Everything had gone wrong.
From the moment Elijah Hart entered the equation, all of Isaiah Roberts’ plans had begun to crumble. Certainly, the Druid had facilitated Isaiah’s rise to power. Without Hart’s efforts, Isaiah would still be dealing with those dim idiots who’d taken over Mercer Mesa. Or worse, he’d have fallen under the power of someone like Bruce Gar...
2025-09-04 15:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostElijah lay on the luxuriously soft bed, his hands behind his head as he stared at the ceiling. He could feel everything around him, the radius of Soul of the Wild enveloping much of the hotel. Regrettably, that meant he was privy to what was happening in most of the rooms. Thankfully, the majority of the occupants were asleep, but there were a few night owls still up and about...
2025-09-03 15:10:01 +0000 UTC View PostA light flurry of snow fell from the overcast sky as Elijah arrived at the Conclave Spires just outside of New York. It came with a bitter and biting cold that seemed to cut through his constitution and down to his bones. But after spending so long immersed in the intense heat of the Painted Wastes, the frigid temperature came with a sense of relief.
It had been three days sin...
2025-09-03 15:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post
For those of you who aren't aware, Whispers of the Wild (Path of Dragons 2) is finally available on Kindle and Audible. If you don't remember what ground we covered in that book, here's the blurb to refresh your memory:
The world has been remade. Transformed by the t...
2025-09-02 15:10:00 +0000 UTC View Post
So we begin book twelve, tentatively titled Husk of the Gods (I'm still not 100% sure on that, but it's what I'm working with for now). I hope you enjoyed book eleven, and I hope you continue to dig this continuation of Elijah's journey! There's some fun stuff coming!
A wave of life and magic washed over Elijah as he suddenly appeared beneath the ancestral tree....
2025-09-02 15:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostElijah set off into the night, feeling good about the meeting with Colonel Jessup. He still couldn’t quite determine the man’s level, but he was satisfied with everything else he’d learned. Jessup was a no-nonsense, hardline soldier who didn’t concern himself with politics. He only cared about accomplishing his mission and keeping his people alive. Everything els...
2025-09-01 15:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostElijah slept for nearly three days. Not all at once, but in that time, he only roused himself to eat and meet nature’s call. Otherwise, he rested so completely that outsiders might have considered it a coma. At first, he dreamed of his experiences, with a heavy focus on draconic lore, but after a while, he just went blank. However, on the third day, he rose, entirely r...
2025-08-31 15:10:02 +0000 UTC View PostThe world became a furnace as Elijah spilled out of the portal and tumbled toward the cracked earth of the Painted Wastes. He barely felt i
The world became a furnace as Elijah spilled out of the portal and tumbled toward the cracked earth of the Painted Wastes. He barely felt it, and not just because his body’s durability had taken a massive step forward since he’d first ...
2025-08-31 15:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostThe blue dragon was not in the best shape. In addition to the multitude of wounds marring his scales, he’d obviously spent a good deal of his ethera. Elijah could feel his enemy’s guttering core. One of his wings was broken as well, though his expression showed nothing but anger and hate.
He paced back and forth like a caged animal, his long, thin tail whipping...
2025-08-30 15:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostFor a long few moments, Elijah floated in the green-gold, viscous liquid of the spider’s hemolymph. His flippers waved back and forth as he studied the arachnid’s ring-like brain. He could feel the electricity pulsing through it, riding its nervous system toward other ganglia scattered throughout its body.
He knew that what he was about to do was a bad idea. At...
2025-08-29 15:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostThe giant spider heaved as it spat venom at a building-sized abyssal monster. The glob of toxicity splashed against the mass of incongruent tentacles and legs, boiling through its body like potent acid before raining down on the much weaker creatures below. Anything unlucky enough to be hit by even the smallest drop instantly dissolved.
But the abyssal monster was not to...
2025-08-28 15:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostAs most of you who follow Death: Genesis probably know, we're very quickly approaching the end of the series. And I want to make sure I get it right. So, I'm going to be taking a break from the series until September 8 (about a week and a half). I had already intended to take next week completely off, but I decided to go ahead and extend it by a few days.
Once I get back to it, we'll...
2025-08-27 17:33:46 +0000 UTC View PostA leg the size of the Washington Monument crashed down on an abyssal, spearing it through its open maw. The dramatically tapered tip tore through its back, and as the thicker part of the leg followed, it ripped the abyssal apart. Its screams echoed for only a moment before it went silent. What was left of its body twitched a few times as the spider’s leg lifted. The ab...
2025-08-27 15:10:01 +0000 UTC View PostEven as a bolt of lightning, the abyss sapped Elijah’s energy. Vitality. Ethera. It didn’t matter. It all drained out of him in a mixed torrent, and when Lightning Rush ended, he found himself still short of his goal. The next landmass loomed over him, just out of reach.
He extended his Mantle of Authority, filling his body with some measure of reli...
2025-08-27 15:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostHeralded by an earthquake that very nearly brought the building down around Elijah, the world broke. He barely managed to escape before the structure completely collapsed in on itself, but in his haste, he almost skidded over the edge of a cliff that hadn’t been there when he arrived. He spread his wings to arrest his momentum, but he was forced to use Cloud Step to reverse course...
