All of the commanders of the army of Ravenveld chattered incessantly as the king sat at the table with his arms crossed. Arnoud stared into the distance like no one else was around him, like no one...
2025-05-02 06:50:58 +0000 UTC View PostWillem was very glad to finally lie down in his stiff bedroll and go to sleep. He was proportionately displeased when he was woken up in the middle of that sleep by someone poking his cheek.
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2025-05-01 06:56:08 +0000 UTC View PostSince time immemorial, the people of Ravenveld and Avaria had been sworn enemies.
Countless times their armies had clashed on the field of battle, one of them composed of slaves, the other of...
2025-04-30 07:06:29 +0000 UTC View PostCount Dietrich von Schwarnhelmensteinfeldran was a tall man with a hard jaw, a long nose, and deep-set brown eyes. His dark hair was neatly combed back, and he carried himself with stiff military p...
2025-04-29 07:09:25 +0000 UTC View Post"Your Majesty, the problem is freedom from the financial system. Too many people have it,” Willem said. “What I’m offering you is a network where no one spends, earns, or saves without your p...
2025-04-28 06:52:04 +0000 UTC View PostWillem walked into the grand workshop that had often been of during his long talks with Karel. This was the van der Heiden workshop. From the sheer grandeur of the place, it was clear that this was...
2025-04-28 01:03:56 +0000 UTC View PostUnfortunately, there wasn’t much business for Willem to attend to. While he might have thrown himself to work looking over the various soap purchases that were occurring around the capital, or fo...
2025-04-24 06:46:45 +0000 UTC View PostWillem had a rather difficult conundrum on his hands.
He’d come to enjoy being honest. It was a vaguely fun restriction, where he had to say the truth while doing decidedly underhanded thin...
2025-04-23 06:33:11 +0000 UTC View PostWillem and Arend travelled alone on a small, humble carriage. Viviene had chosen to remain behind in the Dubois territories, at least until the estate could be settled and the king’s men had deci...
2025-04-22 07:05:05 +0000 UTC View PostLeonardo and Raphael again stood in the study of the capital estate of the Dukes of Villamar.
“Do you have any idea what you’ve done?” The Duke of Villamar looked at Raphael uncompromis...
2025-04-21 06:50:01 +0000 UTC View PostThe largest benefit to being involved in politics, in Willem’s view, was the beautiful prospect of insider trading. Usually, people were left to figure these trifling geopolitical crises out on t...
2025-04-18 06:59:08 +0000 UTC View Post“You need but give the word, Your Majesty, and I’ll see this beast removed from this world,” Galahad said enthusiastically, staring at Sarah as if she was an abomination.
“Speak when ...
2025-04-17 06:58:14 +0000 UTC View PostBaptiste stirred when he heard the scrape of boots against the stone. He lifted his broken and beaten head, feeling absolutely miserable. This was worse than any hangover that he had ever endured, ...
2025-04-16 06:53:48 +0000 UTC View Post“I know what you are,” Princess Clara said, staring at Eleanor evenly.
Eleanor sipped at the tea that had been provided for her. This was one of the last places that she expected to end u...
2025-04-15 06:58:27 +0000 UTC View PostWillem walked to the arena in Ravenveld early in the morning, feeling well rested. He’d never really felt that he needed an excessive amount of sleep, usually only six or so hours. He always had ...
2025-04-14 07:01:53 +0000 UTC View PostIt was quite early in the morning. It had to be, because as Willem’s fame grew, more and more people were paying attention to the sparring grounds in the arena.
Willem Junior finished anoth...
2025-04-11 06:58:46 +0000 UTC View PostHans sat in a boat in the middle of the lake holding a paddle. This was not quite the way that he expected his day to go, but here he was. Sitting just opposite him was Princess Clara Isabella Euge...
2025-04-10 07:01:26 +0000 UTC View PostDespite Willem’s concerns, it hadn’t been especially difficult to arrange a meeting with the princess. As it turned out, his name had a lot more weight now that he had become one of the Six Dra...
2025-04-09 07:07:03 +0000 UTC View Post“The only advantage that we have over the Red Raven is that she doesn’t know we’re looking for her,” Levente told Pascal, Duke of Sturmbann, whose daughter he had met at the event hosted by...
2025-04-08 06:51:54 +0000 UTC View PostWillem bore witness to the boring scene of Baron Tielman being raised to the title of Count. There was a lot of talking, ceremony, and symbolism, and none of that suited him well at all. His eyes w...
2025-04-07 06:55:51 +0000 UTC View PostKing Arnoud arrived to the ball that had been ongoing in the royal carriage. Although he wouldn’t express as much publicly, he harbored a great deal of concern for his daughter. Clara looked very...
2025-04-04 06:38:51 +0000 UTC View PostAlmost immediately upon arriving at the event, Willem’s vicinity became a storm of activity. First, he was approached by one of the Six Drakes: the man by the name of Levente. He was paler than m...
2025-04-03 07:00:25 +0000 UTC View PostEleanor looked at Willem intently. This would be the second time that her strange and singular fixation on Willem had landed her in hot water. Only… this time, there was something else in the bac...
2025-04-02 06:58:16 +0000 UTC View PostWillem stared at the lineup that had come through the final gate in the royal talk. There was Raphael and the king, obviously, but four others joined beside them. They seemed like quite eccentric p...
2025-04-01 06:39:42 +0000 UTC View PostAfter the devastation, the two Willems turned their gaze to the fractured territories beyond their borders. Dorgul Khan’s invasion had left lands lawless, each prey to brigands and famine that na...
2025-03-31 07:02:31 +0000 UTC View PostThe moment that Willen van Brugh attacked the Lord of the Blue Sky, he could tell that this would be a fight to remember. An elegant savagery—that was the fighting style of the nomadic horsemen o...
2025-03-28 06:51:48 +0000 UTC View PostThe Lord of the Blue Sky surged forth on his horse at full speed, leaving a great cloud of dust behind. the wind whipped his face, stung his eyes, but he hardly noticed—his world had shrunk to th...
2025-03-27 07:06:05 +0000 UTC View PostThe Lord of the Blue Sky stared at the land before him, steadying his horse as it tried to buck from the sight of the grand fires blazing. The fire illuminated his features quite well. He wore lame...
2025-03-26 06:59:06 +0000 UTC View PostWillem woke up with tired eyes, blinking them open. When he looked down at himself, he saw silken pajamas… and more than that, body heat behind. He turned back, wondering if he was having just an...
2025-03-25 07:02:23 +0000 UTC View PostEleanor sat opposite Willem after the conversation with Galahad. The King’s Hound had already left. Despite the total blindside, she genuinely didn’t think that he had any idea who she was. If ...
2025-03-24 06:59:29 +0000 UTC View Post