Category Archives: As the Wyrm Tyrns

Wrapping things up in the epilogue to As the Wyrm Tyrns

With the Breydon wyrm going back into its slumber, and the Faroe Islands female wyrm away from Great Yarmouth, our team’s business is almost through. But there remain a few loose ends to tie up, and Geoffrey MacAlpine’s the man … Continue reading

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A comedy of errors in chapter 19 of As the Wyrm Tyrns

Our heroes have made their share of mistakes. Geoff and Gwen just got dumped into Breydon Water thanks to one of them. But it’s a long wyrm that has no tyrning, and the Breydon wyrms are 60 feet long, so … Continue reading

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England and the Windsors are at stake in chapter 18 of As the Wyrm Tyrns

Our valiant team of magicians, along with a cambion and a normal human, prepare to put down the wyrms using Guinevere Satterthwaite’s plan. If they fail, Great Yarmouth could be laid waste and the Royal Family lose its most photogenic … Continue reading

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Time is running out in chapter 17 of As the Wyrm Tyrns

Kate and Willy, the Duchess and Duke of Cambridge, are arriving in town, the English Council of magicians is getting nervous, and one of the wyrms is pregnant. But the shoe is literally on the other foot this time as … Continue reading

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Tackling a wyrm infestation in chapter 16 of As the Wyrm Tyrns

Why did Ursula try to prevent Jackie from shooting the wyrm? What makes Marcus even more sour than usual? And when is Calpurnia going to go clothes shopping? More problems fall upon our unlucky team of magicians as they try … Continue reading

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Four against the beasts in Chapter 15 of As the Wyrm Tyrns

Our band of heroic (or at least temperamental) magicians have a goal, “Finding the wyrms’ lair,” in chapter 15 of As the Wyrm Tyrns. And wouldn’t you know, it’s the scholarly Calpurnia that sets them in the right direction. Or maybe … Continue reading

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It’s nighttime soap opera time in chapter 14 of As the Wyrm Tyrns

Romance, explosions, sex, family conflicts, monsters, well-intentioned people who screw everything up, backstabbing politics — it’s all here as our team of intrepid magicians, and the weird offspring of one of them, spend most of their time at cross purposes instead … Continue reading

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It’s just one darn thing after another in Chapter 13 of As the Wyrm Tyrns

Katherine Swynford (call her Kate, she likes it) managed to claw her way from being a servant to a Royal Duchess in the 1300s. She hasn’t gotten any less tough as a Royal Magician in the centuries since. And now … Continue reading

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Hunting a supernatural creature is difficult in chapter 12 of As the Wyrm Tyrns

Just how do you put down a wyrm: a marine creature that is sixty feet long and emits venomous fireballs? Scots professor of magic Geoffrey MacAlpine, his English colleague Calpurnia Kingsley, her ex-husband (and a vicious bastard) Marcus Satterthwaite, along … Continue reading

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Not all monsters are monsters in chapter 11 of As the Wyrm Tyrns

What do you do when someone wants to kill you? When that person is the nastiest magician in all England (and he’d be willing to try for an all-British title)? Geoffrey MacAlpine is in just this situation, and now that he’s … Continue reading

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