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Series Lore at World Anvil

A.S. Etaski — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 23:26:32 -0500

Where the Dragons Dream.

Check out the official series lore for Sister Seekers! Here, you can explore the setting as it expands with each new article.

Etaski's Patrons also have access to additional content created for Etaski's second epic, the God Wars, and various Extras (hidden scenes, layers to the map, additional insights and history).

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A.S. Etaski — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000

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Wanna see who inspired me? Epics Worth the Experience

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Dropping into the Abyss! I brought some rope.

A.S. Etaski — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000

So, what is all this?

Well, you're at the website of a persistent fantasy author sharing her sprawling world, nerdy ponderings, and creative extras as she rewrites the "first draft" of a 3-million-word Dark Epic Fantasy into one continuous, multi-faceted 20-book series.

(takes breath)

Hiya! :) I'm Etaski.

I love LOTR, fantasy races, worldbuilding, and have played D&D for over 20 years. My inspirations for telling stories and writing epics are:

ElfQuest (WaRP comics, fantasy adventure, Wendy and Richard Pini),
The Dragon Prince series (novels, high fantasy romance, Melanie Rawn)
The Sandman (Vertigo comics, dark fantasy, Niel Gaiman),
Babylon 5 (90s TV series, space opera, J Michael Straczynski).

Cheers and Gratitude to my patrons proudly supporting the project since 2015 when I was still writing smut on a free story site! You are the reason I'm still here!

No Demons But Us (Book 1) launched in 2018, and we are over halfway through Sister Seekers now!

I'm in so deep that sometimes I forget how overwhelming this page can look to someone just stepping in.

I put together an "On Ramp" FAQ for parsing what I've got here.

What are the Themes and Tropes?

found family · queer · bisexual · lesbian · warrior/gifted heroine · dark elves · demons · survival · primal play · matriarchy · political/court intrigue · action · graphic violence · first person pov · non-human heroine · polyamorous · horror · high fantasy · epic length

What is the Spice Level?

explicit · open door · plentiful

Expect sex to be part of life, warts and all, and to serve the story.

What are the Content Warnings?

past sexual abuse · sexual assault · militant brutality · torture of MCs and side characters · forced pregnancy · body betrayal · mental trauma · religious trauma · abuse of power

Worth Noting:

The series is for mature audiences and reader discretion is advised, but I'm also not writing 20 gratuitous books of those content warnings. :P Dominance and power games is where we start in the first trilogy, what helps define the opening worldview, the obstacles, and the ongoing struggles of the characters.

It's a big story in a big world, and things change a lot from where they begin. My goal is to explore what it means to survive, and to thrive, and do the characters justice.

Where To Find the Books?

Etaski's patrons receive the official books and anthologies, plus exclusive stories and early release WIP chapters through BookFunnel. Most can be read with the app of your choice, though some are exclusive to the BookFunnel app.

Sister Seekers and Tales of Miurag are also available through most major retailers.

Find the Series in Your Favorite Retail Store

Suggested Reading Order?

Start with your choice of:

the prequel "Sons to Keep" for a sense of the city power structure, introducing important characters and some of their secrets in the first trilogy.
dive straight in to Book 1: No Demons But Us to make discoveries blind from Sirana's POV.

Reading Sister Seekers 1-11 in order is recommended.

Sister Seekers Books 12-20 are in the works. Patrons have already funded all 20 custom book covers, all created by graphic artist and bestselling author, Eris Adderly.

While the latter half of the epic is being written, patrons can continue reading the first draft of the story through Etaski's Patreon, exclusively on BookFunnel. Expect a lot of character updates but the major events remain the same. :)

Once the Sister Seekers epic is complete, a second epic, The God Wars, continues the story, expanding the world of Miurag and its high level movers and shakers. There are currently 6 completed books in this series and exclusive to patrons until Sister Seekers is finished.

Tales of Miurag anthologies are best experienced mid-epic:

The Deepearth: Anytime after Sister Seekers Book 8: Battle for Manalar
The Desert: Anytime after Sister Seekers Book 9: Awake in the Dark
Death: Anytime after Sister Seekers Book 10: Shadows & Hounds

More anthologies are to come as the exclusive stories are collected for publication!

Where To Chat with Fans About the Series?

Patrons can join my private Discord. It's my favorite place to chatter and interact because I don't have to wear my marketing hat. :)

Free Tier Members also have a Group Chat on Patreon. It's new! :D

I'm on a boatload of social media and book reader sites as well, though my core audience is focused here at Patreon.

