Kris Tells Veers: The Dark Tower (Dauðrskalla)

Kris Tells Veers: The Dark Tower (Dauðrskalla)

Some structures are built. Others are fed. In this episode of Kris Tells Veers, Kristof and Bruce Veers travel to Dod, a grim world where a black spire known as Dauðrskalla — the Skull of Death has been growing for seventy years. What began as a handful of stones has become a living tower, rising higher with every failed crusade sent into its depths. Through interviews with historians, soldiers, cartographers, survivors, and planar scholars, the truth emerges: the Tower does not simply kill. It consumes, transforms, and recycles. From its halls come whispers, prayers spoken against the will, and creatures known as Void Knights — soldiers of black ichor and bone that vanish their victims entirely. At the summit lies something worse: a sealed demiplane, dragon-like figures tending the Tower’s growth, and a prophecy tied to the Hollow Star and a coming coronation. Whether Dauðrskalla is a weapon, a crown, or a precursor to the end of light itself remains unclear. One thing is certain: The Tower is still growing. And the climb continues. 📜 Read along while you listen: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1IKR2Rzb3K12u-etfraj5_dyEIvD-JUojR2mRDzW3PfM/edit?usp=sharing [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1IKR2Rzb3K12u-etfraj5_dyEIvD-JUojR2mRDzW3PfM/edit?usp=sharing] Main Hosts * Kristof (Kris) — Trever Shirin * Bruce Veers — Peter R. Jordahl Featured Voices * The Voice of the Tower — JeremiahVO * Meret Var (Court Historian) — Jill Fate * Captain Brann Kuld — Cullen Malley * Runa Vex (Cartographer) — Skelly Wabbit * Eir Faldur (Clergy of Schleswig) — BreadAcres * Tor Halvig (Tower Survivor) — JazzCat [https://www.castingcall.club/jazzcat] * Professor Veyra Lorn — Adam Brighter * Sibilance (Oracle of Wildspace) — Jill Fate * Dragonborn / Children of the Hollow Star — Skelly Wabbit, Kaitlyn Jenkins [(https://www.castingcall.club/kaitlyn_jenkins)], Ounheuane Doan, Isaac Atlas, [isaacatlas.com] Autumn Black, Jald_Ve [https://www.castingcall.club/the_vald], and Trever Shirin

Kris Tells Veers: Franklin's Freights

What if the multiverse’s most powerful force wasn’t magic… but logistics? In this episode of Kris Tells Veers, Kristof and Bruce Veers investigate Franklin’s Freights, the chronotemporal delivery company that promises to get your gear anywhere, anywhen—even before you realize you need it. From goblin couriers trained to withstand dimensional stress, to coupons that summon replacement swords mid-battle, Franklin’s has quietly reshaped adventuring economics across the Crystal Spheres. Listeners will hear firsthand accounts from Franklin himself, temporal operations staff, R&D potion developers, satisfied (and surprisingly cheerful) customers, and at least one deeply tired interplanar economist. Along the way, Kris and Bruce explore paradox-proof shipping corridors, prophetic business plans, experimental magic with feedback forms, and the unsettling realization that the universe may already have an auditor. Fast, funny, and just a little causally unstable, this episode delivers everything you didn’t know you were about to order. 📜 Read along while you listen: https://docs.google.com/document/d/15gK_705ON8KuGBg9RHOfzLkx2ivbQBUE4na5Cb5-QB4/edit?usp=sharing [https://docs.google.com/document/d/15gK_705ON8KuGBg9RHOfzLkx2ivbQBUE4na5Cb5-QB4/edit?usp=sharing] Main Hosts * Kristof (Kris) — Trever Shirin * Bruce Veers — Peter R. Jordahl Featured Voices * Franklin — Lee Cherolis * Jax Marr — Bruce Johnson * Trixa Boondle — Amy Lam * Captain Orla Venn — Steven DuChene [http://www.linkedin.com/in/steven-duchene-394b14378] * Professor Nim Wizzlebrass — @Rattonmoon * Pippa Quickwick — K.B. Inkerjinxx [https://tinkerjinxxsocials.carrd.co/] * Reginald Bex — Jake Serba * Lester Festering — Liebou-Vo * Sane, Magic Assessor — Peter R. Jordahl * Booby the Mascot (jingle) — Mackinmeat [https://www.youtube.com/@Mackinmeat]

