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3. Hull - Grudge
Chapter 3Grudge“When I saw the smoke, I had to come back,” Harker said. “It wasn’t even a question.” She sourly eyed the pack of summoned demons trailing me as we trotted down the street looking for any straggling undead or enemy demons. “But if you think I’m going to let you kill me because I broke your ...
2. Basil - A Dark Path
Chapter 2A Dark PathMy steps were leaden and my face drawn as I followed the lich through the once bright home of the Sun King. The halls and gathering places of the grand building had been transformed into a grim reflection of my current state: a place utterly gutted of its previous purpose. A single, heinous Spell ha...
1. Hull - The Fight for the Lows
Chapter 1The Fight for the Lows“You stay here and double yourself like there’s a fire under your ass,” I told Yveda. “Whatever comes your way, you stop it, understood? I don’t care if it’s that lich lady riding one of the Twins like a horse. Nothing gets past you.”The demon pursed its lips. “This whole ...
B3: 0. Xemris - Breaking Down
NOTE: Aaaaaand we're back! Thank you all who stuck with me through this lengthy hiatus -- you're the real deal, all of you. I can't tell you how much I appreciate your patience and support. Now we've got a straight shot through book 3. Welcome back! Tell your friends!!PrologueBreaking Down“What are yo...
B1 Edits: 10. Basil - Today's the Day
Chapter 10 read-alongChapter 10Today’s the DayBasil, Duelist-ScholarLiving SoulUncommonPerfect card memoryBy the time I joined my family for an early breakfast I had slept perhaps an hour in total, a few snatches here and there when my eyes could no longer focus on the crabbed script of the Fire card textbook, and no...
B1 Edits: 9. Hull - Rock and a Card Place
Chapter 9 read-alongChapter 9Rock and a Card PlaceHull, Street UrchinLiving SoulUnknown RarityUnknown AbilitiesMy running feet took me back toward the Merchant District, where I could see a smear of greasy smoke rising over the rooftops. Not there. They’ll have the fire brigade and the city watch crawling all over. I...
B1 Edits: 8. Hull - Jokes Should Be Funny
Chapter 8 read-alongChapter 8Jokes Should Be FunnyHull, Street UrchinLiving SoulUnknown RarityUnknown AbilitiesMy feet started sizzling the second I crossed the threshold. I bit down on my tongue and threw myself forward. I knew right where the card was supposed to be. Every step forward felt like holes being burned st...
B1 Edits: 7. Hull - A Bad Idea
Chapter 7 read-alongChapter 7A Bad IdeaHull, Street UrchinLiving SoulUnknown RarityUnknown AbilitiesLife on the streets had not made me good at complex planning. My usual way of solving a problem was to hit it and empty its pockets, but that wouldn’t work here. Barging back into the tailor’s card shop would just ge...
B1 Edits: 6. Basil - Cards by Candlelight
Chapter 6 read-alongChapter 6Cards by CandlelightBasil, Duelist-ScholarLiving SoulUncommonPerfect card memoryAfter collecting my wayward Headsman – who had ended up in the pantry of all places – I spent the rest of the evening poring over the Water cards my family owned, agonizing over whether I should reconfigure ...
B1 Edits: 5. Hull - Precious
Chapter 5 read-alongChapter 5PreciousHull, Street UrchinLiving SoulUnknown RarityUnknown AbilitiesSkop kept a tight hand on my elbow all the way to Hook Street. His grip was hard and he wasn’t shy about using it. My fingers were tingling, but any time I tried to jerk away, he pinched even tighter and yanked me back l...
B1 Edits: 4. Basil - Reacquaintance
Chapter 4 read-alongChapter 4ReacquaintanceBasil, Duelist-ScholarLiving SoulUncommonPerfect card memoryI sprinted so quickly anyone could have been forgiven for thinking I’d challenged Randel to a race, never mind the fact that he was strolling on at a snail’s pace, oblivious to me as he sank yet another day into h...
B1 Edits: 3. Basil - Fighting the Future
Chapter 3 read-alongChapter 3Fighting the FutureBasil, Duelist-ScholarLiving SoulUncommonPerfect card memory“If you can’t beat me, you have no hope in the Rising Stars Tournament, Basil. It’s a fact, boy, simple as sunshine.”It wasn’t that I really expected Tipfin to say anything new on our final day of pract...
B1 Edits: 2. Hull - Big Man
Chapter 2 read-alongChapter 2Big ManHull, Street UrchinLiving SoulUnknown RarityUnknown AbilitiesIt wasn’t until I was sprinting toward them that I caught a good glimpse of their faces, and on any other day what I saw would have stopped me in my tracks. The fat fellow on the right was Skop, and the taller, stronger o...
B1 Edits: 1. Hull - A Lost Soul
Note: Okay, friends, I'm dropping some of my edited chapters from book 1! I hope you enjoy this new, polished version.You'll notice immediately that my beautiful, beautiful card images are gone. I hate this as much as you do. The unfortunate truth -- and anybody who has picked up the physical version of Demon C...
