Durran took a longer time to return than Argrave had anticipated—and by extension, Elenore was delayed, too. In truth, he was a little surprised to see her get emotional about Durran. He’d shar...
2023-07-19 06:53:58 +0000 UTC
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Argrave sat on the windowsill of Margrave Reinhardt’s keep, peering out into Vasquer. Anneliese sat in a chair just before him while Galamon stood beside her, ever watchful. These two had been hi...
2023-07-18 06:53:45 +0000 UTC
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Argrave stared at Durran as he very obviously tried to avoid the subject. Thinking back… he remembered Durran asking questions about the Alchemist. Anneliese had inadvertently taught him to be we...
2023-07-17 06:53:02 +0000 UTC
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Margrave Reinhardt of House Parbon was diligently reading through all of the reports that he’d gotten this morning. Undead attacks had become more prevalent, and so he was much more proactive in ...
2023-07-14 06:55:08 +0000 UTC
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Argrave and Anneliese spent the remainder of the day with Galamon and his family. Dras had given him the duty of dealing with the killings in Veiden while he investigated another matter, and with t...
2023-07-13 06:53:15 +0000 UTC
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Galamon blinked his eyes open. The whole of him felt heavy, but it was considerably better than the numbing pain that had come after his battle with the ice wraith. That had been one of the fierces...
2023-07-12 06:51:51 +0000 UTC
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Argrave felt a brief sense of the totality of Vasquer’s perception extending deep into the mountains and the depths below. He could see the cavern which Anneliese had retrieved her A-rank ascensi...
2023-07-11 06:52:01 +0000 UTC
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Anneliese and Onychinusa sat on the rocks of the mountain peak. The ancient elf stared at the snow elf.
“Your braid is pretty,” Onychinusa said matter-of-factly. “I tried to copy it, bu...
2023-07-10 06:53:07 +0000 UTC
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As Melanie delivered her line, she turned back and popped open the chest in a fluid motion. Argrave immediately spotted several relics of value—relics recognizable enough to pinpoint where, exact...
2023-07-07 06:51:18 +0000 UTC
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Melanie, a native of Relize, technical royal auditor for the crown of Vasquer, but definite sword-for-hire walked beneath a fortified archway. The building was wedged firmly in the valley road lead...
2023-07-06 06:53:55 +0000 UTC
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Argrave and Anneliese sat on the sandy coast of the Bloodwoods, staring out across the vastness of the ocean that divided this continent from others. Orion stood a healthy distance away, guarding t...
2023-07-05 06:53:53 +0000 UTC
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When Anneliese returned from her visit to Onychinusa far later than she normally did, and with a large smile on her face, Argrave knew she had made a significant advancement in helping the wounded ...
2023-07-04 06:52:10 +0000 UTC
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“I don’t want her to hate us, but I understand why she does,” Argrave nodded as the dryads grew closer. “So long as she knows that we did what we did to hurt Erlebnis, not her.”
“...
2023-07-03 06:53:07 +0000 UTC
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Argrave’s head turned ever so slowly, taking in all the sights before him. He saw the redwoods, as thick as towers and stretching as far as the eye could see. He saw the destruction left behind b...
2023-06-30 06:52:17 +0000 UTC
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Erlebnis fought from an incontrovertibly advantaged position. He had already proven that his emissaries were a match to the elven gods. Every second he waited, his presence on this realm grew stron...
2023-06-29 06:56:10 +0000 UTC
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Sarikiz sat before Argrave, much of the tension in her shoulders drained. Her eyes did not wander from place to place so frantically, and she did not fear an attack from any direction. Indeed, it m...
2023-06-28 06:55:07 +0000 UTC
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Sarikiz stared down at the four assembled elven gods. Then, in sudden motion, she lashed out fiercely and her foot descended on them with tremendous weight. Merata, Ghan, Ujin, and Gunlik and joine...
2023-06-27 06:56:04 +0000 UTC
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Of all the original protagonists that Argrave had encountered, Dimocles was the one that that had acted most like a player of Heroes of Berendar. His personality was the most well-suited for that r...
2023-06-26 06:56:14 +0000 UTC
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Argrave and Anneliese crouched near a redwood tree. Both had heavy, tired eyes, but upon looking at the other in the eye they were renewed with flame. They exchanged a nod of tacit understanding, a...
2023-06-23 06:53:49 +0000 UTC
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When Argrave, Anneliese, and Orion made to return to the elven camp, Anneliese’s scouting discovered that it was simply gone.
...but further scouting showed that it had moved to another loc...
2023-06-22 06:54:43 +0000 UTC
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After a while, Argrave managed to get the story out of Anneliese. When she mentioned going too far, too deep, she was talking about her evaluation of Onychinusa’s emotions. Apparently, what she h...
2023-06-21 06:54:30 +0000 UTC
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Anneliese felt sick to her stomach as she followed Onychinusa and the dryad down into the place that was to be the deciding point of this scheme. Battles she could handle, wars... she felt she had ...
2023-06-20 06:55:44 +0000 UTC
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Argrave and Anneliese spent their time stuffing their packs full of the valuable things in this library. There were bags enough to carry more than they probably had a right to. Onychinusa looked a ...
2023-06-19 06:56:16 +0000 UTC
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Argrave opened the first tome left behind by the elven monarch, reading through it carefully. It began without introducing its author, diving right to the heart of its contents. It was written in a...
2023-06-16 06:55:38 +0000 UTC
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Argrave and Anneliese walked up to Onychinusa as she played with the dryad children on the ground. She seemed to have resigned herself to being adorned with all manner of flamboyant leaf accessorie...
2023-06-15 06:56:24 +0000 UTC
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Onychinusa looked upon the older dryad after she made her offer and said, “I agreed to help, but I don’t know what it is you’re asking of me.”
The mother dryad stepped up to Onychinus...
2023-06-14 06:55:35 +0000 UTC
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Argrave turned his head to Onychinusa, placing both of his hands upon his hips. She looked up at him, perhaps already knowing what it was he was going to ask.
“Would you be willing to help ...
2023-06-13 06:54:05 +0000 UTC
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Argrave walked into the vibrant architecture of this stone monument to a culture long perished, seeking to restrain the Brumesingers before they caused any problems. Though he was cautious about th...
2023-06-12 06:56:24 +0000 UTC
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After the conversation with Batbayar, Argrave managed to get a few hours of sleep… sleep made harder by knowing the most pivotal part of the plan would come in twenty-four hours. Less, given the ...
2023-06-09 06:57:13 +0000 UTC
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After days of protracted tension and combat, much of which Argrave survived on little sleep, he finally laid his head down in one of the tents the Veidimen honor guard had pitched. He wasn’t alon...
2023-06-08 06:56:02 +0000 UTC
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