The Expanse
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Last published Thu, Oct 16, 2025
The Shahharah Expanse.
A vast desert in the South on the continent of Bursia, said to stretch so far over the horizon that it sands fall off the edge of the world. Its settlements are isolated by miles of monster infested rolling dunes and uncharted ruins. Further South, in a place where water evaporates from the tongue- the Golden Void beckons two unlikely adventurers.
In the slums of Arnehal:
Cairo Hussai is a jobless spellblade. Down on his luck, and drinking his sorrows away.
In the Academy of Arnehal:
Lucara Ludvic is a passionless academy student. Refining spells for someone else's grand tale.
Together, they will travel to the edge of the world to save what little of it is able to escape the tarblooded monsters that threaten to upend the living world.
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