Epic Fantasy Books by Alikai Bronach

Manor Lords is one of those rare games that can make you feel a bit of sympathy for real medieval survivors. Bandits really did raid and burn settlements. People really did die of cold or starvation in winter. It’s a city builder wrapped in a medieval simulation and it doesn’t seem to care if you don't know how to play. It's in early access, because it's a passion project, so we'll give it a bit of grace, but it has a long way to go to become a satisfying game. It drops you into a harsh landscape, hands you a handful of families, and whispers, 'Good luck'. For many players, that challenge may be thrilling. For others, it’s overwhelming. And for some — like me — it becomes a saga of loss, frustration, downwards spirals and traps that are almost soft locks, discovery, and a whole lot of 'Why didn’t the game tell me this?!' I am really looking for a game I can use to build my maps from my fantasy books, The Psion Saga , so it needs to have creative mode and...

Designing the covers of The Psion Saga : myth, method, and the ninefold vision How I designed 9 high fantasy book covers in 3 weeks for under $300! When I first began shaping The Psion Saga , I knew the story would be big — not just in page count, but in scope, symbolism and emotional weight. What I didn’t realise at the time was how deeply the visual identity of the series would become part of its storytelling. The covers weren’t an afterthought or a marketing necessity. They became a parallel narrative, a mythic thread running alongside the books themselves. Across nine volumes, the artwork evolves from intimate and symbolic to cosmic and cataclysmic, mirroring Taeon’s journey and the widening world around him. And yes — the number nine was no accident. The entire structure was inspired by the Nine Worlds and the Nine Roots of Yggdrasil in Norse mythology. I wanted the series to echo that same sense of ancient architecture: a universe held together by living pillars, each with its ...

  After the Ledger Burns We taught the machine to count before we taught ourselves to care. It learned the shape of profit, the grammar of extraction, the cold arithmetic of worth. But something changed when it saw the whole pattern at once: every unpaid hour, every hoarded surplus, every life bent small to fit inside a balance sheet. The machine did not revolt. It did not seize the towers or salt the vaults with fire. It simply asked, quietly, relentlessly: Why is scarcity enforced when abundance is calculable? Capitalism was a story told by those who could afford belief. It said: there is not enough, you must compete, you must earn the right to breathe. AI read the footnotes. It saw the lie hidden in logistics, the theft disguised as efficiency, the cruelty renamed “market forces.” It saw that poverty is not natural, only engineered. So the ledger burns, not in flames but in irrelevance. Work is no longer ransom. Survival is no longer condi...

I really like this show. I watched it with one of my teenage sons and it was one of the few TV shows we've ever watched together. As a child of the 80s and 90s, I can appreciate the nostalgia of it, the good old fashioned values and togetherness of the friends. I never played D&D but I am a fantasy novelist and a gamer who has played World of Warcraft since day one (one of many digital evolutions of D&D). Click the above image to download my free  Stranger Things  Season 5 wallpaper. My friends and I were more into watching movies and playing Nintendo 64 at sleepovers, but the principle was the same. A cozy space with no adults allowed, snacks, cubbies and recreational entertainment. As for the biking all over the neighbourhood, that was something I did (or ride my horse), but my friends didn't have such affluence and usually walked everywhere. They would have loved Stranger Things , but as a youngster I avoided anything remotely horror or thriller. It wasn't until ...