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