Stronghold of education and learning, this fortress is in one of the coldest areas of Idalos and home to many knowledge seekers in a variety of disciplines. However, unknown to most, below the city are those who suffer for the sake of science. While all are welcome, not everyone will be treated as they expect.
/gallery/image.php?album_id=143&image_id=4097 The PSF
New Subforums
So, one of the things that has changed in the new site is that the new PSF is visible to everyone. This provides us an opportunity and so, this morning I've created some subforums in there - for completed / approved threads....
The Website: Standing Trials ( / ), referred to through the rest of this thread as the website , our website , the site , our site , Standing Trials , and Trials .
You: The person reading these words right now.
The Staff: All users who are identified as...
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Developed by Maebella
The Viden Academy Fitness Centre was opened in the 607th arc. It was originally considered as a potential on-campus site for Menochoros practitioners as the martial art had gained a sizeable number of...
The Academy Registry is located to the right of the main entrance of the building as you enter. None can miss it; it is undoubtedly one of the most frequented rooms in the entire building, visited by students, pupils, parents and staff alike for a whole host of...
16 Saun, 724
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The air was cold, far too cold for Kotton to sincerely admit he was comfortable. Fortunately, he had attested to his chill just before embarking from the ship that had guaranteed him rights of shore against Viden. He had been given things from someone special whilst he had been...
There was a time in his life when Kotton thought he was impervious to the insults and sarcasms, epithets and indignities of other men. There was a time when other people’s opinions had no effect on him. Someone’s else's remark on his person didn’t matter; someone else’s opinion had no effect on...
25 Saun, 724
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After so much terror brought to him by chilling temperatures and obsolete leg-warmers, Kotton had figured his own way to warm himself against the polar existence that was Viden. He had brought with him a couple blankets, courtesy of the ship, but they were most definitely not...
18 Saun, 724
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Kotton was sitting in his grandfather’s study, his grandfather’s eloquent and elaborate house, and he was surrounded by what seemed to be invaluable decor and priceless furniture. There were porcelain structures of deer on either side of his fireplace in the living room and the...
26 Saun, 724
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Kotton threw back a swig of ale before flipping the mug over and pounding its rim against the wooden countertop in front of him. He had finished his second round and was still winning as far as he was concerned. He had already made himself accustomed to the rituals of Viden, or...
Fortify your mind. The mortalborn thought to himself. He knew something of Yvithia’s capabilities, having dealt with at least one of her marked, and lived in the city for a time. He used his penchant for saying one thing and meaning another to apply them to his thoughts. Perhaps it would work. If...
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Master Smith I
Master Smith II
Master Smith III
Rorom poured the molten pewter metal into the mold once it was set upright, it's channel dug so that it would flow easily into the specially shaped chamber that he'd be using...
The day after Rorom learned the rudiments of forming metal wire was spent finalizing the design plan of his eventual piece. They were getting closer to doing the actual work of a smith, and Rorom couldn't be more eager. Yet he knew he had a few...
From the first day of Rorom's training in the forge, he'd learned better to keep his worst impulses under check. It was still quite the challenge, particularly when it came to his interactions with water, and watching as metal was quenched in it....
The fishing was good this season. It was almost too good, and that made Rorom restless.
There was honor and dignity in a job well done, and certainly results played a part in that. Yet, more frequently Rorom had become somewhat jaded by the...
There is a buzz of excitement among the seamstresses, tailors and merchants of Viden; a shipment of exotic fabrics has come in and the shipment is much larger than had been expected! Some of these fabrics are very unusual indeed and there are many...
“With that being said, the Viden Academy will host an event in honor of Padraig Augustin and his resurrection of Treid this season, as you probably know. I’m grateful to all of you that have already decided to participate. And if...
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Sitting on the dock of the bay , Darius stared out over the ice. A low fog rested over Synnefa Bay and attempted to conceal the Libertalia , but the brig was defiant, its topmast piercing the top of the white cloud and...
The cold that constantly surrounded Viden even in the Hot Cycle was the last thing on everyone’s mind. So much had happened in the last several cycles that had the entire city buzzing. Even Yvithia was talking about what...
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From her first step out into the world, on 20th Ymiden, in Arc 716 , Faith had been focused. Focused on helping people, on understanding her place in the world and on knowing. Always on knowing. A few trials later she had met the man...
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11th Vhalar, 720
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The information which had followed on from Padraig's research was only one of four aspects Faith wanted to explore. She considered them akin to the four legs of a table - the fact that Padraig had seen dragons in...
It was the Eve of Woe's birthtrial, or what he always supposed was his birth trial. The fifth, tomorrow. He was going to go screaming into his 34th arc on Idalos in spectacular fashion, by fighting against Fleaface, practicing...
In the earliest days of Saun, there was a balminess to the air of Viden. Something that Zemos hadn't seen since... well he'd never experienced weather this warm to his recollection, which was admittedly incomplete. He didn't know if the time before the White Void...
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