This fantasy fiction short story looks at a chaotic annual street festival through the eyes of a veteran guard officer trying to keep order in his particularly troublesome area of the city! Join Captain Ivan Pieger, commander of the prestigious Hippodrome Commanderie, as he tries to put together the pieces of incidents that have caught his attention and deals with the 100th annual celebration of the victory of the Olympian Gods over the Titans. 

This story is by author Michael O. Varhola and has illustrations by artists Amanda Kahl and William T. Thrasher.

“Hekaton” takes place in the Swords of Kos Fantasy Campaign Setting, a swords-and-sorcery milieu set in a Dark Ages fantasy version of the Aegean 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 strive to survive or dominate one another, and adventurers descend into the ruins in search of wealth and lost technology.