Previews #1 – Character Building

I’ve not publicly shared any of my unpublished works. There’s a lot of legal grey area that bothers me, but it’s occurred to me recently that if I’m going to be trying to sell anyone on my ability to tell stories, full, coherent, interesting stories, then… I probably ought to give them more to go …

Kingdom Hearts II: Re ✥ Right – Side Story A – The Chains of Memory

EXT. LATE EVENING. OUTDOOR SEATING AT A PUB. A blond teenage boy wearing black clothes shrouded by a frayed, faded, hooded yellow cloak (hood down) sits opposite a mysterious figure whose entire head is obscured by a golden, horned helmet, and who is clothed in deep indigo and light yellows, adorned with many golden medallions. …

Kingdom Hearts II: Re ✥ Right – Ch. 1 – The Seal of the King

EXTERIOR. MIDDAY. DISNEY WORLD. WINDING PATH. Sora, Donald, and Goofy run after the dog Pluto who carries a letter bearing King Mickey’s seal in his mouth. SORAWhere’s he leading us? GOOFYWe’re on the Rolling Hills Road that leads to the Castle! SORASo this is your guys’ world? DONALDIt sure is! SORAWow… I can’t believe I …

Kingdom Hearts II: Re ✥ Right

So, controversial opinion time: Kingdom Hearts has SUCKED since its first entry. Sucked doo-doo. Whoa! I know, I know. Bold words, Cotton. But I think they’ll bear out under scrutiny. Now, I’m not talking about gameplay, though… yikes… some of the entries really don’t hold up in that department either, I’m talking about the plot. …

Welcome to Slumberland, Pt. 1 – The Lay of the Land

The realms of the Mighty King Morpheus are splendid and sun-dappled plains, dotted here and there by small towns, interconnected by roads for horse-drawn carriages and surrounded by warm, peaceful woodlands filled with the smells of sweet leaves and the sounds of scurrying little creatures. The City of Som surrounds Castle Dreamstone and stretches to …

The Oreiad of the High Empire, Pt. 5 – Our Lady of Coldhearth and the Lyang Liutan Coven

Many Oreiad, pious and Manshrioi alike, died when the Dragonlord scoured the peaks, now controlled by the Dragonscarred of Godsreach, referred to by the Oreiad as the Wu Tzuzhou, or Witchcursed, for mastery of the Dragon of the Moon. But thousands more died trekking south as they fled the accursed region in search of a …

The Oreiad of the High Empire, Pt. 4 – The Shi Cei Qoji of the Salt Crags

Atop the sheer cliffs that rise dramatically from the western shores beneath the Savage Sea, looming over the King of the Coin’s quaint nation of traders and sellswords, the Shi Cei Qoji Coven reigns with a dramatically iron grip in the name of their Empress. Called the Stonecutters by the Dragonscarred below, the Shi Cei …

The Oreiad of the High Empire, Pt. 3 – The Witch’s Spine

Central Ticonderos is dominated by dense temperate forests covering miles and miles of hill and short mountains converging into a single, massive mountain range that eventually grows too tall for even the trees to grow upon. This bony protrusion is called The Witch’s Spine and as the Oreiad Empire spread itself ever further, this unique …

The Oreiad of the High Empire, Pt. 2 – The Covenant of Icethorn

Something is happening in the northern tundras of Ticonderos. The once-unshakeable Oreiad Empire is in chaos and no one knows what, why, or how. Already strained by chaos erupting in the Dhogem communities below them, the kingdoms of the Dragonscarred must also deal now with Oreiad fleeing a mysterious, frigid catastrophe taking place in the …