Anthologies of Ullord: The Gifting Spirit

By Nikki Flynn and Edwin Dantes

Following the tale of a wish-granting creature, Yurius and his friends visit the village where the legend originated with the hopes of learning more or seeing the creature.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Nikki Flynn
• Release date: Nov 16, 2021
• ISBN: 9781005926816

Nikki Flynn

Nikki Flynn is an author who predominantly writes in the fantasy genre. She has written Chronicles of Fhaerythe (ongoing) and the Grim series (ongoing); Flynn co-authored Anthologies of Ullord (ongoing). Her writing includes novella through novel-length works and audio fiction episode scripts.Flynn has been writing most of her life. She wanted to share her ideas and worlds with others. After continuously writing and learning she took creative writing courses in college to sharpen her storytelling skills. Flynn has a master’s degree in criminal behavior and has added various fiction works to her author bookshelf since. Flynn incorporates her background in psychology and human behavior into her character writing.

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Anthologies of Ullord: The Gifting Spirit

Published by Nikki Flynn & Edwin Dantes at Smashwords

Copyright 2021 Nikki Flynn & Edwin Dantes

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Prologue/Excerpt from The Spirit of Giving

In the world of Ullord, there are legends and myths about the gods that rule the mortal plane. The domains and natures of these beings have become understood by their mortal worshippers over time and the truths of the divine rulers of the plane are documented in temples and libraries.

Belief begets results and results beget belief. This instills faith, and sometimes fear, in the mortals whose fates are often dictated by the gods. The gods manipulate and influence mortal affairs with an invisible nudge and sometimes this want for a locus of control causes a god to willingly take mortal form to make changes with their own hands. Other times, these beings want to see firsthand just what turmoils and triumphs are experienced by mortals. Gods, to varying degrees, do find mortals entertaining to watch, and thus our plights are endearing to those beings who watch from beyond the starry skies.

Still, we have beliefs that create things that are not quite gods. Beliefs that children have that manifest monsters in dark corners of the mortal plane ranging from faraway tundras of the north to the highest mountains to the crevices in closets and beneath beds. It is like a child to fear the dark and to imagine the most horrific sights lying in places we cannot see or perceive because Barbas, the god of fears, wants us to be wary of the possibility that we may take our last breath too soon; we as adults instead replace the fangs and antennae of these mysterious monsters with failure, embarrassment and shattered dreams. Our fears regarding these concepts are so varied that there is no one monster that represents these ideas, save for adulthood and life itself.

And from our fears in adulthood we seek the wonder, imagination and lack of behavioral expectations we had as children. But, wishing as much as one could to revert to a simpler time in childhood, those seem to be but the imaginary tales of the wistful who find themselves unsatisfied with what life, in all its splendor, has to offer. This is a sad truth of the mortal mind that we ponder reliving times we know we can enjoy and overcome. But, sadder yet is the mundane wishes and banal imaginations of children who know not the wonders of childhood, but instead