David Niemitz

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Chapter 220: Beauty in the DarkLiv couldn’t help but sigh in relief the moment she stepped into the shoals of Bald Peak Rift. She’d led Rosamund and Sidonie partway up the miner’s road to the cut, where she found the boundary of the shoal had withdrawn quite a bit upslope now that there was no eruption in progres...

Guild Mage 219

This one is substantially longer than normal - 3,261 words, when my normal goal is roughly 3k. There was a lot to fit into it, and I rearranged a few things as I went to try to make sure the build up to the ending worked out. I'm always interested in suggestions (even if I don't always get to them right away) b...

Guild Mage 218

Chapter 218: Gathering the HuntJohn Draper, of King’s Highway.Keri repeated the information over and over in his head, so that he didn’t forget, all the way back from the Chandler farm to Whitehill. Despite the fact that all of their company, save for Ghveris and the prisoners, were mounted, the return trip took qu...

Guild Mage 217

Figured out how to attach files in the new interface. There's an unlabeled '+' button that is invisible until you put your mouse in a certain place... grumble grumble. Let me know if it doesn't work!--------------------------Chapter 217: Ambush at the Chandler FarmBy the time Keri had gotten into his ...

Guild Mage 216

Patreon appears to have changed its settings, and moved/hidden the option to attach files. For the moment I'm going to include google drive links to the epub and pdf and hope I can figure this out for tomorrow.Epub: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gHg0uFnfzI036wr3oXLao1CpIeWJ3Tdu/view?usp=sharing PDF: https://driv...

Guild Mage 215

Chapter 215: WoodsmokeWren winged over the white valley. Everywhere she looked, the snowfall of the evening before lay untrampled on the ground. She hadn’t had much hope of finding a trail near the burned out husk of the Cotter farm, because it had been clear that the fire had been set - and the family hanged - hours...

Crossover!

Alright, so this is too cool not to share. I'm a massive Gundam fan, and I did not realize when we were casting the Guild Mage audiobooks that one of our two narrators, the amazing Fajer Al-Kaisi, was playing Challia Bull in Mobile Suit Gundam: GQuuuuuuX.

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Chapter 214: The Guild in ExileLiv tucked her skirts under her and took one of the three open seats, two of which were right next to each other. That put Sidonie on her left, and Rosamund, once she’d walked away from Master Grenfell and the mana-stone at the center of the circle, on her other side.“Fifteen rings, n...

Guild Mage 213

Just a quick note on this one - I felt that I had to show how rough some things are on Beatrice, but I also know the subject can be tough to read about. It's tough to write about! It's not going to be a huge, dominating focus, because Triss isn't the main character - but Liv does care about here, and I didn...

Guild Mage 212

Chapter 212: AlliancesMaster Grenfell scowled. “This is the source you won’t tell us about, Matthew?”From his seat at Triss’ side, Matthew nodded. “Don’t ask again. It would put my person in a great deal of danger if anyone found out about this.”Liv poured herself a cup of tea, thinking over what she knew...

Guild Mage 211

Chapter 211: A Wider ViewBy the time Liv and her friends had crossed the market square and began making their way up the streets of The Hill, most of the excitement had been left behind. The Lower Banks children turned back rather than risk the neighborhoods of well-to-do merchant shops and the manors of Baron Henry’...

Guild Mage 210

I mentioned this on RR and Discord also, but just so everyone is aware, stubbing of book one will occur Friday, August 15th------------------------Chapter 210: EmbersLiv couldn’t sleep for hours, filled with a nervous energy that kept her thoughts racing from one problem to another, hunting for solutions when she was...

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Chapter 209: Sandstone“That takes care of the waystone,” Sidonie muttered, leaning over Liv’s shoulder so that she could get a good look at the glowing Vædic sigils crawling across the central glass pane in the control room of Feic Seria. “It will only accept incoming travel from Al’Fenthia, the Tomb of Celr...

Guild Mage 208

Chapter 208: A Wyrm’s HeartLiv had been told that Silica was different than the younger, smaller wyrms that House Iravata controlled in battle. That made sense; none of those wyrms were twelve hundred years old, after all. None of them - at least not the few she’d encountered - used words of power.The reality, some...

