Skirmisher Publishing is pleased to announce its release of “To the Dragon Apeiron,” a darkly quirky short story by author and artist Lissanne Lake that includes more than 20 illustrations by her! It is available by itself for just $1.49 at DriveThruRPG and DriveThruFiction and as part of a 50% off Recent Releases Bundle, a 50% off Swords of Kos Fantasy Fiction Bundle, a 51% off Swords of Kos Fantasy Campaign Setting Universal Bundle, and a 70% off Swords of Kos Fantasy Campaign Setting Bundle.

Once, it is said, the dragon Apeiron rained fire and terror over Kos and the lands around it. Once, but no longer, and so long ago it is in the realm of fables. It is said that the wisest of the wise, the magos, the priests, struck with it a bargain. It waited in its lair in the rocky pinnacle-isle of Stongyli in the Karpathian Sea, and was sent such tribute as adventurers could only dream of.

Yet the last time the tribute was sent some decades ago, to the little island eight miles south of the coastal Koan village of Kardemena, for the first time the dragon Apeiron was absent. Gone after seeming aeons, the oracles say, and none could divine where ...