2025-08-26 15:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostZeke stepped forward, though he had no intention of closing on the Waymaster until he’d had a chance to truly take stock of the situation. The creature undulated in the center of its chamber, arcs of gelatinous goo connecting it to the dome as well as the outer walls. With every passing moment, Zeke could feel the threads unraveling.
Not quickly.
Instead, t...
2025-08-26 13:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostSolomon Thorne hefted a massive stone onto his shoulder and took a step forward. One step became two, then three. Four. Before long, he found his rhythm as he climbed the stairs up the tower. With every step, the stone beneath his feet groaned from the weight, but he’d tested it a hundred times already. It would hold, if only barely.
As he climbed, he...
2025-08-25 15:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post“Are you capable of dying?” Zeke asked, staring at the giant oak tree in front of his manor. He struggled to see past the threads, at the beauty of its perfection. So it had been since he’d killed Shar Maelaine what felt like a lifetime ago. In reality, only a few years had passed, and those simultaneously seemed like little more than the blink of an eye.
Of late, ...
2025-08-25 13:00:15 +0000 UTC View PostElijah let out an agonized scream as a shockwave slammed into him. The air left his lungs, and he went soaring through the air. His flight only lasted a moment before he hit something solid. That was when his wits came back to him, and he remembered everything that had happened. The core cultivation. The Worldseed. The Rite of Heritage.
And the ho...
2025-08-24 15:10:01 +0000 UTC View PostWith every muscle tense and with pain writhing through his body, Elijah watched as another platform rose from beneath the ground. Immediately, he knew this one was different. Not only was it larger, but it also held something truly powerful, given the way the ground shuddered.
However, Elijah was not allowed to see what was coming. It was encased in an opaque bubbl...
2025-08-24 15:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostElijah – in the body of the young dragon Asharain – braced himself as six platforms rose to the surface to reveal half a dozen vespirans. Their wings buzzed in unison, emitting a collective sound that could rival a jumbo jet. But they remained rooted to the ground.
Each of them wore the same haughty expressions with which Elijah had become intimately familiar, but th...
2025-08-23 15:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post“When our people come of age,” said a draconic man in the center of a large arena. He paused for effect, and the hundred or so other dragons that were the audience leaned forward. “They must prove their worth in the Rite of Heritage.”
The crowd let out a cheer that felt sized to shake the very planet. Elijah stood stoically and on all fours, only a hundred feet f...
2025-08-22 15:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostZeke’s soul still hummed with fear, anger, and pain. Yet, he ignored it all as he turned his attention back to the task he’d set out to accomplish. The so-called Sun Goddess was still out there, and with every passing second, her escape grew increasingly more likely. There was no more time for recovery or rumination. If he wanted to catch her and put an end to an era...
2025-08-22 13:00:17 +0000 UTC View PostSurrounded by familiar ethera and with Nature’s Design directed inward, Elijah focused on the nascent seed that he hoped would become his core. In the back of his mind, he knew that if he failed – if he misplaced even the smallest detail – everything would fall apart. That was the problem with using a living thing as his model. Not only was it complex, but every part had...
2025-08-21 15:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostThe red dragon pulsed with so much power that Zeke could barely even look at the creature. It was a beast – a monster by any other name – but it was also one of the most powerful creatures he’d ever seen. By all rights, it should have been the one holding Shar Maelaine’s leash, and not the other way around.
And yet, Zeke could sense why things were they way they ...
2025-08-21 13:00:13 +0000 UTC View PostThe Worldseed pulsed with so much power that, even with his Mantle of Authority protecting him, Elijah felt his hand disintegrating as it drew closer. To counter it, he’d shifted into his human form so he could use all three of his healing spells. Blessing of the Grove came first, bathing him in powerfully rejuvenating rain as a blazing sunflower grew at his feet. The petals...
2025-08-20 15:10:01 +0000 UTC View PostElijah could only get to within a few hundred feet before his healing could no longer keep up with the damage being done to his body. To counter that, he shifted into the Shape of Spores, and oddly enough, in that bestial form, he felt as if he better belonged with the rabid creatures clawing at the Worldseed’s outer shell.
But he knew he was on the clock.
He descended...
2025-08-20 15:00:13 +0000 UTC View PostThe landmass at the end of the chain appeared out of the now-ubiquitous haze so quickly that he only had a few moments to slow his descent before he slammed into the uneven terrain. A shockwave of force erupted through his legs, not stopping until it had bypassed his knees, leaving only pain in its wake.
He countered it with a surge of Wild Resurgence, eliciting a wave of relief.&nb...
2025-08-19 15:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostZeke reached out with his will, intending to unravel Shar Maelaine where she sat on her throne. However, he was shocked to find his efforts blocked by some unseen force. It only took him a moment to recognize that she was using the negative threads against him. Somehow, she’d managed to wrangle them under her control.
“How?” he demanded.
“Your ignorance kno...
2025-08-19 13:00:18 +0000 UTC View PostElijah grappled with an abyssal. Its tentacles wrapped around his arms and legs as it snapped at him with multiple mouths. At the same time, the creature screamed incoherently, its massive, tree-trunk legs planted firmly in the ground.
It pushed.
Elijah pushed back.
And he found his strength wanting. Even in the Shape of Spores, and with Heart of ...
2025-08-18 15:00:28 +0000 UTC View Post