the spine

  1. VREILAR THE NECROMANCER

    Private Tales Amicability in Odd Places

    How long had Vreilar been walking? He’d stopped counting after the first thirty days, and the road had brought him little respite in the time since. What few healers he came across said they could do little for his injured arm, which now hugged close to his stomach in a sling of dark canvas. A...
  2. Karl von Stehlen

    Private Tales Through the Mountains and Over Yonder

    Exploring the unknown requires tolerating uncertainty. -Brian Greene Just another standard courier mission, which usually meant trouble. The actual courier mission was not the problem. Usually the actual message was delivered safely and on time, allowing his brother to pull whatever...
  3. Mabess

    Open Chronicles Rabbit-Rabbit-Great-White-Elk

    There was a split. The tribe was in unrest. Yet they tried to stay united. Mabess led a small party along the fringes of the worksite. Axes split wood and hammers clang against metal. Metal that did not come cheaply. The costs were piling up by now, and the ashlanders were not the monetary...
  4. Dianaimh Ui Muirgheal

    LFG An Open Hand

    Molthal continues to expand west of the Spine, clashing with the petty kingdoms and principalities in the wild northlands. Beset by marauding elves, ill-disciplined auxiliaries, and badly stretched supply lines, Molthal has taken a more conciliatory approach towards the larger settlements in its...
  5. Dianaimh Ui Muirgheal

    Open Chronicles An Open Hand

    Toirbheartan, Northlands, Southwest of Gulf of Ryt. Toirbheartan had started life as a defensive settlement. The town that had expanded around it was more accidental than intended. The walls had been pushed out to accommodate them but there was still a scattering of lean-tos and huts beyond...
  6. Iliris

    Completed What mountains hide

    Iliris raised her hand, to shield her eyes from the freezing wind at least a little, drawing her gaze up the narrow mountain pass. She was still in the familiar surroundings of the Spine, but far more north than her travels would usually bring her. A lot closer to Molthal and Blightlands than...
  7. Cuthwyrd

    Open Chronicles That Which Lurks in the Lake

    The Spine was ancient, perhaps being the very foundation of the world from which all the rest grew. Cuthwyrd didn't know. He wasn't sure that anyone knew. As long as the history went back, the Spine had been there long before the tale started and continued far beyond its end. They were one of...
  8. Asuego 'Susanna'

    Open Chronicles Law of Contagion

    (OOC notice: please do not include a large number of sidekick NPC soldiers. I'm DMing here and there to progress the story, otherwise i'm prepared for any deviation ;D .)(Magic users better stay in incognito mode for their wellbeing for now! ;P And the story is somewhat grim/dark.) Early...
  9. Arumi Shacen

    Open Chronicles Lost In the Open

    It was cold here. Cold, desolate, and lonely. Arumi hated the cold, but he loved the mountains. They felt like home. He sat perched upon a massive wall carved out of the living rock, part of a structure the delved deep into the mountain face and reared out into the spaces between. It had been...
  10. L

    Quest The Ancient Dweller

    ((Mists of Rivendell by Enrico Fossati)) His name was Zeng. And he was a monster. So Lazule chased after him. A beacon of light pursuing the fleeing dark. * * * * * Another small village. Annihilated. Fires burned around her. Pillars of black smoke rising up to the gray clouds above like...
  11. Maranae

    Open Chronicles Canary in the Coal Mine

    Silence. It hung over everything here, a silence so thick it was suffocating, stifling. The fires had not lasted for very long, and the occasional pop of sap in timbers that had been milled and placed was the only sound to break the silence. No birds sang. No flies buzzed. It was as if the...
  12. Luna Griffinsbane

    Completed Growing Pains

    Thunder growled, a low sonorous sound that echoed from the high peaks that pierced the very heavens themselves. Those self-same peaks were shrouded today, of course. A steady rain had fallen since the night before, and the sun was powerless to cut through the dreary, rain laden clouds...
  13. Lyssia D'avore

    Open Chronicles The One They Left Behind

    Thunder growled overhead, a brief flicker of lightning lancing from one cloud to the next preceding it by only moments, casting lurid shadows in the streets and in windows lit by lantern light throughout the city. Mericet sat in a torpid day as the storm rolled out of the mountains toward the...
  14. Luna Griffinsbane

    Private Tales Fire and Brimstone

    Crisp air, sundered by smoke that reeked of something unpleasant, undesired. Unwanted. Nightmares, death and madness all swirling in the clean light of a spring day, while the chill winds blew from peaks even higher above, piercing the heavens themselves, crowned with clouds and blowing snow...
  15. Nicopernicus

    Open Chronicles Ever Forward; There's Always a Price to be Paid

    Tired, dirt smudged feet trudged through the wilderness as night fell. No moon cast light this moment, the darkness enveloping the land like a blanket of snow, the air seemingly as cold. Brisk winds blew across the naked skin as the man continued on in exhaustion, hugging himself as teeth...
  16. Sortinous Bael

    Private Tales Dark Alliance

    The Spine was an immense structure of Espressa, towering over the entire continent with pride unparalleled in all of Arethil. Its peaks pierced the sky like ice-capped spearheads which glinted majestically in the suns rising, setting, and all moments between. Mountainsides slopped down into deep...
  17. E

    Private Tales Part of Their World

    The spires of Azuros were quiet in the pre-dawn hours, the intricate stonework and colored glass seeming frozen to time while waiting for the first rays of orange-purple sunrise to pierce the cloudbank and bring the Avariel city to life. The layout of the city was made with the flight...
  18. Celestia

    Private Tales Among The Stars

    She knew she wasn’t supposed to be here, but she didn’t care. She was pacing back and forth impatiently. She was in the main hall of the headquarters of the Overseers. She knew today they had been assigned on a specific mission about a gruesome battle between the orcs and the dwarves that took...
  19. Hath Charosh

    Quest Against the odds

    WEST OF THE SOUTHERN TIP OF THE SPINE https://i.imgur.com/ep0HAKP.jpgHath tried to breathe slow and deep as the shaman wove the thick thread through his chest. The barbed naga blade had left a ragged wound. It was better than most had come awat with. Gurresh's body was slowly sinking into the...
  20. Lionel Armon

    Private Tales Stranger Roads

    Lionel Armon and his companions followed the road between Belgrath and Molthal. The journey was projected to take a few days over a weak to complete on horseback and they were now on their sixth day on the road. Lionel had heard some sordid stories about Molthal, enough to make him want to...