Before venturing back to Bysantos, Grettir took counsel with Eshen, the senior priest at the Temple of Ptah in Chittagong. Ubaron went with him. Eshen was somewhat distracted by an upcoming ceremony in which he would be consecrated as Heirophant. Because of this no-one could really be spared from the temple to join the expedition … Read more
Grettir and his companions had now been twice thwarted in the search for a Phthet of Ptah, that might open the Void and help him rescue the Rangers and Nickar held in some strange time trap. The first Phthet was in Uskedir and held by some sleeping Demon Prince, who he had been warned by … Read more
Over the years, Grettir had come to take teleporting very much for granted. He seldom went anywhere without one of his companions – Paradoxides, Ubaron, Kolgrim, Kojar – with the power to pop him back to Sequarl at the drop of a hat. Combined with Kojar’s clever alarm system of matched runestick pairs, this had … Read more
The next task the Lydians asked of Grettir and his companions was to help them bind and banish Apep. This done, they might close the Gate securely for the first time since the Breaking. They would then be free to assist in any way they could Grettir’s quest to seek the aid of Ptah. Having … Read more
There was much idle speculation at the Temple as to what might be going on in the pyramid. It was blindingly obvious to Grettir that the only course was to go there and find out. Rebecca agreed and furnished them once more with a ship. She was keen that Ellia join them to give advice … Read more
In the Temple of the Shattered Sun the first order of business was to examine the great sword taken from Gerion’s lieutenant in the Pyramid of Ptah. Rebecca confirmed that it was a bound entity of benevolent aspect. It was clearly a very valuable artefact, but was too big for a human – even Jason … Read more
Grettir was disappointed. He had been granted a personal audience with Ptah and had rather hoped that this would be the triumphant culmination of his year long quest to find a means to rescue Nickar and the Rangers from whatever entrapped them. He had travelled to the ends of the Earth, battled armies of demons … Read more
During the days immediately after the exploration of the Time Rift, the magicians Paradoxides and Ubaron experienced many strange dreams that they interpreted as sendings of the God Thoth. However, thoughts of such matters and the predicament of the Rangers were swept from Grettir’s mind by news from the south west. It seemed that the … Read more
As the Viking longships arrived on the scene, the Imperials rallied the marines from their ships and lashed their wallowing craft together into a fighting platform. Only one heavy ramship remained at sea and operational. The initial onslaught of the Vikings saw some success. The Imperials were pushed back and seemed to be standing at … Read more
Grettir had long had a hankering to own a flying steed. After his experiences in the Sea Battle he felt that it would be mightily useful for combatting Imperial wizards on their carpets and would be a terror for shipping. It would also be very cool. Samuel, who had a flying beast of his own … Read more