Fire on the Mound

Pekra confronts a vision of his dead father in this trailer for the fantasy-adventure podcast novel FIRE ON THE MOUND.

Pekra discovers a stranger reflected in the water of the river Kade. The final episode.

Pekra decides the fate of the cottonwood; Micah hopes to heal his wound in the mysterious presence of the Mound.

The prophecy of the seven tongues of fire is fulfilled.

Fool asks Pekra for forgiveness one last time; Mtilan summons his army down into the crater; Legion surrounds the cottonwood.

In the ancient past, King Baalath conquers the Unborn King, but the resulting revelation fills him with despair.

Dúme orders Galleon to kill Calais; Galleon recalls the death of his wife.

Binding bands are discarded, and the Rtari insurrection begins.

Fool leads Pekra and Kirti into a secret passage and up a hidden stair inside the Mound.

A battle-worn Princess Kirti and the dwindling Oorn confront their enemy within sight of the Mound.

Memories of the past and visions of the future; Pekra, Rashidi, and Dalila fall into a nest of tyrn and fight for their lives.

Prince Dúme and Captain Belesys investigate the forge of Mtilan and uncover his duplicitous covenant with their enemy.

Pekra and the Nezân follow ash through the Valley of Sorrow; Prince Dúme and Captain Belesys secretly follow Mtilan and infiltrate his hidden lair.

In the ancient past, King Baalath confronts the Unborn King in the tower of Hirambim; Pekra and the Nezân enter the Valley of Sorrow.

The mortally wounded Soterios reveals a great secret; Pekra is besieged by an Otice curse.

Pekra succumbs to an Otice spell, attacks his friends, and is later swarmed by ravenous underwater creatures.

Princess Kirti battles Mtilan in the tomb of Soterios; Pekra awakens a mysterious, comatose figure inside the tomb.

Princess Kirti and the Oorn discover a ruinous city where the stars have descended from the sky.

Survival! That’s all there is now. A preview of Season Two of the fantasy-adventure podcast novel FIRE ON THE MOUND.

Pekra battles a bull hemoo, drinks its blood, and has a mysterious fever-dream.

Fool disappears from the Nezân company just before it’s threatened by a flash flood and an hemoo stampede.

Pekra is brought before the great Nezân Sibylla named Alon, but she has not spoken to anyone in hundreds of years.

Pekra tells the gathering inside Telat the story about the seven Sefirot that he wrote for his father, Fa-Sekra.

Daring blasphemy, Lady Thao counsels locating the Mound before Legion and claiming the power of the cottonwood tree for the Nezân.

Pekra, Lely, and Calais are escorted into the enormous tree known as Telat; the Nezân assemble to argue a course against Legion.

Pekra, Lely, and Calais marvel at the machinery of the city of Perew, and Fool wonders what colossal project the Nezân are building.

As the Oorn suffer their first casualty, they debate if killing Princess Kirti’s duende would indeed satiate her thirst for vengeance.

In the ancient past, the Sons of Salathiel seek to forge weapons from the fallen star Triabsal.

The Oorn plead with Princess Kirti to save their dwindling numbers as she makes a startling discovery about the means of her survival.

Pekra and Lely fight Fool; Moroth confronts Zaanan’s cook; Prince Dúme bows to another.

A dangerous snowstorm traps Princess Kirti on the Kui mountain range, where she is quickly surrounded by the threatening Oorn.

Prince Dúme offers Micah a stay of execution in exchange for the murder of Tghon.

Princess Kirti finds Mtilan’s sword Shedu embedded in the chest of Prince Sújin.

Micah and Moroth salvage the remnant of Zaanan from the ship’s wreckage on the shore of Naosaleyn.

The burial of Princess Kirti does not go as planned.

A clockwork demon attacks Resa’s home in search of the crystal shard.

Poisoning his brother Prince Sújin, Prince Dúme sets in motion his plan for domination.

During dinner with Resa and her children, Mushin relates the Battle of Windgate, where Legion and Mtilan fought Prince Sújin and his men.

In the ancient past, Prince Baalath and his wife Princess Sarai set out across the Eloth wastes to establish their own kingdom.

Assassins are revealed on both sides, Humân and Gaewyn alike, as forces conspire to prevent the wedding of Prince Sújin and Princess Kirti.  

Princess Kirti arrives at the citadel, the first Gaewyn promised to marry a Humân; each side is unaware of the other’s hidden agenda.

During the second war against Legion, Fa-Sekra befriends an Adekos, a knight of no worth, who gives him a mysterious crystal shard for safekeeping.

Pekra runs home and discovers his father dying from a poison contracted during the second war against Legion.

The Pilot Micah and his son Moroth crash on a mysterious island rumored to be Naosaleyn, the cradle of life.

Had any of it been real? Or is it just a faded story as the common man says? An introduction to the fantasy-adventure podcast novel FIRE ON THE MOUND.