Infamous Goose

2.7 Interlude: The Dao Progenitor

The boy’s name was Xing. Xing Wu, one of the Young Masters of the Xing clan, built and flourishing among the outer edges of Pangaea, just barely outside the reach of the Celestial Palace. And he ...

2.6 Hearth and Home

“It’s very interesting, what’s happening to your Hidden Realm, Morgan.” I said conversationally, my hands working even as my eyes stared off into space. Bits of metal lay all around me as I...

2.5 Hidden Realm

I gripped threads of energy, winding them together to form four thick ropes tied to the core of each of the Realms. The elemental gods all floated around me, watching, aiding, each maneuvering thre...

2.4 Echoes of the Past

Elvira found me while I was teaching Kei, Reika watching on as she worked to develop the top of the Life-Giving Tree. She descended from the skies on a ray of golden light, piercing the cloudy subs...

2.3 Here There Be Dragons

A party was being thrown. Confetti filled the air, streamers draped across the halls of my palace, while gods and other spiritual beings milled about, chatting happily. Balls of multicolored light ...

2.2 The Old Man and the Sea

Her name was Inesa, and her meeting with a crusty old fisherman changed her life. She met him on the docks of a small fishing village, the weathered old man mending a hole in his net with gnarled f...

2.1 I Have No Point

I peeked into Morgan’s chamber to find the wolf sleeping on its side, just beneath the window which let light from the Realm Sun in. It hadn

I peeked into Morgan’s chamber to find the wol...

1.39 A Talk Between Gods (Epilogue)

I sat alone, a cup of fragrant green tea in one hand as I stared out into the Void. For the first time in a long time, my thoughts were blissfully empty, devoid of pressing need to act or do anythi...

1.38 The Star

I watched Sol’s memories, having not destroyed them, so I could understand his actions and motivations. Every passing second made me madder and madder at him; he’d felt cheated out of being the...

1.37 Aftermath

The immediate aftermath of the battle was as messy as all battles were. Perhaps this one even moreso, as it was a fight between gods.

Burial shrouds were laid out for those who had been slain...

1.36 Of Fate and Fools

“You would raise a hand against Your own child?” the Shadow asked, baring its fangs even as sadness crept into its tone. I smiled thinly, keeping my posture relaxed and sword at the ready, held...

1.35 This is How High the Heavens Are

Alexander fell from the skies, drawing my attention away from the condensing of the Lunar Star’s power, the Shadow gripping his throat between its jaws as they tumbled to the ground, colliding wi...

1.34 Keep It Together

The Shadow made a noise in the back of its throat as it turned back toward Elvira and her siblings, amusement writ all across its features. “It seems the Great One has turned Their gaze away from...

1.33 Explosions

Once again, I was forced to watch as my children slaughtered each other, this time on a far grander scale than ever before. What surprised me the most about this entire thing, however, was not the ...

1.32 The Call to War

The entirety of the Four Realms trembled when the Shadow emerged from its hiding place. Rifts opened in the skies, gaping holes in reality that led to a hidden network of spaces that wove throughou...

1.31 Interlude: The Shadow of the Four Realms

The Shadow remembered the first breath of creation. That great sigh that rippled through the Void, bringing with it awareness and a litany of souls. It had been born before that first breath, leavi...

1.30 The Call of War

Alexander floated beside me as I walked through the art-adorned halls of my palace, the god of fire and goddess of water clinging to his back like little monkeys. They had found him the moment we r...

1.29 Floating the River

Alexander and I went swimming in the Spirit River. Energy and souls alike drifted by as we floated along, watching the turning of the Realms and traversing the entirety of the river. We started in ...

1.28 Kei is a Problem Child (Lovingly So)

Reika found me at the roots of the Life-Giving Tree, smoothing out a stress fracture I had found in the fabric of reality. It wasn’t dangerous yet, but certain imbalances in the Realms’ structu...

1.27 An Immortal Army

Elvira led me deeper into her palace, holding the new soul I had made the entire time. And she presented before me a problem.

“We need an army.” She said bluntly, leading me through the w...

1.26 Report

I meditated for over a thousand years. One thousand and fifty seven, to be exact, and the moment I returned to full awareness the Shadow’s forces fled. A haunting, echoing call rang out through t...

1.25 Karmic Immortality

Fang Xu met god.

He wasn’t sure how he knew it, but know it he did. Perhaps that was the point of the ascension trial. Each step across the golden bridge that formed before his soul when th...

1.24 The First Clash

Patience was not one of my many virtues, hence why it may have been a blessing that I was largely in deep meditation when Fang Xu was working on reaching his karmic tribulation. Fifty years is not ...

1.23 Fang Xu

The man’s name was Fang Xu, and he was damn tired. He sat in his little home, a log-and-plaster house situated at the edge of town, staring out the window at the dense green forest. Grey skies lo...

1.22 Heavenly Tribulations

Part of the nature of my enlightenment was that, when I fell into deep meditation, I did not truly disappear from the Four Realms – not that I ever could. I was the Heavenly Will, and the Heavenl...

1.21 What is a Dao?

“What is a Dao?” I asked no one in particular. Kei glanced up at me from where she’d been playing with a toy boat I’d made for her out of wood and shrugged, then promptly went back to pushi...

1.20 Foxes and Men

Reika shoved Kei into my arms, and all but demanded I watch her for a time. I wasn’t complaining, of course, I loved watching the rambunctious little fox-girl, it was just surprising. I’d been ...

1.19 The Council of Gods

“Are all of Father’s incarnations sufficiently preoccupied?” Elvira whispered to the two gods behind her. It was Sol who answered, Gilles, the one Elvira hoped would reply, remaining silent.<...

1.18 Worry

My incarnation stood beside my true body, frowning slightly. I really did look a mess, sitting cross-legged in my newly created meditation room. My hair was in disarray, be it male or female form. ...

1.17 Here There Be Angels

When I dream, I see everything.

That is both an exaggeration and not. I have seemingly little control over what, exactly, I see, but I can see anything. This time, I experienced the lives of ...