a new free game! All u need is a GB or GBA emulator :3

hehe enjoy!

This game takes place in Berry Hamlet, a village so small that maps have forgotten it. This town was once well known, however, and in ancient times, adventurers would venture from all over to enter the Sacred Forest and undergo the three trials: one of strength, one of speed, and one of wit.

Caspurr is a young Kittian who dares to brave the wood. Will he survive the trials? That is for you to decide!

I updated the Zvestrian Royal Library, if u wanna look. It's on my website, www.williamfburk.com

I am an author in the process of healing.

I encountered a huge issue: I gave in to the "Hustle Culture," and I was listening to gurus and motivational speakers like Joe Rogan, David Goggins, and writing Influencers and teachers like Stephen Pressfield, and trying to be as productive as Brandon Sanderson. I was writing professionally, and I was putting myself under extreme pressure to perform. I would think, "I must finish this" or "I have to write even if I don't want to," and it made me burn out hard, to the point where my brain just rejected writing, and I couldn't do it anymore.

But I'm going to make a conscious shift.

I converted to Christianity last year, and I started reading the Bible, and there was one verse that really hit me hard. In the chapter, Jesus is teaching on letting things consume you and take the place of God, and he says,

"For what good is it to gain the whole world and lose your very soul?"

It made me think about a lot in my life, but I thought about my writing, and I thought, "I've replaced writing for passion with writing for affirmation." I wasn't writing because I loved it anymore, but instead I was writing to medicate my CPTSD and doing it so that people would like me.

I was writing to prove my worth; I was writing to prove that I deserved to exist.

But I was at an impasse. Because, every time I acted in the writing persona I had constructed for myself, I felt disgusted. Every bit of content marketing I did, every skit or pitch, I felt disgusted. I felt gross because it was an act. It wasn't ME!