When Vincent set his eyes upon the city, the world seemed to tilt on the precipice of reality. No words could adequately describe the raw beauty of Meldohv Syredel. In fact, for a few moments, he wasn’t even sure what he was looking at. His first impression was that a large thunderstorm was lingering over a large kingdom, its fury towering into the heavens. Motes of purple light spread like b...
2024-05-04 11:18:02 +0000 UTC View PostThe following chapter has one of my favorite sequences in it. Enjoy.
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The first hint that Vincent was dreaming was its incoherence. His house had a gift shop. Kris was selling miniature replicas of their home to visitors with bland, generic faces. There was a moment of surprise at such an odd scene, but he casually shrugged it off. Dreams were dreams.
The second hint wa...
2024-05-03 00:08:00 +0000 UTC View Post
I received a sketch from a reader a while ago. I liked it so much I paid him to fully render the concept. The artist is https://x.com/buttscord?t=V0i8_7uKap7C6TbzDQuwEA&s=09
2024-04-29 10:12:06 +0000 UTC View PostVincent awoke to one of the worst migraines he had ever experienced in his entire life. He recognized the disassociated haze of a bad hangover and the empty feeling of sickness in his stomach. When he opened his eyes and saw the walls of the inn, he groaned, a dry sound in his scratchy throat. His body throbbed from the beating it had received on the thread from the day before and he found he c...
2024-04-27 14:39:50 +0000 UTC View PostIt was quiet and late in the upper levels of the Deep Archives. Every now and then, the halls would echo with the sounds of the city outside, but at this hour there was mostly silence. Only the occasional brush of ohnite paper and the shuffling of feet seemed to interrupt the hush. In a way, this should have been normal. Only a few of the tuhli were permitted access to the Deep Archives, so sti...
2024-04-24 01:48:27 +0000 UTC View PostI just unlocked chapter 22 for the tuhli tiers. Did it notify you guys?
2024-04-24 01:44:49 +0000 UTC View PostA new tier has been added: Master of The Archives. This tier has early access to three chapters ahead of the Royal Road release.
2024-04-23 09:37:29 +0000 UTC View PostSelic opened the door to the hot springs. The chamber was large and tall, probably as tall as the inn itself. In fact, Vincent wouldn’t be surprised if half the building was dedicated to housing it. The walls of the chamber stopped at a large slab of volcanic rock near the back. Apparently, the inn had been built around it.
Steaming water cascaded down its face before separating into se...
2024-04-22 13:32:22 +0000 UTC View Post
Commissioned from TheSunset on furaffinity a while ago.
Vincent is listening to Ro'ken, Clayde, and Tuls talking about their lore. The cynicism in him is brewing.
Slade groaned as she woke back up. Without saying anything, she dug through the bags on Holan’s flanks until she found a canteen. She seemed to drink from it for a full minute before stopping.
“Are they dead?” she croaked.
He looked up at her, then back at the Devourer, shook his head and began to chuckle. At first, it was a slow sniggering, but then it became like the distant...
2024-04-20 13:15:46 +0000 UTC View PostJust in case anybody missed the link on my author's notes: https://discord.com/invite/pXWk3J5JyM
2024-04-17 22:33:44 +0000 UTC View PostThey both climbed up the hill. Vincent’s claws dug into the sod and pulled him upward.
Thwack, thwack, thwack...
The wet slapping grew louder as they neared the top. Slade scaled the climb much faster than he did. In fact, her movements reminded him of the lizards that used to scurry along the walls during the summer. She elevated herself with just as much ease. But Vince...
2024-04-17 16:09:57 +0000 UTC View Post
An amazing ref sheet by Intricatevision/circadiancrunch!
This was a pain, there was extensive back and forth, adjusting as needed, but she was awesome to work with. I think I will make some corrections to the snout in the future, but I'm pleased with it. The eyes in fig 1 are pretty dang close to how I imagine him looking.
EDIT: I just realized Patreon really crushed the quality. Her...
Got this from an incredibly talented artist a while ago. Moments after awaking in a new world, Vincent stumbles from Xalix's home, crawls through the woods, and stares over The Fractured Meadows.
2024-04-17 11:45:46 +0000 UTC View Post
I may make an art post every now and then. Occasionally, I just like to commission artists to bring this world to life. This one is done by one of my favorite artists, Vipercrown Art. Depicted is the moment Vincent sees his reflection for the first time.
2024-04-15 02:48:07 +0000 UTC View PostI just reached the Rising Stars main page! In celebration, I'm posting an early chapter tonight!
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At some point during the night, the howling died to a faint whistle. The winds no longer threatened to strip the trees. Instead, they showered them with a light drizzle. The weather yawned with exhaustion before giving way to a clear sky. Insects climbed the blades of grass and began ...
