The Book of Ve

Contents The March Innocence Seven days they had ridden within the mists, which crept and folded upon them like some living thing intent upon causing bewilderment. The sun showed itself but faintly by day, and by night the drums returned, though low and distant. When darkness fell, Elden lay wakeful near Gedain, his sightless gaze fixed upon the featureless dark, fearing what lurked just…

Faith Gedain returned, and the men lined the way with hopeful, silent faces as he emerged from the fog at the threshold of the camp. They followed behind him as he rode into the heart of it, where Cerenid stood in counsel with Madrot and the captains.The rex turned as he neared.“Thou hast returned,” Cerenid remarked. “Where hast thou been?”“I have ranged the path that lieth before us,” he…

Southward 531 Cerenid held council with the marshals that morning. Their talk was of the dark clouds, fueled by vulcan pyres to the west, that had confounded their bearing and design. And they spoke also of long of roads and valleys, of water and forage, and of the unseen host that hunted them through the haze.Cerenid looked to Azarius for guidance, but Gedain spoke first.“I rode to Meru in…

Narrows 528 The weather turned with the Host’s descent, yet they marched ever downward, into the mists of cloud, unto their enemy, lurking somewhere below, unseen in the purgatory of drifting haze. 529 The vanguard made scarcely two leagues upon their first full day’s march from the gate. They pressed onward though the road lay treacherous, the slope steep, the wagons laboring sorely. At last…

Theshold 525 The host advanced toward the High Gate, a span of thirteen leagues from Guen’s walls. For two days they rode eastward, until the road branched southward ascending into the forested hills climbing toward the high mountain saddle. The days were clear and bright, with Sol shining warm and the northern daystar nearly faded. When the van pitched its tents beneath the dark boughs of…

Conclave 471 The summons went forth into the realm of Methundor, and the reiks and thegns came unto Gruen, passing through her gates over the course of the fortnight that followed the summer solstice. Of the five reiks, the House of Fy did not come, for though safe conduct had been sworn, they trusted not that their plot on Cerenid’s life would pass unanswered.Madrot, named Reik of Dregrove,…

Conclave 471 The summons went forth into the realm of Methundor, and the reiks and thegns came unto Gruen, passing through her gates over the course of the fortnight that followed the summer solstice. Of the five reiks, the House of Fy did not come, for though safe conduct had been sworn, they trusted not that their plot on Cerenid’s life would pass unanswered.Madrot, named Reik of Dregrove, yet…

The Book of Vê is an online serial spanning the genesis to apocalypse of the realms of Vê. Blending archaic style with cinematic storytelling, the serial explores fate, philosophy, and the cost of power.

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The Book of Vê is an online fantasy epic spanning the genesis to apocalypse of the realms of Vê. Blending archaic style with cinematic storytelling, the serial explores fate, philosophy, and the cost of power.  

The Book of Vê is an online fantasy epic spanning the genesis to apocalypse of the realms of Vê. Blending archaic style with cinematic storytelling, the serial explores fate, philosophy, and the cost of power.  

The Book of Vê is an online fantasy epic spanning the genesis to apocalypse of the realms of Vê. Blending archaic style with cinematic storytelling, the serial explores fate, philosophy, and the cost of power.  

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Gudoc

And it came to pass in the waning days of Vallis, that Azarius took the boy Aeon unto a high ridge overlooking the escarpment of Gudoc, that he might behold with his own eyes the folly of kings and the ruin of men. The wind blew fiercely upon that height, carrying with it the reek of sweat and the brazen cry of horns. Beneath them stretched a vast host— Mosul’s forty thousand spears— arrayed like a sea of steel beneath the dimming Sol.

Across the valley, the ranks of the Raptors held their line upon the blackened stone. Their scales shone as bronze beneath the light. The ground itself seemed to tremble in dread of the coming wrath.