The Warlords: Stories From Crastor's Fifth

Waning is the fifth child of Crastor the Creator; all that stands between the Enemy and Home. No heroes hold. No powers sway. The world is open as the first page turns. It whispers inside.Those vermin you tolerate in weary retreat the blight of your hard won peace.Those morals you craft to lift you up the stones that crush you slow.Those prayers you utter to ease that pain the seeds of corrupted intent.Those hopes you nurture athwart my will the scraps to entice my rats.Hlafid…I hear your prayers in misery.Coerce your covenants loose,And conjure me.Only six tokens I need:Tyrant of sense.Essence of thew.Her last breath.Victim’s shill.Auric vows.Crux of crag.Do you fear the answer to your prayers?Or is that lust?No matter.I am here.To scratching at your door attend.Is it me creaking on the stairs,Foremost of the Four at the End?I have come to solve all your prayers.This collection of seven works of Short Fiction is the beginning of the Crastor’s Fifth stories and lore. Come and live in another world disfigured by the choices of its own people. Struggle with them, and finally rise with the heroes to come.

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