By the time we reach the gates, the city is in chaos. A voice warning people to seek shelter booms through the streets, and people are fleeing in every direction.
“Seek shelter,” the voice commands. I suspect it’s magically enhanced to carry. “The city is under attack. Able bodied combatants report to the West Gate. Repeat. Seek shelter…”
My stomach twists like I’ve ea...
2025-02-03 13:00:10 +0000 UTC View Post[Check: Level 32 Amphiptere. Typically located in alpine climates, these winged, legless reptiles primarily feed on birds and deer. As solitary creatures, they can be known to be highly territorial.]
The amphiptere’s head cranes out of its alcove, blue and white plumage ruffling down its pebbly skin. Its jaws are easily big enough to swallow me whole. It’s the brightly colored balloon...
2025-02-02 14:43:34 +0000 UTC View PostI’d witnessed large-scale illusions when Quell had dissipated the mirage that lived in the sandstorm. It had been an impressive feat of magic that must have extended a mile around us, even if it was only to dispel the magic that was there.
Liz’s illusions, while smaller, were equally impressive: the details that were in each wrinkle of cloth and skin were indistinguishable from the re...
2025-01-31 13:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostConstance erects a war room in a large, maroon tent at the center of camp. The ground is covered in rugs, and sitting pillows have been arranged around an empty central area. It looks like a table should be there.
A handful of soldiers are posted about the room, including Earnest and Xamireb, though Darian has been allotted a seat along with a few officers I don’t recognize. Constance i...
2025-01-29 13:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostSurprise bonus chapter! I just hit 20 ratings/reviews for Glass Kanin on Amazon, so you get a mid-week celebratory chapter as a show of thanks!
Since about 1 in 10 readers tend to leave a rating, you can approximate how much a book makes based off this metric. And that means that this book has officially paid off its cover art! Wh...
2025-01-28 18:26:29 +0000 UTC View PostWe don’t even bother packing up camp. I guess Darian figures we can always come back for the supplies later if we need to. Instead, everyone save Xamireb races to mount a star drake. Earnest and Liz catch sight of me as we’re getting ready to depart, and they each flash me a sympathetic, reassuring smile. I look away, feeling strangely guilty and embarrassed. I didn’t hurt either of them....
2025-01-27 13:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostAttiru’s best estimate for where we can access the Drifting Isles is on the west coast of Valenia, which is the opposite coast from Miasmere and Emrox, and that’s just fine with me. It’s also on this continent and not Dunmora, which Zyneth is relieved to learn. Apparently Dunmora isn’t as linked up with telepads as Valenia is, which would have added extra strain to his timetable.
...
2025-01-26 13:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostI slowly and reluctantly fade back into awareness. The ground beneath me is soft, and my body doesn’t feel nearly as sore as I expected it to. When I crack my eyes open, I’m disoriented to find canvas overhead. I’m in a large tent. Where am I? How did I get here?
How did I get here alive?
[Check,] Echo says.
[Name: Nye]
[Species: Dhampyr]
[Class: Gua...
2025-01-24 13:00:12 +0000 UTC View Post[Bloodlust status in effect.]
[Sanity debuff activated as a result of Bloodlust status. Sanity level decreases at a 100% faster rate.]
[Cumulative Bloodlust and Influence debuffs: 200% increase in Sanity reduction rate.]
[Sanity: 82%]
I gasp in a breath as my surroundings return to me. Had I stopped breathing? Perhaps I couldn’t while wrapped in such bliss. There are p...
2025-01-22 13:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post“You guys have to get everyone out of here,” I tell them. “It’s going to try to attack anyone who gets too close, and I’m not sure if I can hold it back.”
The Aegis scoffs at this. Why hold back? We should be demonstrating our superiority! And what is this strange aura around us? Why does it disguise our splendor? No, that will not do. We are to be seen and worshiped! The shie...
2025-01-20 13:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostWe depart the next morning. I stop by Caecius’s shop first to let her know I’ll be leaving and ask her to look after most of my books while I’m away. She doesn’t seem surprised. She takes the texts, then gives me an extra chunk of obsidian to practice with. I depart with a wave, and she watches me go, arms folded and faintly smiling.
Rezira and Noli, of course, are coming with us....
2025-01-19 13:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostHey all! I just got the splash art for the third Kanin book (no text yet) and was so tickled I just wanted to share it with you all!
So drama. Much magic. Wow.
And here's the full wrap-around cover:
2025-01-18 20:19:43 +0000 UTC
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[Healing spell applied.]
[Stamina buff applied.]
[Strength buff applied.]
[Vitality buff applied.]
Warmth flows up my legs and spreads through the rest of my body. I immediately feel more awake, more refreshed: stronger, faster, and revitalized. It’s a strange sensation, juxtaposing the coolness of the water I can feel through my boots. I guess I should have taken them...
2025-01-17 13:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostNow that we’re here, it seems no one is entirely certain what to do. The city’s glow is beautiful, and the promise of a soft bed and warm bath is enticing. But if Liz’s intel is correct, it might be filled with enemy troops. I look out into the desert, but the dunes limit our horizon.
“Should we wait for Constance to get here?” Quell wonders.
“O...
2025-01-15 13:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostSURPRISE BONUS CHAPTER IN HONOR OF GLASS KANIN PUBLISHING ON AMAZON!!!
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2025-01-14 14:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post
It's heeeere!
