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The basics of leatherworking, Jinyel had seen from a distance. He understood the basic steps: the skin had to be soaked, in water if the fur was to remain intact, in a quicklime solution if the fur was going to be scraped off. Warthog fur wasn’t particularly soft, useful, or pleasant to look at, so...
The trip back from the Sacred Forest was, luckily for them, uneventful. Not much was said while Ajan and Reynar took the two of them back, as Rickith's mind was seemingly off in the clouds, trying to figure out exactly what the plant was that he had found. He hoped it was a healing herb, but he...
The previous evening had been interesting. Not only did Rickith learn a lot about fieldcraft from the demonstrations that Jinyel had given, but he also seemed to get to know Jinyel a bit better as well. He was a quiet type, who liked to listen, more than he enjoyed talking, which Rickith didn't...
By daylight, it was easy for Jinyel to follow his own trail. With the dead deer slung across his shoulders, he found his way back to the ravine where he and Agnis had been kidnapped. “Cutter’s Rut,” the young woman called it, before she had agreed to lead Agnis and the young boy back to her...
Sometimes Imperial efficiency and effectiveness could work against its own interests. Case in point, the siege weald that Lorogh's battalion had been summoned to. This was one of the more entrenched and fortified of the robber baron fortresses in the frontier, an empty zone unclaimed by any nation....
Jinyel had always imagined something different for his first deer. It was proof of skill, that a hunter was more than the rabbits and birds it took to stay alive and off the edge of poverty. If Jinyel had come from a family of hunters, or just from a family at all, he suspected this would be an...
Woe had abided in the frontier of the Empire, the area that Raskalarn had opened up to expnsion, in the hopes of conquering more land to feed the faces of her legion of loyal butchers. There'd already been much bloodshed, on the hands of soldiers as much as the bandits and farmers who put up a...
Location: Old Dynaash Several places that had, until recently, are found to be just absolutely infested with every kind of infested that one could imagine. Too many, in fact, as anyone who is considered knowledgeable in...
Perhaps it was foolishness on Jinyel’s part to assume that his work was done. When he lived by himself, a task was over when it was over. The newly started fire would not question him, and the saddle would stay oiled once it was oiled. The greatest allure of living in the...
Once he was sure the mare just wanted to trot in circles and not run away, Jinyel turned around and walked away. The only seemed to perplex the horse, and when he looked over his shoulder, he found her staring at him with her head tilted. It was a very dog-like gesture.
When Rickith and Jinyel had gotten back from the wilderness of the Sacred Forest, they had parted ways, Rickith to find some place to stay, and Jinyel to get some medical assistance. Rickith ending up meeting some of the people there, and getting a guest room to stay in, at least for the duration...
Winter was lean, and lean times called for desperate measures. At least, ‘desperate’ was what Jinyel called it, because he’d had a whole conversation with a faculty member of the Imperial Medical Headquarters. It was the first conversation he’d had in ten trials, but money was money. During the...
The moment that Karem chose to take Nir'wei aside was hers alone to decide, and she did decide to do it without forewarning, but with some consideration for Nir'wei's delicate agenda. While she wanted to teach him a lesson, it was important that the lesson not exacerbate any...
In truth, to say that Erina's life was a particularly amazing one full of wonderment and adventure would be a blatant falsehood, one that was steeped in a desire for greater things. However, she for the most part found her life was monotonous out here in the wilderness. Living by modest means and...
Agnis was a woman of secrets. Jinyel didn’t know why, and sometimes those secrets felt like a snake laying in wait to bite him, but she was also… not his friend, but friendly. To most dwellers of the medical headquarters, Jinyel was a decoration. Silent. Unobtrusive. Occasionally useful, but never...
Live bird wanted. Any species. Must be delivered without injury. Pays well.
It was an odd bounty. Or perhaps “request” was the better word. Most hunting was done independently, and requests were usually for the spoils. Someone wanted a deerskin, or the bones of a thairoch, or some other piece of...
Cylus was a time of darkness. With the darkness came scarcity, and with scarcity came risk. Anyone wishing to survive the harsh season had to gamble with their health to gain any sort of reward. Sometimes they won prey. Sometimes they lost their health. Sometimes they did...
Agnis was a woman of secrets. Jinyel had suspected it for a long time, and she had proven him right more than once. Something was always a bit off about her, but from the idle chatter of the headquarters, that seemed a common trait in mages.
He didn’t know if forcing strangers to eat rotten meat...
It has only been a few trials since his mother had passed, and Rickith was still feeling the weight of emotion encircling his mind. He couldn’t get it out of his mind, how she had passed, and the illness that had taken her, and part of him just wanted to...
It was dark outside, typical for the season. Luvi was rooming in a remote town along with a group of other soldiers. She had fallen into a routine over the past couple seasons, going with the flow and dealing with basic threats that threatened her country. She hadn’t actually done...
Being in the deep forest of the Empire stirred something in Woe, as she strode along, her booted feet treading the snow-caked forest floor. Even here, beneath a voluminous canopy, some snow found its way to the floor, which obscured some of the herbal specimens, many of which had long gone dormant....
Jinyel encounters a water anak and sees that its stream has been clogged by a fallen tree.
The young hunter put away his bow and examined the tree. The trunk was wide enough that his arms couldn’t reach all the way around, and its branches had furrowed into the earth. There...
From the Spirits Primer:
12th of Ashan
A widespread phenomenon that allows, over the course of the day, even unmarked mortals the opportunity to partially see the Spirits that surround their world. They form as translucent flickers of light and darkness to those without the ability to see them...
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