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The Festival of Renewal. That was the name Medja and her aides had finally come to decide on in the weeks of planning that had preceded the festivities. Amol-Kalit had many of its own holidays, of course, but unrest was something that had to be quelled one way or another. Recent months had...

(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...

Nestled West of the Gulf of Ryt sat Route, a Kingdom growing fast under its new rule. But with a new monarch comes new problems. Not even a year after her coronation, the Routen Council sits on the now queen, Esmeralda Sophia Le Roux I ' throat as to her next political moves and the ways...

Beloved Twins, I offer thee my grins. I offer thy perfection My eternal, enduring affection! The Twins, divine sisters, dominating the night sky. Goddesses worshiped by many fae. Guides in the dark to creatures of the day. Matriarchs high above to beings of the night. Quacey stood before the...

"Hey, hey, hey!" Nicholai clapped his hand over Visha's mouth. "Not so gosh-darned loud!" The two of them had just passed through the busy gates into Oban, and Nicholai was already ruing the day. Did someone curse him? Did a divination spell backfire or something? How on the green fields of...

The trees sighed with contentment on this early dawn, the sun only barely creeping over the horizon to greet them with the warmth of its rays. The wind blew through the leaves that they carried so gently, so peacefully. The water that flowed through the springs and rivers was as calm as the...

Underhill was alive with color, sound, and light. The city under the mountain had been transformed for the full moon that heralded the new year by the Pnerian calendar. Its streets were decorated in lanterns, painted with sigils for fortune and luck or to look like Pneria and Lessat. Fae from...

Alliria Alre leaned on his sword, head resting on the pommel, his body half bent over as he tried keep the contents of his stomach inside of his body. The world was spinning, and if asked he could have sworn that people were somehow walking on the walls. The world felt drab and gray, as if all...

Zeri missed her shot. Again! And the small herd of Delta Zebra scattered and ran from the watering hole. Retreating away from the grassy clearing and running back among the trees. Zeri sighed. Stood from her hiding spot among the bushes and the trees at the edge of the clearing. And started...

It was that time yet again in Alliria. The entire city had been preparing for weeks. The Festival of Alliria and Panae had finally arrived. It was a festival dedicated to worshipping Alliria, the Goddess of Fortune and Luck, and Panae, the Goddess of the Harvest, Shepherds, and Alcohol. Traders...

"Welcome all! To an evening of love in the City of Shadokien!" The crier boomed into the enormous crowds with a response of applause loud enough to crack the heavens. Fireworks were shot into the sky and fists were raised as the night of celebration began. The City of Shadokien was not one...