60th of Ashan, Arc 718

This was the epilogue. The sun had already set on the story of the Sacrasav, at least the ones that had come - in that singular group - to Ne'haer. But it had not set on Ren's story, nor on Alistair's. They had much less to uncover, and much more to learn. Ren, who he'd sent...

Ymiden 35th, 718
Stone screamed as metal split it open. Prisoners and guards filled the tiny tunnel as they worked in tandem. It was cramped for a human, and even more so for an Ellune. A stranger to the mines might wonder why Zafir was working in such a small space, next to those who held no love...

3rd of Ymiden, 718

As with all great experiments Jonathan had a theory. He remembered that, just outside of a fracture earlier in the season he and Alistair had been attacked by a man who had used Transmutation against them. However he'd done it in a very unusual fashion that had stuck in Jon's...

1st of Ymiden 718, Early Morning

Jonathan woke again. Thankfully, from a sleep that was full of good dreams. Not confusing dreams like sleeping with Hob or adventuring into Emea. No, he'd fallen asleep and awoken inside a geode, and spent the rest of his dream looking at the crystals and laying...

59th of Ymiden, Arc 718

Ren Norendel. He promised to meet me here - after... everything. Our rehabilitation. The time we shared together. Trials and trials of... trying to make him right. We became friends - close ones, too. I began to see him in much the same way I once viewed Theodore . . . as...

Ymiden 2nd, 718: Late Night
Quiet steps of bare feet against polished stone floors sent small echoes reverberating through the bustling hall. Zafir was exhausted. This time of trial was usually reserved for dreams or actions of ill-repute; neither of which the Ellune intended to do. However, as...

85th of Ashan, Arc 718
I've never felt more free.

. . .

Have I ever been this free? No.

I lay in a bed of bodies. Entangled, lustful, filled with delight. They pant for me. Yes... I can see them, and myself, as if my eyes were hovering from above. I look down and see myself in the center,...

8th of Ashan, 718

The weather in Ne'haer was still an icy cold, a holdover from the trials of Cylus, but that had not stopped the city from springing to life at the first signs of the suns return. The streets were alive and pulsing with people, eager to get things moving again, even as the world...

Ashan 1st, 718
Down the pickaxe came.

Sailing through the frozen air, the dull blue light of Zafir’s pick illuminated the dark caverns in which he worked. Cold sweat collected in the defined ridges of his rough skin, mingling with the dirt and dust that sprayed from rock as he dug deeper into the...

On the ninetieth trial of Ashan during the 718th arc...

Time alone, soaking in the bath, had done Doran well. He had not realised how tense he'd allowed himself to become during his earlier conversation with Alistair, and while the information he'd shared with him was, in and of itself, both...

Ymiden 1st, 718: Early Morning
The last time he arrived this early in Ne'haer, Zafir had been driven by a cause. Possessed by it. He was energetic, unyielding, consumed by the knowledge that if he did nothing his people might die. Now, however, he had to force his body forward off the boat and...

Traveler
7 Ymiden 718
The suns were going down, and the two men sat in the coziness of the Crest Break. In front of Pavel, a large mug of a heavy beer, and in front of Zevan, an imported dry red from the grapevines of Nekhet, aired briefly and settling well. His dust-coloured eyes scanned the...

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27th of Ashan, Arc 718

Ether was the fount from which all magic flowed. All of the arcane domains began with it, and all of them harnessed and utilized it for the sake of power. Transmutation, as a magic, was almost wholly centered around the usage of ether - making it a natural part of one's...

29th of Ashan

Jonathan was flying high in most regards. He’d been bound to Alistair not just in tutorship but in bed. He was immensely satisfied with his prospects at the moment, and was calmly working on his transmutation. A small pile of rocks, polished to glass gleam and shaped in every...

27th of Ashan

Well, Jonathan had been ordered to meet the mage in Kaelserad, and was pleasantly surprised by what he saw. It was a nice little building on a pond with a willow shading it. The grassy knoll was bright with the Ashan rains and the place looked immaculately kept. It seemed like the...

126th of Ashan

'Push yourself! Spread it wider! Concentrate and don't lose the intensity! Pour yourself into it!'

Jon gritted his teeth so hard he could hear the enamel squealing. His eyes were wide and burning with each droplet of sweat trickling down from his brow. The tears that sprang forth...

125th of Ashan

Jonathan felt he had grown a lot over the course of Ashan, but Ymiden was now on the rise. It was the hottest day it had ever been, and Jonathan was on the river by Kaelserad. This was the spot where he and Hob had both been hurt, right here. Right on this boulder. He was sitting on...

They had killed them. The two Coven mages that had acted as the coincidental gatekeepers to the Fracture, were dead. And more than that, they had been wholly disintegrated, turned into a paste of molecules before even that ceased to exist. Intentional destabilization of a portal was easy, for...

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Spring had definitely returned to the lands around the city of Ne'haer. It had been a while since Trevor had dared to venture beyond the walls, but now that he did he felt somehow glad about it. He wore his usual attire, which felt drab in...

93rd of Ashan

The days were starting to get warmer. The last little cold teeth of Cylus were falling out and replaced by the raging fangs of Ymiden. Soon Jonathan would have to time himself. He'd have to wake up earlier, and nap during the hot season, in order to prevent himself getting...

97th of Ashan

This time it had been Hob's idea to go out into the woods. Jonathan always appreciated time alone with his Harvester; they were growing closer and closer by the day. Jon liked walking barefoot in the fading Ashan light at the end of the day. The days were getting longer, and hotter...

85th of Ashan

It was strange how Jonathan felt so much closer to Hob than Daeva. Watching the rabbit now, by the stream in the woods outside of Kaelserad, it was a happy feeling. The rabbit could manifest here without any worry of the citizenry coming to hang the pair of them, and in that peace...

Traveler
2 Ashan 718
The seas churned, their frothy tongues licking the lichenwood ever higher. Sounds rang out, metal on metal, scream on scream, flesh on flesh. Across the gangplank swung a man, tall and bald and ugly, brandishing a cutlass far too old to be of use. Still, with force it could...

Ashan 108, Arc 718

I saw something, back there, upon those rocks. Only... it wasn't real. I don't -- I don't think it was, at least. Might have been Mirage.

What did it look like?

A hundred... bodies, conjoined into one; a mangled, plethora of corpses. A lump-sum of meat tied together to...