Guild Mage 207

“If the wyrm dies quickly enough, we could just wait it out,” Keri observed. “Though I don’t like relying on something outside of our control.”Liv shook her head. “That’s not what you’re thinking, is it?” she asked her father. “Wren, you said that Silica’s intelligent. She can talk, and she has a ...

Guild Mage 206

Chapter 206: The High DesertThe transition from jungle hills to high badlands was gradual, and took place at a remove from the river Airaduinë. Along the banks, green grass was replaced by lower, woody underbrush, but the color of the land only radically changed a hundred yards or so from the water. There, dark, ferti...

Guild Mage 205

Chapter 205: OverlandThey left Al’Fenthia the next morning, and if Liv could have pushed for the departure to happen sooner, she would have done so. Only Arjun’s warning in the Tomb of Celris prevented her, though she knew that a few days recovery hadn’t really been enough for her friends. In the end, it was a co...

Guild Mage 204

Today marks the Amazon and Audio publication of the final volume of the Faerie Knight trilogy, which was the first series I wrote on Royal Road. If anyone wants to check it out, it can be found here: https://a.co/d/5VUUVww--------------------------Chapter 204: A Question of Command“You either need to go seventy-five ...

Guild Mage 203

Chapter 203: The Puppet ShowOn the wooden stage at the front of the audience, fanciful puppets in the garb of warriors and kings, mana beasts and mages, jerked and danced about under the guidance of hidden puppeteers. As a knight spun about and leaned over, his sword knocked a crowned puppet over, and laughter rippled ...

Volume 3 Stubbed; Release 7/1

In anticipation of the Tuesday release of Graal Knight, volume 3 has been stubbed both on RR and on Patreon.

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Chapter 202: CourlandThe light of waystone travelled faded, and Millie blinked away the hallucinations of the dark places in between. Around her, a dozen soldiers of the Lucanian Royal Guard crowded the receiving stone of the Falcon’s Roost. She nearly rolled her eyes when she noticed how many of them held the hilts ...

Guild Mage 201

This is the penultimate chapter of volume five; we will wrap the book tomorrow, and begin six on Monday. My schedule's all messed up from jet lag, so I wrote this a bit later in the day than usual, but hopefully tomorrow will start to get back into a normal routine.---------------------------------------Chapter 20...

Guild Mage 200

Back to our normal schedule! I know this is posting a bit later than usual, but I'm doing it from a plane, and coming from a different time zone than usual. This is the climax of book 5; we'll have a chapter or two of falling action, and then begin book six.-------------------------------------------Chapter 200...

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Chapter 199: The Beast in the DarkKeri took a step back from the slumbering war machine, and fell into a defensive guard before once again realizing that he’d lost his Næv’bel during the fight against the winged war-machine. Instead, he had only the enchanted blades they’d looted from Antrian wreckage.“As long...

Hello from Colorado!

Book 2 cover update

Progress!

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As promised, wrote this on the plane! Posting it from - who knows how many feet up :)--------------------------------------Chapter 198: To Face the StormLiv sent four of the blades toward the winged Antrian in arcs from four different angles - half from above, half from below, and two to either side. At the same time,...

Guild Mage 197

I believe I've mentioned before that we're going on vacation to Colorado. Pretty early tomorrow morning, we'll be on a plane. Now, given its a four and a half our flight to Denver, I expect to get a chapter written tomorrow on the plane, and posted to Patreon at some point . I'm so confident in that tha...

Guild Mage 196

Chapter 196: Clear Water CenoteWren pushed Little Crow and Wildcat as hard as she could, for as long as she could. They flew high above the jungle canopy, unburdened by any need to hunt for their food due to the rations they carried. She spent her time seeking out tail winds to increase their speed and conserve their s...

Demon Sect 1

I couldn't sleep Monday evening, so I ended up writing about half of this on my phone. It's an idea for a Cultivation project I've been toying with for a while, and it's inspired by the anime trope of two people being forced into an accidental marriage - often by some cultural misunderstanding - in the...