Child of Aidon

[NOT A CHAPTER] Status - Bjorn & Anasuya

[NOT A CHAPTER] Status - Bjorn & Anasuya

Once again we are at a Not a Chapter this time for Bjorn and his Daughter. This is just for those that want to see their status Before the next chapter. I want the full statuses to be rarer so instead we will see pages or excerpts from the full status but not the full thing.

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Name: Bjorn Isin Scalebound...

SS [17] Daughter

Bjorn had come a long way from the Chaos Land Skylands. He survived the warping of the word, the breaking of many parts of reality, the ire of calamities made flesh. He did all of that alone, well not alone. Failsafe, his ever-present companion and Isin, his previous life now turned into a split personality, were his allies.

It didn’t stop with them however as an unexpected tear in real...

SS [16] Fourth Activation

Tanisha was on alert but she had just regained her balance when the S-19 Shadowmaw appeared in front of her. The moment seemed to be frozen in time as her mind rushed for solutions. All she had time to do was raise her arms. If it thought she would be easy to kill it was wrong. Out of everyone on the team she was the most durable. 

Her mind went back to the first technique she was ta...

SS [15] Hostile Detected

Tanisha was the first one in the meeting room. She’d woken early, restless and already slipping into the rhythm of mission prep. Her under-armor clung to her like a second skin. It was comfortable, far more durable than most unenchanted fabrics and even some light armor but utterly lacking in modesty.A robe was thrown over it loosely, more gesture than cover, but it was enough for now.

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SS [14] Emotions Boiling Over

Tanisha stepped over one of the destroyed S-10s when a pulse of Aether that made her skin prickle. She glanced up just as a thunderous concussive force erupted around her, nearly knocking her off her feet. In a blink of compressed space and howling air, the S-17 materialized inside the atrium. The pressure wave from its arrival slammed into her like a hammer.

A thunderclap roared through ...

SS [13] Breaking

They were going into this fight blind. The most they got from Laxy or Ivoi was that it was a large warframe designed as a siege engine. So yeah, they got barely any information no matter how they asked or worded the questions. Regardless this fight was inevitable the S-17 and later the S-16 were all that stood before them and finally being able to put all of this behind them.

Destroying t...

Interlude SS [12.5] Let The Circle Witness Final

Eira bit back the pain. Her vision blurred, and every part of her ached, but she moved. One step, then another. She limped after her father, each stride leaving a fresh drop of blood in her wake.

No one moved to help her. That, too, was expected.

This was the path she had chosen.

The strong rise. The weak fall.

She had risen.

Deep down, beneath the fire and fury, s...

Interlude SS [12.5] Let The Circle Witness Part 2

“I thought you wanted to end this quickly,” Ragnar called out. His voice was exhausted.

There was no smugness left in him now, only focus and resolve. That was something they both had. She would be foolish to not admit that she had underestimated him. He had already overcome where he should have been this early in his life. At the same time she was too weak in body to fully take advan...

Interlude SS [12.5] Let The Circle Witness

The Circle of The Blood Rite hummed beneath Eira’s boots. She had seen this scene before, many times actually but never did it feel like this. Those times feel like dreams now, buffered by the knowledges she could just reset if she didn’t like how things turned out. Now there were no more resets. Now this was real, now she was playing for keeps.

The runes shimmered with ancestral fire...

SS [11] Turning Eighteen

The streets of Helmforað stretched upward more than outward like an inverted forest steel and glass suspended in a dead silence. The city had no sky. Only darkness above, interrupted by bridges like ribs crossing between the vertical towers. Red emergency lights still flickered in intervals along the towering structures, pulsing like veins long after the heart had stopped beating.

“War...

Interlude SS [10.7] Friends Find Each Other Final

For the first time in what felt like forever, Julie was free. Tears spilled before she could stop them, hot and silent as she collapsed at the base of an old mossy tree. The cold night air kissed her skin in sharp contrast to the heat of adrenaline still coursing through her veins. Red streaked across the torn remains of the white silk dress they’d forced on her, the fabric clinging to her li...

Interlude SS [10.5] Friends Find Each Other Part 3

It had been weeks of the same things every night. A gnoll male that was some type of healer did fix her leg. She was a product and they didn’t want her to die from some preventable diseases. He did work slowly though slow enough that it took days instead of minutes like it should have for someone with healing magic. 

She was called out less but not because they felt sorry for her, ...

SS [NOT A CHAPTER] Tanisha's Full Status

Because months have passed between the chapters I decided to create this show Tanisha’s Status screen instead of putting it in the chapter. So if you want to continue with the story move on to chapter [11] for everyone else here is Tanisha’s Full Character Sheet as well as Aurelius and Fuyumi’s Identify screen.

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Name: Tanisha Valkyrja Scalebound
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SS [10] Monster Tide

Tanisha twisted, barely evading the beam of concentrated aether. Her armor split open across the stomach, and a sharp pain tore through her midsection as blood bubbled from the wound. She activated Arcane Shift, blinking backward in a shimmer of magic, but not fast enough.

Aurelius was already there. With a flash step, he intercepted the next blast, crystalline blade raised high. Primana ...

SS [9] Dead End

Tanisha could see all the way down the shaft thanks to her night vision. They were only about halfway down which meant they had a long way to go. However there was a door much closer than the furthest one at the bottom. It would be easier to reach and they would have to clear it regardless. The red light made the pathway look far more menacing than it had any right to be.

