Ymiden 37, 718

No one person knew everything about a subject. A person could spend their entire lives, filling every waking moment with the scholarly pursuits of research and study, or with the back-breaking labor that went into a procedure, and yet never know every piece of minutia that made it...

Ashan 4th, 719

When she first opened up The Roost, Alexander had informed her that she was absolutely without a doubt one trial going to come to work and hate it. She hadn't believed him at first. She didn't mind children or teaching, and spreading knowledge was something important to her. While...

Cylus 8th, 719

The sound of steel slamming against steel rang out rather loudly. The half-breed moved to the side easily, her movement graceful and practiced compared to the wild swing that went for her. It wasn't like she feared getting hit, these weapons were dulled practice pieces, but it was...

6th of Cylus, Before Happy Hour

The bar smelled like sweet smoke and fruity liquor as Jame’s face planted on it’s hardwood surface. In truth he wasn’t asleep, but may as well have been. He’d heard very few rumors or leads to follow-up on yet. Only the meager doings of alleyway janitors and...

Vhalar 99th, 710

It had been a considerable while since the half-breed had started better training to become stronger. The thing that had really shocked her was that the training Icarus had put her on was actually doing something. The results weren’t immediately substantial, not by any means. It...

Ymiden 8th, 710

“Seriously Icarus?” The woman made a noise somewhere between disgruntled and distressed as the body of her teacher helplessly swayed and flopped like piece of paper in a windstorm.

The pair didn’t often go into town. Etzos wasn’t kind to Immortal followers and Icarus loved to...

Zi’da 78th, 709

The half-breed never had any doubt of the validity of Icarus’ statement when he claimed he’d had a training regime started for the half-breed. The one thing she didn’t expect was for him to start implementing it so soon…

The half-breed physically wasn’t weak. Not by most means....

2nd Trial of Cylus - 718
The smell of the sewage of Etzos was always a surprise, no matter how much time he spent in his old home territory of the city’s most poor districts. It always brought on a distinct sense of nostalgia, the good old days when he fought for food and safety rather than... to...

Zi'da 45th, 709

The half-breed huffed as frozen water droplets stuck to her hair. Her stick-thin form shivered against the barrage of freezing temperature all around her. Icarus was humming as he trudged along. How???

The older man was dressed in thick clothes made from pelts he'd caught long...

Vhalar 120th

The half-breed had always been particularly fond of Vhalar as far back as she could remember. The season was one of golden colors and falling leaves. There was a nip in the air that certainly forewarned the coming of Zi’da, but it was never anything as destructive as the coming...

Zi'da 22nd, 718

Maud. That was the name with which a child introduced herself. What kind of mother named their child Maud? Perhaps Nightshade’s own name was weird, but at least it wasn’t Maud. On top of that, while Nightshade said the child had introduced herself it felt more like pulling teeth...

Zi'da 51st, 718

Nightshade loved her job. She really, really did, no lie! Sometimes though, things just started to become a pain. In particular, Lakewatch started to become a pain. Getting even more specific about that, hiding Lakewatch started to become a pain.

It was a general rule of thumb...

Vhalar 60th, 718

Restless. She’d felt restless for the past 10 or 20 trials. It had been a quiet ever since the end of Saun. Anything would be quiet compared to her trip in Ymiden, but these couple of trials had felt especially quiet. She’d been working tirelessly at plans that she had yet no...

11th Trial, Zi'Da, 718a
Etzos Underground

Continued from here

Half a break. Thirty bits. That's how long Sima's teachings bought him, down in the dungeon. But honestly, he could hardly blame her.

Like fuck I can't.

It wasn't anything much, for at that point he was no true mage. He...

Trial 7 of Zi’da 718
The Gardener’s Grace
11th break

Iashiri smiled as a single drop of a green viscous liquid dropped from the vial she was holding to an empty one on the table, a small cloud of green smoke appearing when the two liquids mixed, making her slightly back away from the mixture....

Trial 84 of Vhalar 718
The Gardener’s Grace
9th break

Iashiri watched as the professor walked around the laboratory, deep in thought. This still... said the professor, mostly thinking out loud. If we don't do anything, soon enough we'll have a city of statues. Iashiri nodded. The still was also...

3rd of Vhalar, 718

“Oh’Pee… Comm’See…” Many voices yelled around Iashiri as she made her way through the citizen’s free market. It was always a sight to see. Many men and women desperately trying to sell anything to anyone. Even she wasn’t free from the eyes of the many merchants around her,...

• Common • Rakahi • Gravokian A greedy father has thieves for children.

Cylus 718

“Get it oooooff,” the redhead’s voice whined into the air, squirming impatiently on the silken sheets while Navyri remained propped between the girl’s spread legs, face inches from her womanhood.

“I’m trying,”...

⌘ Common ⌘ Rakahi ⌘ Euthic Sign ⌘ Grovokian ⌘
58th of Vhalar, 717
Navyri prowled through the dark, her footsteps crunching softly under her weight as she hummed tauntingly. Leaning against a tree, she craned her neck, feeling eyes on her in the shadowed forest, “I’ve been expecting you,” the...

Saun 20th, 718
The farther into the season the world seemed to progress, the more the half-breed was convinced there were few things she detested more than the sun. It was a constant mocking reminder towards her hatred of a certain Immortal whose very existence seemed to set her blood ablaze in a...

9th Trial, Zi'Da, 718a
Etzos Underground

I'll be home later. Don't wait up for me.

As was her way when she didn't like what she was hearing, his wife didn't say anything. Just nodded and turned away from him, focusing on the plates that needed to be cleaned. The old man felt a familiar...

It is the fool who puts faith in false saviors. - Blind Guardian

The silence throughout the home was thick. In its own strange way, the complete absence of sound was thunderously loud, the tick of a complete absence amplifying what few noises dared break its reign. Gently, just beyond the veil of...

3rd of Vhalar, 718

PH.

80th Trial of Zi’da, 717 Arc
Vuda’s Prison

Neronin could hear the rasp in his breathing, almost the only sign he was still really there. He could not remember how long he had been in the cell. Trials? He felt raw and naked without access to his spark. It was unnerving and while he didn’t admit it...