Achten Tan: Land of Dust & Bone (August 2020)
The bizarre, dark fantasy that started Skullgate!
The first volume of Tales from the Year Between is set in Achten Tan, a post-apocalyptic fantasy city where elves ride massive ants and gnomes farm algae in cursed, subterranean caves. Having weathered generations of warfare against the giant, intelligent rats known as the Craven, the people of Achten Tan hoped that the sudden peace this last winter would presage a year of prosperity. (Spoiler -- it didn't).
A dark elf wizard, long thought dead, will return to direct the sandworms in some obscure search. Mad prophets will arrive with severed heads; gladiators will bleed and die in the desert sand; and sleepers, unable to wake, will mutter in an ominous, unknown tongue...
Contributors to Achten Tan:
The crew behind Achten Tan is particularly special to me, as they responded to a tweet by a stranger before there was even such a thing as Skullgate Media... I'll be eternally grateful to this awesome, wacky, fun group of writers:
Gabrielle Awe
Ian Barr
Darious Bearguard
Jonathan Beck
Kyle Beers
Dan Berison
Benjamin Blattburg
Elvira Canaveral
Darby Cupid
Gregory Coley
Rosalind Dando
Chris Durston
Diana Gagliardi
Erin Rae Hoffer
Sarah Houck
Debbie Iancu-Haddad
Roger Kristian Jones
Vincent LaBate
Allison N. Moore
Iseult Murphy
Jesse Nolan Baily
Chapel Orahamm
Sarah Parker
Sarah Remy
C.D. Storiz
Imelda Taylor
Kelly Washington
Paul Worthington
Guest Cartographer:
Aaron Hockett
