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Swaying gently. Back and forth. Back and forth. Kristen Pirian's eyes opened slowly, her vision clouded and out of focus. There was a soreness on the side of her head, some blood in her hair. Her ponytail dangled, the tip of it pointing down to the ground some thirty feet below. One of her...

The White Swallow slowly approached the castle in the dead of the night from the southeast. It was a small ridge castle, unaproachable by an army from most sides. Its keep stood on the highest end towards the north. It wasn't in the best of conditions and the foliage in the steep ridgeside...

"So, what got you locked up? Hah, that's what they all say. No...no... not one of us is going to die in here... not by their hands anyway. Got it on good word that there's an army comin... And they plan on takin' this place for themselves... and probably eat the rest of us." You've been...

Taagi Baara Steppes - Southern Reaches "Of course not, My Lady." Her voice was soft, even, a pleasant smile on her face and her eyes as gentle as she could make them be. The woman in front of her was a mess of tears and saliva, having spent the last three hours sobbing like a child who had lost...

Magnus Altari sat on an oak chair, surrounded by brick walls. Papers lined his desk and the floor, which they were written in different tongues. Altari had been a resident in this citadel for quite some time. Not a prisoner, more like a volunteer to maintain the structure and research in peace...

Aberresai Savannah - Southern Reaches Saul glanced up through the gaps in his helmet his lips thinning as he saw the massive fortress laying just ahead of them. He had of course heard talk of just how big Herath, the Black Keep, actually was...but this...this was something else entirely. The...