by authordwhawkins | Jun 13, 2026 | News
What the Republic Does to ReformersIn 133 BC, a Roman tribune named Tiberius Gracchus proposed a land reform bill that would have enforced laws the Republic had ignored for two centuries. The Senate stopped him — not with argument, not with law, but with broken...
by authordwhawkins | May 30, 2026 | News
In 9 AD, a Roman-trained Germanic chieftain named Arminius led three full Roman legions — XVII, XVIII, and XIX — into an ambush in the forests of northern Germania. Roughly twenty thousand Romans were killed in three days. The legions’ numbers were retired and...
by authordwhawkins | May 18, 2026 | News
In this episode of Beyond the Pale, we go back to May of 1525, to a field outside the German town of Frankenhausen.There are thousands of peasants gathered there. Farmers, tradesmen, miners, ruined knights, and desperate people who have spent generations being...
by authordwhawkins | May 2, 2026 | News
Beyond the Pale | Special EpisodeIt’s done.After more than two decades — a garage apartment in the early 2000s, two deployments to Iraq, a back injury, a cross-country move, a divorce, the death of my father, a catastrophic data loss, and somewhere north of a...
by authordwhawkins | Apr 30, 2026 | News
Hey all, just finished the last of the last-last minute polish on the book. It’s 02:30 here, so I’m going to hit the sack. Early tomorrow morning, it’ll be last-minute checks, file uploads, publishing emails.The Heart of Ruin drops...
