This month, the Monthly Topics (abbreviated as MTs) are hosted by the Herald.

The Ties that Bind - (Prose)

Throughout everyone's lives, things can happen that call you back to your old life, before the brotherhood. I want you to explore what that might have been for your character, and what happened that brought you back to Antei.

Requirements: 2 pages, TNR 12 pt (7000 characters on average)

Judged on: Character development, readability

Awards: Second Level Crescents

Silence - (Poetry)

When the world goes quiet, there's nothing left besides you and your demons. What haunts you?

Requirements: 10 lines minimum.

Judged on: Emotive content, readability, language usage.

Awards: Second Level Crescents

Artifact Hunt - (Graphic)

Design a wicked-looking Artifact, be it an amulet, ring, bracer. If you have a power in mind for it, try to make that reflect in the item, but don't tell me what it is in your submission.

Requirements: 400 x 400 minimum Jpeg or gif, black background.

Judged on: Sheer wickedness

Awards: Second Level Crescents

All of these are due in my email muz.ashen(at)gmail(dot)com by 11:59 pm EST, the 8th of May, 2006.

Good luck!