“Dark Inheritance: Journey to Kos City,” an exciting 100-page swords-and-sorcery fantasy novella by author Chris Van Deelen, follows Half-Drow Jaeger, Orc-blood Jarem, and Tiefling Viya as they are dispatched on a mission for the Five Animals Monastery that is their home. And, while they are prepared for hazards like bandits and wild beasts, the unfamiliar environment of cities and those that inhabit them might pose the greatest challenges to the young companions …

“Dark Inheritance: Journey to Kos City” takes place in the Swords of Kos Fantasy Campaign Setting, a swords-and-sorcery milieu set in a Dark Ages fantasy version of the Mediterranean and the lands surrounding it. A century after a Great Cataclysm destroyed the old world, plunged it into chaos, and reawakened magic and all form of ancient races and monsters, the agents of Gods and Titans struggle against each other, nations struggle to survive and flourish, and adventurers descend into the ruins in search of wealth and forgotten knowledge.