Update - Feb 19, 2025
Hello, my fellow card junkies! I wanted to check in with everyone and let you know where things stand. I've been hard at work editing book 1, and I'm blown away by both the amount and quality of constructive feedback I've received from comments on here, on Royal Road, and from our Discord community. I'v...
Announcement, Dec 7
Hey friends and card fiends,Here we are at the end of book 2. Thanks for sticking with me all this time! I wanted to throw out a couple of announcements in the wake of the book's ending. I went straight from book 1 into book 2, and boy, do my bones feel it. I started posting Source & Soul 13 months ago, and I haven...
60. Kobold Whisperer - Remember
Chapter 60RememberThe young woman blinked, scanning the room around herself with a furrowed brow. She stood in an entry hall of what might have been a well-to-do merchant home, but the style was one she’d never seen before. The floor was tiled in some kind of earthy stone with white veining and the walls were mudded ...
59. Basil - Closing Doors
Chapter 59Closing DoorsIt didn’t take long for me to discover that the lich’s deck was designed to slowly grind me into submission, but somehow, I was five turns in and still standing. This was despite the fact that she had used a Mythic Relic to get a Legendary Soul onto the field on her third turn with a targeted...
58. Hull - Who You Really Are
Chapter 58Who You Really AreI stared at the charred husk of my father where it lay, pathetic and powerless in the crater made when the Orc general had laid my brother Gerad low. They were both there now, a stone’s throw away from the corpse. Gerad had the same stunned, hopeless look on his face that I felt in the pit...
57. Basil - Impossible Odds
Chapter 57Impossible OddsThe massive, Twins-made coliseum disintegrated as our King fell, the chairs and low walls turning back into lines of light and then to nothing at all. My seat had been in the upper reaches of the arena, but instead of plummeting to my death, I was carried gently downward by the reality-bending ...
56. Hull - Apotheosis
Chapter 56ApotheosisDear old Dad hung there in the sky looking like some god of judgment. Gone was the feckless, self-centered royal I’d seen him pretend to be in front of his nobles and subjects; in this moment Hestorus was a being of might, a central pillar of reality with more presence and vividness than the rares...
55. Basil - Upstream
Chapter 55UpstreamI ran through the streets of Treledyne, feeling as if it was a place foreign to me. A smoky haze permeated the air, aggravating my eyes and making my chest burn the longer I spent in it, the sun above an angry orange when viewed through this unnatural filter. Ash stained the edifices of the normally w...
54. Hull - The Thick of It
Chapter 54The Thick of ItI surged through the chaos in a haze that was somehow both focused and almost free of thought. I was sweating freely inside my armor, the Talisman of Spite blazed on my chest, fully charged, I clutched the Vampiric Blade in my left hand, and the Hateful Hammer was held in a reverse grip in my r...
53. Basil - Foolish or Wise
Chapter 53Foolish or WiseThe place Azure took me to looked like a regular counting house with a painted sign of stacked coins hanging out front. However, once within and a floor down, I discovered that the belly of the structure was considerably more expansive than I would have guessed. There were multiple stone-lined ...
Order Card Library
Souls (31)1 Source:2 Source:3 Source:4 Source:5 Source:6 Source:7 Source:Spells (19)1 Source:2 Source:3 Source:4 Source:6 Source:8 Source:Relics (12)2 Source:Korikana token → 3 Source:Smithy token → 4 Source:5 Source:Multi-Source (7)Card Upgrades→ →
52. Hull - Defender on the Wall
Chapter 52Defender on the Wall“I won’t do it,” the demon said.“You will,” I told him, keeping my voice level.“You can’t make me,” the other one sniffed, folding his arms and turning away. “I can hold back my duplication if I wish.”“You’re a card now,” I reminded him, my hands tightening on the...
51. Basil - Retreat
Chapter 51RetreatWalking the streets of Treledyne again I had thought would give me immeasurable relief, but it turned out that a wall, no matter how high, couldn’t protect me from my thoughts. Over and over I played the image of Qi’shen being swarmed by that foul demon. I had been in the air at the time, too far a...
50. Hull - Brothers
Chapter 50BrothersWe were in deep shit, and I knew it. I ignored the fact and swung my Vampiric Blade through another one of the damned, grinning demons. A single extra point of Nether damage was enough to kill it, but it didn’t sparkle into nothing like Souls did; instead, purple sludge mucked up our treetop platfor...
49. Basil - Brothers
Chapter 49BrothersRiding on the back of Gale’s Mythic Griffin as it shot through the sky was like nothing I had experienced before. Even sitting behind my brother, the wind tore at my face and clothing, like it wished to fling me from the saddle. The constant buffeting was gut-wrenchingly terrifying but also invigora...
48. Juriss - Tricks
Chapter 48TricksThe shallow depression of earth was hot and damp beneath the salvaged tent cloth, made only moreso by the thin layer of dirt and leaves Juriss had spread over it before shimmying underneath. She lay there sweating in her summoned armor, hands slick on the handle of her great blade, thoughts turning slow...
