This free short story is a prelude to the events of "The Prometheus Cycle: the Star, the Sword, and the Mirror" and focuses on two characters from the novel. In this story, the Legion and the Navy has set to rid the Southern Seas of pirates and organized crime but find foes more than their match.

The free short story preludes the events of the novel "The Prometheus Cycle: the Star, the Sword, and the Mirror" and focuses on the eastern duchy of Stormdrang, and an agent of the Crimson Captain (alluded to in Prometheus' First Steps) as she searches for evidence to bring a traitor to justice.

Lanie, Leo and Pensey were on the cusp of adulthood in Ostir Sanctuary on the Penury Coast, the most northwestern province of the Realm, a bulwark of order in a world of violence, witchcraft, and necromancers. After one fateful fall, Lanie and Pensey are suspected of witchcraft, and with their friend Leo (the only Catiin in the sanctuary) they flee from Inquisitors and their Dog Soldiers into the wilderness. This is a coming of age story, full of hard truths, of mysteries that if unraveled...

This free short story is a prelude to the novel "The Prometheus Cycle: the Star, the Sword, and the Mirror." This is the closest "folk tale" in the Realm, as told by an agent of a foreign government recruiting merchants against the Realm's interests by using forbidden pagan stories to undermine the Church of Elene. This is a variation of the same folk tale in the novel, and the contrasts are based on time, culture and changes in the oral tradition.

This free short story is a prelude to the novel "The Prometheus Cycle: The Star, the Sword, and the Mirror" and details the origins of a character from the novel. This story takes place a few years before the events of the novel, and is the only first person narration of any of the short stories, which centers on a slave's life in the Realm.

One of several free to read short stories for the upcoming "The Prometheus Cycle: The Star, the Sword and the Mirror", the North Wind is one of the possible beginnings to the novel for one of the characters in the novel. The North Wind is set many years before the events of the novel, and center on a young girl's life in a wilderness village that possesses a dark secret.

This free short story is a prelude to the events of the novel "The Prometheus Cycle: the Star, the Sword, and the Mirror" and is the only one of the free short stories that does not center on a novel character's origin... but rather, gives a glimpse into the Bleak East, and the mysterious events of the ill fated campaign against the Necromancers by the last High King of the Realm. This is a survivor's story of that dread campaign. Readers of the novel will see a direct connection to Danae ...