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I am a damsel locked in her

tower, but I am my own

capture. No one else has

the strength to lock me

away. You though have the

key to free me from myself

Genna walked into the room with other members of the order. Some of who had come down from Rharne or even through the hospital...

81 Ymiden 725

It was a nervous pulse of whispers that followed refugees. Every time, like clockwork, the “old and true Rharneans” clutched their pearls and lamented that the Fates could possibly subject their fair city to another round of foreigners, of refugees, of Dusters. Of trash. They...

Story of the Princeling of Impropriety

Sometimes, even to a open invitation, one must spare some expense for the privilege of entry. While the Courteous Slime invited everyone and all to its parties throughout the Hot Cycle, one look at the people getting on board reminded Diana that she must...

“A warrior believes in
an end she can’t see
and fights for it.
A warrior never gives up.
A warrior fights for
those weaker than herself.
It sounds like
motherhood to me.”
—Kristin Hannah,
“The Four Winds”

“How on Idalos did a thousand plus people manage to arrive outside of Storm’s...

15th Saun, 724. The Stormlands.

Vahekoh sat straight-backed in Vahdah's saddle. Vahdah, she sensed, was wanting to go - it was there in the vibrations of his breathing, in the impatient shiver in his back and in his legs. Vahekoh sat forward a little in the saddle, gripping the reins, and when...

The retreat of darkness touched her eyelids and began waking her from sleep. Elowen laid still in her bed, savouring that moment as she became aware of her whole body before she fluttered her eyes open.

A new trial had begun.

She pushed back the layers of blankets and sat up straight, dropping...

Ever since Ronan's visit, Elowen tried to get back to her daily life. Suspiciously no one came whilst she was...unwell. Whether that was also Ronan's doing, the girl didn't know. But as she was about to grow even more anxious that the Mistral Village knew of who she was, it was Eseld who came...

No sooner was the cat snatched from their hands, than the Captain ordered Zeer to his cabin on the longship. The Captain stalked ahead of the young mage, rising up the gang plank and toward the center of the ship, where the cabin was. Zeer entered carefully, his arrival punctuated by a...

Even in her limited world of Mistral Woods, Elowen could discover some surprises now and again. Some that were pleasant, and some not so much. Like accidentally eating dog berries instead of blueberries or, as to-trial, finding a patch of wild pumpkins ready for picking. And oh did the Immortals...

Once Gual had a chance to patch up the stripling lad that Zeer had injured, Captain summoned him to the Saber's deck. The stripling was standing there, bandages stuffing his nose. Gual glowered at Zeer, compounding a sense of doom that the Qi'ora felt in his core. Captain took one of his...

For as long as Zeer had served aboard the Saber, his father insisted on being called Captain. He claimed it was respect, though Zeer suspected it was habit. The Captain’s reputation was built on years of profitable voyages—raids, salvage runs, and the occasional legitimate job. Crew came and went...

Over the crest of a hillock, beneath the shade of a heavily forested canopy, a storm roc stood, bemused. Its beak tilted to the side as its eye traced a very peculiar change in its companion. This was Rocky the Hurricane, a storm roc of great potential and ability, and friend of Rakvald. If Rakvald...

Rakvald felt the ether of his flayed apprentice surging through him with new vitality and power. Renfreud had been weak in his ability for magic. That was mostly Rakvald's fault, although well founded and foresighted his negligence had been. It was good he hadn't trained him well, apart from the...

The scouting was as simple as an overhead flight, above the vinyards and around the large chateaux that Rakvald had called home. As he circled the perimeter, he observed a few things. A handful of grisly discoveries. Farmhands, crucified upon thorny mutant plants, that had emperor bat teeth and...

The Spirited Garden

The Spirited Garden is verging on being a myth and a reality. The thing is that no one knows for sure. The reason being that the gateway to The Spirited Garden is said to travel and it never stays in one place for longer than a few trials. Many had tried to track its...

Toru Tae Settlement

Those who had travelled through Storm's Edge, Stormwastes and went as far as Stormlakes have most certainly heard of the Toru Tae settlement at some point. Toru Tae is in fact a nomadic settlement that takes up residence for arcs on end at one location most often along...

Hunting around the banks of Lovalus, driven half-mad by thirst both physical and arcane, Rakvald sought to swim in the form he occupied, which was wholly unsuited to deep water diving. While he could gain distance on the wing, and then dive in a straight line into the lake , he was still as yet not...

To say that Elowen was out of the thick of it would be an understatement. Not even a trial had passed since she viciously attacked her own hair.

She reached up...again...and felt the rough surface of her skull. She had no practice and was also afraid of going to close to the skin, given the injury...

Continued from here...

Meanwhile, in Coldheart Plantation:

The atmosphere of the cold dark of the Inheritor's dungeon laboratory didn't need the added drama of a lightning storm raging outside. Yet, Rharne's hottest season was eager to oblige with some dry electricity racing through the air....