You are a heartlands mantis nymph training to become a Vesperbane, a warrior-scholar granted magic. That’s the hope, and it’d let you escape this dinky farm-town plonked at edge of the heartlands, where the Ambrosia Woods breathes down its thorax. Unless — until — you you get noticed and sponsored, you’re stuck out here, peerless and overqualified for your tutors. Frustration and impatience come easy.
One day, alone, you hear a scream from the depths of those cursed woods. It’s a mantid’s scream, and heartlands mantids don’t live in the ambrosia.
Contents (Full Text, 147.2k words)
Arc One
- 1: Part 1 2020-03-23 .6k words
- 2: Part 2 2020-03-23 .7k words
- 3: Part 3 2020-03-23 .4k words
- 4: Part 4 2020-03-24 2.0k words
- 5: Part 5 2020-03-24 1.0k words
- 6: Part 6 2020-03-24 1.4k words
- 7: Part 7 2020-04-19 3.0k words
- 8: Part 8 2020-04-21 4.4k words
- 9: Part 9 2020-04-25 5.1k words
- 10: Part 10 2020-09-07 5.4k words
Interlude: Marka
- 11: Part A1 2021-02-24 3.1k words
- 12: Part A2 2021-02-26 4.1k words
- 13: Part A3 2021-03-15 10.5k words
- 14: Part A4 2021-03-30 14.2k words
- 15: Part A5 2021-05-18 31.4k words
- 16: Part A6 2021-06-09 23.6k words
Arc Two
- 17: Part 11 2021-06-12 3.6k words
- 18: Part 12 2021-08-06 6.6k words
- 19: Part 13 2021-08-12 4.8k words
- 20: Part 14 2021-09-03 4.9k words
- 21: Part 15 2021-09-15 8.7k words
Interlude: Maune
- 22: Part B1 2022-01-22 8.0k words