A big man with long red hair opened his eyes. Margrave Reinhardt stared at the stone ceiling above before suddenly leaning up. He grabbed his neck and grunted in pain from the sudden movement. A se...
2023-03-15 06:57:10 +0000 UTC View PostArgrave walked down cold stone stairs slowly, his big feet forcing him to take the steps slowly lest he fall. He very nearly bumped into Melanie at the bottom. She stood holding an iron gate. Argra...
2023-03-14 06:56:12 +0000 UTC View PostIn response to the news that Duke Sumner, not Margrave Reinhardt, led the triumphant army of the south to seize Dirracha, Argrave gathered everyone important for the decision-making despite the lat...
2023-03-13 06:55:16 +0000 UTC View Post“You didn’t have the foresight to bring boots?” Elenore asked Argrave as she leaned on his arm.
Argrave looked down at Elenore, smiling with a bitter patience. She wore cloth pants for ...
2023-03-10 06:55:23 +0000 UTC View PostArgrave and Anneliese sat atop some temporary bedding—specifically, a large tarp splayed out across the flat grass with some fur blankets atop it. Anneliese was already delving into A-rank magic....
2023-03-09 06:55:43 +0000 UTC View PostArgrave eyed a wriggling bag made of poor cloth handled by one of the men of the tribes of Vysenn. Some animal lovers would undoubtedly take umbrage with the treatment of the amphibians, suggesting...
2023-03-08 06:56:00 +0000 UTC View PostA small party of four navigated across a treacherous and narrow valley road where rockslides seemed liable to happen at any point. Their feet crunched when they fell upon with the loose basalt frag...
2023-03-07 06:56:43 +0000 UTC View Post“We cannot afford to make this a long journey,” Elenore informed Argrave as she slipped on some heavy gloves suited for travel. “Given the recent influx of spellcasters you brought, we have n...
2023-03-06 06:56:01 +0000 UTC View PostOn the front opposite the barbarians, the battle was pitched to the point of hopelessness. The army of Relizeans outnumbered their foes, true enough… but the garrison in Castle Cookpot had one ad...
2023-03-03 06:56:15 +0000 UTC View PostIf Anneliese were to analogize being in the tephramancer’s storm of basalt with Llewellen’s [Life Cycle] empowering her, a perfect example came to mind at once. If she had been walking on the l...
2023-03-02 06:56:43 +0000 UTC View PostThe staves of the tephramancers beat down upon the soil of the earth, sending an echoing boom out into the world. It was a marching drum of war that stirred the spirit and could be felt for miles. ...
2023-03-01 06:56:25 +0000 UTC View PostOnce everyone had set up camp, Argrave stole away from the encampment just before dusk and headed for the ring of verdancy beyond Vysenn. It was difficult for them to do so, as the people set as ni...
2023-02-28 06:56:16 +0000 UTC View PostTheir party departed on foot to First Hope from Quadreign. When Argrave had gone there originally, he’d come with only Vasilisa and her personal companions. Now, he returned with a relatively vas...
2023-02-27 06:58:04 +0000 UTC View PostRuleo stepped through the stone confines of the Order of the Rose fortress he inhabited with one other beside him. This place was far more elaborate and long than most fortresses of theirs he’d v...
2023-02-24 06:58:58 +0000 UTC View PostAnneliese awoke with a sharp intake of breath. She sat up with surprising energy, then looked around the room. Most notable was Argrave, sitting by her bed in a chair. He looked tired, yet locked e...
2023-02-23 06:58:09 +0000 UTC View PostThough Anneliese put up a strong front before Argrave, the truth was she was greatly nervous about this. Hiding as much was a habit she had picked up from Argrave. She had not lied about being conf...
2023-02-22 06:56:33 +0000 UTC View Post“If the only thing you’ll offer to our lord Erlebnis is bits of knowledge that may interest him, then this meeting is over,” the gargantuan head continued after Argrave’s refusal to accept ...
2023-02-21 06:57:35 +0000 UTC View PostIn coming into this cave, Hegazar had commented about the thickness of the magic in the area. Argrave had thought nothing of it at the time, but thinking back, that had been a mistaken assumption. ...
2023-02-20 06:56:38 +0000 UTC View PostA bird of wind tore through the skies, keeping its mystic wings steady in its glide. A party of many sat atop it—Argrave’s coterie and the Magister couple of Hegazar and Vera. It brought back s...
2023-02-17 06:59:30 +0000 UTC View Post“Your Majesty won’t be attending as… well, as yourself?” Diana questioned Argrave.
Diana had donned different dress than the casual things she had been wearing the days before—now, ...
2023-02-16 06:55:18 +0000 UTC View PostArgrave stared up at a gargantuan moving gear that clicked every second. One might think the clocktower of Quadreign would be rather elaborate on the interior, but no—it was one large gear with a...
2023-02-15 06:51:54 +0000 UTC View PostArgrave planted his foot down and crested over the top of a hill he’d travelled once before. The snow had melted a little more on their return, and the pine trees seemed a little more robust. Ano...
2023-02-14 06:56:13 +0000 UTC View PostGalamon blinked open his eyes and turned his head. Sunlight fell upon him, and instinct spurred him to move quickly. His hands reached for where he kept his flasks of blood, but then as cognition r...
2023-02-13 06:58:05 +0000 UTC View PostArgrave stared at Galamon as red mist poured out of his body. He was running things through his head in a panic, yet held out his hands to follow his course of action.
“Remember what we tal...
2023-02-10 06:56:35 +0000 UTC View PostWhen Svetlana of Quadreign opened the door and Argrave’s gaze fell upon Ganbaatar, memories came rushing back just alongside his plan for how to deal with this situation.
Ganbaatar—a fair...
2023-02-09 06:58:11 +0000 UTC View PostElenore, Durran, Melanie, and some assortment of Argrave’s royal guards surrounded a table in a tent. Durran and Melanie were both fully armored, just as the royal knights. Elenore pointed to a c...
2023-02-08 06:59:00 +0000 UTC View Post“Are you… sure this won’t do anything unwanted?” Vasilisa asked. She knelt just before one of the runes on the walls of the pit containing the Flame of the Tenebrous Reaper.
Argrave c...
2023-02-07 06:57:37 +0000 UTC View PostTheir party of six stood at the bottom of the now-useless tower amidst the rubble spawned by destroying all its floors. Vasilisa kneeled over a body—Margrave Ivan’s. Or… just Ivan, now. In de...
2023-02-06 06:55:27 +0000 UTC View PostArgrave seemed to have a penchant for fighting powerful people in high towers with the intent of subverting their governance. This was the second time—not a lot by any measure, but even still, it...
2023-02-03 06:56:38 +0000 UTC View PostArgrave had déjà vu to something that had occurred not months ago—namely, Margravine Sophia’s campaign to sway the northern nobles rather strongly reminded him of Leopold’s. Things were mar...
2023-02-02 06:59:09 +0000 UTC View Post