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The Guardians of Gaia
Savior of the Damned
Phaedra is the younger sister of the Chosen One, Demeter, who was called upon by the prophecy machine to save the world from the necromancer Aurelius. Phaedra is one of Temple’s best frontline magi and works side by side with her engineer friend, Eldren, until Aurelius learns about both Demeter and the prophecy machine. When Temple deploys Phaedra to protect her sister from Aurelius, the necromancer’s nightmarish lieutenants show no mercy and the two are killed. Eldren is forced to flee with the others, abandoning his closest friend. But death is not so simple. Phaedra and Demeter wind up resurrected to serve in Aurelius’s undead army. Meanwhile, Eldren survives, but vows to find the sisters on the slim chance they remain among the living. As Eldren desperately searches for a trace of the sisters, Phaedra is determined to do the impossible: become the first to ever defect from Aurelius’s army.
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Champion of the Dead
Aurelius is dead, his army fractured and fleeing. A new villain makes a bid to fill the vacancy, and has set sights on Phaedra. The four heroes gather their resources to fight, combating banshees and an old magic that few ever learned and even fewer mastered.
While Torin protects Phaedra, Eldren and Merethyl go off to find the Godstones again and find the ones who were meant to wield them all along. Success means they can keep Phaedra safe and sound long enough to vanquish this newest threat. Failure means that hidden threat of hope is cut and when the dead come, there will be nowhere to hide.
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Asides
The story didn’t start with Phaedra. It started long ago, when the Gods still lived and humanity thrived alongside the elves and the dwarves. This collection of short stories is all the little pieces that humanity forgot in the time that Aurelius ruled over Terra, along with stories about everyday life, and the what ifs that will never come to pass.
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Short Stories
Tales From 3 AM
Here you’ll find a collection of short stories based on dreams, nightmares, and that indescribable nothing from which we all come and to which all things return. 3 AM is not only the time of dreamers and artists, but it’s also the Witching Hour, and those things combine to form the stories found within. At turns fantastical and terrifying, these tales are quiet murmurs that wouldn’t rest until they were written.
Poetry
A Field of Beheaded Roses
CW: Trauma
Sometimes twin flames are mistaken for true love. These poems seek to help heal those who have been there before. Tragic, heart rending, and ultimately purifying, these poems attempt to make sense of something that, in the end, was never meant to be. When the fires of love burn away what was weighing us down, we find what was supposed to be ours to begin with.
An Ode to Seroquel
CW: Trauma, abuse
Mental illness. A toxic mother. Destructive relationships. Freedom. These poems seek to understand and heal from a childhood left wanting, that created an adult that didn’t know how to say no, and the pain it took to walk away for good. Sprinkled throughout the tragic circumstances are bright specks, however, that signaled all was not lost for good, and provided the hope to make the changes needed to be free.