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He hunted monsters once before he became one. Before the thirst took over, when the light in his heart was not obscured by hungering darkness, Askandr fought the nightmares that his people feared. As a knight, he would often partake in hunts, galloping through the outskirt villages surrounding...

"What called?" Soleil asked the shopkeeper, Douglass Mueller. "That," Douglass said of the reptile on the counter which had caught Soleil's attention, "is a chameleon." A slow day was it, here in Mueller's Odds and Ends general store. Not situated in the bustling markets closer to Anir Square...

It was evening, the sun had set as specks of the night stars were peeking out of the dense cloud cover, winter chilled her bones as it was almost spring but there was still the chill that held in the air like the smell of a cigarette in a bar, or beer on a homeless man's teeth. she held that...

Rain fell harshly upon streets of stone. Horse and carriage creaked and splashed along, going this way and that. Men and women, with feet no doubt soaked, carried on whichever way. Street lanterns swayed. A dreary, damp cold gripped tight, and one's breath could easily be seen. It seemed...

Northern Allir Reach - The Bandit Trails Kaylus Marr tore his blade free of the merchantmen, a guttural sound of pain and death flowing from the humans mouth as he was tossed to the side like a ragdoll. A scream came from a nearby woman, her eyes filled with terror. A knight dressed in black...

"Put your hands on the back of your head." And, louder, the woman said, "Do it!" Night. Stars blotted out by clouds. An ancient dark blanketing Arethil. As it had been before there were beating hearts. As it would be after every heart was dust once more. Anima stood on the dirt path leading to...

The Unopened Letter Just a bump for my open thread, to see if anyone with a free character in Alliria is interested. I know the initial post is long, but that's just my style. I think intros ought to be long enough to properly set up a premise and to give a good feel for the character involved...

Steve sensed one of his Infinity potatoes being used, he thought little of this as he had been waiting on Eternum to use one up North so he could go, and meet them at the resulting garden. What was unexpected however was that this new garden hadn't come from the North. Steve began heading to...