Category Archives: Novels
Baeg Tobar’s novels are epic, sweeping tales that drive the main story of the world. New half-chapters are posted once a week.
Chapter 09 – Stone and Blood, Part 02
HAOBRUUM! The sound washed across the garden and passed over them like a gust of wind. Boruin’s arm flared blue, the runes casting their light across the garden stones, driving shadows up against the walls. They blazed across his skin,…
Chapter 09 – Stone and Blood, Part 01
Pile was first to see Belok’s huge guard standing on Undurlund’s doorstep. “I told you, Boruin! I told you he was a big rutter! He thought he got an ass-kicking last-” Pile was cut short by the pale woman sliding…
Chapter 08 – Belok’s Play, Part 02
The constable swirled his arms as if spinning air into a vortex. Boruin felt the wind of it pass over him and then a frightening stillness. Their breath sounded too loud in his ears, and he reached out and jammed…
Chapter 08 – Belok’s Play, Part 01
Boruin woke with a hot coal of fire in his hand. His eyes snapped open as he released the spell from his burning fist. He saw Toaaho turned away from him in sleep, but it was too late to stop…
Chapter 07 – Toaaho’s Haunts, Part 02
Pile floundered back to the float. “Yuin, what’s the matter with him?” Pile asked, once again clutching his wards tightly. Boruin had no answer. He grabbed the boy, trying to pull him free, but the child was suddenly strong. Toaaho…
Chapter 07 – Toaaho’s Haunts, Part 01
The boy stood on a flat stone in the middle of the stream with his hands in his pockets, cringing only when the screams floated down from the ridge and faces appeared under the pine boughs. Boruin wanted to go…
Chapter 06 – An Ill Moon’s Crossing, Part 02
He pulled three runes down into his palm. One looked like a spike for cutting. The second had a long arm that spun out and away. The third one he pushed back. It just looked wrong. Sometimes Boruin chose the…
Chapter 06 – An Ill Moon’s Crossing, Part 01
The enormous silver moon lit the highway, and the jungle glowed beside them. Bluestar ivy winked from its perch high in the trees, its phosphorescent flowers fluttering in the breeze. Diuntyne cooled the hot jungle, and they rode on at…
Chapter 05 – The Monarhig, Part 02
“Churly! Where are you wasting my time?” the Monarhig yelled as they climbed towards the top of a high crest. The Nefazo highway again appeared on their left, but on their right the land dropped off a sheer cliff. Boruin…
Chapter 05 – The Monarhig, Part 01
Boruin spent their afternoon rest spinning the line of runes across his torso. They moved like a snake around his chest, over his shoulder, and down his left arm in one long loop. He watched for the one the boy…
