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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...

“Mission well done now let’s go have some fun,” Everleigh said, looking over her shoulder at Draven. They were both covered in blood and gristle, dozens upon dozens of men slaughtered around them. Everleigh rubbed at her eyes, smearing more crimson blood along her brow, her purple bangs sticking...

Draven walked the halls of the academy, the grey cold stone walls flanking either side as he made his way through them, candles lit the long corridors as night had descended on Vel Anir and his shadow wasn't the only thing following him. some distant back character had been following him, he...

Ryan Ashford haphazardly climbed up the rungs of the hidden ladder that led to the loft of the Academy stables. She had been thrust into the sparring ring with Ralene and that woman was a tank. That damn rune that made it almost impossible for Ryan to use her magic against Ral and it resulted in...

Detention. All because Drast may or may not have made a few innocent scenes around the school.. or maybe he caused a mess in Proctor P's class? Did he do any of it alone? No. But he wasn't a rat. And now he had to write the laws of magic backwards two thousand times before he could be released...

Cen'ahir Edric stood quietly in a line of other Initiates, his lips thin, and his head half cocked as he watched the Guardswoman hand a purse of coins over to one of his fellows. "Now." There was something far too chipper about the woman. Edric wasn't sure how to...nail it down, but from the...

DAY ONE You have one week, Initiate Pirian. One week! One week! Just seven days to discover a whole new spell from her magic, practice it, and use it in a spar with another Initiate and win with it. Proctor Magomo often asked of her to overcome things which she thought insurmountable, he...

Here's a great fucking idea. Train the best warrior-mages, drawn from all across Vel Anir's holdings, in the most intensive, strict, and brutal regimen known to Arethil, hone them into razor sharp weapons of war...and then send them all the way across Liadain to eat cake and make nice with the...

[art cred] “Another horrible thing about cows, they are the dumbest creatures I have ever come across!” Proctor Palahniuk continued on about his rant on cattle as he lead them to the small town known as Arnim. Out in the west, it was quite a trek from the unshakeable walls of Vel Anir, even on...

“Well, I guess it is tiresome to keep up the stockpile. He goes through them like a camel drinking water,” Proctor Palahniuk said rather reluctantly, staring up at the ceiling. Everleigh was quiet, giving the proctor some time to think things over before she spoke again. “I’d go with him to...

[art cred] Somewhere between Amol-Kalit and the Aberresai Savannah, things had gone horribly wrong. The journey to Maraan to collect intel was all good and fine, there had been no issues expect for the fact that Everleigh wished that the sun wasn’t so overbearing. While inside the major...

(20150626 Landscape by psdeluxe) "HOLD!" Zael yelled out. "STAY TOGETHER!" It was too late for one poor girl of the caravan. One of the students from Elbion College. She'd panicked and ran too far from the wagons. The swarm of Kraits got her. They didn't kill her instantly, not like they had...

“I know what you’re all thinking,” Everleigh said, hands on her hips and that deadly excitement clear across her fair features. “‘Evie, what do you possibly have that would make me want to play something like this?’ Well for one,” she pulled out a decent sack of coin. It had taken her a year to...

The weather was really something today. The sun was out, hardly any clouds in the sky, and yet there was still a slight chill in the air. Nothing that bothered Kalix, if anything, the cool air mixed with the weak rays of the sun was perfect napping weather for the dreadlord initiate. On the...

What a dumb punishment. Alistair had gotten in trouble because he skipped one swordsmanship class. He had just lost track of time in the library. What was he reading? A freaking book on swordsmanship. You would think that would make up for it, but no. Instead, they were requiring that he join...

OSTIA ANIR "Stop the carriage." Walter's bannerman banged on the driver's side wall of the carriage's interior. The driver slowed the horses and the carriage came to a slow stop, the rest of the mounted entourage stopping as well. Horses milled, tapping their hooves against the clean cobbles...

[art cred] Well, it seems that Everleigh finally got caught. Or rather, someone had snitched on her. How lame. She knew just who it was, the dirty scoundrel, Titus. He knew the rules when they made the wager, and this time Everleigh hadn’t even purposely cheated. She knew she wouldn’t need to...

Of all the inane, dumbass ideas he'd ever been presented with. Of all the excuses for keeping him out of missions, out of the action that all his peers were reveling in, this one had to be the most infuriating of them all. It was true, prior to his injuries he'd had trouble getting along with...

Vel'Yuna. The Yuna Lager Tavern. Before noon, but definitely far past sunrise. Zael awoke on the floor, and he felt like absolute shit. Ugggh...where did his shirt go? And his breastplate? And the rest of his armor, what the hell? He was in just his pants, not even boots. And he had dried puke...