This blog is actually a fantasy novel in serial form. If you’d like to start at the beginning and work your way through, this post provides a handy list of all the chapters in sequence.

The Biography of Inglorion Atropos Androktasiai: Early Years

1. Early Years
2. Sieia
3. Rough Trade
4. Weapons Training, Skirt Chasing and Pious Devotion
5. The Things She Overhears
6. A Thoroughly Nightmarish Evening
7. Beneath, Something Worse Is Waiting
8. I Don’t Want to Be There
9. Krysztof, Cobbler King of the Gypsies
10. The Flight from Liamelia
11. The Adventuring Life
12. A Considerable Heiress
13. Fine Dresses and Suitors; a Home and a Husband
14. The Purpose and Mainstay of His Short Life
15. Dreaming of His Fine Eyes
16. What a Blessing Widows Are!
17. The Little Drow Elf Can Kick Your Ass
18. Sentimental Matters
19. Rare, Like Violets
20. An Awkward Episode
21. That Cruel and Masterful Man
22. His Desperate Longing to Be Good
23. The Habit of Taking Beautiful Things
24. If You Knew How Much I Am Suffering, You Would Forgive Me
25. Beautiful, Brilliant, Half-Mad and Entirely Reckless
26. Already Dead
27. A Partial and Uncertain Gift
28. What He’s Been Looking for All Along
29. Why Did You Come Here?
30. Philomela Procne Arachne, Duchess Theates
31. The Gods Made Us As We Are
32. No More Than 108
33. Ajax
34. The Wild Card
35. The First Trial: Batshit Crazy
36. The Dignity and Nobility of Helpless Passion
37. The Second Trial: How He Became This Way
38. Funny and Shameful by Turns
39. Androktasiai
40. Burn the Witch
41. Sheltering the Flame
42. Proper Channels
43. The Kingdom of This World Is Become the Kingdom of Our Lord
44. I Didn’t Know Such Kindness Existed
45. Patterned Motions and Cries
46. The Third Trial: Personalized Moral Injury
47. And So You Shall
48. An Unenviable Domestic Situation
49. The Usual High Cost of Blood and Treasure
50. Ceremony, Vision, Illusion
51. A Fucking Pity and a Waste
52. The Museum of Aboveground Curiosities
53. The Full Treatment
54. Faith and Terror Shining in His Eyes
55. Zero Minus One
56. Trigger Point
57. Giant, Clanking Brass Balls
58. The Last Trial: Kicking the Hornet’s Nest
59. Not Yet Wise or Predictable
60. The Coronation of Inglorion Atropos Androktasiai, Marquis Theates

Inglorion’s adventures continue in The Magnificent Five:

1. The Magnificent Five
2. Alexandra, King of the Gypsies
3. A Side-Dish for a Roman Banquet
4. Bathed in the Scent of Violets, Indulging in Reverie
5. It Seems As If Everything Must Be Forgiven
6. Like Wanting a Unicorn
7. The Magnificent Five: Ajax
8. A Charming Young Whelp and Adventurer
9. Private Joy and Common Sorrow
10. A Familiar Routine of Flirtation and Seduction
11. Rosalee, the Gypsy Princess
12. Cupid Spouts Latin to an Infant with a Soaked Diaper

Beginning in August of 2019, I’m also using this space to blog episodes from Man Raised by Spiders, the story of Inglorion’s younger cousin Valentine, who was taken captive during the Xialo Massacre, and grew up a slave in the Underdark.