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Pernach was a town under siege. Not in the traditional sense, no. There was no army entrenched around imposing walls (Pernach's walls weren't imposing at all, as it were: wooden, small, an ogre could just barely peek over them on the tips of his big toes). There was no foe which presented...

(Art Credit) VEL NUMERA Among House Pirian's finest and most productive holdings was that of Vel Numera. Vast and fertile fields surrounded the town, roads and hedgerows and cultivated lines of trees separating them, farmhouses dotting the land and pinning down each farming family's little...

It was an easy mission. So why did they get removed from it? Soleil had been excited. Which wasn't new. Missions always excited her. Far more than sitting in a classroom, wherein she drifted in her attention and seemed to study far more her fellow Initiates in the class than whatever material...

THE HAMMERHEAD ISTHMUS "Guardsmen!" said Commander Teritus in closing. "We are the hammer to the anvil! I don't know why in Kress's name these Kivren have come this far north, but we are going to smash them with absolute prejudice and take back the Hammerhead Isthmus. I want every last one of...

The Latest Scene - Small Village near Falwood Raena Mirrsyn stood outside the huge circle with her arms crossed and a pensive look on her face. This was the fourth circle and the fourth body. She had not been to any of the other scenes yet since they had just received the request for help...

"No," said Caeso. The Guard Captain, Warren Odal, smiled thinly to the big Initiate sat before him. "I'm afraid you don't have any choice." Fifteen minutes ago, Caeso had been walking to the Proctors' Building, a place which once inspired fear in every Initiate. It still did, but not as much...

Everleigh stretched her arms over her head, looking at the hazy sky. The monotone gray of the sky matched the same dreary, faded hues of color on the homes and all the way to the docks at the end. Where sky and ocean met was a blur of even more gray. Here, the seaside village close to the...

Finally! Some time to study. One would have thought that in a place like Elbion College time to study would be plentiful. Mayhap for the actual students this was true, yet not so much for a visiting Dreadlord Initiate as it turned out. Kristen, along with several others, had been conscripted...

Proctor D'Amour inhaled deeply, steeling herself as the air rushed into her lungs. A dossier had been laid before her just two days prior. Mars Pallatrix, her senior, her peer, had wordlessly laid it before her with a look that stretched beyond his usual stern stoicism. The file had a simple...

ON THE ROAD A stranger in the road. His hands held up. Palms open. "I mean you no harm," he said. "Remi Useda." A stranger who offered to change everything. * * * * * Another mission completed. Much like all the others the Academy doled out to its up and coming Initiates, comprised of...

"We are not. Doin this." Zael glared at his fellow Initiates. Three of them, at least. There had been just the faintest noise coming from the foliage and Zael had surreptitiously gone there, thrust his hand into the bush, and tossed out the culprit who now lay on the forest floor among the...

[FATE thread // dialogue focused thread please c: I’m trying to get into a habit of writing shorter posts!] Everleigh looked around the room, her games all set up. It was a free period and it was often this time that she would get her visitors. Initiates she hardly cared for or the occasional...

Alliria - The Inner City Gaage Eberwhit and Delaney Lennox had been sent on an assignment together. An assignment where they were to be Gaage and Delaney Martine, the newest rich young couple to make The Inner City of Alliria their home. This mission was vitally important to Vel Anir so, of...

Bullshit. No, more than that. Absolute horseshit. Gaage Eberwhit had been on his very best behavior, and that was saying something. He'd done all of his work at the Academy, and hadn't seriously hurt anybody in training. He'd even stopped sneaking Delaney into his room at night, which was...

Raena Mirrsyn sat on the stone edge of one of the low walls that surrounded the training area. It was still a relatively quiet morning as the Initiates from her class slowly started to trickle in. The weather was sunny and cool with only a few clouds in the blue sky and on any other day she...

THE ARENA OF KARAKORUM Every four years, warriors gathered. From across the world they came to the Taagi Baara Steppe. The Steppe Portal Stone flooded with activity, and instead of heading northwest to Dornoch as most travelers did, these warriors all went northeast, deeper into the untamed...

Aberresai Savannah --- One hour after Midday Henk was used to sweating; it happened when you fought, when you traveled long distances, when you were extremely nervous or on edge. The Dreadlord Initiate was much less accustomed to sweating while sitting down and doing nothing but driving a...

Everleigh was busy cracking eggs. A whole slew of them. Basket after basket, she filled the massive bowl in front of her were orange egg yolks and translucent egg whites. Somehow. Some way. She was stuck with kitchen duty again. One would have thought that being so close to graduating they would...

A loud bang, like a door being slammed shut. Kristen would awake, a touch groggy, but immediately she would take in her surroundings. The room was square, sparse, and dark, save for a sole lantern which hung above the table where she was sat and out of reach. Sat across from her was another...

The small town of Vel Allende was on fire. A agrarian town that focused on producing wheat or heartier root vegetables like potatoes and carrots. They burned all the same. The wheat fields were in flames and the small village people were running and screaming about. The scream of children and...