About my current piece:
Empire's Collapse delves into one of the less-common settings for a fantasy work, and is a result is quite a bit darker. The story takes place in the crime-ridden underworld of a large medieval city- a place where serial killers can sell the corpses of their victims to greedy necromancers, and where government assassins hunt down and kill foreign spies tampering in arms smuglling.
This world of back-alley cuthroats and seedy brothels is about to be shaken though, as the might of an enraged empire is concentrated in the search for an extremely powerful artifact, stolen beneath the very gaze of the high sorcerors pledged to use it to bring the empire's enemies to their knees. But the empire knows subtlety as well as strength, and the able men and women it sends to infiltrate the dark abyss of crime the artifact has disappeared inside are evenly matched against the cold, calculating minds that engineered the grand theft in the first place.
Once again, I could not resist the urge to put in the Machiavellan scheme of a vengeful demigod, thirsting to destroy the pantheon that banished it from eternal power. One of the main characters is again an assassin, though he's a lot darker than any other main character I've ever written. If not for the fact that the people he's fighting against are even more horrible than he is, he could definitely fit as a villain in a typical fantasy story.
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