There is a song to it, the lapping of the water. A memory surfaces with the sound, the soft splash as the tide kisses the stone, the playful sound of specks splashing as they break away from the bo...
2025-05-14 18:02:01 +0000 UTC View PostGalea's voice is cut off by the sound of breaking bones that rattles through my body. A sense of weightlessness overtakes me before the pain even registers. My body crashes into the east wa...
2025-05-12 18:02:01 +0000 UTC View PostAnd with that, the final gambit begins. There always comes a point where turning back becomes impossible. Most never see it arriving, but we have that opportunity now. I won’t ask you...
2025-05-10 18:02:02 +0000 UTC View PostA man with small enemies is a small man. Do not diminish those who oppose you, not in character, intelligence, or reasoning. To overcome an adversary is to be the victor. To overcome a grea...
2025-05-07 18:02:01 +0000 UTC View PostThe point is not to impress but to conform. We teach dance as a path toward unity, toward community. Only a few seconds are required to see who doesn’t belong when they take the floor.&nb...
2025-05-05 18:02:01 +0000 UTC View PostAh. I get it. We had a juggler come through a couple of times, showed off his tricks, make the people look one way while his other hand slides the bird out of the box. If that’s what we w...
2025-05-03 18:02:01 +0000 UTC View PostThe oracle is broken again. My father went to have his prospects set in line, he is preparing to make his final presentation to the academy council in a few weeks. Instead of anything intel...
2025-04-30 18:02:01 +0000 UTC View PostThe worst part about all the beggars loitering in the streets is all the eyes. Taking the sidepath off Garagan Street, Morello hunches forward, his tall frame stooping. It doesn’t help mu...
2025-04-28 18:02:01 +0000 UTC View PostFew failures are worth the lessons they leave, and few victories come without cost. To engage in war is to gamble always. That is its deadly attraction.
-Proverbs, fr...
2025-04-26 18:02:02 +0000 UTC View PostThere is no bad way to defeat an opponent. Our enemies have taught us that, and it is a poor man who cannot learn from his enemies.
-“Ruminations” Emperor G...
2025-04-23 18:02:01 +0000 UTC View PostThere are few emotions quite so powerful as rage. They exist, but are not nearly as sweet.
-Atherinon, Taker of Secrets
Out there i...
2025-04-22 10:41:14 +0000 UTC View PostI’m not happy about it. Sorry to say, but I just plainly ain’t. When we claim one as ours, that is supposed to be respected. That is your rule.
…Yes…Yes, I un...
2025-04-19 18:50:19 +0000 UTC View PostFar too little activity. Illigar floats above the northern hive, staring down at the meandering termites climbing up and down its exterior walls. The north tribe of monsters is different in that th...
2025-04-17 07:30:53 +0000 UTC View PostLaws used to be fun. They were rules for the lower beings, suggestions for us. Then Galahad had to come along and get a stick up his ass about rules. Now, he encroaches on all of us. My fat...
2025-04-15 08:59:44 +0000 UTC View PostI don’t move. The tension I see in everyone else sets me on edge far before I hear the clatter of heavy claws against the stone floor. A billowing cloud of pink color moving in a chaotic ...
2025-04-12 18:02:01 +0000 UTC View PostThat is the entire reason we have come here. We claim that half of the landmasses in our world are fully under the sway of monsters, lands where no civilization can take root. I challenge t...
2025-04-10 09:22:32 +0000 UTC View PostWhat I appreciate most about this sentence is that my execution has been stayed for so long. Traitors don’t tend to get so long, so the fact that you are moving it up by three years doesn...
2025-04-07 18:02:00 +0000 UTC View PostWait. The three hells are real?!
- Corinth Devardem, shortly after falling through a portal in the wilderness
The rain tapping against the transparent dome of my sh...
2025-04-05 20:11:08 +0000 UTC View PostDamp leaves clump together on the broken porch, the tickling wind trying to peel the topmost away with ephemeral fingers. The rain cuts right through Izmeralda’s coat, a piece that had be...
2025-04-03 08:26:54 +0000 UTC View PostWhat people fail to understand about magic is that it has a natural origin. Magicians adhere concepts to their souls, forming a bridge between the divine realm and the physical, allowing th...
2025-04-02 03:52:30 +0000 UTC View PostThey want to make a myth out of you, take you from being a person and turn you into something hateable. I won’t let them.
Breath, yelling, and explosions of magic. I...
2025-03-29 18:02:01 +0000 UTC View PostYou’re doing so well; just hang on a bit longer. Won’t be long now, Dal. Just a bit longer; we all know you can do it.
-Ferro
The town is almost as large as Wes...
2025-03-27 07:13:43 +0000 UTC View PostMake your mark, it doesn’t matter how. Let them know you were here.
-Corinth Devardem
Illigar did not lie; finding Jae Madigast is incredibly easy. Not knowing wh...
2025-03-26 02:48:52 +0000 UTC View PostThe fast-growing grass is not what manages to scrape the skies; only trees can do that. They take their time, they grow at a steady pace, and while grass burns itself out low to the ground,...
2025-03-22 18:02:01 +0000 UTC View PostBeginnings are a fine thing in moderation. Overindulge and you will find yourself going nowhere.
-Tales of the East
From my seat inside my ship, the dark land...
2025-03-19 18:02:02 +0000 UTC View PostHow far can a sin stretch into the future? You’re right. Forever say the gods. Damn you Exeter.
-“Ruminations” Emperor Garifax
Verneaus holds tight to h...
2025-03-19 04:54:07 +0000 UTC View PostThe floor above groans in the wake of fast footsteps. Sitting in the dark warehouse, discarded crates with their pried open lids scattered all around the floor, Ferro watches the ceiling fo...
2025-03-18 00:06:00 +0000 UTC View PostUnfortunately, the word monster has become so entangled with these magical aberrations that we have lost the original meaning. It is dangerous to forget that.
-Unattributed
Ah, you must be one of those mad individuals from the Emerson Campus, preaching the divine gospel of homogeneity. Such a bore, such a cad, believing such a thing could exist. Defend yourself, s...
2025-03-13 08:57:07 +0000 UTC View PostHow was I to know my words would start a war? Should I have been put in charge of foreign diplomacy as the empire began to fall to ruin? No. Could I have refused Takanakan when he gave me the p...
2025-03-12 04:59:26 +0000 UTC View Post