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He takes grim pleasure in the ever-increasing rewards posted for his head, and makes sure to nail them to the Bounty Board in Bilgewater for all to see whenever he returns to port, his ships heavy with loot. Rumble
When a group of human graduates from the Yordle Academy sailed to Bandle City to visit the place where their mentor was born and raised, Rumble couldn't resist the temptation to see them face-to-face (so to speak). He only intended to get a good look at the humans, but four hours and several choice words later, he returned home bruised and bloodied with an earful about how he was an embarrassment to ''enlightened'' yordles like Heimerdinger.
THE DISSONANT VERSES
Ian St. Martin
It wound along their limbs like a serpent, surging past their teeth to produce a sound no natural thing should be capable of producing. It was, impossibly, a kind of song—but one attuned to some terrible, keening dissonance. The Spirit of Copperwood Glade
Jared Rosen
There, thy eyes will fall upon a great tree as hard as armor plate. Sleep softly at its base, and the spirit that blesses this house will appear in a dream to barter with ye. Twilight of the Gods
Graham McNeill
“Yes,” said Ta’anari. “For good or ill. It will be a symbol for the people of Shurima to rally behind.
Nightbloom
Rayla Heide
She screeches, recoiling as if burned, and I roar. The groundwater within me is anathema to such unnatural beings. Stone Cold
David Slagle
At least, it would be rope if it wasn’t hard and gray.
“Is everything around here stones?” I ask. It’s not fair—in the stories, stones at least have runes carved into them or something.
Ambessa
And with that came the potential for profound disappointment. While she loved him dearly, it was clear that Kino would never have the strength of a warrior in his heart.
Annie
When Annie was still a toddler, she and her father took ill. As night fell, Annie began to burn with fever, and soon she was so hot, she could no longer be held in her mother’s arms.
Bard
It was so small at first, Bard might have missed it, but the ever-doting meeps drew his attention to a failed dynamic shift here, an unexpected syncopation there, and even the growing absence of sound where, before, sound had been.
Bard scoured the celestial realm for clues, until he discovered the source.
Fizz
Thousands died in a matter of hours, the immense bulk of their killers crushing towers and temples in a monstrous feeding frenzy. Scenting blood in the water, Fizz raced back, determined to join the fight and save the city. Vex
That something arrived in the form of a Harrowing, thick clouds of Black Mist that billowed through Bandle City, stirring its residents to panic.
Standing Room Only
Daniel Couts
Once, I would have gotten lost in this storm of sound. But I have Roland, and Schala, and myself, and we feel what they feel. Poetry with a Blade
Mo Xiong
Yet this poor mimicry is still enough to allow you to enter the domain of the strong.”
“Mimicry?” Yi had never heard anyone disparage Wuju style before.
Ziggs
The professors dusted themselves off and sternly motioned for him to leave. Devastated, Ziggs prepared to return to Bandle City in shame. A Good Death
Matt Dunn
“All nights are good nights for pouncing,” said Wolf, laughing.
“All days are, too,” Lamb said.
Adaptation
Ian St. Martin
The right eye is a blur. The left remains dark. The roaring will not fade.
I reach for my cheek. I realize what the beast has taken.
The Garden of Dreaming
David Slagle
Or are these only the things the child grasped too hard while hugging her doll, and her dream is something deeper—something truer? A Death Knot
Odin Austin Shafer
Her weary reavers cheered. Though only a hundred strong, their roar echoed off the hills.
The time for stealth had passed.
The Voices of the Dead
David Slagle
I could feel the wind pressing against my hood, the spray of the ocean hard against my skin, as if the world were pushing me back, warning me of the darkness ahead.