PSTH: Chapter Five
Why do these idiot poors never seem to realize that the reason I’m a king in the new world of magic and they’re just as poor as they were wh
Why do these idiot poors never seem to realize...
2025-08-22 12:00:11 +0000 UTC View Post
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PSTH: Chapter Four
War. Poverty. Famine. While each of these are complicated topics with a great deal of nuance, the crux of their creation is one of two things: resource scarcity or human greed. With the return of m...
2025-08-21 12:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostThe Third Steps: Chapter Thirty
Perhaps it was just luck, perhaps the world had decided to let us rest, perhaps the animals had, in their own way, heard about what we had d
Perhaps it was just luck, perhaps the world had de...
2025-08-20 12:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostThe Third Step: Chapter Twenty-Nine
The Flock took a long moment, hovering in the air, and the sole standing Arcanist of the cwn anwnn pack growled, preparing to lunge. I held out my hand and tried to project an aura of confidence an...
2025-08-19 12:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostThe Third Step: Chapter Twenty-Eight
As the Asomatous lay beneath me, screaming and begging for its life, my eyes began to glow, strings of constellations woven in rainbow light, without the burning golden stars, burning brightly, and...
2025-08-18 12:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostPSTH: Chapter Three
Sure, I’ll admit that despite its modern image of being entertainment like a sports league, the Tamer Consortium has a history that stretches back to just after the arrival of magic. But that’s...
2025-08-16 12:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostPSTH: Chapter Two
Magic crashing back into the world and destroying so much may have set off an apocalypse, reminiscent of the Bronze Age Collapse, but humans are communal and ingenuitive. It only took a generation ...
2025-08-15 12:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostPrimal Soul, Tamer's Heart (PSTH): Chapter One
Oh great, it starts with an earthquake, birds and snakes [audio indecipherable]. Eye of a hurricane, listen to yourself churn. World serves its own needs, don’t mis-serve your own needs… <...
2025-08-14 12:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostThe Third Step: Chapter Twenty-Seven
The Ephemeral Rebirth flared to life within my mana-garden, and my soul lifted out of my body. It was strange, looking down on the ruined wreck of a body that I’d been born in, and even though I ...
2025-08-13 12:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostThe Third Step: Chapter Twenty-Six
The barking came again, louder this time, and a second dog joined it, and then a third. I focused on the thought of the barking, and of the fact that Dawn was missing. Then another thought joined t...
2025-08-12 12:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostThe Empire of Death, Part Three
Ignatius studied the scroll closely, the small light burning in the oil lamp flickering softly on the box above him.
Spending the night in a warehouse wasn’t the safest place in the w...
2025-08-11 21:42:34 +0000 UTC View PostThe Third Step: Chapter Twenty-Five
We raced along the ground, following the path of the hounds, tracing the location of the asomatous through tracking magic that the strongest Arcanist of the pack was using.
At least, Ke...
2025-08-11 12:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostThe Third Step: Chapter Twenty-Four
Since you all got a short story on Wednesday, here's the chapter to make up for it! I'm gonna go make that short story public. There will still be three chapters Monday/Tuesday/Wednesday th...
2025-08-08 19:07:28 +0000 UTC View PostOrykson's Duties
One of the timers that was normally hidden in Aerde’s spirit appeared in the Layered Visual Output spell that Aerde and Orykson shared. It hit zero, and an alarm blared within the display for a m...
2025-08-06 12:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostThe Third Step: Chapter Twenty-Three
The golden light slammed into the form of the Flock, and the ancient asomatous let out a ear-rending scream. It thrust its hand down, and birds dove in, intercepting the wave of light as it ripped ...
2025-08-05 12:00:13 +0000 UTC View PostThe Third Step: Chapter Twenty-Two
I nodded to Siobhan and snapped the portal to Dusk’s realm shut. The enfield spread her wings and leapt off the tree branch, turning the dive into a glide, and I followed – not through the air,...
2025-08-04 12:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostThe Restored: Chapter Fifty
Twenty years later…
Maryam Johnson took a deep breath and adjusted her robes one last time in the mirror. She didn’t even know why Bronzelight University bothere...
2025-08-02 12:43:28 +0000 UTC View PostThe Restored: Chapter Forty-Nine
One month later…
Chiyo didn’t really understand exactly what had happened the last several days. She didn’t know why her mom had shoved them both into the clos...
2025-08-02 12:43:18 +0000 UTC View PostThe Restored: Chapter Forty-Eight
Despite the excitement of Hadiya’s news, and the fact that I was certain that she’d have continued working herself to death on them in the mere hopes she could get her plans in working order, t...
2025-08-02 12:42:58 +0000 UTC View PostThe Restored Question
I've wrapped up the last few chapters of The Restored. Would you all rather have them tomorrow or have them distributed next Thursday and Friday
2025-08-01 23:31:38 +0000 UTC View PostThe Restored: Chapter Forty-Seven
I cut the power to my spell, and lowered the piece of metal to the ground. Rhys gave me an approving nod, and I smiled at him.
“For a first political speech, it wasn’t bad,” Rhys ...
2025-08-01 12:00:18 +0000 UTC View PostThe Restored: Chapter Forty-Six
Telling my story didn’t take me nearly as long as I had expected. Though the fight had been long, tough, and brutal, it had been fairly short. All said and done, the invasion had lasted less than...
2025-07-31 12:00:14 +0000 UTC View PostThe Third Step: Chapter Twenty-One
The sensory boosting potion that we had made had a duration of around a minute and a half. We could have made it last longer, but we’d have needed to sacrifice the degree to which the range was b...
2025-07-30 11:59:02 +0000 UTC View PostThe Third Step: Chapter Twenty
Just as Kene had said, by the morning, the liquid in the cauldron had condensed into a thick, maple-syrup looking mixture. It even smelled oddly like maple syrup, which was especially strange to me...
2025-07-29 12:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostThe Third Step: Chapter Nineteen
After quickly healing up and washing my clothes, then setting them in the pile of battle damaged clothes that I needed to learn how to repair, I met up with Kene and Meadow, who were sitting out fr...
2025-07-28 12:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostThe Empire of Death: Part Two
The skull flashed red, and the mana tester dropped the quill he’d been holding. A blade flashed into his hand from nowhere, and he swung for Ignatius’ neck.
“What happened?!” Ig...
2025-07-26 12:00:11 +0000 UTC View Post