Just letting you all know I will be slowing down the releases. I'll be posting on the weekends instead of twice per week.
2024-04-14 11:23:57 +0000 UTC View PostWhere am I?
Cigarette butts and discarded cans of soda littered the city streets. The sweltering summer heat chased everybody into their homes and to the nearest swimming pools. A kid ran onto the asphalt barefoot, then immediately jumped into some grass to cool his feet off. Somewhere in the distance, the chime of an ice cream truck rang through the city, making a profit from th...
2024-04-13 13:29:26 +0000 UTC View PostSo, another surreal sequence. It was one of my favorite to write, hope you enjoy it.
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Vincent immediately knew he was asleep and the world he was seeing was a dream. He knew this because he found himself staring at a clock whose numbers were scrambled and detached from its surface. It read T:58 P.M. ESZT.
No such time zone exists, he thought.
But then he remem...
2024-04-10 15:35:52 +0000 UTC View PostIt was a strange thing to awaken in the middle of The Fractured Meadows, surrounded by bipedal dragonoids getting ready for the day ahead. He could already feel a migraine forming at the sight. A low-hanging fog slowly poured over the jagged geometry of the meadows and curled along the Misan Strait.
The silence persisted. There were still no voices to greet him, not even a faint whisper, ...
2024-04-08 02:53:06 +0000 UTC View PostThe traumatized terrain surrounded the three landriders. Fractures both big and small cut through the land, carving miniature canyons and valleys. Flowers and flora took refuge in these crevices, filling every crack. If the badlands had been lush instead of barren, they may have looked something like this: sharp and jagged, yet fertile. The river and its smoothed flanks appeared unnatural amid ...
2024-04-08 02:52:16 +0000 UTC View PostWhile Vincent packed his stuff into a burlap knapsack that Xalix lent to him, he heard new voices coming from outside. At first, he thought it was his phantoms making a return, but then he realized they belonged to his “escort”. Tension drew his chest tight as he heard Xalix welcome them to his home and introduce himself. Vincent couldn’t hear any words, but he knew his host was explainin...
2024-04-08 02:51:23 +0000 UTC View Post“December 16, 2015 (I think.)
Got little sleep last night. Xalix didn't wake me. The silence did, I think. Silence and memories. Not sure. It's strange for the voices to be this quiet. The phantoms and the psychosis usually come and go, but the noise is usually constant. Now, there is no noise, only silence. It makes everything seem so much louder.
I kept wak...
2024-04-08 02:49:31 +0000 UTC View PostWind rushed past his ears and its roar shattered into a thousand distortions. The chorus kept warning him that he was falling. They were practically screaming. The world orbited around him before it was obscured by green hair that whipped against his face. His wings caught the wind, redirecting him, jerking him this way and that. He slammed into the cliff and stars danced across his vision, mom...
2024-04-08 02:48:41 +0000 UTC View PostLorix’s Eye glimmered below as Vincent gazed upon it. It was a spring-fed lake with an ovular, oblong shape. A yellowish-green shoreline of pristine water gradually yielded to a corona of dark greens, which abruptly dropped off into a blue cave forming a “pupil” of darkness.
At the lake’s opposite edge, a stream wept into the forest. Vincent stared into the black depths. They seem...
2024-04-08 02:47:02 +0000 UTC View PostEvery new day in the new world was like waking into a beautiful form of torment. The mornings would start as they used to back on Earth, with the voices awakening him with their greetings. He would get up; look around in disbelief as he found himself still trapped in his inhuman form.
He hoped that being stuck in this dream would be something he could cope with. He hoped that as every day...
2024-04-08 02:46:02 +0000 UTC View Post“The cornish mincers are attacking the foundations of being,” blared propaganda from the microwave.
It had been passed down in the Cordell family for generations. His family would gather around it just as his father’s family did before that. At least, that was what Vincent remembered. But something wasn't right, microwaves were not radios.
Yet despite that fact, he did not fin...
2024-04-08 02:45:12 +0000 UTC View PostFour thumps echoed throughout the house, like knuckles impacting on wood. Somebody was knocking at the door. Vincent knew he should get off the couch to see who it was, but he was distracted. Distracted by what? He could not remember. When he didn't answer, there came four more knocks. He didn’t feel like getting up and going downstairs to see who it was.
“Go away” he groaned before...
2024-04-08 02:44:24 +0000 UTC View PostVincent had nodded off. When he awoke, it took a few moments for him to remember where he was and what had happened to him. A migraine throbbed in his skull and a few leaves stuck to his cheek with coagulated blood. Groaning in discomfort, he sat up and touched his hand to the wound and winced. He recalled how the stone he had thrown earlier rebounded. What a stupid way to hurt himself. It had ...
2024-04-08 02:43:01 +0000 UTC View Post