Isobel can sense the source of an illness or extent of an injury with a touch of her hands. The “laying on of hands” Nigel references in Chapter 6 of Legend of the Storm Hawks is a hint of this type of mindgift. Empaths are intuitive healers, able to...

Ashlon is the first mindspeaker portrayed in Legend of the Storm Hawks. The mindgift he sought to awaken with his vow of silence bursts free in the crucible of danger. Mindspeakers are free telepaths. They are able to project their words into almost anyone’s mind, not only those with...

Mindriding is the telepathic projection of one’s will onto another creature. The mindgift often manifests as a talent for training collies, birds, or horses. Someone with the mindriding gift is called a mindrider. As with other forms of telepathy, this evolutionary adaptation augments the awareness of the subliminal collective...

Farsight is one of the more common of the mindgifts and the earliest to be recognized as such. Like many of the mindgifts, it appears most often though not exclusively in the Aurel bloodlines. Farsight is a genetic adaptation of the light receptors in human eyes and augments the...

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An ember burns crimson beneath the black coals. A fire left for dead, forgotten. I crouch and cup my hands. I remember its promise. In the rush of my breath, the ember glows brighter. It remembers, too. Nigel WilloughbyLegend of the Storm Hawks...

Georgia’s Altamaha River inspired one of my favorite settings in Tallu. The river is depicted as deeper and wider in Rootstock and maybe not in exactly the same location as you’d find on a map in our cycle. Known as Georgia’s Little Amazon, the Altamaha is a majestic, other-worldly...