a nonsense bird

Qud has changed, stranding Agate and Mokou on the far side of these strange tides. The search for answers drives them ever to the east, from the scholarly enclave at Grit Gate to the ancient village of Ezra at the base of the Spindle. Their welcome will be tested as only a pair of pariahs can. Can Mokou instruct Agate in the ways of the spell card? Is it doomed romanticism over a dead art, or a path to the undreamed future? And what does it mean that the only other person who remembers how Qud used to be is the hero who stopped the Gyre?

i've been down in the writing mines for three years now and it's finally time to haul this book up to the surface. it's the third installment of my Touhou/Caves of Qud crossover epic, Treatise on the Peregrine Phoenix! contains high adventure, haute cuisine, posthuman actualizations, portentous dreams, physically massive lesbians, and hundreds upon hundreds of bullets.

new chapters every thursday, or get updates in advance on my patreon (link)! i also have a ko-fi (link) if you feel like throwing a treat in my mouth. if you feel like starting from the top or getting a refresher, here's book 1 and book 2.

audiobook chapters! and BOOK 3!

in this month's audiobook updates (starting with Shade and Cider), old friends pay a personal visit to mokou and agate for the second day of Kitchen Heptagon's festival of Ut yara Ux. later that evening, mokou accepts an invitation from the city's figurehead to cement their growing bond as water-kith. they fed the baroness first, right…?

previews are available for both chapters.

but something even bigger just hit my patreon for backers: Treatise on the Peregrine Phoenix, Book 3 is now finally ready to start releasing! there's 26,294 words of it already there, and more will drop on the third thursday of every month. these chapters will feed out into ao3 in smaller chunks starting next week, but backers get to read them early!

live and cook!