In the most traditional portions of the Empire, in the country manors, the towns and villages and small cities, few spirits are so widely and consistently worshiped as the solar and lunar spirits. ...
2023-09-17 20:26:47 +0000 UTC View Post“I am not concerned. You will convey the truth of the Sundering Vale to your compatriots,” Dzintara said plainly.
“I will,” Ling Qi said. Her mind was already racing for the words she...
2023-09-14 23:26:16 +0000 UTC View PostThe mist expanded. It flowed from under the hem of her gown, shrouding the grove. It billowed from her sleeves, and a flute of translucent ice crystalized in her hands. A dusting of frost rippled o...
2023-09-11 23:37:40 +0000 UTC View PostAN: Apologies everyone this was meant to be posted yesterday.
“I will not fail you today, Lady Mingxia.”
Xiao Yan knelt at the bedside, her own sleeping robe pooled...
2023-09-11 14:22:15 +0000 UTC View Post“As the doors of the great hall creaked shut behind them, Gu Xiulan cast a glance up at Zheng Nan, her lips curling up in a smirk. “My, I have never seen you squirm like that.”
“Yeah ...
2023-09-07 19:59:43 +0000 UTC View PostWhat it says on on the tin folks, come on by if you've ever had a lore or setting question!
2023-09-06 19:05:18 +0000 UTC View PostThe air above was hot and dry, and the harsh wind wicked away the sheen of sweat on my brow. All around me was the gleaming skeleton of civilization. The bare bones inviolable frames of towers a hu...
2023-09-04 23:05:50 +0000 UTC View Post“Explain this failure now.”
Her Lady’s voice was a whipcrack, as cold as the depths of Lake Hei, and it filled Xiao Yan with shame and the taste of bile in the back of her throat.
Just testing out doing an alert for this here too. Come one down to the discord, link found in the directory and go to the Wednesday Q&A if you have any setting lore questions no matter how sma...
2023-08-30 17:52:35 +0000 UTC View Post“So it is something your scholars have an interest in as well?” Jaromila asked.
“It is. Her Grace has indicated some interest in celestial phenomena. If your people could be convinced t...
2023-08-28 20:33:24 +0000 UTC View PostTo use the same framework by which she examined the previous Beast Gods, then the Vermin God was power which arose from emptiness of the self. It was the power represented by consumption without th...
2023-08-24 22:59:46 +0000 UTC View Post“And what is the purpose of this?”
“C’mon, help me out here. Princess gave the okay. The baroness wants to talk to a few of us because…”
Ji Rong glanced toward her, raising ...
2023-08-21 21:21:17 +0000 UTC View PostAN: Here we have the beginning of a three part series exploring a 'normal' relationship between and White Serpent and Black Viper. Enjoy!
Bai Mingxia stood tall and straight,...
2023-08-20 13:25:06 +0000 UTC View Post“They’re quarrying them out mostly,” Ji Rong said.
“Excuse me?”
“There’s basically three big camps down there that they’re building up. Supposedly, Liling’s gramps had...
2023-08-17 23:16:52 +0000 UTC View PostLing Qi blinked and managed to keep her reaction to the meaning gleaned from a moment spent listening so closely to that heartbeat to herself.
“Thirdly is your territorial claims. We alread...
2023-08-15 00:33:56 +0000 UTC View PostThey descended to the heavy vibration of the advancing column. It took everything from the lower realm riders to maintain the calm and control of their steeds, but Gu Xiulan was proud to say that n...
2023-08-10 19:17:49 +0000 UTC View PostAN: So here it is the first chapter of a new story in a new setting, patron exlusive for now at least. I hope everyone will enjoy this diversion and come to look forward to it as well. 2023-08-07 21:36:26 +0000 UTC View Post
AN: This one will make a bit more sense for patreon readers in just a little bit here
It was easy to think a thing, say a thing, plan a thing. But the doing was always more f...
2023-08-06 17:35:32 +0000 UTC View PostThe interior of the hall was empty, still filled with tools and the signs of work being done. There, she saw two familiar figures. Xuan Shi stood by a cracked span of paneling, and beside him, Xia ...
2023-08-03 21:20:10 +0000 UTC View PostHere's reminding everyone the first Author Q&A will be tomorrow and I'll be active in the channel and answering questions from 2pm to 4pm EST!
Just take the Discord link in the directory ...
2023-08-01 22:32:29 +0000 UTC View Post“Will you agree that we should at least hear the matter from the other side?” Ling Qi strode forward, leaving the medical tent behind. Her longer stride carried her a bit faster than Jin Tae, w...
2023-08-01 00:30:50 +0000 UTC View PostIt was a beautiful village, Ministry Agent Kang Yun thought. Nestled among the misty vales and high stone hills that lay between the true Peaks of the capital, shrouded in greenery and bustling wit...
2023-07-30 18:17:26 +0000 UTC View PostThere were drums, Ji Rong had said. Drums always beating. Ling Qi pondered that statement as she soared in the sky over mountain and valley, river and cliff.
She was proceeding ahead of the c...
2023-07-27 22:54:31 +0000 UTC View Post“Zhengui,” Ling Qi said, raising her voice just enough over his bickering.
“Yes, Big Sister?” both of his heads replied, united in the moment.
“I assume it is not possible to ...
2023-07-24 23:12:27 +0000 UTC View PostHua Su clapped her hands twice and bowed her head, the sickly sweet scent of the incense smoke filling her senses. Three parts Autumn WInd Extract, four parts ground Seventh Night Petals, two parts...
2023-07-23 22:09:29 +0000 UTC View PostTwo months, and her cultivation soared, breaking into the Foundation stage, surging toward the threshold.
Two months, and the fighting had not stopped, the dead rose from the dunes without en...
2023-07-22 19:29:43 +0000 UTC View PostSomething about the way his voice dropped gave her shivers. The brash thug of a cultivator she knew Ji Rong to be should not whisper like that.
“I won’t risk her anger, trying to get insi...
2023-07-21 22:25:27 +0000 UTC View PostIt was the better part of half an hour later when she finished. The refreshments on the table were depleted, mostly by Zheng Fu.
“And that concludes what I can tell you of our guests at the...
2023-07-17 22:45:00 +0000 UTC View PostAN: Here is the first of the weekly commissions posting here. This one is a piece about Ling Qingge early on after her arrival at the Sect.
“Momma!”
Ling...
2023-07-17 02:54:51 +0000 UTC View PostLing Qi and Cai Renxiang had spoken on this issue. Even if the members of the ducal clans had no desire at all to interact with the summit beyond observing, having a system in place, a system for a...
2023-07-13 23:12:52 +0000 UTC View Post