title: Elemental Rancor: A Chronicle of Consequence
author: Charles A Lominec
description: My five-year-old daughter asked me to attach a small knit blanket to her shirt so she could have a cape. Once the cape was secure, she turned on me and began an epic battle. Her little fists punched with imaginary yet primordial force as she proclaimed, "I'm going to take you to jail bad guy!" It was a concentrated dose of joy to see my daughter love the same stories that I love. Super-heroes, science-fiction, modern and historic fantasy have all held special places in my heart and have inspired my imagination for a world better than the one we have. While studying Philosophy and History at Florida State University, I spent a lot of my free time writing stories for numerous role-playing games with which I was involved. Eventually, I took my love for Philosophy, story-telling, and writing; and wrote my debut novel.
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  The Elemental Heist
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Five men gathered around a flagon of wine. Well, it was not a real flagon;
  real flagons would not lower themselves to the standards of the establishment
  these five chose to gather in. In fact, the wine was of so poor a quality it
  qualified to be prized vinegar to season the drinkers’ throats rather than
  palate them. So, to recapture the image, five men were gathered around a
  flagon of nothing that resembles wine.
  
  
  Outside, brown dirty rain kept on its journey forever downwards and sometimes
  sideways, flooding the muddy streets of Haboria the capital city of the
  opulent kingdom of Moloria with an impressive layer of brown slush which
  passersby couldn’t really distinguish wither it came from the bowels of hell
  below or fell on their heads from above. Except in the area surrounding the
  temple of the elements three hundred cubits away, where the most adapted of
  all elemental sorcerers kept residence, studied and gran