Recent content by Vaezhasar Drakspae

"Well, that is rather simple, Pomrick. I summoned my now-wife to make a trade, her knowledge for a favor from me. Except she wasn't interested in my soul, which I'll admit came as something of a relief since I'd grown rather attached to it, nor any of the magical trinkets I had at my disposal...

Seretha ibnat Rezhe Theodore Aleson Larewen Dragana Vaezhasar's gaze, insofar as anyone could determine where the gaze of a man wearing an ornate helmet was actually going, came to rest upon Larewen. He performed the sort of rapid mental cataloguing that experienced travelers develop after...

The Spear Thistle Fairy Pomrick Bloomsfield There are certain universal truths that even the most learned wizards tend to overlook. One is that dignity, much like a soap bubble, exists only until something pokes it. Another is that a man's choice of nightwear says more about him than his...

Lilette Blackbriar Vaezhasar, having collected what could generously be called 'enough' blood, though 'enough' was one of those words that meant different things to different people, rather like 'comfortable' or 'just a minute', withdrew the needle with a wet POP. He did this quickly and...

Lilette Blackbriar Vaezhasar wrapped his armor-clad fingers around Lilette's slender forearm with the sort of deliberate care usually reserved for handling either priceless artifacts or particularly temperamental explosives. The metal, if one could call it metal, which one couldn't, really...

Feä Mindalië Pomrick Bloomsfield The thing about sleeping students, Vaezhasar reflected as his armored finger made contact with Pomrick's temple, is that they represent a fundamental paradox of education. Here was someone who had paid good money, or more likely their parents' good money, to be...

Lilette Blackbriar Vaezhasar shook his helmet-encased head with the sort of metallic rattle that suggested either profound disappointment or a loose rivet. Possibly both. It had dawned on him, in much the same way dawn itself dawns, which is to say gradually and then all at once, that the girl...

Lilette Blackbriar Vaezhasar's armored arm rose with the sort of deliberate slowness that suggested either great ceremony or the kind of careful movement employed by someone who has previously discovered that sudden gestures tend to make people scream and run away. His fingers, encased in...

"With pleasure," Vaezhasar said. The maw-like structure chased into his breastplate opened up, brass teeth gleaming. Slowly, a large, feline shape squeezed itself out of the orifice like a weasel squeezing itself through a particularly narrow tube. The creature was the size of a tiger, with fur...

Lilette Blackbriar Behind the faceplate, Vaezhasar's eyes performed a rotation that would have been far more effective as communication had anyone actually witnessed it. The gesture vanished into the general opacity of enchanted metal, which was rather the problem with dramatic eye-rolling...

Lilette Blackbriar Laughter erupted from behind the ornate faceplate, a sound that the helmet's acoustics transformed into something altogether more resonant and peculiar, as though someone had taken ordinary mirth and run it through a cathedral's organ pipes whilst simultaneously dropping it...

Vaezhasar shrugged at her, not bothering to turn around and watch her leave for the lower deck. He snapped his fingers and conjured a chair in a crackle of octarine lighting. The chair had human arms where its legs should've been, and these arms maintained it's structural integrity even as...

Lilette Blackbriar Vaezhasar's attention pivoted to the armor with the sort of laser focus usually reserved for dragons spotting unattended sheep. What happened next defied the usual relationship between mass and velocity. For a figure whose dimensions suggested he'd been constructed from...

Lilette Blackbriar The suspended figure stirred, a motion suggesting he'd registered her arrival despite the tome commanding his immediate attention. The volume shut with a percussive finality that echoed off granite walls like a judicial gavel. His aerial throne commenced its descent with the...

Lilette Blackbriar The homunculus accepted its burden with mechanical efficiency, dual appendages enfolding the rucksack as though weight were merely theoretical. Thus laden, it commenced a circuitous journey through the collegiate precincts, across the courtyard where evening shadows pooled...