Kris Tells Veers: Ezili

Today on Kris Tells Veers, Kristof and Bruce Veers explore a world that should not exist — and yet sails on. Ezili, the Lost Ocean, is a fractured remnant of a once-whole planet: a disk of endless sea drifting through Wildspace, its waterfalls freezing as they spill into the void, its sky glowing red from a sun beneath the world. What begins as a maritime curiosity quickly becomes something far more ominous as Kris and Bruce uncover Ezili’s harsh legal order, iron-fisted fortress-courts, wandering sisterhoods of faith, and a culture shaped by constant daylight, steam storms, and inherited catastrophe. As the episode unfolds, the mystery deepens. Songs hint at a forgotten origin. Scholars trace Ezili’s impossible trajectory. And the trail leads inexorably back to Cella-Five — a dracocratic world of dragon-knights, ancient gods, and a catastrophic casting that tore a planet in two. At the heart of it all lies a buried truth: Ezili is not drifting aimlessly. It is moving home. This is the beginning of a larger story — one of planetary exile, divine imprisonment, and a reckoning centuries in the making. 📜 Read along while you listen: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1eLajC5SRYbSgQn3g3aoqzym3-OnZ33ShG_xhU8DDGTg/edit?usp=sharing [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1eLajC5SRYbSgQn3g3aoqzym3-OnZ33ShG_xhU8DDGTg/edit?usp=sharing] Main Hosts * Kristof (Kris) — Trever Shirin * Bruce Veers — Peter R. Jordahl Featured Voices * Myra Tross — Natasha Van Meter [https://www.castingcall.club/thesilvercodex] * Oswald Stormhammer — Cliff Jones * Queen Anne Wellwater II — Sian Blatch * Sisterhood Scout — Amy Lam * Idonea (Bard of Hanlan) — Amanda Newkirk * Scholar Glynn — DadAboveAll [https://www.castingcall.club/cappinski] * Professor Veyra Lorn — LewRexVox * Sir Thalmerax — Pryce Cleaver [https://www.prycecleaver.com/] * High Magister Pleneth — David Wamala * Lady Carinth — Amanda Ahl * Veliss Tenhand — LewRexVox * Narrator — Amanda Berringer [Captain Judge Segment — Trey Taylor] * * Captain Judge Segment — Trey Taylor

Kris Tells Veers: Aethera

Kris Tells Veers: Aethera — The World of Six Times What happens when a world refuses to move forward in a single timeline? In this episode of Kris Tells Veers, Kristof and Bruce turn their attention to Aethera, a crystal sphere fractured across six overlapping Ages. From the mythic dawn of the Shapers, to the radiant optimism of the Auroran Empire, through divine collapse, heroic defiance, and into the bleak wisdom of the Sixth Age, Aethera exists as layered history made manifest. Travelers don’t arrive where they intend, economies collapse across centuries at once, and destiny competes with sheer dumb luck. Along the way, voices from across Aethera’s Ages weigh in: scholars, heroes, economists, and survivors of apocalypse, each offering a perspective shaped by their era. At the center of it all lies a haunting truth: Aethera remembers everything, and it refuses to let any of it go. If you enjoy cosmic lore, layered timelines, and dry commentary on the inevitability of collapse, this dispatch from the Crystal Spheres is for you. 📜 Read along while you listen: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ypxHsiy2X9yK8xAeCHgTQ7G9V8LkXi4TiuJnRkGSzKk/edit?usp=sharing [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ypxHsiy2X9yK8xAeCHgTQ7G9V8LkXi4TiuJnRkGSzKk/edit?usp=sharing] Main Hosts * Kristof (Kris) — Trever Shirin * Bruce Veers — Peter R. Jordahl Featured Voices from Aethera * Vagabundus — Matt Weight [https://linktr.ee/mattjweight] * Reginald Bex — Jake Serba * Benignus — Vixere * Callidus Dux — Travis Himebaugh * Bertrand Ranke — Neonredmask [https://www.castingcall.club/Sricks] * Professor Veyra Lorn — Adam Brighter * Gladiimitis — Alexander Von Everec * Vir Ferrum — Jordan Anderson * Franklin — Lee Cherolis

Origins: Session 21 & 22 Recaps

After days of planning, overplanning, and congratulating themselves for planning, the crew finally executes their rescue of Aiden from Magistrate Dorn’s compound. Diane is moved safely to Ogrid’s ahead of time, a new Waystation door is installed at Large Luigi’s as an extraction route, and the infiltration begins—not through the heavily fortified wall they obsessed over, but via a deceptively simple aquatic approach involving waterfalls, swimming, and questionable physics. Once inside, subtlety immediately gives way to overwhelming force. Fireballs detonate in confined hallways, enemies are erased en masse, and Pater’s arcane decision-making proves both devastatingly effective and deeply controversial when Aidien’s throat is slashed mid-combat—only for him to survive through sheer magical stubbornness and timely intervention. Amid the chaos, Enestra’s web, Umbraxys transformations, and wildly efficient spellcasting turn the compound into a smoking ruin. The mission succeeds: Aidien is rescued, Dorn’s forces are broken, and the party escapes through the Waystation as planned. In the aftermath, Aiden and Diane are reunited with family and temporarily settle into safety, where long-buried truths surface—most notably the revelation that Saoirse’s uncle is, in fact, her biological father, adding yet another layer to an already labyrinthine family history. With Bral cooling down, Aidien begins exploring enchantment work alongside Saoirse’s mothers, while the rest of the crew regroups, flush with newly discovered gold thanks to Kestia’s blistering speed and improbable athletic feats. As ship repairs are paid off and theories spiral about weaponized movement, spell-stacking, and the terrifying potential of a hasted, enlarged runner, the arc closes not with mourning or dread, but with momentum. The rescue is complete, the family is (mostly) safe, and the party stands stronger, richer, and faster than ever—ready to turn their attention towards the planet of Aethera. Trever Shirin: Dungeon Master Ryan Lasley: Pater Coal (Human Wizard) Hannah Lasley: Kestia Brevyn (Halfling Monk) Noah Chaney: Enestra (Astral Elf Artificer) Eliana Taylor: Saoirse Arad (Elf Sorcerer) Caleb Shirin: Captain Anne (Goliath Warlock)