Margravine Sophia stepped into a lounge in the Drawnwater estate, leading Vasilisa, Argrave, and his two companions. He’d once again donned the white wig to disguise himself as Silvaden, and thus...
2023-02-01 06:57:25 +0000 UTC View PostElenore heard a knock just outside her tent, and her head darted to the side. The knock sounded like something tapping against metal. Only one person knocked like that, and she could perceive him w...
2023-01-31 06:57:13 +0000 UTC View PostArgrave opened the door to the bottom floor of the inn, expecting to find it empty. Instead, Magister Vasilisa sat in an otherwise empty dining area, a great many tankards before her. Argrave was t...
2023-01-30 06:56:56 +0000 UTC View PostGanbaatar slid a thin wire into a door’s keyhole, Svetlana kneeling just beside him while watching an adjacent door. Something clicked from within the hole, and then the elven man tried the doork...
2023-01-27 06:57:14 +0000 UTC View PostArgrave surveyed Svetlana of Quadreign. She wasn’t exactly a main character, but she was a companion the player could recruit—these reasons alone made her notable. She regarded the three of the...
2023-01-26 06:56:31 +0000 UTC View PostHow does one profit from war? That was a question that Elenore had asked a lot throughout her life. Her father, King Felipe III, warred throughout most of his reign, expanding the already significa...
2023-01-25 06:56:41 +0000 UTC View PostArgrave and Anneliese made their way back to the inn rather satisfied. Argrave felt things with the Magisters had gone quite well, which gave ample comfort for the tasks ahead. To show their commit...
2023-01-24 06:56:55 +0000 UTC View PostA window jerked open quietly on the second floor of an inn, and then someone slid into the room: a man armored in black. Someone else occupying the room sat up anxiously at the sudden entrance yet ...
2023-01-23 06:58:56 +0000 UTC View PostIn the days to come, Argrave amply demonstrated the fragility of Ivan’s hold over the region to Vasilisa.
From the outside looking in, a fortress might seem unassailable. From the inside, o...
2023-01-22 06:38:07 +0000 UTC View Post
“You’re sure this will work?” asked Vasilisa as she sat on one of the beds in their inn’s room.
Anneliese held the Starsparrow atop her finger. “It is most certainly our best bet of...
2023-01-21 02:53:17 +0000 UTC View PostI'm sick. I don't think it's covid, but then again I haven't been tested. Feels like a flu. I tried to slog through it and write anyway, but I thought the writing was pretty bad. I think it would b...
2023-01-19 03:26:55 +0000 UTC View PostMagister Traugott, wearing the gray robes given to him by the Order of the Gray Owl, sat atop a parapet on the walls of Dirracha, legs dangling over the side. He peered down at the first level of t...
2023-01-18 06:55:12 +0000 UTC View PostA knock came at the door to the guest house, and Galamon stepped away to answer it. Once he did, Vasilisa stood on the other side. She looked about the room and then declared, “I won’t act unle...
2023-01-17 06:58:15 +0000 UTC View PostMagister Vasilisa watched the man beside her pour a drink into her cup. Cups, rather—the bartender filled multiple tankards, each and all just beside Vasilisa’s wrist. Her eyes jumped between t...
2023-01-16 06:57:48 +0000 UTC View PostVasilisa grabbed the iron gate that stood out front the palace in Quadreign. She fit in a key and opened it wide. Argrave eyed the gate—it was cheaply made, and the iron had grown rusty and britt...
2023-01-13 06:59:22 +0000 UTC View Post“Feels like I can think again,” Argrave said loudly into the wind, one arm wrapped around Anneliese.
He hadn’t realized how much being stagnant in Relize had been weighing at him until ...
2023-01-12 06:53:01 +0000 UTC View Post“Traugott said that?” Argrave demanded, turning to Elenore as they walked through the streets of Relize. They headed for Leopold’s mansion, escorted by his royal guards.
“I’m worrie...
2023-01-11 06:57:49 +0000 UTC View PostDurran opened a door, beholding the man waiting on the other side. His name was Traugott. As Elenore said, his skin was darker than most people in Vasquer. Even still, Durran had seen darker men in...
2023-01-10 06:57:05 +0000 UTC View PostArgrave pushed aside the tent canopy and entered inside. There, Anneliese sat at a table, a few royal guards standing around her.
“Wait outside, guard there,” Argrave directed them.
“Knight-commander, sir,” one of the royal guards said in a quiet voice as Argrave spoke to someone about sealing up this tunnel until the time came to deal with it fully.
Galamon turned h...
2023-01-06 06:58:33 +0000 UTC View PostArgrave pushed into the red crescent moon on the front of the metal door, and it clicked a few times. Once enough of it had been pushed in, it made space enough to get a grip. Argrave fit his finge...
2023-01-05 06:55:45 +0000 UTC View PostArgrave gazed up at the towering black rock dominating all of his vision. Their darkness gave the impression that one might find a gaping hole at the top of these rocks that led down into pits of m...
2023-01-04 06:57:31 +0000 UTC View Post“Duke Rovostar heads south, Prince Orion, to combat the approaching forces of the south. Though we can still see the dust clouds from their horses, we long ago lost sight of the army itself,” a...
2023-01-03 06:56:36 +0000 UTC View PostArgrave stood just beside Galamon, Anneliese on his other side. He felt a sense of relief no longer being surrounded by twelve additional warm bodies. This was because the twelve warm bodies that g...
2023-01-02 06:56:31 +0000 UTC View PostA couple linked arms as they ascended up the mystic stone elevator in the center of the Tower of the Gray Owl. One was a fairly tall bald man with lean features and a grin that seemed markedly bitt...
2022-12-30 06:57:35 +0000 UTC View PostArgrave picked up a ring and poured the well of magic bursting within him into the confines of the inscription wrought into the metal. Imbuing enchantments felt like he was handling red hot liquid ...
2022-12-29 06:56:45 +0000 UTC View Post“One king is torn down before he can be crowned…” Duke Sumner, the young, brown of hair, and finely groomed mage of the south walked around a table where a map of Vasquer had been arrayed. He...
2022-12-28 06:57:55 +0000 UTC View Post“You’ve already declared your intent to take the throne, Your Majesty,” Leopold reminded Argrave. “This revelation doesn’t change that, so far as I’m concerned. And need I remind you…...
2022-12-27 06:56:48 +0000 UTC View PostArgrave stared at the silver bracer around his forearm. It fit quite snugly, and it was difficult to tell that it was sapping his blood away if not for the slowly-filling glass meter atop it. He sa...
2022-12-26 06:55:48 +0000 UTC View PostOrion stepped through a dark dank corridor, alone. Innumerable empty cells persisted along this pathway, blocked by thick iron bars. The stone, some of it stained by blood, told stories of past atr...
2022-12-23 06:58:09 +0000 UTC View Post