Valardia
Welcome to the high fantasy realm of Valardia!
We publish fantasy short stories set in the vast world of Valardia through our newsletter on Substack.
We are also in the process of making Valardia: A World of Gods and Glory, a table-top roleplaying game set in this world.
Follow us for updates about Valardia as well as other games!
As a special thank you to those visiting our page, here is an excerpt you can read from one of our short stories, The Third Dawn:
The world wept long before the ears of mortals heard the news. Nature knew, instinctually, that some great force had shifted, that it was once again time for the world to reorient itself, that some grave act had immutably altered everything. The leaves wilted and floated down from the trees, the grass below dying as the rotten leaves fell to the plains. The clouds above convened to mourn in the great grey sky, the sun too ashamed to show its face, the heavens sobbing a torrential downpour. And as the rain struck the ground it splashed with an ethereal green light, the very essence of Caelethus dissipating into the soil. The morning birds dared not chirp, not a single creature dared stir or make a single sound, as a great stillness enveloped the world, one that rivalled the silence of the First Dawn, that accursed time when there was only darkness, before the Grace of Uries touched the planet and sparked the first light of goodness.
The Great God Eorr had wounded the world, the life which he had vowed to protect since the Second Dawn. But on this day a foul deed had soured his heart and had invoked in him a prodigious maddening hurt, for his own son had betrayed him in the most vile manner. His own son had met with a dark goddess in the blackest of nights, and together shaped a new creation. These new beings were heinous and twisted, dark wretches from the deepest reaches of the underworld, a pervasive evil. And so Eorr looked upon his child and did not recognise him; for he now saw a degenerate, a disgraceful fool whom in his tempestuous anger he sought to destroy.
Read the whole story: https://valardiaworld.substack.com/p/the-third-dawn