I think that's all the big overview stuff! ^_^

Did I Miss Something? Ask Me a Question through my Contact form!

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Enjoy a Dramatic Reading from “No Demons But Us”!

A.S. Etaski — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Originally Posted February 10, 2020.

I have a love affair with audiobooks; I dream of having time to dabble with the format.

I also appreciate good voice actors. The right voice can catch my ear until the words stop. This reading came about in a convoluted way, but not unusual. It’s just how new projects happen sometimes.

I met Chimera46 through collaboration with Gazukull, as the two began experimenting with voice acting and spoken dialogue in their fantasy AV adult stories. I listened to Gaz’s newest releases and agreed that the voices added something extra to a visual story where I usually read the text between the big dongs and deep cleavage.

During production of Gaz’s next Dead Tide release, his art inspired a bad mock-romance cover from Chimera46 as a joke. This, in turn, inspired the idea for a tongue-in-cheek romance reading produced by him and Miss Moonified, one of his VA collaborators.

But first! They needed to write a “chapter” from a non-existent romance novel. Neither were novel writers, let along romance writers, and were in need of some help. Chimera reached out to me. “Hey, you’ve written lots of novels. You know any romance?” Heh. Yes, having read enough romance in my younger years and grasping the joke, I typed out something for them to adapt into a dramatic reading, with much chortling on my end as I watched it be revised and take form before my eyes.

I was invited to listen to the VA auditions and provided feedback, something I truly enjoyed. And I waited to experience the final product of “Tessa’s Gambit” for more than a month. (Experience it for yourself here! )

The “full” version of this romance chapter, as originally written by Chimera46 and myself, was too long/expensive to produce “as is”. The performance was trimmed down to an 8-minute reading, but the long-script version is posted at Literotica under my profile.

At last, we get to the reading for NDBU.

In thanks, Chimera46 offered to produce a brief reading from my first novel in the same format, with me adapting the “script.” I accepted, as one of the VAs from the auditions sounded like an audiobook reader to me, and I asked for her services. She accepted. I had a great time trying something new, learning just a taste about script adaptation and voice directing by “doing,” and having this wonderful piece to show for it. I hope to do something like this again!

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Why the Changes? (originally published June 17, 2020)

A.S. Etaski — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000

With the first three Sister Seekers books I’ve published, I have been asked the same question by many readers in many ways. With the release of “Surfacing” (Book 4), Odessa reached out and articulated the question well:

Why the shift in Sirana’s behavior between the original pieces published on Literotica and the finished books published on Kindle? I’ve noticed a number of moments in the plot where Sirana originally violated another character’s consent having been replaced with an equally well-written but significantly more ethical action. I’m curious as to your reasons.

Thanks for being curious. 🙂 The simplest answer is I didn’t open my Patreon page in 2015 just put free content into book form. It took me 7 years to finish the story, and I’ve wanted to rewrite it for 5 of them. Now I am.

The full and thorough answer to this has a lot of facets, and I’ve offered each facet as its own reason to different readers, depending on how they asked and what the conversation was like. For those interested, I will try to summarize them here.

Reason 1: Author’s purpose. This is the final draft of the story.
I’ve been saying for years that the typo-laden, speed-written posts I was putting on Literotica was my “pretty good second draft.” I’ve been saying for years that I was going to rewrite the beginning of my epic.
It’s unusual that many readers get to see the semi-final draft of a single book, much less the semi-final draft of 20 of them, but… Here we are. That’s what I’m doing, and that’s what you’re seeing.

Neil Gaiman has said: “The purpose of your second time through the story is to make it look like you knew where you were going all along.”

I’ve made it through the complete journey once with basic navigation tools, at night, with one headlight; I had a pretty good idea where I was going, but the way had patches of fog. Now I’m retreading the same journey during the day, with accurate survey equipment, and I’m prepared to build the road to last.

Reason 2: Character Journey, Relationships, and World History

The early Sirana had one purpose on a free sex story site: as a vehicle for naughty and mean-spirited Drow fan-fic shenanigans. (Readers often called it “Sirana’s shenanigans.”)

I wrote a Drow assassin who was young/dumb/full-of-cum, 10-feet-tall and bulletproof for sass and for intentionally lowering the literary threshold required to justify some of the kinky and evil stuff I wanted to write at the time. I also didn’t take it that seriously for a while; I was exploring and tinkering with character development and true world building after I wrote a lot of smut in a copyrighted world. Alas, I could only go so far or patch so many holes when I found my real love of the story. I’ve also seen how authors and their fandoms can take self-insert, self-indulgent characters extremely seriously, and I don’t want to be that kind of author.

