This blog is actually a series of fantasy novels 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. At least, it does when I update it.

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. 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
   13. Curiously Disengaged
   14. All God and Gophers
   15. Charon of the Xyrec Army
   16. It Happens When She Can’t Get Things Right
   17. Incidents May Occur
   18. Rude and Inquisitive Elves
   19. The Heir and the Penniless Adventurer
   20. How to Be an Adult and a Gentleman
   21. Hot Punch, a Plate of Biscuits and a Briefing
   22. You’re Too Valuable to Die
   23. You’re Been Forgotten
   24. You’re Just a Little Thing

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:

1. The Sun Has Its Own Scent
2. Theates
3. The Island
4. Further Training
5. The Labyrinth
6. Tokens
7. Who Sent You?
8. Death Is Close
9. Streams of Cool Air
10. A Good Op
11. I Couldn’t Turn Back If I Wanted To
12. Matters Between Men and Women
13. Lessons in Elvish
14. Inglorion Returns
15. Epic Luck
16. The Gallery
17. The Carnival
18. We See You, Charon
19. Flashing Eyes
20. Blood for Blood
21. You Can’t Be First, But You Could Be Next
22. Valentine in the Battle for Liamelia
23. A Sense of Imminent Loss
24. Xialo
25. A Fate Worse Than Death
26. Welcome to the Company of Fugitives
27. The First Rule of Thug Life
28. Twenty Questions
29. Valentine Claudius Shelawn Was Born a Citizen of Liamelia
30. One Thousand Sunsets
31. Aramil Augustus Is Banished
32. The Road to Amakir
33. Valykria
34. Thick as Thieves
35. Cactus Always Looks Smooth from a Distance
36. Θ {target} {action} Θ
37. No Secrets
38. How to Keep the Game Going
39. It Solves the Problem
40. Charon Pallas Proioxis
41. Throat Hit
42. How Valentine Married the Gunner’s Daughter
43. There Can Be No Real Objection
44. Desire
45. This Lesson Is Free
46. The Weight of the Past
47. Eralon Amakir, Esq. Gets a Beating
48. Tereus Shelawn Was a Brute
49. Eyes As Dark As Any Shelawn Could Wish
50. Inglorion Atropos Androktasiai, Marquis Theates
51. Threats and Promises
52. I Love You. I Lost My Temper. I Made Mistakes.
53. What Did You Do to Your Hands?