Anneliese gazed into eternity as it watched her, passing judgment in terms that she couldn’t comprehend or codify. Eternity, unlike its appearance, was rather similar to how Argrave described the...
2024-09-16 06:55:24 +0000 UTC View PostI intend to rewrite the end of last chapter. The head only bit was a bit stupid on reflection for a myriad of factors (cruel, impractical, Argrave isn't sustained by necromancy like Garm, Anne woul...
2024-09-15 06:54:20 +0000 UTC View PostArgrave dismounted from the white wolf, and without a moment of reservation the creature raced on without him. He’d discussed his plans with Anneliese and the others, and though there were loud a...
2024-09-13 06:53:18 +0000 UTC View PostThe bolt of blood magic shot forth with enough speed that all onlookers saw was what had been left in its wake. Its tightly compressed power leaked out in jagged black-red sparks that tainted the l...
2024-09-09 07:01:13 +0000 UTC View PostAt some point, Argrave stopped thinking about what was happening and what he was doing to stop it. It was as though he retreated within himself, going from an actor in a movie to someone watching i...
2024-09-06 07:01:12 +0000 UTC View PostLorena had become the diligent watchdog of the world, and she relished that task. To employ the omniscience the Heralds had so abused in her time toward thwarting them; no revenge could be sweeter,...
2024-09-04 06:50:38 +0000 UTC View PostArgrave began to piece together his foe’s plans all at once only after he saw the fruit of his labor. Jaray hadn’t been betting on being able to rely on the Shadowlanders or any deities of the ...
2024-09-02 06:53:22 +0000 UTC View PostElenore had never been more on edge than upon Argrave’s declaration that he would leave Blackgard with Sophia in tow. Her number one concern was that he was falling for a manipulation of some kin...
2024-08-30 06:40:36 +0000 UTC View PostTitle of last chapter changed to 'Diplomatic Immunity.' Kicking myself I didn't think of that at the time...
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Argrave turned his head back to Fellhorn’s assault. There, he witnessed th...
Though Argrave searched very hard for a clever solution to the god of time’s influence, he could find nothing. Neither the records of the past contained in Erlebnis’ wiki nor the happenings of ...
2024-08-26 06:58:04 +0000 UTC View PostArgrave had been wise in his instinct to be wary of this coming confrontation.
Argrave had joined Margrave Reinhardt’s force from on high. When he did, he could feel the distortion of time...
2024-08-23 07:02:36 +0000 UTC View PostWhen Argrave arrived atop one of the tall towers at Jast, he’d expected many things—foremost among them being that the tower he’d stored his echo on had fallen, and he’d be in freefall. Sur...
2024-08-21 06:48:12 +0000 UTC View Post
I've attached a map of Vasquer to this post, which may come in handy as a reference for coming chapters.
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Argrave was certainly no expert on warfare. There was one thing that he understo...
Durran stared out across the vast emptiness of the Burnt Desert. As he did, the words of the woman he loved echoed in his head.
I don’t want you to fight, Elenore had said. I w...
2024-08-16 06:49:08 +0000 UTC View Post“This isn’t the time to be hesitant anymore, Hause,” Argrave said plainly, leaning forth on the stone chair provided to him. “We’re going to be facing something that’s far beyond our im...
2024-08-14 06:56:00 +0000 UTC View Post“Argrave has to die.”
Following that declaration, Jaray blew a puff of smoke from his mouth. He looked between countless gods arrayed here, who’d come either in-person or through emissa...
2024-08-12 06:56:34 +0000 UTC View PostArgrave saw Lorena’s return long in advance. She had fled—perhaps prudently—because of what the suns had been doing. She returned as she’d left, like a comet soaring through the sky. Argrav...
2024-08-09 07:00:50 +0000 UTC View PostArgrave expected much of the meeting with the suns. Would they be fiery twins, perhaps? Would they be warm, life-giving, generous? In the end, all of these assumptions were based on the idea that t...
2024-08-07 06:45:40 +0000 UTC View PostAfter the conversation with Griffin, which had given him so much to think about it felt as though his mind might never rest again, the pointless words exchanged with the Herald had brought him back...
2024-08-05 06:48:37 +0000 UTC View PostArgrave arrived at the top of the tree. He had been expecting some sort of vast field of golden leaves at the top, but instead, he found himself crawling through an open manhole. He rose up out of ...
2024-08-02 06:32:07 +0000 UTC View PostArgrave had long been imagining what might actually happen when he came to fight Gerechtigkeit. The last thing that he’d expected to be would be a simple man, dressed to impress. He did look very...
2024-07-31 07:01:29 +0000 UTC View PostNot long after Argrave had agreed to accept Lorena’s help—and received it, in much the same way that he had the dialogue from Hause’s followers—Raven returned. Argrave had expected to deal ...
2024-07-29 07:03:18 +0000 UTC View Post“I think that the answer should be obvious.” Elenore stared Argrave down. “When you’re fighting an opponent, there’s only two ways to gain advantage. Strengthen your own side, or weaken t...
2024-07-26 07:01:40 +0000 UTC View Post“You should know, beforehand…” Raven began to caution Argrave. “I’m intimately familiar with this process.”
“A battle of souls?” Argrave stared up at him as he laid down on th...
2024-07-24 06:57:26 +0000 UTC View PostAnneliese watched the rise and fall of Argrave’s chest to remind herself that he still breathed. She could see with her [Truesight] a stunning lack of presence—and elsewhere in the obsidian cha...
2024-07-22 06:57:34 +0000 UTC View Post“It always surprised me that you never picked up on what the Gilderwatchers truly were,” Lorena said as she looked out across Blackgard from atop the mountain ranges encircling it. They were wa...
2024-07-19 06:49:15 +0000 UTC View Post“I’m pleased that we were able to walk away from this peaceably,” Lorena said to them. She had resumed laying on her bed made of her ridiculously-long tail.
Jaray had long ago left, but...
2024-07-17 06:55:31 +0000 UTC View Post“I could start with pleasantries. It’s clear you have a great deal of questions you’d like to bombard me with, Anneliese, but I’m not sure how we’ll all walk away from this, and I don’t...
2024-07-16 06:50:10 +0000 UTC View PostThough Argrave had been all but told that he might be expected to return the favor later down the line, for now, he wasn’t opposed to accepting the convenience of Jaray’s free help. Getting som...
2024-07-15 06:55:30 +0000 UTC View PostArgrave, exhausted after a long session, went to explain the exchange that he’d had with Jaray to those that had come with him. Anneliese and all others listened with rapt attention, taking the m...
2024-07-12 07:00:45 +0000 UTC View Post