For Lit, I wrote ego-driven wish fulfillment, using the usual tropes of Drow badass indulgence I’d gleaned elsewhere and giving it my own spin on a sex story site. There’s nothing wrong with such fantasies as long as you recognize that. But I’m also bored with it, and I’m tired of people in general taking ego-centric stuff as any ideal standard for a strong character or strong writing. There’s always room for improvement, and there’s always potential for greater self-awareness.

To be clear, I’m not writing Drow anymore. I kept the word for consistency in the story I planned to take down anyway, but they haven’t been Drow to me for years. I’m writing the Davrin with a long history in their setting. I’ve given Sirana an actual family of 4 generations; I understand what drives each of them. I’ve watched that family change over 7 years and 30 books going into a second epic. I’ve reconsidered where Sirana came from, what kind of world might produce her if she were a grounded and believable character.

In exploring this, the trajectory changed in the rewrite for what was reasonable for a Davrin survivor of child abuse among a partially corrupted population vs. sexy Drow shenanigans with a flat culture of casual rape in a fully corrupted population.

Now, I want the tone consistent from the beginning. In the end, the story and world overtook the shenanigans. I know where I’m going and what the big picture is. Ergo, I need characters and relationships that will support the story and world. The shenanigans were fun for a time, but I’m redoing this the way I want to do it. I’ve worked for and earned the opportunity to do so.

Reason 3, Talking Shop: Why do a rewrite if you can’t strengthen the weak spots and do more with less?

I’ve listened to reader feedback for a long time and have engaged with many, especially on Discord; it is one of my favorite parts of being an indie author. I hear different perspectives and, in some cases, identify a weak spot in the story or the writing that provoked the comment. Sometimes the reader is able to articulate that for themselves and offer fascinating insights.

Most perceived weaknesses had to do with character or lack of clarity, and both arose from my taking “shortcuts” to get to the shenanigans (author motive) or from not having as clear an idea what I was trying to convey until later (journey); I couldn’t always tell what was or wasn’t important to the story (not to me).

To fix some of these areas, to mature and grow as a writer, I have to take my ego out of the story and rewrite what is needed to aim where I am going. That means less word count; I plan to cut 25 books down to 20 and tell the same epic. That means cutting dead-end or meandering scenes, or rewriting them into something that serves the story. That means watching the sexual indulgences like a hawk, and balancing them with the big picture.

The best example so far would be the “Sirana and Kurn in the canyon” scene.

Originally, it was a mean-spirited and kinky scene, an author-indulgent way for the main character to strut around, tossing her hips in victory. It made sense for the (not serious) Drow character and the work that came before it, but I will say I have heard no positive feedback on it over the years. It was never a favorite scene for anyone (who spoke up) and also it wasn’t a pinnacle or direction-turning scene in the journey.

I introduced an antagonist, I humiliate him quickly, and then he remained in the story far too long afterward. The only constructive criticism on it was that readers were tired of the character after the canyon, found him ineffective and pointless, and my writing him out of the story came in the nick of time as a relief, not a payoff.

This is something that’s ripe for change and improvement from any writer.

What happens in Sister Seekers 4 is backed up by the new story, not the old one. Given the room to maneuver, Sirana made a different choice in the canyon, matching the character and serving the story. The change was not to water anything down from the old version, but to save something for later. Because of what’s still coming in the new version.

So, comparing Sister Seekers 4 by itself to similar scenes in the old version will show you the differences, but not the big picture. Not until the next story arc is complete. If you evaluate a book based on how closely it evokes the “old feeling,” you’ll be disappointed every time. They aren’t the same work written by the same author at the same point in time. These are different books with different motivations backing them up.

I love what I read last year, in the forward of Stjepan Sejic’s “Mercy”, because I relate so well.

There is value in forgetting, if only for a little while. Forgetting makes you sink into a story without asking the dumbest of questions. That question being: “How does this compare to…?”

I can answer that question before it’s even finished. It doesn’t. It won’t compare until the storyline is finished and you can competently see each story for what they are.

This is why I began publishing. This is what I have wanted to do for a long time and am doing now. The goal was never to keep the old version. The goal was to go through the entire epic again, free of its original conception, early trappings, and expectations and begin the journey anew.

It’s a familiar story, but it is a new story as well. It’s a unique opportunity in my lifetime which I’m taking. I hold the greatest gratitude to those who believe I can do what I claim. Thank you.

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