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Morgan A. Drake

Morgan A. Drake

Dark Fantasy & Speculative Author

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Morgan A. Drake
Morgan A. Drake
Dark Fantasy & Speculative Author
  • Between Worlds: The Mirage Realm – Part III
    Lore | The Crimson Desert

    Between Worlds: The Mirage Realm – Part III

    ByMorgan A. Drake January 1, 2026January 1, 2026

    Hakeem hasn’t fully existed in singular reality for three years.

    He still functions. Teaches new navigators. Leads crossing expeditions. Performs his duties as Flowing Trace elder. But anyone who knows him well can see the difference.

    Read More Between Worlds: The Mirage Realm – Part IIIContinue

  • Lore | The Crimson Desert

    Between Worlds: The Mirage Realm – Part II

    ByMorgan A. Drake January 1, 2026January 1, 2026

    The Flowing Trace Tribe occupies the Shifting Seas—the western desert region where massive dune formations migrate several feet each day and intersection points shift almost as rapidly. This is the most challenging environment in the entire Crimson Desert for maintaining stable knowledge of boundary conditions, and also where the boundary between worlds grows thinnest most often.

    Read More Between Worlds: The Mirage Realm – Part IIContinue

  • Between Worlds: The Mirage Realm – PART I
    Lore | The Crimson Desert | World Building

    Between Worlds: The Mirage Realm – PART I

    ByMorgan A. Drake January 1, 2026January 1, 2026

    The sun set an hour ago. The desert cold has already settled into her bones, turning her breath to mist and her fingers numb beneath the layered wraps. Heat mirages don’t happen in the cold. Heat mirages don’t look crystalline, faceted, like someone took reality itself and cut it like glass.

    Read More Between Worlds: The Mirage Realm – PART IContinue

  • Dragon's Spine Mountains | Lore | The Crimson Desert | The Living Coast | World Building

    Moons and Tide: Dimidium’s Celestial Rhythms | Part 04

    ByMorgan A. Drake December 1, 2025December 27, 2025

    Understanding lunar mechanics and tidal patterns provides academic knowledge. But Dimidians don’t just know the three-moon system. They live by it. Their daily rhythms, cultural practices, and fundamental sense of time itself flow from celestial patterns.

    Read More Moons and Tide: Dimidium’s Celestial Rhythms | Part 04Continue

  • Dragon's Spine Mountains | Lore | The Living Coast | World Building

    Moons and Tides: Dimidium’s Celestial Rhythms | Part 03

    ByMorgan A. Drake December 1, 2025December 1, 2025

    Every domain watches the same three moons. But each interprets what they see through the lens of their particular needs and traditions.

    Read More Moons and Tides: Dimidium’s Celestial Rhythms | Part 03Continue

  • Dragon's Spine Mountains | Lore | The Living Coast | World Building

    Moons and Tides: Dimidium’s Celestial Rhythms | Part 02

    ByMorgan A. Drake December 1, 2025December 1, 2025

    Dimidium’s calendar predates the Separation. Before coastal, desert, and mountain cultures diverged, before the Guild established its stranglehold on magical knowledge, before humanity fractured into competing domains—the calendar existed.

    Read More Moons and Tides: Dimidium’s Celestial Rhythms | Part 02Continue

  • Dragon's Spine Mountains | Lore | The Living Coast | World Building

    Moons and Tides: Dimidium’s Celestial Rhythms | Part 01

    ByMorgan A. Drake December 1, 2025December 1, 2025

    The harbor master watches three moons hang in the sky together and thinks what everyone in Dimidium learns eventually: You don’t control these patterns. You learn to work with them.

    Read More Moons and Tides: Dimidium’s Celestial Rhythms | Part 01Continue

  • Dragon's Spine Mountains | Location | Lore

    The Dragon – Human Bond Final Part

    ByMorgan A. Drake November 12, 2025December 1, 2025

    The dragon-human bond didn’t exist before the Separation. Couldn’t have existed. Dragons and humans occupied the same world but lived fundamentally separate existences—dragons in their mountain territories, humans in their scattered settlements, no meaningful contact between species beyond occasional dangerous encounters.

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  • Dragon's Spine Mountains | Lore

    The Dragon – Human Bond Part Three

    ByMorgan A. Drake November 4, 2025November 12, 2025

    Ask a non-bonded human why someone would choose to bond with a dragon, and they’ll probably say “magic” or “flight” or “power.”

    Ask a bonded rider, and they’ll tell you something different: “I’m never alone.”

    Read More The Dragon – Human Bond Part ThreeContinue

  • Dragon's Spine Mountains | Lore

    The Dragon – Human Bond Part Two

    ByMorgan A. Drake October 30, 2025October 28, 2025

    The clans can predict the convergence seasons—late spring and early autumn—but the exact timing varies by days or even weeks. Storm-callers monitor the conditions obsessively. Weather-readers watch for the telltale signs. Everyone waits.

    Read More The Dragon – Human Bond Part TwoContinue

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    • Chart Your Course
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    • The Stormwall
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    • Fathoms Deep – Myths Legends & Craft
    • Beautifully Dead – a Paranormal Romance
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