Diamond Hand: Legends Lore

“You don’t have to do this,” said Wholethorn. “It’s not gonna be a fair fight.” “You’re right. It’s NOT gonna be a fair fight. That bloody idiot hasn’t fought a real fight in his life,” Bosamir said as he finished trimming his beard. “His trinket isn’t gonna save him.” He ran thick fingers through his… Continue reading Character Spotlight: Bosamir

“Are you steady?” asked Henna. She placed a hand on Deedee’s shoulder. “Steady?” said Deedee. “That’s an interesting way to put it. No, but I will be soon.” They had just stepped off a cargo ship after having spent several days at sea. Deedee’s new friend didn’t seem to be having the same adaptive struggle.… Continue reading Short story: Magical tattoos

“So what did you do before all this?” asked Lokli, a warm smile on her round halfling face. She figured she had better get to know this guy. He was obviously really smart but she could never get a read on him and she didn’t like that. Maybe she could get him to open up… Continue reading Character Spotlight: Yhalam

Henna grew up living in the Wooly Forest, a wild mountainous region just inland of the Eastern Isle Kingdoms. The forest was named by peasants living in cities along the shoreline due to sheep occasionally wandering out of the woods, a strange sight since sheep are not known to enjoy living in either forests or… Continue reading Character Spotlight: Henna

“We were trained for combat against people, not monsters… but that doesn’t matter now. I will save everyone…” The crusaders have been a potent military force for the better part of 300 years. They have acted as peacekeepers and as conquerors, spreading the Word of Light and stamping out teachings deemed to be wicked or… Continue reading Character Spotlight: Gillian, the Last Crusader

On a day like any other, as the sky turned to dusk across Capital Isle, many lives were lost. It began with the ground shaking harder than it’s ever shaken before. The shaking was so fierce that most of the buildings on Capital Isle crumbled outright. As desperate families of every humankin escaped their ruined… Continue reading The Great Calamity

Deedee is a mage who lived in the Eastern Isle Kingdom at the time of The Great Calamity. She is extremely talented and very conscientious about Diamond Madness due to losing a good friend to it in the past. The Diamond Hand Heroes would not have been able to replicate the Diamond Hand Gauntlets without… Continue reading Character Spotlight: Deedee

“I cannot overstate the risk. Raw diamond magic, it leads to madness, and the worst kind at that. The trinkets and baubles in the markets are distilled. The orb at the end of my staff, there’s a reason that it’s clear. There is so little diamond within that you can see straight through it. This… Continue reading The Power of the Diamond Hand

“Who are you calling a Thief? I’m a COLLECTOR, thank you very much.”Lokli is what dwarves call a “gutter gnome”, a halfling orphan who was forced to learn how to survive by any means possible. She ran away from an orphanage as a young adolescent and has been on her own ever since. Lokli is… Continue reading Character Spotlight: Lokli