II-39 Distraction
“Master-Captain Vomir, respond! What is happening beyond the abyssal gateway?
Master Captain Vormir! Vomir! Respond!
Respond, or I will have you flayed and made ...
2025-06-29 14:58:09 +0000 UTC View Post
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II-38 Planning
—Confidential—
[Ambient Mana Recognized — Incoming Message from Inquisitor-Master Sijik]
Oldsmith, if you are receiving hold your position, t...
2025-06-29 08:54:45 +0000 UTC View PostMinor Update
I have discovered you cannot bump people across tiers. I will brainstorm how to adjust in the meantime. For now, say as you are. More chapters from Deathless + Godclads and TTF soon too.
2025-06-28 18:11:31 +0000 UTC View PostII-37 More
Many strategists and military intellectuals like to proclaim gates as hard points of significant difficulty. I disagree. I think gates are logistical and structural vulnerabilities. <...
2025-06-28 18:02:17 +0000 UTC View PostII-36 Arsenal
A Pathbearer is more than their own skills, their team, their strategy.
A Pathbearer is also their equipment.
Your equipment will keep you alive. It will mak...
2025-06-28 14:39:02 +0000 UTC View PostTemporary Patreon Tier Upgrades + New Tier
Everyone, prepare to get upgraded for a period. I will be capping Fated chapter access for Deathless with the RR release, but I'll make sure you guys can keep reading ahead for at least a few month...
2025-06-27 20:22:22 +0000 UTC View PostII-35 Puppeteer
“Who are you?”
“I am… Sir Galloway. I am a Dragon Knight. I am—I am Master-Tier. My strongest skill is The Sword Ascending.”
“And what have you becom...
2025-06-27 20:19:20 +0000 UTC View PostII-34Veilpiercer
I tell you this, as a Master Tier War Mage: I’ve fought and killed just about everything—every kind of enemy, from primal dragons to ogres, orcs, dimensionals, undead… you name it. 2025-06-27 13:04:11 +0000 UTC View Post
II-122 Trine
A tribe has been reborn. They have been restored.
This cannot be. This cannot be allowed. The Creator’s song must never play again. The life of existen...
2025-06-26 18:36:15 +0000 UTC View PostII-33 Endure
I watched my brothers die as we tried to take the walls. I watched them fall… and the Necrotechs—those twisted, vile monsters… they took the bodies. They took them into the dark.
... 2025-06-26 16:41:12 +0000 UTC View PostII-32 Dragons (III)
You know, there’s a special kind of misery that every Master-Tier experiences. It’s a kind of misery that comes when you live long enough and survive enough fights, because by the end, the ...
2025-06-26 11:10:05 +0000 UTC View PostImminent: Deathless to go live on RR
As of now, Deathless should be over 300k words.
This was done in less than a month. A good pace, if I do say so myself.
However, to prepare for its official launch on RR, I will need ...
2025-06-25 17:58:21 +0000 UTC View PostII-31 Dragons (II)
This struggle lasted years. But the knights endured. The city endured. Until things changed once more.
And by calamity were the Abyssal Dogs broken, and so too, through desperati...
2025-06-25 17:33:12 +0000 UTC View PostII-30 Dragons (I)
Before the Descenders, there stood the Abyssal Dogs, the proto-order of fraternal knights. As soldiers of the bygone age, sworn to defend the remnants of humanity and their comrades-in-arms, th...
2025-06-25 10:24:32 +0000 UTC View PostII-29 Ripple
The system remembers everything that we do. It remembers, and then it uses it to reward or punish us. Sometimes both at the same time.
“The system covets strife.”
...
2025-06-24 18:04:22 +0000 UTC View PostII-28 Unbroken
(Note, my wife wrote this chapter. It’s a pretty good chapter, if I do say so myself. She doesn’t ramble quite as much as I do, so you’ll probably find the writing better than normal, and...
2025-06-24 08:59:07 +0000 UTC View Post36-13 Scarred Truce
Jaus, listen to me. If you ever have to argue against the minds, when you have to persuade them… the fools of Voidwatch, listen very carefully. They are broken. We are all broken. Within our ...
2025-06-23 15:44:33 +0000 UTC View PostII-27 Armor
Do you know what it’s like when your every fiber calls for you to fire-fire-fire at a civilian target? At the same time, you are waking up more than just the data, more than just the algorith...
2025-06-23 11:52:15 +0000 UTC View PostII-26 Bedfellows
Few things hurt more than when your own side is determined to get you killed.
Every soldier has some kind of story related to this. Something about how their commanders or suppos...
2025-06-23 09:43:45 +0000 UTC View PostII-121 Assembling a Team
He didn’t lie about bringing me a face, but he didn’t fully understand me, not at that time. I didn’t even understand myself, so lost was I, so used by foul hands to achieve fouler deeds....
2025-06-22 17:02:49 +0000 UTC View PostII-25 Volatile
Much has been lost about the time of the Post-Integration, when the system first arrived, when the moon first shattered, when the world was altered and expanded, when the Great One first fell. ...
2025-06-22 14:52:15 +0000 UTC View PostII-24 Return
Momento mori.
A dead statement from a dead world in a dead language that few people can remember. Latin, I think it was called. At least according to the text I recovered f...
2025-06-22 12:45:04 +0000 UTC View Post36-12 Faux Symbolism
“What is justice?”
Justice is a weapon of the authority. They that stand above the masses, they that guide the shape of the world, that set the laws, that set the means...
2025-06-21 12:51:53 +0000 UTC View PostII-23 Recounting
Subterfuge, speed, chaos. These are the essentials for piercing into and controlling the insides of a dimension. These are essential to taking a gate, for to breach a gate, to push into a dimen...
2025-06-21 12:09:44 +0000 UTC View PostII-22Escape
It is not overly sophisticated to break or harm a mind using Psychomancy. Ultimately, the effect can be achieved by wrenching memories out of place, crashing them into others, or blending every...
2025-06-21 09:18:27 +0000 UTC View PostII-21 Regroup
No Pathbearer can stand alone.
This line will be written again.
No Pathbearer can stand alone.
It will be repeated a third time.
II-120 A Night at the Theater (II)
I am not one to usually expose the benefits and virtues of mercy. Mercy is often used against you in the Claimed Hells. Mercy is wielded against you when you give it, and you are treated as a f...
2025-06-20 15:31:04 +0000 UTC View PostII-20 Wounded
The best way to handle a Greater Demon is with an army behind you. You want to know what makes something a Greater Demon? A Greater Demon means that they are at least Master-Tier in approximate...
2025-06-20 08:12:38 +0000 UTC View Post36-11 Interlude
{This is EGI Contingency Bleak Refusal.
All minds, pull away from the sun. All minds, avoid the local area. All minds, detonate all remaining singularity mines around the dawn 2025-06-19 17:50:23 +0000 UTC View Post
II-19 Jealousy (III)
Gravitic Dominion
Noun
A powerful Master-Tier Physicality Skill Evolution that allows the Pathbearer to project and control fields of intensified gravity t...
2025-06-19 16:30:43 +0000 UTC View Post