The Last Hunter

Illithid behind the Curtain: Place your Bets

The sound of violence was almost primal in its intensity.

In the box with the other VIP's, I watched on intently at the opening matches below, but my mind was on anything but. Instead, I was...

Illithid behind the Curtain: Evil unto Evil

"This is your plan?"

Cinder frowned, sensing something laden in those words as she glared in suspicion at the doll. For one of Salem's pet beasts, it was far wordier than expected and she ig...

Illithid behind the Curtain: Aftermath and Secrets

Every channel it was the same. The same clip of magic unleashed, of alien creatures, of a dragon going mano-a-mano with an elder grimm and the visions of the dead. All but buried beneath these stor...

Illithid behind the Curtain: The Breach; Part 2

Vale was burning and Ruby could see it from here.

On the ship, the other students would be murmuring, eyes wide or grimly narrowed and preparing themselves in various ways. It would be the n...

Illithid behind the Curtain: The Breach; Part 1

Panic surged over the city of Vale, expanding like a wildfire and urged on by its dark heralds. Such an invasion was rare, the great cities normally all but protected heavily but now? With a pipeli...

Illithid behind the Curtain: Origin Story

Branderscar Prison was a memory now, but they were still in chains.

Nobody breaks out monsters, just out of the goodness of their heart and if that smiling bitch was human, C'gorath was an o...

Illithid behind the Curtain: Where the Shadows Lie

I had told Taiyang once that if I put my mind to it, I could raze the four kingdoms in a day.

Now I was exerting this on a single, legion of Eladrin and what chance did they have?

Abs...

Illithid behind the Curtain: March of the Witch of the East

Slowly, my project I had started from the beginning was taking form. It was a semblance of what it could had been of course, but it didn't need to be perfect. It just needed to work, and if it coul...

Illithid behind the Curtain: A Waterdeep Interlude

Waterdeep: City of Splendors.

Despite invasion, despite cultists, demons, Blackcloak himself and more, the city had always survived and in no small way due to their own efforts. Oh certainly...

Illithid behind the Curtain: Heads of State

"You must understand, this is incredibly unprecedented."

Introductions had been made, hands had been shaken and now I was currently entertaining General Ironwood and Headmaster Ozpin in the ...

Illithid behind the Curtain: Quadling City

As the airship docked, General Ironwood would be watching with a cautious eye.

Aliens? Dragons, things of legend suddenly returned and moreover in positions of what appeared to be perfectly ...

Illithid behind the Curtain: A Blake and Yang interlude

Yang paused. Slowly, she slipped off her shades, folding them neatly as she handed them to a shocked Blake, who already looked like she was regretting everything. And stepping onto the stage, ignor...

Illithid behind the Curtain: First Impressions

There was an Atlas airship approaching.

This was expected. I had honestly been prepared for the worst possible timeline, but it seemed like Ozpin had been able to run interference or at leas...

Illithid behind the Curtain: A Jaune Interlude

"Hmph. Again."

Jaune's newest teacher was a relentless man. He slammed the hunter through all manner of exercises, forcing him to take a heavy backpack filled with weights for example and be...

Illithid behind the Curtain: Growing Pains

"Morning Mrs. W."

"Morning ma'am."

"Morning Aunty Em!"

One after another, the various children woke up and came to the breakfast table, set outside on the lawn due to the unusu...

Illithid Behind the Curtain: A Salem Interlude

The more things changed, the more they stayed the same Salem mused to herself.

Centuries had passed and she was still in a tower, albeit of her own choice now. Her heart was cold, the sensat...

Illithid Behind the Curtain: A dusty old Crow

C'gorath burned with rage.

Talingarde had been an utter failure, the paladins and inquisitors of this place far more adept than he had imagined. His little spot for research had been discove...

Illithid Behind the Curtain: Staking my Claim

"Gentlemen. Ladies. Thank you all for coming."

I smiled, leaning back in my seat as Artemis Entreri stood by my side, shades on and quite at ease in the room of what would have certainly bee...

Illithid behind the Curtain: Me, Myself and I

There was a part of me that was already regretting the steps I had made to change this world. For the better, I told myself but really, just looking at my actions now spoke of a far greater struggl...

Vale Interlude: Always a Bigger Fish

Roman Torchwick was a simple man, with simple wants. Namely, that of having people to rob blind, to become filthy rich and perhaps to be around to enjoy all of it? Oh, and Neo too of course, that w...

Illithid behind the Curtain: A change of Perspective

"That's the last of em!"

The bullhead door was closed and slapped once, the air vehicle taking off and flying off into the skies. Off to the side, Yang observed their neighbor with a contemp...

Illithid behind the Curtain: Laying the Foundations

It was one thing to have a goal, another to immediately do it. Wizard though I was, even I had limits and I had much to do first. Money was no problem there thankfully, my hidden stores of plunder ...

Illithid Behind the Curtain; Yo ho, yo ho

"Esme?"

"Yes?" I ask, as we're led into the cavern by our escort party. The Drow are cautious, but after a messenger was sent, apparently, we were intriguing enough to actually be brought in...

Illithid behind the Curtain: Revelations and Secrets

I was somewhat surprised by the reception. Then again, this had been my first time with a large, faunus group and it blew all my expectations out of the water. Not every faunus was White Fang or a ...

Illithid behind the Curtain: A moonlit walk

I make the announcement a few days after Ruby and Yang are gone. I fix any final problems, tidy up my tower and set up my defenses. As far as anyone now knows, Dr. Rincewind left due to an emergenc...

Illithid Behind the Curtain: Heroes and Monsters

"I did it!"

The cry of excitement broke the quiet of my tower like a thunderclap, a comparison not half wrong as rose petals scattered about my study and a Ruby Rose appeared. I lowered my b...

Illithid behind the Curtain: Calm and Quiet Days

That little meeting with Ruby changed everything.

Yang soon followed suit, her only reaction being to ask me if I pooped and then I found the courage to show myself to Taiyang. At first, he ...

Illithid behind the Curtain: Mistakes were Made

I loved to cook.

Well, I did, and it was something of a joke for Hannibal at the table as well, and with a calmer mind then I had for ages I started in on my preparations. My knife flashed, ...

Illithid behind the Curtain: I want to Believe

Taiyang Xiao Long was utterly terrifying. Oh, not in the way he could fight, I've seen and experienced worst. But rather in the sheer, relentless manner he earnestly tried to be friends with me des...

Illithid Behind the Curtain: The Wizard of Patch

Yang Xiao Long blinked.

Like she'd seen on tv, she began to rub her eyes and then peered outward again. Nope, it was still there. There was still a giant tower that hadn't been there before. ...