Imperium

Valdar watched Alexandria grow in size as his fleet approached the city, holding onto the short ceiling of the heavily armored riverboat that wasn’t meant to operate in open seas, even one as calm as the middle… [See More on Patreon]

Mud caked their boots in thick, sucking globs as Ky and Modius made their way down the secondary trench. Recent rainfall combined with thousands of men moving through the narrow passages had turned sections of the defensive network into a quagmire and the wooden… [See More on Patreon]

Gundomar pressed against the muddy trench wall as another shell screamed overhead. Thirty yards behind their position, it detonated, hurling dirt and metal fragments in all directions. It was as though Nastrond, the shore of corpses, had been brought from the underworld into this place. They had endured eighteen or maybe even twenty hours under […]

Empress,” Hortensius said to Lucilla, and she and her guards were ushered around into the firing range. “Your timing is perfect. We’ve just completed our final checks.” She could smell the harsh scent of spent powder, suggesting he’d already been testing the weapon this morning, which was good. The news from the front had not […]

Medb settled onto the rough wooden bench in the watchtower just as the sun started to make its way over the horizon. She’d been watching these people for weeks now and she found she’d gotten the most useful information in the morning, before the sun was all the way up and the temperatures started to […]

Ky frowned as he read over the latest reports from the observation balloons. While he had been pleased that they finally had good weather for the balloons to operate continuously for the past two weeks, and the news they had been getting back was not what Ky would have… [See More on Patreon]