Where a roof stands between you and the sky, the cup makes peace. Salt closes the teeth of quarrel; water cools the tempering fire. The host who offers a bite or a sip takes the guest in...
2025-08-29 10:12:15 +0000 UTC View PostThe stone vases of the Dwarves are a quiet boast of their craft. They start with deep stone, hollow it by steady hand and sight. They read the veins, turn flaws into patterns, and polish...
2025-08-28 00:11:20 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 26 - Life Reset
Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.
- Tennessee Williams.<...
2025-08-26 23:29:17 +0000 UTC View PostThe dwarves harvest the glowcap beds, great fields of glowing haze. They bruise each cap with a white, tame mold, the ‘sweetmaker.’ A few days later, they harvest the fungus. The wor...
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Hey everyone! I’ve always loved LitRPG, but I kept wondering where the convincingly wicked protagonists were. So I went ahead and wrote the kind of villain I always wanted to read about.
An...
2025-08-25 13:38:07 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 25 - Revelations On a crowded path, a man carrying a cup was jostled. The tea splashed and stained his robe. He turned to blame the
Chapter 25 - Revelations
I, Klaust Solaxe of the line Solaxe, sound of mind and steady of hand, set my will in stone on the eve of seeking the Earth Mother’s blessing and the Runes; I name my sister, Lashane Solaxe, ...
2025-08-23 14:35:16 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 24 - The Hero
A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men.<...
2025-08-21 15:46:17 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 37 - A Challenge
He who belittles his foe invites the unknown blade to claim his own throat, for in arrogance lies the seed of downfall, and in vigilance, the roo...
2025-08-20 16:23:37 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 23 - Raining On My Parade
Don’t let expertise fool you into seeing false boundaries or underestimating those with wild dreams.
- Naveen Jain. 2025-08-19 16:25:54 +0000 UTC View Post
In period-correct brigandine and plate.
2025-08-18 15:43:49 +0000 UTC View Post*Was a bit tempted to put a status update, but there hasn't been much in the way of big moves except for one attribute. I need to plan this to be an audiobook, so too many status pages beco...
2025-08-18 15:40:21 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 22 - The Challenge
Marriage, in life, is like a duel in the midst of a battle.
- Edmond About.
Seraphina basked in the applause as a but...
2025-08-17 04:39:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Sydney Sweeney American Eagle : Great Jeans spoof
2025-08-16 09:17:13 +0000 UTC View PostOne should not drink poison to quench thirst.
- Unknown.
The warrior-woman Cordelia came to me as I finished a breakfast of oat pancakes with a rare finger of h...
2025-08-15 15:42:30 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 21 - The Dance of the Seven Veils
Dancing is poetry with arms and legs.
- Charles Baudelaire.
Anaselena’s gift of foresight—troublin...
2025-08-14 07:06:10 +0000 UTC View Post“Good fortune smiles on those who are prepared.”
- The Principles of Conflict by General Damien de Savant circa 234 AC.
We reached the foothills at last. We stepped off from the anc...
2025-08-13 04:49:57 +0000 UTC View PostAt the end of Book 5 and the start of Book 6, Gilgamesh enters an “echo of the past” during a Trial. I’ve worried this sequence might be underdeveloped and could use a few extra beats. This w...
2025-08-12 10:18:32 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 20 - Print
The press is our chief ideological weapon.
- Nikita Khruschev.
The trick with bad news was to get ahead of it. Frame the situ...
2025-08-12 04:55:50 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 19 - Declaration
When two men fight over a woman, it’s the fight they want, not the woman.
- Brendan Behan.
As if it were any ot...
2025-08-11 13:06:26 +0000 UTC View PostDeeper than the graves of the old gods lies a world brighter than any sky, yet hollow as a tomb—a night-bound vault where elder titans still roam in all their terrible splendor.
American Eagle ad parody. Seraphina has a greatsword.
2025-08-10 10:05:06 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 18 - The Great Blue
We all fly. Once you leave the ground, you fly. Some people fly longer than others.
- Michael Jordan
Today was one o...
2025-08-09 13:52:04 +0000 UTC View PostThe song of Mana is the most predatory lender. It advances itself sweetly and collects with compound interest—first from the hours of your effort, then from your thoughts and habits, last fro...
2025-08-08 11:19:05 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 17 - Loyalty
Loyalty and devotion lead to bravery. Bravery leads to the spirit of self-sacrifice. The spirit of self-sacrifice creates trust in the power of love....
2025-08-06 14:11:40 +0000 UTC View PostThe Black Flame will come when the once-innocent breathes its name. It will destroy those of the Green from root to crown, a devouring wind made fire. The heavens will burn like oiled ni...
2025-08-05 14:15:29 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 16 - The Devil Dances at Noon
“Dance is the hidden language of the soul.”
- Martha Graham.
It required some time, as might be expect...
2025-08-04 13:59:50 +0000 UTC View PostThey name it Mar-Samhala in the old tongue, the Sun’s Lost Daughter, a small yellow bloom that rises first from ash or from rare drought. Its five lantern-bright petals are cupped about a hea...
2025-08-02 13:36:10 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 15 - The Devil Dances at Midnight
Neutral men are the devil’s allies.
- Edwin Hubbel Chapin
The dark-haired woman looked over the curi...
2025-08-01 12:57:41 +0000 UTC View Post