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Saun 5th, 681 (Age 12) following A Mistress of Shadows

Later that night, those who had returned to the caravan were now sitting around the fire, telling stories about their days in Desnind or stories of old. Catching up, like they...

Ymiden 58 719¤

“I’ve got some bad news girls…”
Said a Sev’ryn man solemnly as he came and sat beside Dula, another girl, and some other younger woman. It was early morning and they all had just gotten breakfast at the Fire Pit.
“What’s that?”
Replied the young woman, who had dark black...

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Saun 5th, 681 (Age 12)

It was much cooler in the shade of Desnind's trees, more so than in the light of the two suns in Saun. Soren's family's caravan was currently camped out on the edges of the small city. They'd been dropped here by...

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23rd of Ymiden 719

Given the recent troubles in the Order, they were more than welcoming when Rakvald showed up one night, drunk off his gourd and thus showing his typical sense of enthusiasm that always came with an overabundance of alchoholic intake. He was still...

The time she'd been counting down to had finally come. What little money she had had when she had arrived in this city was nearly depleted. Not for lack of her frugal-ness but by simple attrition. It just happened. The odd expenditure here or there for necessities and the like eventually took their...

1st of Ymiden, 719

Unlike most who woke at the start of the season, Cir woke more pissed off than when she had fallen asleep the night prior. Her dreams of food interrupted by whatever hell the Immortals games they had brought. A face she had never wanted to see again looming at the forefront of...

Early morning, 90th Ashan, 719

The Open Surgery didn't begin with fanfare. There was no music, no revelry, and no air of joviality. This was a serious event, and the people of Desnind knew how to act the part. There was some laughter and friendliness now and then, but everybody knew how deadly...

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15th Saun, 719

The world had gone insane...or at least that was the way it seemed to Tei'serin. She had only been in Desnind since last Vhalar...well, perhaps only was a bit of a stretch since that was almost an arc ago now. But still. The city was...

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19th Ymiden, 719

Desnind was an interesting place when it came to healing the people who call it home. The city had two places of healing. One, the more traditional of the two was the Olọravu Slosneppe. Translated into Common, it was the Medicine...

15 Ashan 719

Nights were cold. The bar was closed and she was certain that no one anywhere would ever be OK with someone breaking into a building they owned to get out of the cold. Taking that into consideration and looking at the pile of mostly unused supplies on the back of her wagon. Opening...

¤ 2nd of Yimden 719

The events of the first day of Yimden in Desnind were unsettling. The sun beat down that day with a scorching gaze that left everyone’s stomach feeling twisted into a huge knot. People were frighteningly quiet. It seemed that everyone was trying to go about their business as...

114th Ashan, 719

They were in trouble. Desnind would be more than fine with only five inches of water to worry about. The rain would probably let up soon. Desnind was a very wet place most of the time, but this was pushing the limits of what the ground could hold. It had not been raining for more...

37th Ashan, 719 - Midmorning

I don't know what's in there, The matronly Sev'ryn (who called herself Qar'vei) was explaining in Xanthea, I was weeding, trying to clear out the brush to start the planting, and my whole arm started to hurt. She proffered her bare arm, showing the violent, red...

5th Ashan, 719

Your nurse said you had something to ask me about, Joran politely told the wizened old medicine woman. They were meeting in one of the empty private rooms, with her resting on the chair and him standing atop the bed to be at something resembling eye height. She was one of the most...

85th Ashan, 719

The birds were singing, the sun was out...and the Night Flower was dormant once again. That meant Joran had to find a place to work that would keep him fed and house for another season. He rather liked foraging for the syanan okan; it was fairly valuable and he was uniquely suited...

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31st Ashan, 719

Everywhere Tei'serin looked, people were bustling about, looking for a sunny spot to place the old item they had chosen to rejuvenate for Sru'ise. Her aunt had been the one to explain the holiday to her. It was a highly individual...

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3rd Cylus, 719

Thank you for being willing to help us with this. Most people celebrate the holiday by going out with their families and friends when they go to gather mushrooms. They bring back all kinds of edible mushrooms and other types of fungus...

2nd Cylus, 719

Joran hated Cylus. Most people of Desnind hated it, to his knowledge. Especially Tunawa, with their reliance upon the warm and the sun. They were a strong people both in body and in spirit, but the cold darkness of Cylus always drove the vigor and life from his kind. Magani was a...

116th Ashan, 719

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42nd Ashan, 719

Joran gave himself a little shake, recalling his failed trek out into the Lori to see if the Syanan Okan grew during that cold, dark time. It had ended quite poorly, and he'd only gotten a few dings in his bark for the trouble. Those had twinged a little for several trials...

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Common Tree Talk 3rd of Cylus, 706

It felt as though she hadn't slept at all and is she had slept for all her years plus two. Everything was sore and stiff and ready for a Cylus sleep but it wasn't to be. If she stayed there she'd end up a chew...

22nd Cylus, 719

The nature of the Body is one of Divers Complexity, wyth Great Mystery and Multitude Wonder.

- Copy of Enhester of Rynmere's Treatise on the Wondrous Workings of the Man , dated Arc 341

Joran let out a soft, tenor growl of frustration. Who wrote this? This Enhester went on and...

16th Cylus, 719

Cylus was always a hard time for a Tunawa. The darkness, the fatigue, the general malaise that filled the air... Not to mention the trials-long sleep that occasionally took them as a result of the perpetual dark and cold. Unfortunately, a Tunawa still needed to eat, and Joran...