All these stories are set in what, for lack of a better name, I call “The Tide World.” You can learn more about the Tide World by reading the supplementary materials below.
The Stories
No one knows where the Doctor came from nor why he stays. Yet for as long as there has been the Doctor there has been the Nub, and for as long as there has been a Nub there has been protection. Until the day Aesh Medu finds something forbidden growing in the forest and forgets the wisdom of his people.
2. Smiling Sick
Nanna knows her baby is sick, or else why would he smile all the time? She will cross the whole of the known world to find the secret thing that will make him frown and save his life.
3. Ironwood
In southern Nyria, in search of a fortune, a man builds his farm too close to the Ironwoods, where strange metal trees grow hundreds of hands into the air. His ambition will come with a price greater than gold.
A man is brought to the Acquisitions Office of the Academy of Tall. When the night attendant discovers the the man is not a cadaver to be sold, but something far more interesting, and far less human, he turns the specimen over to one of the Senior Lecturs.
These are the notes on his research.
5. Waegofaun
In the great olden times the Day Lords made creatures to the fight the Shaen. Now, one of them has arrived to help a group of M’Douni nobles capture an insidious dealer of Temptations. A creature known as a Panter.
A strange woman is cast upon the shore by even stranger creatures from out of the ocean, and young Egan must decide whether it is better to have loved and lost or to have never loved at all.
From the private collection of Lukas Mauran, what appears to be a virtually unedited transcript of the trial of the Heretic Paethas Veranian.
8. Some Get Sick, Some Get Well
Two sisters face Panters, Husks, and a land cursed by the gods to keep each other safe.
9. The Sweet Song of Silver
A man scattering the ashes of his old friend is confronted by forces beyond his comprehension.
10. The Murder of Merristown
Part 2
An Academic exploring the ruins of a dead town finds clues which uncover a horrible truth.
