Cylus 2nd, 717

“The smell reminds me of home.” The half breed noted as the scent of smoke mixed with the clean oxidized smell of the snow. You could always tell when it was snowing or about to snow, it had such a lovely scent. The memory didn't bring her back to the times spent in the Master's...

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55th Zi'da, 716

Only a few trials had passed since the twilight hybrid’s last interaction with the man-eater known as Paplo Ynush. He had shown him incredible things, unfathomable abilities that he had not considered even remotely possible, except...

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8th Break
Nnngh... The first signs of life were beginning to crawl back into her body. Of the course of the last two breaks she had been flinching more and responsive to the people that...

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716th Arc, 50th Trial of Zi'da
Lands outside of Etzos

Straw fell chaotically from Neronin's hands. The yellow stuff fell from the wheelbarrow in a lazy sort of way. He had only used the old straw to cover the bones that he brought with him. He had...

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716th Arc, 75th Trial of Zi'da
The Museum of Art & History, Etzos

Head Curator Tabard droned on as he jangled the key from the lock to the Rooms. He and Neronin had just come up from the dark, hidden space below the museum. They stood next to each...

97th Day of Ashan, 716th Arc

It was the heat, it had to be. Or… if not the heat - for her time on the seas could hardly be described as cold - it was the humidity. On land, where there was no powerful wind, as it was found on the sea, the air felt stagnant. A putrid smell of decomposing waste...

Cylus 8th, 698

Cylus was never a happy time. The Master always became excessively more stressed. As Night had quickly learned a stressed Master usually meant extra beatings and aggression. Depending on how upset the master was she could quite easily end up with even worse than usual. The littlest...

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Vhalar 123

The cold wind whistled through the streets, biting at any exposed flesh. The sun had risen a while ago, but it didn’t have enough strength to break through the thick layer of clouds hovering above the city. Despite the...

Zi'da 6th

Rumors tended to float on the air like dust, they are easy to find and easy to pick up on if only one were to listen. Recently Night had been hearing fearful whispers of a monster in the woods. At first she had assumed monster was just another word for a sighting of Noth. It was true...

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716th Arc, 22nd Trial of Zi'da
Etzos, Outer Perimeter

Neronin could not keep the disgust from his face as he watched the two older boys leap out and attack the younger boy and what Neronin presumed was his grandmother. They both carried staves that...

Saun 3rd, 698

A small girl wandered about the place she knew as home, roughly at the age of five with a lithe body and a curious disposition. She had a nature that often brought trouble to unobservant parents. In her world though her curiosity only brought trouble to herself. Her father had...

Zi'da 55
Morning time.

Through the fog, the City of Stone finally appeared as a shadowy visage devoid of all detail. Tiny, elegant snowflakes softly descended from the heavens in a stillness that had been all but forgotten. Anticipation of this moment had him smiling ear to ear, filling his body...

Zi'da 48th, 716

As Zi'da progressed the weather only seemed to get more and more bitter. Even if Cylus was still a little ways off, the world seemed to embrace the cold season and grow icy. Of course that left even someone like Nightshade a little upset over the weather. It grew harder to hunt,...

Zi'da 11th, 716

The best thing about Zi'da was how quiet it became, peaceful and undisturbed. For those who were better at dealing with the cold than the average person it was the perfect season to just sit and relax. Cylus was far more vicious and the world seemed dead, but Zi'da was a gentle...

Zi'da 82nd, 716

The wind howled as the world outside raged, instead of snow the weather had turned into freezing cold rain which painful rammed the ground. The sky was painted an ugly gray with occasionally light flashed in the skies, but there was no crashing sound to accompany it. In fact...

Zi'da 2nd, 716

Night looked up towards the sky as her breath came out in a misty puffs. Her wings were covered in a speckling of white, truly her wings looked like the night sky dashed with stars. Cylus is going to be a rough one this year, she commented to the group which was slowly emerging...

10 Saun 716

Jachiel gazed along the rows of swollen turnips stretching away from him across the field, and then dropped his gaze to the basket at his feet and sighed. Clearly, it was time to harvest them, which meant just as clearly that today's trial was going to be one of those long and...

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716th Arc, 20th Trial of Zi'da
Neronin's Home, Etzos

Neronin barely slept. The necromancer would toss and turn, and kept waking to glance fervently over at the two thralls he had attained the night before. The cough he had developed did not bother...

Zi'da 48, 716

The light of the brilliant suns broke through the shadows of the wood. Adjusting his eyes slowly brought into view a land never beheld by the wild man. A single, deep breath sensed the change of the dark, moist forest to the clean, icy valley before him. Tingles filled his face and...

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Ashan 100, 714

The world felt so terribly broken. It was warm outside, and yet all he felt was a condemning cold, a chilling sensation that refused to cease. He wandered seemingly without aim through the world, his eyes glazed over with guilt,...