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II-49 The Hound of the Withered Moon

Death and oblivion are not the same. For all wish to rest, but few wish to cease, and the idea of an end is not quite the same as being nothing at all…

-Hound of the Withered Moon<...

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33-3 Lost Gun Days (I)

The possibility of an easy peace does not exist without the dread of violence. Those who wish to adhere to a pacifist utopia must understand that the conditions of this better world are predica...

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33-2 Lovenet (II)

Hey, hey, New Vultun. Cala Marlowe here, back again from my new broadcast studio. Well. I guess that’s not entirely accurate, but the term broadcast Heaven seems a bit too glib and di...

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33-1 Lovenet (I)

Politics, Naeko. Politics kills a man’s soul and defiles his mind. It is a dark thing that I enjoy the mechanics of it so much, for the functions and outcomes would have tainted me otherwise....

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II-48 A Theft of Death (IV)

Die, my children.

Die, and die again.

Die, so that you might feed the cold of my realm, so that you might fuel my Concepts, so that my power might grow.

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II-47 A Theft of Death (III)

Souldrinkers, now that’s a nasty problem you can run into. 

Dying Queen has a whole roster of nightmares under employ. But that one? That monster specifically? You want to...

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32-22 Mantle

And thus it comes,

The leviathan of time.

A beast crafted to mend time through sin.

For the work is undone.

For the cursed blood is r...

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II-46 A Theft of Death (II)

Take care not to get infested when fighting the Dying Queen’s horrors. Their main threat isn’t in their Aspects, but how they can fuse with your spirit, can siphon from your very being to f...

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HAPPY NEW YEAR AND 2025 FORECAST

Hey, everyone. It's been another glorious year of writing—over 2 years since I started Godclads. 2 years of madness, deathmarch, and a lot of words.

First off: Thank you for reading. I hope...

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32-21 Rise from Ruin

Calamity is the shape of our world. There are so many who wax about what was, about the order of the patterns, about how reality was once stable, but that no longer matters. 

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32-20 Clad in Calamity (II)

Existence is suffering. Do you hear it? Do you feel it? The patterns of reality scream, the tapestry is an organism, tortured into intelligence, forced to suffer the awareness of the things we ...

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32-19Clad in Calamity (I)

The nature of dragons remains a topic often discussed by modern intelligentsia. Their control over the ancient Sang lines and cultures is well documented, but many theories and arguments remain...

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II-45 A Theft of Death (I)

The Hound of the Withered Moon. Antediluvian of Death. A divine entity shrouded in layers of mystery, making it hard to distinguish truth from legend. But they did exist. And their line lingers...

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II-44 A Layered Plot

Hm. Why are children of the Withered Moon dangerous?

Well, let’s just say that death stands among the few Concept few System-hosts have influence over....

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II-43 Battlebonds (III)

There is a cost to associating with a child of the Withered Moon. There is also a reason why most of them are insane, sealed away, or held by System-hosts to be used as experimental specimens.<...

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32-18 Masters and Disciples (II)

Sometimes, setting the house on fire, while you’re still in it, is a viable tactic.

Especially if you’re more fireproof than the other half-strand. Or just insane.

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II-42 Battlebonds (II)

I knew he was like me the moment I looked into his eyes. There is something in him missing. That part of a person that yearned for peace, that hungered for it.

We remember. We re...

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32-17 Masters and Disciples (I)

Feel this, Naeko. eel the cold steel of my blade against your neck. You fought so well, survived so long, even forced me to strain my limbs. Yet, a well-fought battle is not a victorious one, a...

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32-16 Tyrant of Mind and Matter

Eternity above ruin.

-Stormtree Motto

32-16

Tyrant of Mind and Matter

ZEIN THOUSANDHAND: THE GLAIVE THAT WILL ALWAYS BE [EST. 900,000,000] (DUELS/CHRONOLOGY...

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II-41Battlebonds (I)

I so very often hear fools ask me, Mepheleon, aren’t you the lord of hell? Why do you particularly care about establishing bonds and creating healthy factions? Shouldn’t you be suck...

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II-40 In the Blood

The Dying Queen governs not blood, but bonds—connections that stretch beyond the flesh, weaving the unseen threads of existence. Adhesion is the essence of her being, the force that holds her...

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II-39Off to See the Bastard (II)

Sometimes, an enemy is but an ally yet to be.

-Old Evernest Proverb

II-39
Off to See the Bastard (II)

“So, you are William’s boy,” the Collectre...

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32-15 Kill-Team Innsmouth (II)

What separates a Deep One from the standard Thauma-Eldritch Entity is their inability to suffer a complete true death. Though they remain damaged in their consciousness, they do not come apart ...

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II-38 Off to See the Bastard (I)

Being a Scion, a descendant of a divine entity, is more than just being a class. As a Scion, you possess rulership over concepts. Not just the ability to make skills or titles from concepts, bu...

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32-14 Kill-Team Innsmouth (I)

{3.7 septillion sophonts don't just disappear, even after reality collapses, even after existence ends. 

For untold eons, as we, the remaining guardians of the polities, dri...

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32-13 False Vacuum

Upon first encountering the Infacer, I thought I had stumbled upon a dubious entity—a bygone god from a long-lost civilization consumed beneath the waves. Yet, it did not take long for my min...

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32-12 Let There Be Light

{PRIORITY BLACK ALERT:

EGI “INFACER” HAS FULLY SURFACED. OMNITECH SUBSPACE POSTURE HAS BECOME: [DEFENSIVE]. TECHO-THAUMIC SIGNATURES DETECTED. ONTOLO...

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II-37 Nature and Nurture

“The training of indigenous personnel requires careful planning and execution to ensure skills are imparted effectively while building trust, discipline, and a shared understanding of mission...

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II-36Notoriety

The best way to climb the popularity ladder in the Claimed Hells?

Easy. Knock off someone everyone hates. Or cut down someone powerful. That always gets you noticed.

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32-11 The Layered Cage

While factors of thaumaturgy material lie upon equal grounds, the determining factor between the success and defeat of a military force is usually rooted in two things: command and coordination...

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