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
- Early Years
- Sieia
- Rough Trade
- Weapons Training, Skirt Chasing and Pious Devotion
- The Things She Overhears
- A Thoroughly Nightmarish Evening
- Beneath, Something Worse Is Waiting
- I Don’t Want to Be There
- Krysztof, Cobbler King of the Gypsies
- The Flight from Liamelia
- The Adventuring Life
- A Considerable Heiress
- Fine Dresses and Suitors; a Home and a Husband
- The Purpose and Mainstay of His Short Life
- Dreaming of His Fine Eyes
- What a Blessing Widows Are!
- The Little Drow Elf Can Kick Your Ass
- Sentimental Matters
- Rare, Like Violets
- An Awkward Episode
- That Cruel and Masterful Man
- His Desperate Longing to Be Good
- The Habit of Taking Beautiful Things
- If You Knew How Much I Am Suffering, You Would Forgive Me
- Beautiful, Brilliant, Half-Mad and Entirely Reckless
- Already Dead
- A Partial and Uncertain Gift
- What He’s Been Looking for All Along
- Why Did You Come Here?
- Philomela Procne Arachne, Duchess Theates
- The Gods Made Us As We Are
- No More Than 108
- Ajax
- The Wild Card
- The First Trial: Batshit Crazy
- The Dignity and Nobility of Helpless Passion
- The Second Trial: How He Became This Way
- Funny and Shameful by Turns
- Androktasiai
- Burn the Witch
- Sheltering the Flame
- Proper Channels
- The Kingdom of This World Is Become the Kingdom of Our Lord
- I Didn’t Know Such Kindness Existed
- Patterned Motions and Cries
- The Third Trial: Personalized Moral Injury
- And So You Shall
- An Unenviable Domestic Situation
- The Usual High Cost of Blood and Treasure
- Ceremony, Vision, Illusion
- A Fucking Pity and a Waste
- The Museum of Aboveground Curiosities
- The Full Treatment
- Faith and Terror Shining in His Eyes
- Zero Minus One
- Trigger Point
- Giant, Clanking Brass Balls
- The Last Trial: Kicking the Hornet’s Nest
- Not Yet Wise or Predictable
- The Coronation of Inglorion Atropos Androktasiai, Marquis Theates
Inglorion’s adventures continue in The Magnificent Five:
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- The Magnificent Five
- Alexandra, King of the Gypsies
- A Side-Dish for a Roman Banquet
- Bathed in the Scent of Violets, Indulging in Reverie
- It Seems As If Everything Must Be Forgiven
- Like Wanting a Unicorn
- The Magnificent Five: Ajax
- A Charming Young Whelp and Adventurer
- Private Joy and Common Sorrow
- A Familiar Routine of Flirtation and Seduction
- Rosalee, the Gypsy Princess
- Cupid Spouts Latin to an Infant with a Soaked Diaper
- Curiously Disengaged
- All God and Gophers
- Charon of the Xyrec Army
- It Happens When She Can’t Get Things Right
- Incidents May Occur
- Rude and Inquisitive Elves
- The Heir and the Penniless Adventurer
- How to Be an Adult and a Gentleman
- Hot Punch, a Plate of Biscuits and a Briefing
- You’re Too Valuable to Die
- You’re Been Forgotten
- 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:
- The Sun Has Its Own Scent
- Theates
- The Island
- Further Training
- The Labyrinth
- Tokens
- Who Sent You?
- Death Is Close
- Streams of Cool Air
- A Good Op
- I Couldn’t Turn Back If I Wanted To
- Matters Between Men and Women
- Lessons in Elvish
- Inglorion Returns
- Epic Luck
- The Gallery
- The Carnival
- We See You, Charon
- Flashing Eyes
- Blood for Blood
- You Can’t Be First, But You Could Be Next
- Valentine in the Battle for Liamelia
- A Sense of Imminent Loss
- Xialo
- A Fate Worse Than Death
- Welcome to the Company of Fugitives
- The First Rule of Thug Life
- Twenty Questions
- Valentine Claudius Shelawn Was Born a Citizen of Liamelia
- One Thousand Sunsets
- Aramil Augustus Is Banished
- The Road to Amakir
- Valykria
- Thick as Thieves
- Cactus Always Looks Smooth from a Distance
- Θ {target} {action} Θ
- No Secrets
- How to Keep the Game Going
- It Solves the Problem
- Charon Pallas Proioxis
- Throat Hit
- How Valentine Married the Gunner’s Daughter
- There Can Be No Real Objection
- Desire
- This Lesson Is Free
- The Weight of the Past
- Eralon Amakir, Esq. Gets a Beating
- Tereus Shelawn Was a Brute
- Eyes As Dark As Any Shelawn Could Wish
- Inglorion Atropos Androktasiai, Marquis Theates
- Threats and Promises
- I Love You. I Lost My Temper. I Made Mistakes.
- What Did You Do to Your Hands?
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