Shores of Night

 Today's publishing day for chapter 4 of Shadows of the Past:  Visitors ! After Elna was captured last chapter, you'd think she was at least allowed a good night's sleep, right?  WRONG!  Discover who wants to talk in the dead of night, and what haunts the Talon's dreams in chapter 4.  The Secret Origin Of Elna's World I just wanted to drop some background for this piece, as I'm getting very much involved in building the world at present. I think a novel set in Elna's world would be really cool to create. Like so many of my ideas, this began as a roleplaying campaign idea... or rather two roleplaying ideas. The first was a game modelling novels like Assassin's Apprentice, with the idea that the PCs would be a set of agents fighting to prop up the King. They wouldn't be loyal to the country but the monarch, and many of their adventures would have been bittersweet affairs where they moved to prevent the nobles from revolting. The second idea was the mor