The tri-clinic closed very early on temple day, which often meant it tended to be quite packed by mid-morning.
Just after the sun had risen, Caen was already at the tri-clinic. He was on disp...
2025-09-15 12:10:40 +0000 UTC View PostThe first portion of Caen's mind was focused on casting a spiritual scan.
The second portion of his mind watched his own soul structure, specifically his aura, noticing the changes that...
2025-09-14 12:00:15 +0000 UTC View PostSh'kteiro didn't recognize the diagrams, and he couldn't easily get in touch with anyone who might until he returned to Vishnen.
At the phrontistery, Preceptor Wijin was having a meetin...
2025-09-13 12:02:08 +0000 UTC View PostCaen left them and began heading for the Valiant’s lodge. He lifted his backpack to examine the glyphs that had been scrawled on his bag as he walked.
They weren't there.
Caen came to...
2025-09-12 12:00:18 +0000 UTC View PostIn an instant, he'd reshaped Chasma into a round buckler on his forearm, engaging absorption on its exterior.
With the smaller portion of his mind, Caen channeled light from the Plane of the...
“We only do fetches with people we know,” a Valiant in scale armor said. “Sorry, cherche.”
Caen sighed and walked away.
“...
2025-09-10 12:00:18 +0000 UTC View Post“Five affinities!” Vai exclaimed. “Heh. The runt of the litter’s finally growing up. You should be proud! Tahal's horns and tails, I know I am.”
Caen, Zeris, and their uncle were fl...
2025-09-09 12:00:18 +0000 UTC View PostThey got their things from Guinevere's room and left the estate. Guinevere escorted them down the cobblestone road till they found a carriage that was headed into town.
When Caen mentio...
2025-09-08 12:00:26 +0000 UTC View Post“Wreather and Parity,” Caen repeated under his breath, running those words over in his mind and trying to see how they measured up against the other ones he'd come across.
“I have no id...
2025-09-07 12:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostThey went through a few more rounds of testing, using the fragment, of course. Zeris and Guinevere kept ramping up the intensity each time with very interesting results. Chasma remained merely curi...
2025-09-06 12:00:18 +0000 UTC View PostFarmer Brah'm gave Caen a vase of nutrient-rich soil—he’d retrieved this out of nowhere—and explained that Caen would need to diversify his fragment's ‘diet’ routinely and not ca...
2025-09-05 12:00:22 +0000 UTC View PostThe next day, dawn met Caen meditating on the roof.
His mind felt sharper, his thoughts clearer, his focus firmer. It was as though his consciousness had been replaced by something grea...
2025-09-04 12:00:17 +0000 UTC View PostThey cleared the table and did the dishes after dinner. Aunt Grena had retired to bed, and Vensha had gone down to the commune saloon to meet up with friends. Caen sat at the dining table with Zeri...
2025-09-03 12:00:22 +0000 UTC View PostWhen he stepped out of the Plane, Caen was struck by how unpleasant… everything was. The air was only slightly dusty and had smelled somewhat clean on his way here, but now it seemed lacking. Eve...
2025-09-02 12:00:14 +0000 UTC View PostAuthors's Note: Today makes a month since I started posting this story. Thank you so much for your support. It means the world to me. I can't wait to show you all the fun stuff I have in st...
2025-09-01 12:00:26 +0000 UTC View PostSoul structures involved far too many elements to keep track of; there were sounds, vibrations, visual representations, physical, mental, and even spiritual impressions. Nothing truly stayed the sa...
2025-08-31 12:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostThe spells used to manipulate Parthran fragments were not quite Saffronan. But they did use spirit patterns—though of a different model—and even had visualizations of a sort. Apparently, the dr...
2025-08-30 12:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostCaen's entire existence coalesced into a whole. Restored. Terror. Dread.
I just died. I just died.
AND NOW YOU ARE WHOLE. OF WHAT USE IS POWER IF I CANNOT SAFELY EXAMINE ...
2025-08-29 12:00:21 +0000 UTC View PostThe hole was blocked by a web of white strings that did not budge when he pushed at them with his hands. It seemed to be some sort of cotton-like substance, and he could not connect to it, which me...
2025-08-28 12:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostCaen soaked contentedly in a pool of water as he made some plant tendrils on the wall beside him writhe. The water was very pure, and Caen had found that the pools here seemed to clean themselves s...
2025-08-27 12:00:27 +0000 UTC View PostApparently, they could both enter through the hole in the wall. Steps, like Yildriv had described, led all the way up to the third layer.
Yildriv dropped to his knees and kissed the bla...
2025-08-26 12:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostCaen jolly ol' chap sat at a round table with some of the fragmental dryads of Parthra. They dined on the fifteenth layer of the ancient tree, celebrating Rlarlarla's acquisition of a fragment of i...
2025-08-25 12:00:20 +0000 UTC View PostA rush of static energy startled Caen awake. He sat up quickly in a groggy haze, reaching with one hand for a glaive that wasn't there while his other hand wrapped around the dagger by his thigh. T...
2025-08-24 12:00:14 +0000 UTC View PostThe dryad barkeep prepared a pie for Caen. He produced a round, fleshy fruit of some kind and gradually transformed it right before Caen's eyes. The dryad's soul structure revealed that this was a ...
2025-08-23 12:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostMafrolem, Yildriv, and several other accounts were apparently right about something: Parthra was incredibly impervious. Caen could not even so much as dent the bark with his daggers. He'd chipped o...
2025-08-22 12:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostCaen made his way to the top of the stairs carefully as he gazed around him. Parthra's soul structure was truly dizzying. The second layer was a vast, dark-walled cavern with two main exits. He mov...
2025-08-21 12:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostParthra was the name of the great tree that sat at the center of this Plane. The majesty of its size alone was so awe-inspiring and made Caen feel very tiny.
Every resource he'd read in...
2025-08-21 12:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostOnce the last tree was felled, what followed was a night of celebration.
After the Chancellery had done away with meal tokens, alcohol had still remained very expensive and inaccessible. Tha...
Many days passed, and Caen fell into an easy routine. He continued his boosted magical exercises and practiced Flora magic on the awakened trees, but he usually made time to share supper with Zeris...
2025-08-19 12:00:16 +0000 UTC View Post[I'm coming too!] Guinevere called.
[It's just Fire magic,] Caen sent back. [But you're welcome to join us.]
[Sweet!]
Caen and Zeris had made plans to practice with Ardor, but the...
2025-08-18 12:00:22 +0000 UTC View Post