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The Kheld King cover
I didn't talk about the Sordaneon cover because I didn't have a website at the time. Now that I do have a website, I will talk about this...
L.L. Stephens
May 10, 20221 min read
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LORE: The Wall Stone and the Rill Stone
The Rill Stone and the Wall Stone appear frequently in conjunction with the Entity-bound Highborn princes. Though often called devices or...
L.L. Stephens
May 10, 20223 min read
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Switching Tracks
I’m getting the edits on THE KHELD KING this week and that’s going to make me shift tracks. I’ve been using this waiting period to write...
L.L. Stephens
May 3, 20222 min read
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LORE: Worlds Apart, excerpt from a book by Marc Frederick
Marc Frederick Stauberg-Randolph, King of Essera and a main character of Sordaneon, first novel of the Triempery series, is a prolific...
L.L. Stephens
May 2, 20225 min read
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LORE: Report to King Erydon
When Khelds first invaded lower Tahlwent, entering through a Rift event, King Erydon sent his kinsman Eldhan to find out more about the...
L.L. Stephens
Apr 26, 20227 min read
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LORE: The Rill
Pre-Return. The Rill is one of a few First Creation feats of engineering to have survived into the Second Creation. The others are the...
L.L. Stephens
Apr 22, 20227 min read
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STORY: The Rune Hag's Daughter
Author's Note: This story is set completely with the Kheld people and their culture. Because readers will see more about Khelds and their...
L.L. Stephens
Apr 18, 202221 min read
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LORE: The Wall
From afar the Wall looks like… a wall — high, smooth, blue-white, asymmetrical in height, and it moves in ever-shifting elevations. The...
L.L. Stephens
Apr 14, 20225 min read
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LORE: The Creations, First and Second
The creative force that was Leur brought into being many marvelous things, but to their Mind the foremost was the one they called the...
L.L. Stephens
Apr 14, 20224 min read
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LORE: Why Write About That?
This is the first of my blog posts about the lore of the Triempery universe. If it is possible to tag the entries, I will eventually...
L.L. Stephens
Apr 6, 20224 min read
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Excerpt: The Kheld King
This passage features Rheger and Elhanan, father and son. Their bloodline, the Malyrdeons, is bound to the Wall Entity and they possess...
L.L. Stephens
Apr 5, 20223 min read
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Excerpt: SORDANEON
Enjoy this nice chonky section from an early chapter, in which Esseran prince Stefan and his friends face the consequences of an attack...
L.L. Stephens
Apr 4, 20226 min read
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Painting Minis
For a time when I was a teen, I envisioned becoming an artist. Or a brain surgeon—that’s another story. Art has always called to me,...
L.L. Stephens
Mar 31, 20223 min read
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My Maps
Behold. This is my hand-drawn map of Essera. It's a sheet of typing paper I drew on with a pen. I drew it 20 years ago when I was writing...
L.L. Stephens
Mar 24, 20222 min read
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Chapter 48: What's In a Scene?
In a recent review of SORDANEON [Digging For Gems: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_pTHS3YAv0] the reviewer mentioned a chapter he found...
L.L. Stephens
Mar 13, 20223 min read
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Nice to Meet You -- How'd You Find Me?
I figure most people reading my posts here have already read, or have begun reading, the Triempery series. That being the case, I will...
L.L. Stephens
Jan 14, 20222 min read
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Excerpt from The Kheld King
If you've read Sordaneon, you won't be surprised that the Kheld king of the title is Stefan Stauberg-Randolph. Here is a scene in which...
L.L. Stephens
Jan 11, 20225 min read
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STORY: What Beats Pipe and Fiddle
Come guess me this riddle what beats pipes and fiddle What’s hotter than mustard and wilder than cream? What best wets your whistle,...
L.L. Stephens
Dec 5, 202123 min read
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Jeff and Me
I don’t know Jeff Bezos personally, but I think we’d get along. His recent divorce was more amicable than mine, which makes me think he’s...
L.L. Stephens
Jul 13, 20212 min read
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When Characters Become
I love when characters surprise me. Some do so by showing up in the first place. Others change from what I originally conceive them to be...
L.L. Stephens
Jun 14, 20212 min read
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