The battle masters of the high plains will say that the eyes are the most vulnerable organ. A king might say that it is the mind, susceptible to attack from foreign thought. The truth is, the heart is the most vulnerable, but that is also its strength.
-Proverbs, from the tome of Kadish
Danfalla has a beauty all its own in the night. Not that I have ever se...
2025-03-08 20:39:34 +0000 UTC View PostIf someone finds this, do not follow in my footsteps. There are some clients you shouldn’t help, no matter how high the pay. It might seem somewhat obvious, but there are those that take exception to certain secrets being uncovered.
-Atherinon, Taker of Secrets
The slightest adjustment in the air fires a spike of pain through my entire body. Were it not for the sky af...
2025-03-07 05:12:14 +0000 UTC View PostParfillio failed twice, something unacceptable from one of the divine. He had been allotted the realm of light and fire, but he craved a people. Despite our father’s declaration that they not be made here, he created his original simulacra. They died. True, we put pressure on them, but if they had been worthy they would have survived.
Then, despite our father’s clear warn...
2025-03-01 20:59:06 +0000 UTC View PostI found in Ben Alder’s tomb a container labeled as containing the will-aspected ions from the forty-second age. Worst of all, this wasn’t even news. How stupid can these fools be to not understand the implications? The damned particles were dated! Not in a timetable of even Ben Alder’s construction, but in one native to them!
-From the Journal of Physicist Ra Fil...
2025-02-27 08:51:06 +0000 UTC View PostNot lookin’ to backtalk you, but it just seems a bit more complicated than it needs to be. Just take the damned thing I’d say, no call for everyone to die. Yeah. You’re the boss. I’ll do it.
-Ferro
To be immediately surrounded by guards and pointed toward a nondescript patch of grass was not how I expected my introduction to Danfalla to begin. To then have...
2025-02-26 10:43:41 +0000 UTC View PostWhy is it called a blood moon? Because the moon is red, moron.
- A loving mother to her child
I find Dovik righting the furniture inside the ship by the time I make it over. The man looks up at me, a bit sheepishly, as he continues setting the chairs straight. I don’t see any evident signs of anything being scuffed. I make it a point to look over it al...
2025-02-22 19:02:01 +0000 UTC View PostThis though. I don’t know about this. Seems the kinda thing that a monster would do, and I thought we were supposed to be better than that, than them. Ain’t saying I won’t do it, just saying that I’ll feel a bit bad about it. Sure you want to destroy this much?
-Ferro
A dark shadow sails overtop the buildings gathered around a central square....
2025-02-19 19:02:01 +0000 UTC View PostPaths are a funny thing. By the time that you find yours, you realize that you have already been walking in that direction. It isn’t so much the progress down the path that is important, but the recognition that you are already treading upon it. There is power in knowing your aim, real power.
-Proverbs, from the tome of Kadish
In the morning,...
2025-02-19 00:55:34 +0000 UTC View PostWoe comes in the stamp of feet and the slide of scaled claws outside the window. When they march, the earth shakes in their wake. When they sing with a solitary voice, cities crumble. When they find the purpose that they lack, we must be aware, we must pray. Demons rouse the crowd, pray you never see them do so.
-Warnings from the Holy Book of Rais
Hard to know when my heart died. Would be nice to tell myself it came with the change, something dying to give me something to live with. Reckon it was before that though, long, long before.
-Ferro
Seventeen days. A full week past the time that Corinth advised me to give it up, I pushed and strained to achieve what he wanted. Seventeen days of ...
2025-02-12 19:02:00 +0000 UTC View PostYou impose them upon me. I cannot deny you, but I mark this as my protest. We shall not allow them to fester in our lands. If we are to bear them, they will need to be made servial. That is the concession that the lord’s round has arrived at.
-An excerpt from correspondence to Emperor Corilaise II, penned by Drais, King of Gale
The stone lifts ...
2025-02-11 09:49:21 +0000 UTC View PostTo the stars, we must return. Our home is beyond here, far, far beyond. Return to the origin, remember what we were, and see how this place is but a shadow.
“Power doesn’t come from nothing.”
Those are the words Corinth leaves me with before heading back to the house. My brother had the gall to look exasperated with me as he said it even, throwing h...
2025-02-09 11:09:22 +0000 UTC View PostBe careful who you make an enemy of. In this world, anyone might find strength while you laze in comfort. A weakling today might come back to haunt you years later.
-Elvish Proverb
Corinth had not been exaggerating when he asked if I would work hard. Right now, he is walking around the newer rows of trees, showing off as he carries heavy bundles with...
2025-02-06 19:02:01 +0000 UTC View PostHow can I stop her without destroying her, without destroying us? Stars help me, she can’t be allowed to rise further.
- Emperor Kas Van Dialla
I find Corinth the next morning as I climb a hill on the east side of the property. Seeing him there, lying in the grass, watching the sun rise over the far line of the horizon catches me a bit off guard....
2025-02-05 04:55:05 +0000 UTC View PostAll families are a mess of complicated dynamics. Why would we think the gods would be any different?
-“Ruminations” Emperor Garifax
I am stunned by a moment, both by finding this man here, leaning back and playing up a coy smile as he sips on his glass of whiskey, and by what he said to me. My eye tries to identify him, but like with the other po...