“I think we ca...

Sorry for the delay

I appreciate everybody who is still here. I do work a full time job and summer is always extremely busy. Today later day this afternoon i will be releasing between seven and eight chapters! They are all for Silence of Sól but things should become more regular after today. Expect for them to be a little bit later in this afternoon around 8pm my time (eastern standard). A lot is going but I alwa...

SS [8] Next Time The Stairs

There was a flash of light as Aurelius’s crystal blade erupted with primana. Tanisha watched in fascination as he used technique after technique. After training and fighting alongside him for the past few weeks she could see the moments a normal slash was imbued with the power of a technique. The amount of forms, the precise movement of the body, the exact positioning and flexing was incredib...

Interlude SS [7.5] Friends Find Each Other Part 2

At a certain point the days bled together, Julie doesn’t know when it happened. When servival out weighed the humiliation. When she started eating more regularly, even if she hated every bite. The stale bread always tasted just a step away from mold, and either as hard as a rock or soggy to the point it barely held itself together. But she chewed, swallowed, and forced her body to stop trembl...

SS [7] Codified will

Tanisha only had one spell in most elemental disciplines, the aptitude spells Helina had taught her what felt like years ago, though only a few months had passed. These were the most fundamental expressions of each element’s magic, deliberately simple, designed to be easy to cast.

She’d tested well across all of them, likely thanks to her status as a sage. The aptitude spells weren’...

SS [6] Patron

The blade that stabbed through the terminal slowly retracted as the door seemingly begrudgingly slid open. A single figure stepped into the hallway.

The android moved like smoke given form. Tall slender, silent, and inhumanly poised. Its frame was forged from matte-black alloy, patterned with faint etchings that pulsed dimly, like embers buried in ash. They flickered with baleful lights j...

SS [5] Something Was Broken

It took a week to clear out half remaining rooms of the upper floors. There wasn’t much of a challenge to them; it seemed only the antipersonnel gun androids, Silhouettes and Shards were the main force in the upper floors. The first time Tanisha and Bjorn came across the Shard they had to run. If not for Tanisha’s increased resilience it would have killed her. Aurelius managed to take that ...

SS [4] Don’t Blast Each Othe

Unlike Aurelius who was a swordsman through and through, Tanisha was a mix of skills and abilities. Most of her fighting techniques had come from Joha. They were steeped in maya which of course had evolved with her species into her alloy of seiðr. She’d learned early on that calling upon aspects of seiðr was not the same as using any of her individual magics separately. There was always a m...

Interlude SS [3.5] Friends Find Each Other

Julie never imagined her life would end like this; collared, caged, and carted through a foreign wilderness like livestock. What was supposed to be a lighthearted journey home to Mesha had twisted into a waking nightmare in the span of a few days. She was supposed to be safe. She was a fourth-year student at Dorsehal Academy, a geokinetic with a real future. She was supposed to make her family ...

SS [3] Instant Death Magic

The sparring area was just a clear spot they chose in the middle of the Thunder Vault lit up with cool white light, casting sharp-edged shadows on the rune-inscribed floor. Tanisha bounced on the balls of her feet, daggers in hand, while Aurelius rolled his shoulders and raised his crystalline blade. His shield in his other hand as they prepared for the fight. They both decided that they would ...

SS [2] Blunt Side

The explanation of Tanisha’s armor took far longer than she had anticipated. The changes were extensive and thoroughly impressive… but most of it went over her head. As it turned out, aether technology or aethertech, as Laxy called it, was vastly more complex than she’d imagined. 

It was totally different from her understanding of magic studies and she had never heard of most o...

SS [1] No Time To Waste

Tanisha watched Bjorn walk up the stairwell out the Alpha Extraction Site. She knew they would be apart for some time but hoped he would find the mana crystals and wood soon. She had spent nearly every waking moment sense he was born together. While she could feel him through the familiar bond it was not the same as actually having him with her.

As he vanished she took a deep breath nearl...

SND [28] We Celebrate The Victories

Freja watched as Bjorn floated contentedly in the bath so large it should be considered a hot spring. Magic runes along the floor heated the water and cleaned the body. She relaxed back into the water letting it surround her up to her face. Eyes closed she let events of the past two weeks run through her mind. It was the first time she had felt truly safe since her missadventure started. <...

OW [6] Definitely Not Extorsion

Cognitive Data Relay… Scanning… Entity Description
Name: John Mason
Species: Human
Magical Condition: Prana User
Specialty: None
Body Condition: Good

Name: Ciara Waterman
Species: Human
Magical Condition: Lifesha...

SS [0.0] What Could You Want?

“First there was that upstart using his fate magic so casually. Now we have the snake doing something as well.”

“Do you think they’ve discovered a path through?”

“I think times have changed. I can feel the gaze of many beyond the Divide now. Yes-yes, the Divide is no longer silent.”

“So they are finally coming to save us?”

“No. I sense war.”

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WM [113] Bjorn?

The process to create an Angel Core would be in two parts. The first was the vessel that was the shell the inner core was housed in. The Angels made the cores into spheres but that seemed to be a design choice not a requirement. Bjorn didn’t know if Angel Cores were valuable or if people still knew about them. If they did, having a working one would put a target on their backs for people that...