(Cognosticon here. Some regrettable errors in last week's chapters, but I don't want to take any time off now. The primary thrust of the book remains steady, so please bear with minor issues until ...
2025-06-02 17:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostThe asshole setting up the chairs on the wheel thought he was hot shit, Omilaena could tell.
It wasn't the fact that he had poisoned the cloths he was placing over the chairs, that was just t...
2025-05-30 17:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostBefore Kai could act, Zae Zin Nim stepped forward and thrust out her arm. Her Coldfire Palm slammed into the side of the energy surrounding them.
One of the Earth Souls was consumed in flame,...
2025-05-29 17:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostKai cultivated at the prow of the Clanless, glowering purposefully.
On a handful of occasions their trip had been interrupted, which he'd accepted was just part of Cloudspire, but he didn't ...
2025-05-27 17:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post(Cognosticon here. We are launching into the fifth book even though it may not be fully edited. The overall direction is clear enough, but there may be some typos. Might need to take an additional ...
2025-05-26 17:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostCognosticon here. Hope everyone enjoyed the fourth book.
The fifth, as should now be obvious, will deal with the incursion and its consequences. It will cover more characters/places/systems t...
2025-05-23 17:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostThe visitors were leaving the Southern Reach when Yriliuna finally got a peek at one of them. How odd... the handsome young man looked familiar to her. Like someone she had seen in a different plac...
2025-05-22 17:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostOne day after the battle, Kai still struggled to believe it. So much had led up to this point, so much had been on the line... and they had triumphed. It was over.
The three of them sat in th...
2025-05-20 17:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post(The fourth arc is ending this week, so one day will have a different post.)
Wan Fei had always wondered who would come out on top, if he actually fought the matriarch of the Dark Crown sect....
2025-05-19 17:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostCognosticon here. This is a break week, but I'm still checking in with an overview of the story so far, business dealings, and what you can expect.
The big thing that is distracting my writin...
2025-05-14 17:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostA needle through the neck would have been lethal for most cultivators, but Xir Xan Khan proved tougher than most. The strength he gained from the immortality elixir wasn't any kind of transcendent ...
2025-05-09 17:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostAnd so it was time for the most dangerous part of the plan: Kai went up not against a young master, not against a leader, not against a demon, but against one of the most powerful people in the wor...
2025-05-08 17:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostXir Xan Khan had never encountered such an infuriating opponent.
The Coiling Death should have been an overwhelming advantage, enough for him to end this foolish rivalry once and for all. Eve...
2025-05-06 17:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post(Cognosticon here. On one hand, I just signed the largest deal of my life for the audiobook rights to DH. On the other, the worst has come to pass: I'm almost out of backlog with my back against a ...
2025-05-05 17:00:11 +0000 UTC View Post(Cognosticon here. This is the final weekly batch, but frankly I'm in rough shape; this arc is done, but the next is very WIP. More information next week as I take stock.)
Chapter 494:...
2025-05-02 17:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 490: Blue and Black Paths
They were back together, everyone had gotten laid, and they had a plan. Things were looking up as far as Omilaena was concerned. Up to this point, she and Zi...
2025-04-25 17:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 486: Farewells on Deadwaste
By the time Kai returned with the last major piece, the construction of the new ship was essentially complete. Many were unsettled that he planned to use a...
2025-04-18 17:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 482: The Final Use for an Old Tattoo
Once everything was confirmed stable at the Frontier, Kai left the others to jump back across the continent to the Southern Reach. Since they had ...
2025-04-11 17:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post(Cognosticon here. Just reminding everyone that chapters are temporarily going to a weekly batch while I travel.)
Chapter 478: To the Frontier Abyss
Back to the Frontier again, t...
2025-04-04 17:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostReturning to Floodisle City while invisible was a bizarre experience for Zae Zin Nim. Often in the past she had been the subject of attention, either for her rank or her beauty, and even while the ...
2025-03-28 17:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostThe dryad district of Razorfall City was surprisingly different from the dryad village on Cloudspire, even down to what trees the dryads inhabited. They still favored shady open areas, but without ...
2025-03-27 17:00:19 +0000 UTC View PostAs far as Gorndron was concerned, training on Deadwaste was an endless series of brutal cliffs. Average folks with no real talent or opportunity might become warriors and end up with 50 Power or so...
2025-03-25 17:00:12 +0000 UTC View Post(Cognosticon here. Normal chapters this week, but next week we'll need to shift the schedule. No reduction in chapter rate, just a change in posting.)
The wind kept tearing against his...
2025-03-24 17:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostSo it turned out that Zin Nim's new body was gray all over, except where it was black. Omilaena's theory was that the dark blood had fully fused with her, providing coloring throughout the body. Th...
2025-03-21 17:00:14 +0000 UTC View PostThe ship decoy gambit had been a huge success, and that night Kai allowed himself to rest long enough to share a meal with Juray and Razz aboard the airship. What they had done was take a harmless-...
2025-03-20 17:00:17 +0000 UTC View PostIn all his long life, Wan Fei had never visited visited Deadwaste. Never thought about it, never imagined that it could contain any challenge or advancement worth of him. It had barely entered into...
2025-03-18 17:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostFor a moment they just stared at one another, unable to say anything. Juray was several years older than when he'd last seen her, but she still looked vibrant, and more importantly, she looked happ...
2025-03-17 17:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostWind bit against Kai's face as he pushed himself harder, flashing over the mushroom-crowned hills. He'd gained his orientation in the Southern Reach, with a strong sense for Goralia in the north, s...
2025-03-14 17:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostThe cavern resolved slowly as tension and speed gave way to wakefulness. They had escaped successfully, and hidden well enough for rest, yet none of that was any comfort. As her mind returned to it...
2025-03-13 17:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostAs the teleportation faded, before his sight had even returned, Kai skidded over dust and knew that he had returned to Deadwaste.
He had never seen the high hills around him before, and the v...
2025-03-11 17:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post