When Dragons Die- The Complete Trilogy Box Set

by K. Scott Lewis

Terminology

  • Darkfall – the day Aaron died and Karanos' rune failed across the Artalonian Empire (This coincides with the first lightfall, and the later Lightfall holiday also remembers the event of Darkfall)

  • hungerbound – vampires unable to control their bloodlust

  • lightfall – the manifestation of a first generation seelie as an adult, from wisps of light that were remnants of the Otherworld

  • unseelie – seelie which failed to integrate their Fae memories and have lost their selves to be possessed by dead Fae personalities

  Holidays and Festivals

  • Highwinter (Winter Solstice) – Celebrating the quiet of the nighttime and winter, and warmth of the hearth fire against the cold. A time for family and reflection upon the year’s actions while looking ahead to the year to come.

  • Lightfall (not celebrated until after the seelie arrived) – Celebrating the arrival of hope.

  • Promise Day (Spring Equinox) – Preparation for labor. Celebrating the promise of the year’s bounty. A time to fasten intents to plans. A favored time for weddings.

  • Lovers’ Night – Celebrating mortal fertility and life, usually accompanied by a bonfire and dancing.

  • Firetide (Summer Solstice) - Celebrating the triumph of Light in the world.

  • Harvest Bounty – Celebrating the fruits of the harvest, usually accompanied by a community feast. Celebrating crop fertility. Beer features prominently.

  • Trickster’s Night (Autumn Equinox) – Celebrating rest after labor. Night for frivolity and fun without purpose other than joy. A time for comedy, games and jokes. Bard’s are prized for comedic performances.

  • Souls’ Night – Remembering the line of ancestors and those who have gone before. Solemn festival. A favored time for weddings as an act of the continuity of life in spite of the oncoming dark.

  Pronunciation Guide

  Names and terms not listed here are pronounced roughly equivalent to English expectations.

  Ahmbren (AHM-bren)

  Anuit (Ahn-WEET)

  Aradma (Ah-RAHD-mah)

  Attaris (AT-uh-ris)

  Athaym (Ah-THAME)

  Eszhira (Eh-ZHEE-rah)

  Klrain (KL’RANE)

  Modhrin (MOH-rin)

  Odoune (Oh-DOON)

  Oriand (Oh-REE-ahnd)

  Rajamin (RAH-zhah-min)

  Roen (RO-en)

  Seelie (SEEL-ee)

  Sidhe (SHEE)

  Sidhna (SHEE-na)

  Suleima (Soo-LAY-mah)

  Table of Contents

  WHEN DRAGONS DIE

  Forward to the Trilogy Edition

  LIGHTFALL

  Prologue

  The Last Battle

  Part 1: Immaculate Conception

  1 - The Frozen Girl

  2 - Windbowl

  3 - Incident on the Border

  4 - Batten the Hatches

  5 - A Turn of Events

  6 - Black Magic

  7 - Betrayal

  8 - Bloodcraft

  9 - Beginnings

  Part 2: The Great Rite

  10 - South to the Summerland

  11 - Advice From an Elder Rat

  12 - Into the Woods

  13 - Intoxication

  14 - Rending the Veil

  15 - The Great Rite

  16 - The Virgin

  17 - The Lord of the Hunt

  18 - House-Brothers

  19 - The Secrets of Men

  20 - Escape From Vemnai

  21 - The Battle for Kallanista

  22 - Natural Magic

  Part 3: Artalon

  23 - The Good Life

  24 - The Architect

  25 - Darkfall

  26 - Dirt City

  27 - Lightfall

  28 - Fallen

  29 - Kristafrost Must Die

  30 - Elven Magic

  31 - Dragonholm

  32 - The Gods of Light

  33 - Scratching at the Abyss

  34 - Uncle Tibs

  35 - Things Fall Apart

  36 - The Cleansing of Artalon

  37 - Return to Windbowl

  Epilogue

  For Light’s Truth

  A New Life

  Blood Sacrament

  COVENANT

  Prologue

  Banished

  Part 1: Coexist

  1 - The Paladin’s Mission

  2 - The Sorceress’s Illusions

  3 - Wrath

  4 - Assault in the Night

  5 - Off the High Horse

  6 - The Disappointed Bard

  7 - At the Crossroads

  8 - Campfire Tea

  9 - The Paladin’s Judgment

  10 - The Day the Music Died

  11 - Coexist

  Part 2: Submission

  12 - The Messenger

  13 - The Man in Black

  14 - Matters of the Heart

  15 - Kaldor’s Tower

  16 - Graelyn’s Vessels

  17 - The Peace Summit

  18 - Reunion

  19 - Surafel

  20 - Outbreak

  21 - Coffee Grounds

  22 - Kaldor’s Tale

  23 - Submission

  Part 3: Athra’s Jewel

  24 - Waves Upon the Rocks

  25 - A Slip Into Shadow

  26 - The King’s Sacrifice

  27 - Athra’s Jewel

  28 - The Prodigal Daughter

  29 - The Bathhouses of Surafel

  30 - The New Normal

  31 - Reconciliation

  32 - Spring Flowers

  33 - Lovers’ Night

  34 - Chronometry

  35 - The Reckoning

  36 - Time Grows Short

  37 - The Gold and the Red

  38 - Into the Abyss

  Epilogue

  The Passing of the Seal

  THE TIDES OF ARTALON

  Prologue

  Purgatory

  Part 1: Descent

  1 - Emergence

  2 - A Divine Contract

  3 - A Cold Trail

  4 - Frontier Hospitality

  5 - Matters of Faith

  6 - Descent Into the Underworld

  7 - Abandoned

  8 - The Celestial Temple

  9 - Roasted Hares and White Bears

  10 - Kindling

  11 - Two Souls

  12 - The Spark

  13 - The Secret in the Mountains

  14 - Choros-Nalcht

  15 - The Seal of Time

  16 - Abandon All Hope

  Part 2: The Demon City

  17 - Aradma’s Legacy

  18 - Geas

  19 - The Brood Queen

  20 - Infiltration

  21 - Dark Life

  22 - Dragon Fire

  23 - The Darkling Legacy

  24 - The Phylactery

  25 - Rifts

  26 - The Bloodstone

  27 - Smoke and Mirrors

  28 - The Tablets of Tal Harun

  29 - One Queen to Rule Them All

  30 - Choices

  31 - Life’s Advocate

  Part 3: God Spire

  32 - An Unusual Alliance

  33 - The Machinations of Gods

  34 - Shadow and Flame

  35 - When Dragons Die

  36 - Return to Artalon

  37 - The Great Rite II

  38 - A New Charge

  39 - The Turning

  40 - …And a Kitchen Sink

  Epilogue

  Seredith

  Arda and Anuit

  Eszhira and Tallindra

  Aradma and Tiberan

  Afterword

  Appendices

  Old Archurionite Mythology

  Peoples and Cultures

  The Kaldorite Code

  Magicology

  History

  Lexicon

  Pronunciation Guide

  he Complete Trilogy Box Set