After a year of publishing on Patreon and RoyalRoad, the first book of Glass Kanin has officially published!
Thank you all SO MUCH for helping me to make it this far. I certainly never would have gotten an audiobook deal without your support.
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Quell and I find them nearby at the bottom of a steep slope. We send Poppy ahead of us, who half runs-half slides down the incline, then we follow her in much the same manner. Everyone is battered, but alive.
Liz throws an arm around Quell and knuckles his head. “Way to go, little brother! I knew you had it in you. Amazing range, by the way!”
Quell fends his sister o...
2025-01-13 13:00:14 +0000 UTC View PostCaecius is right: obsidian is nothing like anything I’ve worked with before.
After she gets me a few small pieces to work with, I start by Attuning them. They just feel different in my mind. Harder, yet more brittle. When I Shape it, it’s like it would rather be folded and broken than squished and stretched. If my signing glass feels like a liquid in my mind, then my ful...
2025-01-12 13:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post“Liz?” Quell whips around, looking for her in every direction. “Liz!”
For a moment I think I hear a returning call, broken words snatched up and tossed away by the wind. Quell scrambles up the back of Poppy for a better look. “Darian! Liz! Anyone!”
A gust of wind buffets against us, and Quell is nearly blown from Poppy’s back. He falls to her saddle, clutching the rein...
2025-01-10 13:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostThe days start to pass in the same routine. We ride from dusk until midnight, break for a meal and let the star drakes rest, then ride until sun-up. Darian and I train, we eat dinner, and I go to bed exhausted and bruised.
I love it.
I can feel myself getting stronger. My spells have been leveling up from all the practice and sparring matches I’ve been doing, which so ...
2025-01-08 13:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostDespite Darian once more half-heartedly insisting Liz and Quell should return to the capital, leaving her and her soldiers to ride to warn Constance, that night we all leave together. Liz refuses to abandon her brother, Quell refuses to break his promise to me, and even Earnest and Xamireb throw their names behind me. When did I get so many people who have faith in me? I barely have faith in me...
2025-01-06 13:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostZyneth’s still waiting on Vardi—we only have two weeks left now until he’s free to leave—so life continues as usual. There’s a God’s Tournament coming up right before that expiration date, and I’m very interested to attend. Zyneth has reluctantly agreed to let me check it out without him, if needed, contingent upon Noli and Rezira coming with, and me attending in disguise. I eager...
2025-01-05 13:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostWhen I wake, the tent is empty. Quell must be sneakier than I give him credit for, or I really am as heavy a sleeper as Álvaro says. I throw on a cloak, pull on my boots, and step out of the tent.
Quell is sitting at the fire circle, poking at the embers with a stick. His face is lit with a faint orange glow, and the sky is still purple; not quite night. It must only be four or five hour...
2025-01-03 13:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostLiz wipes a sleeve across Darian’s face, then her own mouth. “Gross. Whose blood did you get all over me?” she teases.
Darian glances guiltily my way, and Liz follows the look. Her gaze quickly skips over all of us to rest on her brother.
“Quill!” she cries, her expression brightening. She heads our way, dragging a reluctant Darian along with her. Seeing the confident, str...
2025-01-01 13:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostI clutch Poppy’s saddle as Darian spurs us across the desert. The star drake ahead of us isn’t slowing down, despite the firework of lights Liz is setting off to signal her rescue. It only lasts for another few seconds; one of the Umbral Blades strikes her across the face, and the illusions shatter into a rainfall of embers, slowly flickering out.
“Will we catch up to them?” I ask...
2024-12-30 13:00:14 +0000 UTC View PostAfter Noli decides the fire has gone on long enough, I activate a second spell circle to tamper the flames down. We scatter the embers and use dirt to put out the rest. In the end, I guess he got a burial after all.
It’s getting late by the time we head back. The predator reminds me of this as we walk, but there’s not much I can do about the time. You’ll just have to be patient,...
2024-12-29 13:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post“We’re definitely close,” Quell says, excitedly looking around. “She’s been here—on this very street. Someone must have seen something!”
Darian pushes her way through the crowd as Quell begins searching the nearby ground, head tucked down. Oblivious, he nearly runs into a few merchants.
“I see you procured some important supplies,” Darian says as she makes it to my...
2024-12-27 13:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostAs we step into the Coil, the shade supplies immediate relief from the heat—or maybe there’s some magic working in here like the sun cloaks. With a relieved sigh, I push my goggles up, and find the others doing the same. Faint lights speckle the ceiling, though it’s hard for me to tell if those are holes in the snake’s hide, or artificial lights. Whatever the cause, it results in a dim ...
2024-12-25 13:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostThe Aegis is delighted by Darian’s order to leave the shield outside my inventory. It’s equally aghast when it learns there’s this thing called sleep I have to do.
You can’t stay latched to my arm while I’m asleep, I tell it. Hell, you can’t even fit into the tent.
The Aegis is not convinced. But I would remain so much more protected ...
2024-12-23 13:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostNoli and I leave early the next morning for Trenevalt’s cabin. She watches me carefully in a way she probably thinks is subtle.
“Noli, I can literally see out the side of my head,” I sign. And the back, for that matter, but I have the vision in that pane turned off currently.
“I just want to make sure you’re doing alright,” she signs. “Being back in Peakshadow couldn...
2024-12-22 13:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post