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Terra Magicae: Chapter 8
Category: Terra Magicae
Terra Magicae: Chapter 7
We’re back! Yes, I took another week off, but with good reason. Last Thursday I was meeting the most interesting person in the world, and the mere presence of someone more creative than me caused me to re-evaluate my entire life, if only for a few hours. And then after that I was out of town. But here we are again! Ready to continue the journey into the ancient past where magic has somehow crept into our world!
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It’s been a few weeks since I worked on this, so I’m going to start with a little recap. This is as much for my benefit as it is for someone who might be reading this.
Roughly in the year 100 C.E. (as we would reckon) the Roman Empire is searching far and wide for a mysterious red ore that “fell from the sky”. Their search takes them far beyond the borders of their empire as we knew it, in our history. They are lead by mysterious sorcerers, who can control the elements and summon destruction with a word. It is rumored that they can even see into the future or see far off events beyond their natural sight.
A group of disparate slaves from across the empire, and beyond, are packed aboard ships and sailed west across the great sea to an unknown land, where they are forced to dig in a crater rich with this mysterious red ore. Among these slaves are Aržak, Sigeberht, and Meleke.
They soon realize exposure to the red ore has given them some of the power the Romans are able to wield. Not long after that discovery, they find a little in-human creature, called Chobo, who wants to eat the red ore, believing it will make him big and strong. He claims to be a member of a tribe of creatures from “another world”. In exchange for some red ore agrees to help the slaves escape.
The three are able to escape, along with many of their fellow slaves, but not without causing a riot in the Roman mine.
And that is where our story resumes.
Terra Magicae: Chapter 5
Yes, I am posting this a day later than usual, but that was by design. My work travel arrangements have shifted slightly and as such Thursday is my best day to devote to writing (or revising what I’ve already written earlier in the week). I’ll take a lump for being a day late, but this is the new schedule I’m going to try to stick to!
Today we continue the story of Aržak and his pals in an alternate ancient Earth. We are reunited with Chobo at long last. I’ve missed the little guy.
Terra Magicae: Chapter 4
And we’re back to ancient times. I have to warn you, Chobo is not in this chapter. Though he is mentioned a few times. So don’t lose hope. Chobo will return!
On with the story…
Terra Magicae: Chapter 3
Back to ancient times. Back to magical shenanigans.
What new mysteries await? What new exciting characters will we introduce? Will any of them have interesting haircuts?
Read on!
Terra Magicae: Chapter 2
The writing continues! As does the story I started last week.
Is this exciting or what?
No… don’t answer that!
Terra Magicae: Chapter 1
And we’re back for the weekly writing effort. This time I’m going to post a chapter from something much larger, I hope. This is a huge gamble, as I don’t have the later stuff written, so it’s possible I end up writing myself into a corner! 😆
Just as in previous weeks I’ll have a little blurb at the end talking about where this idea came from.
Thanks for reading!
On with the show…
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