NightForge After Dark — Dark Fantasy HaremLit Audio Fiction

S. A. Vale
  • 0.0 (0)
  • Science Fiction

He had one rule...never drink what you didn't pour. Then a priestess walked into his tent for a goddess's stolen veil, took off her silver crescents one by one...and stayed until dawn. When she left, the mark on his wrist had gone dark. In Carthage, even pleasure keeps a ledger.NIGHTFORGE AFTER DARK is the companion show to The Carthage Cycle...grimdark historical fantasy set in the real Truceless War of 240 BC, when the richest city on earth refused to pay its own army.  Lore by firelight, myths of the two temples, readings from the dark.  The books live in Kindle Unlimited. The world you seek lives here.🛡️ Read every book free before the world does: nightforgeafterdark.com/gatekeepers18+. Epic worlds. Dangerous desire. Mind the dark.

  1. 3d ago

    Chapter 4: The Unpaid | The Jackal of Carthage | The Carthage Cycle

    The wall comes down. The unpaid go through the breach. Then the whole camp starts saying one name. A ram made of a wagon axle and three hundred shoulders. A supply officer trying to burn the garrison's books in a brazier, and the foundling who tips the brazier over and lets him live. A young officer at the postern gate who says "I have a son" with a knife at his ribs, and the thirty men behind him who lay their spears down on the stone. A Numidian king on the ridge with thirty-one riders, deciding how long the foundling will last. Wine poured into helmets, a Libyan woman with a blue spiral on her cheek, two quarter-shekels, and sex against the side of a supply wagon. And at the edge of the firelight, Aza sorting clipped coins, hearing the name Kadmar for the first time, then again, and again. Chapter Four of THE JACKAL OF CARTHAGE, read in full. New chapter every Thursday at ten. The magic, myths, and world of Carthage every Tuesday. Grab your copies of The Plague of Carthage and The Viper of Carthage before they are released at: https://books.nightforgeafterdark.com/ebook-carthage-v2/ THE JACKAL OF CARTHAGE is live: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HGBZF3VS Book Two, THE KNIFE OF CARTHAGE, is out under the full moon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HKTGSZFN

    Chapter 4: The Unpaid | The Jackal of Carthage | The Carthage Cycle

  2. 5d ago

    The Book of Prices: What the Fire Charges | Inside the Fire Temple of The Jackal of Carthage | Dark Fantasy Harem Lore

    There is a book in Carthage nobody is allowed to read. It has three columns: Favour, Cost, Client. The Cost column is never blank. Tonight you climb the steps of the fire god's temple while the drum is beating, and I tell you what the drum is for. The bronze bull with a furnace in its belly. The two smokes over the road that never meet. A grain-shipper buying a southwesterly wind for eight silver shekels, counted onto a stone tray under a priest's thumbnail, with a clay receipt and no prayer. The moon's temple across the road gives on credit and sends perfumed reminders; the fire sells outright and collects while you are still in the building. The ledger on its lectern, written in ink ground with furnace ash so the entries never fade. What the fire is fed, from lamp oil to the thing behind the precinct wall that the city agrees to hear as a drum. A general who bought a complete victory for forty-three talents of silver, twelve of gold and six hundred of the enemy's dead left unburied, and came back the morning after to read what he had already paid. A trader who sailed for Utica owing, and the priest who was waiting on the dock with the bill itemised down to the ink. And the last line in the book: Favour, the city. Cost, recorded. Client, blank. Grab your copies of The Plague of Carthage and The Viper of Carthage before they are released at: https://books.nightforgeafterdark.com/ebook-carthage-v2/ THE JACKAL OF CARTHAGE is live: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HGBZF3VS Book Two, THE KNIFE OF CARTHAGE, is out under the full moon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HKTGSZFN

    The Book of Prices: What the Fire Charges | Inside the Fire Temple of The Jackal of Carthage | Dark Fantasy Harem Lore

  3. Oct 14

    Megara: The Garden That Fed an Army | Walk the Estate Where The Jackal of Carthage Begins