2025-02-01 19:02:01 +0000 UTC View PostHow many times? How many times have I warned you from taking this step? You push too far, push me too far. If I don’t do something now, you will doom us all. Forgive me.
-Mother
Gale is a land of open fields poked with lonely mountains. I skim the ground, feeling stalks of wheat bend as I run my hand over them, giving way like the water might. The ...
2025-01-29 19:02:00 +0000 UTC View PostReturns are what I dread. My hopes are so high, the slightest wind could topple them.
-Tales of the East
A constant buzz echoes through the vault as I bend over the table before me. My crown sits on a platform of copper wire. I might have gone with silver, but we are far from anywhere I could purchase some. Perhaps Jess could smelt some coins into ingot...
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2025-01-25 20:50:13 +0000 UTC View Post“No, no,” Faberious, a young elven nobleman with flaxen waves of gold for hair. He spun, an easy smile on his lips, waving back at the three men attempting to stand at the front of the gate. The baron’s sons were especially free with their drink, and Faberious had a way of spurring men to fun and sin. “If I stay any longer, my woman will be more cross than you can imagine.”
“C...
2025-01-25 20:47:22 +0000 UTC View PostDoom always comes. Always.
-"The Voice of Exeter"
“Jor!” I look down at the man, feeling his face. His skin is pale–well, paler than usual–and clammy sweat sticks out on his skin.
Dovik falls to his knees next to me, wobbling hands bracing him against the ground as he takes huge gulping breaths. To my other side, Jess falls back into the le...
2025-01-22 19:02:00 +0000 UTC View PostYou ever felt your teeth screech in your head as someone pushes your face down into the creekbed? You ever had to taste the mossy scum as your skull starts to shake and clatter. I know what that scum tastes like. I know the sound that you hear when your tooth chips against the stones. I know what it feels like to drown. I’ve known these things since I was only five years old.
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2025-01-21 19:02:00 +0000 UTC View PostThey tell a story in Karas, of a young man called by his creator to undertake a great journey. All of the people of Karas know the story, and to know it is to know them. I stumbled upon the story of Shilo when I first departed my ship. I have not been the same man since.
-Emperor Tar’Akannan
Soaring over the squat and intertwining trees, I push m...
2025-01-18 19:02:01 +0000 UTC View Post“Yet, you pester me again. A decade I made you wait before, believing you might have gained some wisdom. Very well, you made the offering, and I promised an answer. Yes, the Shadow’s attention fell upon this sphere but for the briefest instant. A god fled to this world, having attracted its ire. Before its attention could fully fall upon us, we crushed the screaming deity, or at least m...
2025-01-15 19:02:01 +0000 UTC View PostLost, on the verge of dying of thirst in the middle of the ocean, a bloom of white appeared on the water. A whale came, splitting the water in front of my raft. It’s huge eye held an intelligence I have never seen equalled, not in mortal kind or other. It breathed over me a cloud of green, and when next I woke I found myself on land once more, safe, health returned to me. Since that day, ...
2025-01-15 01:03:17 +0000 UTC View PostThese easterners are such an interesting lot. They seek to count all things, which is their mandate from the one they call the Juggler of Spheres. Their obsession with counting extends down to the roots of their society, threading through everything. It is their documentation of what they find that I find most interesting. Fights and even the occasional murder has been known to happen as th...
2025-01-11 21:02:32 +0000 UTC View PostFear not this transient night, for that it too shall pass. My fright comes from the terror of the vacuous dark, for it is eternal, and ever hungry.
-Unattributed
I was eleven when I first caught sight of the ones they call the Watchers. There had been awful storms that year, more snow at the tail end of winter than we’d ever seen, the floods that...
2025-01-08 21:20:57 +0000 UTC View PostSomehow, I feel like this is partly my fault. When the Takanakan arrived like a meteor from the sky, I thought that he might have been a foreign power. I will note that I was correct about that. He asked who was the greatest in the land, which of course was the emperor. Then, he asked what made the emperor so powerful, and I explained to him that it was the honor of a thousand thousand soul...
2025-01-06 19:02:01 +0000 UTC View PostI fear that when I view this day from the distance of the future, such a spat will be the split between us. My sister can still see sense, I know it. I will try again.
-King Ugallion Saeth
I don’t find sleep. We bought rooms at the tavern before settling down to drink, thinking that we would get too drunk to go anywhere else, not that I have anywh...
The land of Mirinnial is ruled not by mortal beings but by a spirit that speaks in the voice of the dying. All writing about such a being is forbidden within the bounds of Mirinnial, and so this writing comes from my recollection. In the heart of the city of Mir, a black temple stands, its devotion given over to the spirit Kor’Alskiliath, the one that holds dominion over the land, the one...
2025-01-01 23:27:19 +0000 UTC View PostI found the door, though I wish I hadn’t.
-Atherinon, Taker of Secrets
The trip to the upper third proves my need to go. Getting there requires us to take four different elevators, walk down or up eight ramps, shove our way through three bridges, and eventually have a porter take us up to the final platform for a silver nickel. You only find the porter...
2024-12-30 19:02:01 +0000 UTC View Post