Karalti and I swooped in high over the fleet as Janos' ships encircled the troop carriers. They descended and dropped ramps to the ground, a black pour of hookwing cavalry surging free. As they too...
2022-10-13 22:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostVastil Pass: 3 Days later
Karalti and I crouched on a jutting spine of black stone beside Zlaslo and his quazi, looking out across the plains to the west of Vastil Pass. We were twel...
2022-10-12 22:27:48 +0000 UTC View PostSuri found me still at my desk later in the night, mocking up strategic movements on a holomap of north-western Myszno. My head jerked up as the sound of her armor clanking broke through the trance...
2022-09-30 16:00:13 +0000 UTC View Post"To breach Myszno, Janos has to achieve two objectives. He has to destroy or seize Temeri Fortress, ten miles into the mouth of Vastil Pass, and he has to control all sixty miles of the pass itself...
2022-09-29 16:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostKaralti read my mind: she burst out into the thin, frigid air of the mountains near Lahati's Tomb, cutting a day's travel off our journey to Boros. I brought the map up as my dragon wheeled above t...
2022-09-28 16:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostThe Royal charter tore toward Kalla Sahasi from the north, easily visible from our gatehouse survey platforms. Karalti teleported back from her hunt without so much as a murmur of protest, watching...
2022-09-27 16:07:13 +0000 UTC View PostIt took Nemeth a good twenty minutes, but he eventually emerged with a freshly scribed scroll. Karalti, Gar, and Mehkhet stopped sorting through the scrolls they'd been handling and left them aside...
2022-09-12 11:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostThe only known entry to the Tomb of the Mastersmith was through the Fol Alugut, the city's primary sewer line. Access to the sewer was through a pair of heavy iron doors at the city's treatment pla...
2022-09-11 11:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostNext post will be tomorrow morning MDT (US Mountain Time).
Karalti burst out over the Royal College of Engineers with a roar of warning and challenge, spiraling down to land in front...
2022-09-10 18:39:43 +0000 UTC View PostThere will be a pause in chapters after this one, sorry to say! I have to complete the next chunk of writing and editing before I can continue uploading. If you're enjoying the story (or not), ...
2022-08-28 11:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostThe Ekaterina Mill, named for the woman who ran it, was clean, new, and bustling with people - but somehow, it had the feeling of a haunted house.
A haggard looking woman opened the door when...
2022-08-27 11:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostThe whining started before we'd even hauled Jacob out of his cell.
"Urrgh, what are you doing here? It's too early!" He moaned and cringed, shielding his face from the lanterns.
"Wakey ...
2022-08-26 11:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostMy throat was so tight now that I wasn't sure speaking was possible. Me... a Prince? Vlachia was one of the largest, richest, and most complex countries in all of Archemi. Ignas had two weeks, mean...
2022-08-25 11:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostThe four of us rushed back to the hospital to find Masha waiting for us in the ward. She was seated, a cup of tea cradled in her hands. Ebisa stood nearby, her arms crossed over her chest, head tur...
2022-08-24 11:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostI was just about sick of kings, countesses, armies and all the other shit I’d had to deal with over the last few days, but it was up to me, Suri and Istvan to get the structure of our soon-to-be ...
2022-08-24 03:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostIt was customary in Vlachia to throw a big party and provide a lot of food whenever you were entertaining nobility, but I wasn't a clown and this wasn't a circus. All fourteen of us took seats arou...
2022-08-22 11:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostBefore Istvan left, I ordered the lords and ladies of Myszno to assemble in the War Room in three hours’ time. That was long enough to get another drink, and put some serious thought into my prop...
2022-08-21 11:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostSuri was already waiting for me in her quarters. She'd taken her armor and shirt off, sitting bare-breasted on the edge of the bed with her knees pressed together. Her fierce golden ey...
2022-08-20 05:01:27 +0000 UTC View PostDouble post today!
The door swung out into a massacre. The remains of the clergy of Liric were sprayed across the floor, which itself had been churned up by the Sangehti'tak that had...
2022-08-20 05:00:41 +0000 UTC View PostThe proud, patrician king of Vlachia was nearly unrecognizable. He'd only been in Lucien's clutches for twenty-four in-game hours, but he was... he'd been brutalized. Stripped, beaten, for...
2022-08-17 11:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostBeyond the door was a short corridor with a double portcullis. The end of that fed right into Lovi Palace's torture expo. Tension built in my jaws as I stepped inside, searching for Ignas's tall, w...
2022-08-16 11:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostMan, Lucien is a real catch.
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The servant's passage ended in a staging area that connected the banquet hall to the kitchens - a staging a...
2022-08-15 11:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostThe tunnel grew larger once it began winding upwards toward the palace, widening out almost to the size of mineshafts. After the draugr, it was uneventful - except for the fork.
I sent Mehkhe...
2022-08-14 11:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostThe doors boomed closed, leaving the five of us alone with the dead.
"There's walking corpses down here. I can feel it like a bad itch between the legs," Vash muttered.
"Calm your tits,...
2022-08-13 11:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostSome people drowned their sorrows in liquor. Some with drugs. My drugs of choice were flying with Karalti, motorcycles, and crafting healing potions, in that order. Once we finished studying and ma...
2022-08-12 11:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostKaralti burst out of the air into a howling blizzard. Winter had already set its teeth into Revala, and the miles of private evergreen woodland that surrounded Lord Torquist's safehouse were thick ...
2022-08-11 11:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostI woke up to a ringing Party Chat notification in pretty much the same position I'd fallen asleep: flat on my back, Karalti sprawled over me in a tangle of limbs. Blearily, I opened my HUD and chec...
2022-08-10 11:01:03 +0000 UTC View PostWhen renovations had started on the castle, the Ducal Suite of Kalla Sahasi had been one of the first apartments to get cleaned up. There were no more faded green-and-silver brontosauruses or lace ...
2022-08-09 11:01:03 +0000 UTC View PostKaralti appeared high above Kalla Sahasi, groaning under our collective weight as a cold crosswind blasted her from the north. I could see and feel the tension in the other passengers as she see-sa...
2022-08-08 11:01:06 +0000 UTC View PostGreat. There WAS a fucking spy in the ranks. But they weren’t quite good enough.
”So, correction number one.” As I stepped out into the aisle, my voice was picked up and magnified just ...
2022-08-07 11:00:10 +0000 UTC View Post