Apparently, a lot of people are eager to read my commentary along with the Savior’s diaries. It would seem that the perspective of an outsider provides an angle that Liberty as a whole is not used to, but helps understand the entire transition. That thought is slightly intimidating. Yet, I will honor the request in the spirit it is intended. As such, I am not going to redact anything 2025-10-31 11:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
I want you to know, Kith. I cut a deal with one of the Keeper wards. I arranged for one of them to move a Guardian here, to keep an eye on the diaries for a few days. To him, it’s a break. For me, it’s the final, undeniable proof that you’re going through my stuff, like I specifically asked you not to. If you’re reading this, I just want you to know. You’re dead. Heart card o...
2025-10-29 11:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostTo anybody who might find and read this or any of the other diaries. If I am no longer alive to ensure that it reaches safe hands, please help them along the way. I don’t care if you’re Lightborn, Furyborn or a damn Gaborn. If you care the least bit about the truth, please make sure the books make it to a real historian. If I am dead, I still want the true story about Liberty to come out. 2025-10-26 11:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
“This is it. With the camps active and running independently, I no longer have to worry about rebels. With the policies for cards properly embedded, there are no risks of anybody outgrowing the expected limits to pose a direct threat to me. The Keepers will catch any brewing unrest in the Blissful Lands. The second-to-last phase is done. Now, I merely have to properly expand my direct inf...
2025-10-24 10:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post“It is done. I shall keep it handy. Hidden, yet, in the open. Ready for anything, should they try to rebel. Yet another brick in the wall of my eternal palace. At long last, another worry laid to rest. It has been worth every cost.” That’s it. The last hint to whichever item it is, maybe eight years back. I’ve gone over all books twice now, with no proper clues. I’m dropping ...
2025-10-22 10:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post“I tested it earlier today. It worked. Of course, I told nobody what was going on, and there will be a few adjustments needed. The deaths were few in number, though. Another iteration or two, and I will be safe from any treason from my Keepers.” Stop! Bloody! Alluding to it! I… I will return to reading later. (Book 3, Page 58.)
The ensuing discussion was harsh, but short. W...
2025-10-19 10:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post“I believed it impossible. Guardians are, on the whole, beyond general reach. Of course they are. Otherwise, anybody would be able to influence them, turn them to their use. Yet, I might have found a focal point. A fulcrum, able to grant me control, should my Keepers or their wards act up.” Well, then bloody tell me! What is it? Who censors their own diaries? I’ll dig hi...
2025-10-17 10:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostThat last quote from the Savior stuck with me, rummaging around in the back of my head. I couldn’t quite tell what I was looking for. Then I realized it. Depending on what he came up with, a way to control all the old Keepers still in Salvation could be an insanely effective defense. I will have to dedicate more time to reading. Two more books to go.
“Any comments before I get to work...
2025-10-15 10:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post“I keep believing that there is more I should be able to do with the Keepers. Watching and listening is all well and good. But what if my Keepers or their wards were to collectively rebel? What if they decide to aim them all at me, one after the other? Maybe I should find additional ways of keeping my chosen ones in check?” He had them chained up and their tongues cut out, and he <...
2025-10-12 10:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post“Thirty years. That is how long it should take me to secure Salvation. Slowly expanding, adding defensive items where necessary, maintaining a principle of carefully screened secrecy that allows defenders to control some items, leaving me with the bare minimum of necessary supervision. Then, I will finally be able to end the sham of my illusionary doubles and reign my capital supreme.” ...
2025-10-10 10:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post“At times, I would love to open the borders slightly. There are so many creations I miss from Earth’s Ward. Crafted items that would improve our lives. Not to speak of the food. Fire burn me, the food! Only, they would not be able to understand what I have wrought here. Their lack of vision would inevitably lead to conflict.” Yes. Lack of vision. That’s definitely it. At times,...
2025-10-08 10:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post“At the core of Liberty lies the element of potential. This, obviously, can be used as potential for building something. Yet, Liberty is always stronger when it has something against which to struggle. This explains why a crafted Liberty item draining enemy boosts will always be more efficient than one building its own boosts from nothing.” Damnit. How come he had to be such a bast...
2025-10-05 10:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post“Portable enhancement stones. They have worked a lot better than envisioned. Anything above six stones works to define an area, though the increase diminishes past twelve stones and outright stops around sixteen. I can grant them to specific wielders, let them increase their attributes to defeat strong Guardians or enemies breaking past the Prism, and demand them back afterward. Extra-ord...
2025-10-03 10:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post“Layered defenses. Well-hidden permanent crafted items, attuned to specific gems, personally granted to commanders in secret. Upon their deaths, the gems are reclaimed and granted to new commanders. The perfect way to anticipate and ambush any would-be attackers.” I believe I have an idea. A lot of what the Savior did is actually workable, if you remove the diabolical aspects of it...
2025-10-01 10:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post“I have lain the groundwork for a wonderful invention. Honored summoners, being able to get in touch with Guardians placed at fixed locations throughout the blissful lands. With an organized schedule and intense footwork, we will be able to get constant reports from throughout my nation on a daily basis. We will also be able to direct the Guardians in case of emergencies. They will be my ...
