Saun 2nd

Scoping out the sights of Etzos, the vagrant-looking boy covered in dirt from head to toe dressed in a raggedy rag of a cloak stepped down some stairs he’d found. People seemed to come and go, into this subterranean place where man lived like a rat. Curious, and searching for a good place...

Vhalar 53rd, 716

Nightshade pulled herself through the door with a shaky breath. The Gardener's Grace, honestly it was a place she had hoped to never visit. If she came here it meant she wasn't in very good shape. Honestly she was in the kind of situation she really should have gone to a doctor...

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Arc 716, 2nd trial of Vhalar
Alex jolted awake as her face slipped down the counter, tipping her off her stool. Her feet hit the ground and she landed in a crouch, awake despite how deeply asleep she had been. She looked around the chaotic shop, shaking loose the last cobwebs of rest....

Vhalar 9th

The Infirmary was crowded. There were hundreds of wounded, if not thousands that sought assistance. Worse still, the Etzori prepared for war with Rhakros. They saw it as an opportunity to attack, many soldiers preparing for another war instead of fighting this one on the bloody streets....

Vhalar 10th, 716

“Mal,” a voice spoke, calling to the slumbering man-in-Hyx-form. “Wake up, Mal,” he said. Eyelids quivering, he slowly opened them, before worry set in, and they shot open like lanterns. His head rose against a patting hand.

At first, a quiet but rumbled growl left his body, but...

Vhalar 18th, 716

“Last thing we need is a ninny crying about some squalor in the jungles ahead,” Mark Joselyn announced, boots slamming in the mud with wet plops as she strode from the makeshift shelter. She squatted down at the head of the circle, raven-black hair and a sable cloak curtailing her...

Arc 716, 52nd of Vhalar

Nightshade has a less than pleasant look on her face, a familiar face to those who worked with her on exploits she was sent on as a mapping scout. If there was one thing people tended not to like it was Avriel, or half Avriel like herself. This generalization extended to a...

Arc 716, 2nd of Vhalar

Nightshade had spent most of her time since moving around Etzos learning the area and practicing how to draw. She was competent with a sword but she wasn’t all that good with her drawing abilities, which made mapping more difficult than it already was. She was finally...

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Arc 716, 34th trial of Saun
A hammering on the door shattered Alex's peaceful rest, and she jerked herself upright. Her cheek peeled off the table, dried saliva in a pool around her mouth. Next to her the Hyx slumbered, blissfully unaware of the pounding.

It took her a moment to place...

Vhalar 8th

The vagrants huddled together, wall-to-wall, their visage wreathed in fear, sadness, and pain. With great malaise upon his tired, sunken features, the large Hyx protected them. He was a massive fox-like creature ten feet in length that stood taller than most men, standing sentinel at...

The Hyx

Vhalar 6th, 716

The obtrusiveness was inconclusive, as Mal’s sensitive black vulpine nose observed some fraying to the wilted flora, those emerald-green leaves tainted with brown splotches from the decay brought on by the beginning of the Cold Cycle. He was on high alert, that bandana...

Saun 35th, 716

Caster. That was what the Etzori called him. Mal had been captured weeks ago, presented with an ultimatum - join the Etzori, or be presented with ‘consequences’ that they seemed to insist were quite dire. Captured and imprisoned by the military forces of the region, the Becomer had...

104 Rebirth Season 716

It may have been a few trials already but his the monstrous boar remained one remarkable prize. With all the work he had put into it, the Aukari cook was convinced it would turn out to be a remarkable dish once he was through with it. Of course, he had needed some help from...

33 Hot Season 716

Besides temper's flaring?

F'mos would not have expected to see such a volatile situation since he had come to Etzos. Working with the Black's had exposed him to the communal culture of those which frequent the soup kitchen. The more well to do people within the walls may call...

7th of Saun, 716 - Midnight

Two Trials north, a walk from Etzos, within Mal's cave.

The accursed city of Etzos outright rejected him. People began to grow suspicious of stray animals, accusing them, kicking them, cornering and even killing them in paranoia. Becoming a human preemptively saved him...

Arc 716, 12th Trial of Cylus

The darkness hung like a cloud over Etzos, shadows flickering in the torch light that lined the walls of the city. A chill was in the air, making it almost unpleasant to breathe as it filled the lungs. The city was just stirring in what would normally be at sunrise,...

3rd of Saun, 716

A gaze shorn from the mindless woes of the city miscreants and filth flitted around a corner as if a gentle breeze. An animal much-avowed to be a stray mutt spied the busy markets with his ears attentive, white-on-black markings with bright blue eyes giving him a harmless...

Saun 13th, Arc 716

Nightshade looped through the air trying to angle her body in a way that would allow her to do a loop de loop. Of course it wasn’t working very well and she spent another five minutes correcting her flight pattern so she didn’t smash face first into the ground. That tended to...

63 Hot Season 716

It was the perfect smokescreen.

As one trained to guard a city, a city on the verge of exploding each trial due to the the volatile nature of its citizens F'mos could recognize it. The signs. There was no way all these events in Etzos could be coincidence, even if a few...

44 Rebirth Season 716

The temperature had dropped, again, as F'mos was able to learn it had been pretty cold even before he had reached Etzos and at the same time learned about a lot of other strange occurrences. Fortunately the cold wouldn't bother him as much as it would the city's other...

Ymiden 4, Arc 716

Nimrah was internally extremely annoyed. Externally she was largely blank faced, occasionally murmuring what she hoped were comforting sounds and patting Chitrita awkwardly on the back. Apparently part of her job entailed escorting bawling co-workers to the Alchemy Shop when...