"Concerns formulated by the ignorant are often just as useful as the solutions they propose, which is to say not very. Given that, I hope you can appreciate my reaction to some members of...
2020-11-11 16:58:45 +0000 UTC View Post
A man is courting the Madi’s daughter, so the Madi asks to meet him at his home. The man welcomes him to his table and pours him water, and as the Madi sits he notices that the house is...
2020-11-04 17:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
“No one can stop the youth from dancing, but the players can guide the steps.”
- Aesvain saying.
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“Are they clear?” Mark asked, looking over at Arjun....
2020-10-28 16:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post
I generally want to announce things like this farther in advance, but the last several days took me by surprise and it doesn't look like chapter 51 will be quite finished in time for the normal Wed...
2020-10-20 22:01:52 +0000 UTC View Post
My grandfathers flew in the sky and etched their will into the very air, my fathers mastered the land and engraved stone with their desire. And I, pitiful scion of their legacy, have told...
2020-10-14 16:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
A man walks up to his father, troubled, saying that a man has been loudly proclaiming the intent to kill him on the next day. The father thinks for a moment, then asks the so...
2020-10-07 16:00:34 +0000 UTC View Post
A Sjocelym, an Aesvain and a Setelym are traveling in a far land and sit down for a drink. The Sjocelym takes a long pull from a flask and smiles, saying - “Ah! Liquor from...
2020-09-30 16:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
No, we must turn our eyes upward, forward. Not only for our own sake, but for those who saw the spectre of doom approaching. For those who searched desperately, fruitle...
2020-09-23 16:01:08 +0000 UTC View Post
We have forged the blade, plucked it from its shining alcove in our mind and made it real. But the prism is imperfect. Has been made imperfect. The distortion imp...
2020-09-16 16:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
disturbing reports from some of the outlying groups. It was bad enough that the survivors from the provinces have formed militias, but Gavo’s latest report claims that some...
2020-09-09 16:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post
I’ve still never been to Idhytse. The others passed near it when they first fled the desert, but even if they had chanced to encounter it they would not have been ready for the city - a...
2020-09-02 16:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
After several days of observation I have concluded that there is no threat from Idhytse. Although the ruins are indeed infested by scavengers, criminals and other undesirable...
2020-08-26 16:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Kings often dwell on subversion, although mostly of a different sort than what I find myself contemplating on quiet evenings. For subversion of the self, the issue is the deg...
2020-08-19 16:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Some of the most dangerous men I know are unfailingly honest, personable and generous with friends and enemies alike. Violent brutes are certainly not a rare species, nor are deceptive sc...
2020-08-12 16:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
visit I dismissed the cultists at the foot of the mountain as ignorant and misguided. Today’s encounter showed that they are still such, but as they have somehow found arms...
2020-08-05 16:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
“It may seem like a simple truism to state that one is defined by one’s origins, but bear with me a moment while we examine what that really means. Throw a stone. Y...
2020-07-30 16:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi all - some of you may have been keeping up with my computer drama elsewhere, but suffice to say my home PC had to be taken out back and shot. I'm back up and running but it will take...
2020-07-29 02:07:32 +0000 UTC View Post
I often wonder about the impact a small group of very irritated people can have on the course of events.
- Tasjadre Ra Novo, Jesa Sagoja: Zhetam Asade...
2020-07-22 16:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
We hear from a young age that Maja’s blessing lies in moderation, for the crop that grows too eagerly exhausts the soil that feeds it. I have always thought this turn of ph...
2020-07-15 16:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
“The few surviving records that reference the vinesavaim assert that they are comparable in their gifts across regions, if not nearly identical. It is interesting, then, th...
2020-07-08 16:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Many times my grandfather spoke of going to the Sanctum in the mountains over Tinem Sjocel. It was a long journey, made until the road became too dangerous to consider even f...
2020-07-01 16:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Approach not the doors of the seat, they have been closed to your fathers and will be closed to your sons. There is no penalty for drawing near, as you cannot harm them. &nbs...
2020-06-24 16:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
”And some may say - why not? Why not let the scriptsmith’s art spread beyond the halls of the guild? I have heard and answered this question longer than most of you...
2020-06-17 16:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
I’m sure it will come as no surprise to most when I say that we saw wonders during our time at the Sanctum. Such things are to be expected in the abode of a vinesavai. &nbs...
2020-06-10 16:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
“But why twilight?” I asked her, as I had several times before. “Does sunlight harm these halls, or do they have some disposition against it?”
This las...
2020-06-03 16:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
But as we left, just before her light faded, she met my eye and smiled at me. I still see it when I close my eyes sometimes. There is no purpose to such a thing, no ess...
2020-05-27 16:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Upon Maja all things rest, and from Maja all things flow. He coaxes grain from the soil, water from the rock. But more than this, He holds cloud, wind and rain in His h...
2020-05-20 16:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
All things have a beginning. Men from children, trees from saplings, rivers from rain.
All things have a foundation. Life rests upon bread, and below tha...
2020-05-13 16:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Must we not question
the wellspring, the fount
giving of that which
it does not possess?
A mouthful of ...
2020-05-06 15:00:54 +0000 UTC View Post
I’m often asked if there was a moment when it seemed like all hope was lost, which I find amusing because it implies that I didn’t spend almost the entirety of those days in a ...
2020-04-29 16:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post