2025-09-28 10:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post“They rebelled. Against me! I raised them into strength, granted them protection, and they spat in my eye! I will find the dissenters and tear them apart! They are hiding in clear sight, though. I will have to use guile to find them. Oh, this shall never happen again. I so swear!” Yep. He’s definitely starting to show his true face now. (Book 2, Page 4.)
“You all know me....
2025-09-26 10:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post“I rejoiced too fast. I thought, with the Wellspring created, ensuring both the strength of my people, and for my own strength to grow, our world would be safe. Yet, the other nations are ever clamoring to affect our decisions, or to outright take over should we show an inkling of weakness. Perhaps it is time to leave them behind. Not for good – merely until our society has had a chance...
2025-09-24 10:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post“I have been stuck, searching for the proper path forward. Always, what I saw would lead me straight back to repeating former self-destructive patterns. Were I to take power, others would eventually tear me down. But now I see it. I see the path. It will require a lot of sacrifices, but it may be doable. I have learned that, according to history, when you establish the very first Wellspri...
2025-09-21 10:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post“I thought, once I finally became a leader, I could help end corruption. Especially in a place as insular as Liberty, where you only have to take into account the demands of a single people. Except, even here, a thousand hands pull in a thousand different directions. How can this be changed? How can people improve?” Whoo boy. Those aren’t red flags. They’re city-sized red banne...
2025-09-19 10:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostThis is the first part of the memoire of Baltasar Embertongue. Formerly a traveling tradesman between Liberty and Earth’s Ward. Now, through a grueling series of drawn-out negotiations, a leader in the Council of Liberators. Wow. I can actually call myself a leader. That feels weird. Unreal. Maybe it will settle in time. This! This was the Savior? A traveling tradesman? And I rescued...
2025-09-17 10:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostProductivity of camps F-H have improved by nearly twenty percent over the past year. We believe a multitude of reasons apply, yet our main theory lies in attributes. Lately, we have seen a larger percentage of mass and even hands being entered into the camps. Whatever the reason for this change, clearly the added attributes make up for the increased difficulty in ensuring their co-operation...
2025-09-14 10:00:01 +0000 UTC View PostProductivity of Heart’s Succor is down for the third trimester in a row. Keepers report nothing extraordinary around the town. This means that the issue is likely internal. Please send an investigator – preferably a Heart or stronger – to look into the matter. Again. This could be a benign situation; somebody looking to aid a town that is struggling. Yet, the way they handle it i...
2025-09-12 10:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post“Mass Eivar Tolles, Mass Lina Movel, Hand Denna Wilek. No suspicious activity, all working within bounds. However, they have been spotted in shelters in A3 and subsequently A4, all three close apart. Continued observances should lead to interrogation.” Pits. This is worse than I imagined. They’re even keeping dossiers on who talks with whom? Then it truly is every Liberator for t...
2025-09-10 10:00:01 +0000 UTC View PostThe following is supposedly stolen information from a faction called the Keepers in Liberty lands. Again, the language is cryptic, and we do not know who they are. Still – if true – it attests to a fractured society, with a large section of them working undercover. Their purpose in society is, as of yet, unconfirmed. Again, I am going to be so famous in researcher circles ...
2025-09-07 10:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostWe had to pay a good deal for these. A short bunch of written lists, enumerating soldiers and their positions, titles and schedules near a specific post. While it gives an indicator of their military ranking systems, the real takeaway from this would be the numbers. There are more than three thousand soldiers posted here. Either this post at “A4” is a central military stronghold, or the...
2025-09-05 10:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostHonor be. Our lives are His. Honor be. Our hearts are His. Honor be. His life for us. This is one of a series of childrens’ books we obtained. All professionally made. All revolving around the topic of the Savior and his relationship with the Liberators. However it works, there is a definite trade-off. Life, toil and sacrifice in exchange for his protection and care. The process is rather...
2025-09-03 10:00:01 +0000 UTC View PostThe following excerpts are selected from a very small series of tomes, books, and other writing material we have ascertained to be likely to be created within Liberty lands after they closed off. Actual verification is still outstanding. Again, I am absolutely in awe with the writers here. There is little padding, and they explain their sources. There should be laws for this. Now, let...
2025-08-31 10:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostI keep coming up blank. The circumstances surrounding our eventual Wellspring are easy to decide for me. It should be readily available for anybody, regardless of station, money and power. It should only be guarded to keep anybody from stealing the deck, and otherwise free to use. But when it comes to the Wellspring itself, to the Guardians it will generate, I am drawing a blank. Shoul...
2025-08-29 10:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostWhat then, I ask myself, should be our approach to constructing a Wellspring? If we manage to obtain all five decks and are able to create a Wellspring from scratch, with benefits that haven’t been seen on Ordei for hundreds of years. What should we do? What should we do?
“What’s the largest intrusion that’s happened while you’ve been here, Em?” Liam asked. 2025-08-27 10:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
There is one topic my mind keeps coming back to. Deck manipulation. The intricacies available the first time you erect a Wellspring for your type of deck. The Furyborn elders did promise to tell us about it when it became relevant – but these past weeks have made me think. For a good long while, I believed that the only real customization available revolved around choices regarding your Guard...
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