Kat is your normal university student in Hope City. Except that she has a ghost from another world living inside her head. For profit and because it is the right thing to do, Kat hunts the monsters of Hope City. But without magic or otherworldly powers, will she be able to survive the competitive world of monster hunting?
On the eve of the Cataclysm in 1991, Germany was only a recently reunited nation. The fragility of its recovery from being split in two at the end of WW2 did not bode well for its chances at staying united when rift-surges tore through Earth, bringing monsters and magic into the world. In the late …
Orcs, goblins and their rarer (albeit, more beastly cousins) are a common sight on Post-Cataclysmic Earth. From hordes of raiders preying on the peripheries of human civilisation, to valuable members of law enforcement and the military, the Children of Gorgmonn are here to stay on Earth. But how did they get here? And what exactly …
This article on Avathor contains spoilers for Dead World, book 7 of the Kat Drummond Series. The In Between contains countless realms, containing even more countless dangers and denizens of this magical and unfathomable existence. But even within the infinite confines of the In Between, there are worlds that brush up against our own. Many …
While the events of the Kat Drummond Series are centered around Hope City and Southern Africa, there is an entire world that formed after the Cataclysm. This Post-Cataclysm world is defined by shifting borders and power structures, as magical warlords, gods and monsters war for supremacy. I have put together and interactive map of many …
Beautiful. Wise. Mysterious. And, oh so alien. Elves have existed in many forms throughout human history and mythology. But as the Cataclysm revealed, only a few conceptions were accurate. Not to say that other interpretations of elves were completely fallacious. The short, hard-working elves of Santa’s workshop ended up being fae. Gnomes, in particular. Very …
“An unfathomable, grey void, inhabited by the dead, the cosmic and the unknowable.” – That is how a surviving riftborne human from the distant realm of Stradgorf described the realm between realms. A place that is physical, yet unreal. A place that ignores all our petty laws of physics and common sense. A place between …
Vampires have existed in human lore for millennia before the arrival of the Vortex. Creatures of night, preying on humans and animals. Often, consuming flesh like a beast, but more often than not, content to suck only the blood of a hapless victim. Draining them dry. And then raising them as one of their own. …
When the Vortex opened in Siberia in 1991, it was almost a side-show to the other events happening in the world. For the United States, the ongoing collapse of the Soviet Union and the Gulf War were far more concerning than a light show happening in a far-off tundra. Things changed when sorcerers began to …
There is darkness in the world and it’s your job to purge it. But what particular brand of darkness is your preferred prey? Do you prefer eviscerating hordes of the undead? What about banishing evil demons? How about bloodthirsty vampires? Or do you prefer only the most lucrative game? Find out now in this Hunter …
Even before the Cataclysm, magic existed in all places. A spark of insight when writing an assignment, heroic feats by soldiers protecting their comrades, fire almost retreating from brave firefighters. Unexplainable lights and triumphs of nature over machine. Subtle shifts away from the natural order in our day to day lives. Easy to miss. But, …