    Pools lined with blue stone. Fish with gold rings in their mouths. A hundred lamps hung in the trees like a second sky. And on one night when the moon rose wrong, the richest house in Carthage threw a feast for the army it would not pay...and the army ate the fish. Tonight you are not a listener. You are a spearman three months unpaid, walking up the black sand into Megara with ten thousand men behind you. The steward who counts you in like grain. The Libyan who takes a sacred carp out of Tanit's pool and bills it to Hamilcar. The moon that goes out of the water, one fish at a time. The door with the moon-lamp that frosts a man's shoulder for trying it. The bill, read aloud at the table: forty jars, six oxen, a hundred lamps, three hundred staters, two hundred and forty months of pay for one night. The three wines: the red the Gauls found, the white the Syrian hid, and the temple-sweet that should never have left the sanctuary, and what it does to the men who drink it in the lily beds. The lions, and the Gaul who should have listened to the keeper. The elephant they call the patient one. And the steward at dawn, writing zero where the goddess's fish used to be. The war began in a garden, over wine. This is the garden. Read Book One, THE JACKAL OF CARTHAGE: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HGBZF3VS Book Two, THE KNIFE OF CARTHAGE: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HKTGSZFN 🚪 Come through the gate and go further in than a book can take you: the bonus nights, the camp tales, and every book early. NightForgeAfterDark.com

  4. Oct 9

    Chapter 3: Sicca | The Jackal of Carthage (Season 1, Episode 13) | Historical Harem Fantasy

    The city has moved its army a hundred miles inland, to a town where an army can be forgotten. Winter is coming. The pay is not. Under a fine awning, a kindly old man with linen-wrapped hands explains the arithmetic of a discount to a mercenary captain who counts better than he does...warmly, correctly, smiling the whole time. Chapter Three of THE JACKAL OF CARTHAGE, read in full. New chapter every Thursday at ten. The magic, myths, and world of Carthage every Tuesday. THE JACKAL OF CARTHAGE is live: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HGBZF3VS Book Two, THE KNIFE OF CARTHAGE, is out under the full moon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HKTGSZFN 🚪 Come through the gate and go further in than a book can take you: the bonus nights, the camp tales, and every book early. NightForgeAfterDark.com

    Chapter 3: Sicca | The Jackal of Carthage (Season 1, Episode 13) | Historical Harem Fantasy

  5. Oct 7

    The Household: The Laws of a Harem That Holds | Why Six Women Don't Fight Over One Man | The Jackal of Carthage

    Behind a door with a moon-lamp burning lives a house where that does not happen...not because the women are nice, but because they have rules. Tonight: the six laws of the Hold, which is what the camp calls the Household once it has watched it hold. The cloak that was halved instead of fought over. The fifth kept, and why the Hold has no common purse. The lamp, who lights it, and the night it was first lit against a wall. A promise made in the dark that had six owners by breakfast. The box nobody opens, and the night somebody did. The man who sits outside the door until dawn. And the one thing the six have in common, which is not him... THE JACKAL OF CARTHAGE is live: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HGBZF3VS Book Two, THE KNIFE OF CARTHAGE, is out under the full moon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HKTGSZFN 🚪 Come through the gate and go further in than a book can take you: the bonus nights, the camp tales, and every book early. www.NightForgeAfterDark.com GET BOOK #1 - THE JACKAL OF CARTHAGE - ON AMAZON Book #2 - The Knife of Carthage is also now available. HEAR THE CITY - VIA PODCASTDrop into the world of Carthage. A new descent each Thursday, 10PM Eastern. WALK THE CAMP - ON XDispatches, art, and the occasional atrocity. --- Content: violence, erotica, blood rites, disturbing imagery. 18+. Epic Worlds. Dangerous Desire. Mind the Dark.

    The Household: The Laws of a Harem That Holds | Why Six Women Don't Fight Over One Man | The Jackal of Carthage

  6. Oct 2

    Chapter 2: The Moon Descends | The Jackal of Carthage (Book #1) - Historical Fantasy Harem Adventure

    The feast is over and the wreckage is being counted. The city sends its holiest daughter down from the hill to reclaim what the army took from the goddess. A priestess in white linen and silver crescents walks into a camp of ten thousand unpaid men. Kadmar has one rule. She has not heard it yet. Chapter Two of THE JACKAL OF CARTHAGE, read in full. New chapter every Thursday at ten. The magic, myths, and world of Carthage every Tuesday. THE JACKAL OF CARTHAGE is live: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HGBZF3VS Book Two, THE KNIFE OF CARTHAGE, is out under the full moon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HKTGSZFN 🚪 Come through the gate and go further in than a book can take you: the bonus nights, the camp tales, and every book early. www.NightForgeAfterDark.com GET BOOK #1 - THE JACKAL OF CARTHAGE - ON AMAZON Book #2 - The Knife of Carthage is also now available. HEAR THE CITY - VIA PODCASTDrop into the world of Carthage. A new descent each Thursday, 10PM Eastern. WALK THE CAMP - ON XDispatches, art, and the occasional atrocity. --- Content: violence, erotica, blood rites, disturbing imagery. 18+. Epic Worlds. Dangerous Desire. Mind the Dark.

