The Burnt World of Athas

I was wrong,” Bayl said, chewing thoughtfully. “Cooking hasn’t improved them at all.” He pulled the little rodent’s tail from between his teeth and grimaced at it in distaste, then flung it into the fire.

Part 2 of the Lady of Shadows fiction

An alternate history with explanations of the lack of gods on Athas and the creation of the Dead Lands

Pain. Pain the like of which I had never imagined. Like spears of sun-scorched obsidian sliding through my limbs where my bones should have been, the claws of some ravening beast tearing through my bowels, razors across my sweat-slick skin. And, through it all, he was there, inside my mind, pouring fear and anguish into my soul.

We are monsters. We are the damned. We recognise that there will be no place in this new world for us. Like the prophets of old, we are blessed with the foreknowledge of Paradise regained, but doomed never to see it with our own eyes.

What is the true purpose of the Dragon's Levy?

As told one evening to a group of halfling children around a dying campfire under the light of the Athasian stars.

A short story of the birth of a mul gladiator

Abalach-Re was one of the Sorcerer-Monarchs the Heroes of Tyr killed in the events of the Prism Pentad, or was she?

An Unofficial article brought forth from the archives. This article was originally part of the Sand of Athas netzine (more articles and info forthcoming)

A story about what happens when one defies a sorcerer-king.

by Gabriel Cormier

by Rand Ratinac

By CP Debugger

By CP Debugger

By Samuel 17 /CP Debugger

By The Necroscope

By Rive27@aol.com

by The Sage

By Siri Khalsa

by Nightfall

by Nightfall

Short story by Gabriel Cormier

Short fiction by Jason Evans