24th Ymiden, 713

When the mortalborn fell within the well, his first instinct was to panic. He followed these instincts for a while, trying to claw at the cobblestone in vain, trying to escape the dried hole in which nothing but shade existed. Too panicked to even contemplate a logical approach,...

Since I was young, I've had a fascination with death. Empty bodies, empty eyes. Edward always worried I'd find a taste for it and kept me far away from executions, sheltered from the brutality he feared I had inherited. I'm not like them, though. I don't want to cut my way through innocents to...

10th Saun, 711

Manricko walked at the front. He was not a leader, although chance and circumstance had placed him at the lead of the party. The aging man, with its pale pate, and his strikingly grey eyes, stood out physically. Psychologically, however, he was another part of the living and...

23th Saun, 716
18th Break

Water poured from the skies as the storm raged, and the soil breathed for perhaps the first time in the entire season. One could almost feel the suckling, the devouring, and the leeching of the water as it was absorbed and hoarded by the hungry vegetation, by the very...

45 Vhalar, Arc 715

His visit home had been short but necessary, a refreshing moment with his family after a long, difficult arc he’d mostly spent sailing from port to port to ease the nagging sense of loss he still felt after parting ways with Ari’nne almost exactly an arc before. He’d spent...

31 Vhalar 717

Hans leaned against the gates of Ne'haer. The road stretched out long before him, winding off into the trees of the inland woods. From here, Cycres, Hyran, Millstone... Ironridge... and home. Marius was tethered to a post a little ways beyond the gate, and he stood there, grazing on...

Vhalar 70th 717; Late Afternoon
Location: Streets of Ne'haer

Totrial felt like one of them trials where everyone around her had been on edge recently, but when the news had finally reached Kayleigh she began to understand why. Pirates. They were never fun to deal with in any way, and the fact...

Zi'da 9th 717, Noon
Location: Crest Break Tavern

Zi'da had brought a much more harder cold here than she anticipated, then again Kayleigh had been so accustomed to Rharne's weather... she didn't suspect winter elsewhere to get much colder. Thus she'd dressed in her warmer outfit as of late, jade...

Leap of Faith
33rd of Saun, Arc 714

“Are you sure about this?” Elrik asked for what felt like the hundredth time since they had left their home. He asked it as they waited for their rode. He asked it as they sat in the carriage. He was still asking it as they were climbing up the hill that...

late Ashan, 708

Quio stood on the side of the river and waved as the sloop pulled away. On the deck of the ship a pair of biqaj waved back, one of them looking quite frantic as he did. The biqaj, Elja, continued to wave with too much feigned enthusiasm for as long as Quio could see him.

Quio kept...

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124, Vhalar 117 Ilinis bolted up in bed, sweat clinging to his sheets. It had to all be a dream. There was no way it had all happened. He suddenly felt a burning sensation on his ankle, the same as when the fire had licked against his skin as he had foolen the little wooden girl. He clawing at his...

Saun 18 717
Location: Bayward

He followed the signs that led him here, the clues that basically carried him this far. His search for a bounty had not gone accordingly earlier that trial, and yet somehow fate worked in the mysterious of ways upon his arrival. Just as he thought his stop meant a...

14 Vhalar 717
Lysoria

Hans sat at the large oak table and sipped his wine slowly, careful not to look Lord Stefan in the eye. They knew him well by now, and could read his moods, even without the magic that ran through his veins. And they would see his nerves. Even now, Hans could not stop his...

⌘ Common ⌘ Rakahi ⌘ Euthic Sign ⌘ Grovokian ⌘
8th of Ymiden, 711
The ports and shipyards were crowded, with every Biqaj seemingly in one place and shouting at one another. She recognized a few words of Rakahi between all the noise and glanced skyward to see Curio harassing some seagulls for...

Speaking in Rakahi
Speaking in Common 20th of Ymiden, 708
evening

He had been away from the Andresmarie for two trials now, had told his mother and the others that he was exploring the woods around Ne'haer looking for natural deposits of whitestone. He had a statue to make and place, and he...

Fourth Day of Vhalar
Arc 717

Pink flesh, hot from the steaming water, cast a swirling haze to radiate from her skin into the cool morning. Scrubbed clean, Lucy took a deep breath of the jasmine scent of the water. The woman she'd spent the night with, a merchant's daughter named Seren, loved for...

13 Trial of Zi’da

The cold had settled over the world, but at this time the warmth of mortal’s souls shone to warm the world. Saoire was visiting the world and inspiring others to help and share with each other. The young woman wasn’t any more exempt to her touch then was the next soul. Bundled up...

26th Vhalar, 716th Arc Trouble haunted the city of Ne'haer. The smoldering remains of the city blazed in the last light of the dual suns as dusk approached. Every day the citizens worked from dawn until dusk to carry out repairs. Homes were rebuilt left and right, but much of the city's former...

Seasonal Events For Zi'da 717

Weather To Expect In Ne'haer

The first few days of Zi'da seem bright with a mixture of clouds, with snow already found lightly powdering the city by the end of the Winter Festival. Several inches of snow will cover the city, with temperatures modestly in the...

15 Trial of Zi'da 717 Arc

Gennadiya was preparing to depart Ne’hear for some trials while she returned to Lysoria to visit with her father and extended family during this cold season. She had cleaned her little house and was leaving it spotless clean. There wasn’t much but it was important for her...

710, Ashan 12th
He laid down in the sand, smiling, the suns warm and gentle as they kissed the horizon. Robin had spent the day at the beach; he was dressed in little more than his swimming trunks, small brown shorts that reach to his mid-thigh. His skin, tanned and freckled, glistened with sea...

7th Ashan, 717

As Tei'serin left the school for the trial, she planned to head right home so she could begin the task of grading the spelling test she had just given her students. But she was distracted by strains of beautiful music traveling on the pleasant breeze. Wanting to hear more of the...

57 Trial of Ashan Arc 714

Gennadiya had woken early, not for any particular reason, she had just found herself fully away earlier than normal. So she had risen and prepared for the day which meant she was ahead of schedule and found herself with some extra time in the trial. Because of that she...

Saun 35, 717
Ne'haer

Ilinis paced about his apartment, looking from the empty wine rack, to the bare table, back to the empty bookshelf. He wasn't certain why the sparsity of his accommodations bothered him this day; he had always woken the day with the mindset that to waste coin on frivolous...