82 Ymiden, 719
Outer Perimeter - North West Etzos

Llyr hadn’t thought the northern lands would get this much rain so close to Saun. For whatever reason, the southerner had thought because the nearby forests hardly had any vines, and because there weren’t as many murky swamps, that rain simply was...

83 Ymiden 719 | Ulric | Gulltown in the Etzos area
In life there was color. The sky was blue, the grass was green, and fire was a wonderful mixture that was pretty fairly summarized in the color orange. In death things were cast in shades of black and white both literally and metaphorically until...

Born The Seventh Saun
7th Saun 719

CHAPTER TWO
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Maude had taken her time preparing the bow and tuning the fiddle. The tavern keeper was starting to feel that it was enough. He was paying her for playing, not to sit there and make sounds that were outright painful to...

Born The Seventh Saun
3rd Saun 719 in a small local tavern in Etzos

CHAPTER ONE

Maude Coaley played for the living and she played for the dead, but mostly for herself. These days she also played for the undead, as Etzos was full of ghosts.

It was a few trials before Maude’s birthday...

Ymiden 72, 719
Edge of the Southern Housing Quarter
7th Bell

Paxton sipped at the weak mug of beer while he watched the laborers tie down the last of the logs. The portly man preferred the brandies and ports that had become available to him once he had set up shop in the commercial ring, but the...

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68 Ymiden, Arc 719

The smell of smoke roused Llyr awake. He opened one eye, the other remained shut with sleep. At the edge of the narrow bed, Gigi faced away while she recovered her clothes. A cigarette dangled against her rosy lips. The Ryn woman glanced at him. He closed...

33rd Trial, Ymiden, 719a
Southwood River, South of Etzos Prime
Midnight

He didn't need light, for the sky was on fire.

The man leaned against the stump of the tree and watched the glow from the bank of the river. The water sloshed and burbled as it flowed downstream to the sea. He was...

The 4th of Vhalar 718
Outer Perimeter - North East Etzos

People clapped and cheered and whistled.

A man dressed in a green and red jester’s motley was doing flips and handstands and flick flacks.

Though it wasn’t quite Cylus just yet, afternoons were still the warmest part of the trial, and...

1 Ymiden, 719 AV
Northeast Housing Quarter
6th Break

The Outer Perimeter, free from the limitations that city walls enacted on a space, had developed haphazardly over the centuries. While the circular layout was still maintained for its cartographical aesthetics, no official oversight had ever...

67 Ymiden 719

When the letter arrived, I was walking down a corridor between some fine stone houses, nibbling at the damp end of a dying cigarette and watching Hazel run ahead. Wild how some couriers can just find you. How this one caught sight of me amid all the ghostly spirits of the dead and...

He grabbed a tray from the table beside him and looked at his face. What he saw horrified him. His left eye was entirely bloodshot and the cheek beneath it was a mixture of black, blue, and red. In the back of his mind he knew the bruising and swelling would go down in the trials to come but he...

His arm screamed in pain when he used it to push himself up and his leg screamed when he stood on it. He wasn't sure what was left of his face but it hurt too. He tried to open is left eye but saw only red so he closed it again and looked around wildly with his good eye for his sword. The beasts...

It showed him every time he'd unsheathed the blade and it showed him every time he had buried the blade in another. One vision in particular took prominence in his mind and it was that vision from which Ulric syphoned enough emotional energy to restore his ectoplasm and turn himself into something...

The 22nd of Saun 718
Location: ???

The woman startled awake to the sound of heavy footfalls. It sounded like boulders dropping from a small height, the impacts of which rattled the metal bars, and echoed off the walls of the cavern. Something was coming, something big and bulky, slow and...

14th Zi'da, 716
South Side
3rd break

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She cursed Finn. She cursed ever knowing him. She cursed the first time she'd met him, the first time he'd ever made her smile, the first good word she'd put in for him and, most of all, that she'd ever breathed aloud to the world the...

15th Zi'da, 716
South Side
3rd break

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We can't get out! WE CAN'T FUCKING GET OUT! HOW THE F-

Silvester knew talking the boy down wasn't an option. The panic in his eyes had gone beyond anything mere language could assuage. As the flames had grew larger, the smoke...

10 Ymiden 719 | Ulric | Outside Darington

The Beneath. A world mirroring Idalos but painted in shades of grey. Ulric had been born into it when a orange hot blade was plunged into his heart. One last vibrant color to steal them all. Ulric had learned, through difficult work, that this world could...

Saun 25th
The dark haired man waited until well after the man known as Ryder and his daughter left the house. He smiled, it was finally time to make himself known. Slipping out of the shop where he'd been browsing goods, cutlery mostly. While the craftsmen back in Yaralon were more than capable...

14th Zi'da, 716
South Side
3rd break

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They were celebrating already, and he didn't like it.

It was carousing and partying and cheering like the war was over, but he could taste it in the air. The way they smiled and laughed more. Shared the same boasts and twittered...

The sword sat against the shack wall and the bandit who had taken it sat at the other side of the shack by a fire he'd started to warm his hands. The echo lurked against the wall of the shack looking at the sword. It was his sword, the echo could tell that much. He remembered the way it felt in his...

According to plan.
13th Zi'da, 716
After Vorund had had his say, Kasoria, Finn and Vorund's brute (Billy, how fitting), left The Man’s office in silence. Billy led the pack, marching forward with strong strides followed by the light pattering of the boy’s feet who had to take twice the number of...

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