Author: mesmerelda

  • A Bedtime Story

    He had brushed his little tusks and now Rennik snuggled under the thick moorbinder hide as his Granny placed another peat slab on the glowing fire. ‘A Story, Granny’‘What Story my Love?’‘Ragnarok’ She smiled, it was always Ragnarok. She cuddled in next to his and tousled his hair. ‘Ragnarok was an Orcish Chieftain who united…

  • Pirates Never Cry

    Captain Al’Ocean Pokrock-Sea stood in the early morning sunlight of Pier 6 and gazed up in wonder at the galley. Overhead a pair of Dwarves were standing on the scaffold finishing the lustrous final coat of Buccaneer Black. Another worker was finishing the fine detail one the lettering of THE HELLHEISTER. Seeing this beauty, it’s…

  • The Old Cutpurse

    The chatter subsided. It was late in the night and inside the tavern, it was heading towards closing. The little squat halfling behind the bar could keep serving all night but the crowd were growing tired and outside the window, below the horizon the dawn sun threatened the moon. Soon the mist and smoke would…

  • Mesmerelda 38

    There’s no fanfare as she enters the room, the royal horns having being disbanded and sent to teach music in the rural schoolhouses. Indeed, many vestiges of the grandeur of the Red Room have been stripped away as devout iconoclasts continue to measure, weigh and value the remaining statues. One gets the impression that ornaments…