    Chapter 2: The Moon Descends | The Jackal of Carthage (Book #1) - Historical Fantasy Harem Adventure

  7. Sep 30

    The Hundred: The Soldiers' Deck | How a Card Game Tells Your Fortune in Carthage | The Jackal of Carthage

    Fifty-three cards, and they call it the Hundred. Four suits that are the whole world in miniature: Moons for what is kept, Fires for what is spent, Coins for what is owed, Knives for who collects. And one law above the others: the last hand of the night is never played. It is read. Tonight: the deck the ten thousand carried, the wild Jackal the table rules on after it lands, the table laws, how gambling became fortune-telling in one winter at Sicca, three worked readings, and why the Council banned the deck inside the walls and failed. THE JACKAL OF CARTHAGE is live: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HGBZF3VS Book Two, THE KNIFE OF CARTHAGE, is out under the full moon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HKTGSZFN 🚪 Come through the gate and go further in than a book can take you: the bonus nights, the camp tales, and every book early. www.NightForgeAfterDark.com GET BOOK #1 - THE JACKAL OF CARTHAGE - ON AMAZON Book #2 - The Knife of Carthage is also now available. HEAR THE CITY - VIA PODCASTDrop into the world of Carthage. A new descent each Thursday, 10PM Eastern. WALK THE CAMP - ON XDispatches, art, and the occasional atrocity. --- Content: violence, erotica, blood rites, disturbing imagery. 18+. Epic Worlds. Dangerous Desire. Mind the Dark.

    The Hundred: The Soldiers' Deck | How a Card Game Tells Your Fortune in Carthage | The Jackal of Carthage

  8. Sep 25

    Chapter 1: The Feast | The Jackal of Carthage | A Dark Historical Fantasy Harem Adventure

    The richest city on earth has thrown a feast for the army it cannot pay. Gauls with lime in their hair, slingers dicing on the couches, wine that was never meant to leave the sanctuary. And a foundling captain named Kadmar, sitting where he can see every exit, with one rule he has never broken. Chapter One of THE JACKAL OF CARTHAGE, read in full.  New chapter every Thursday at ten. The magic, myths, and world of Carthage every Tuesday. THE JACKAL OF CARTHAGE is live: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HGBZF3VSBook Two, THE KNIFE OF CARTHAGE, lands Saturday, 26th of September, under the full moon. 🚪 Come through the gate and go further in than a book can take you: the bonus nights, the camp tales, and every book early. www.NightForgeAfterDark.com GET BOOK #1 - THE JACKAL OF CARTHAGE - ON AMAZON Book #2 - The Knife of Carthage is also now available. HEAR THE CITY - VIA PODCASTDrop into the world of Carthage. A new descent each Thursday, 10PM Eastern. WALK THE CAMP - ON XDispatches, art, and the occasional atrocity. --- Content: violence, erotica, blood rites, disturbing imagery. 18+. Epic Worlds. Dangerous Desire. Mind the Dark.

    Chapter 1: The Feast | The Jackal of Carthage | A Dark Historical Fantasy Harem Adventure
See All (16)

Trailer

About

He had one rule...never drink what you didn't pour. Then a priestess walked into his tent for a goddess's stolen veil, took off her silver crescents one by one...and stayed until dawn. When she left, the mark on his wrist had gone dark. In Carthage, even pleasure keeps a ledger.NIGHTFORGE AFTER DARK is the companion show to The Carthage Cycle...grimdark historical fantasy set in the real Truceless War of 240 BC, when the richest city on earth refused to pay its own army.  Lore by firelight, myths of the two temples, readings from the dark.  The books live in Kindle Unlimited. The world you seek lives here.🛡️ Read every book free before the world does: nightforgeafterdark.com/gatekeepers18+. Epic worlds. Dangerous desire. Mind the dark.

Information