vel anir

After two days he woke up, just as she had expected. He began to stir and she had stopped to find suitable cover for them. Despite having two days to prepare for this moment, Everleigh was still as much at a lost for words as she had been when she had left the Academy in the middle of the night...

Her feet carried her to the infirmary as if there was no other path for her to take. Everleigh was briskly marching through the halls, every footfall seeming to slam against the wooden floor with such vigor that one would have though the purple proctor to be much larger than she truly was. Her...

The day was like any other: the sun rose and the world asked nothing of its inhabitants. The initiation of a promise couldn’t be felt in the air that was the same as it was yesterday. Everleigh awoke at the same time she usually did, or rather she got up and moved around at the same time she...

The small boat from Vel Luin was one of the few that ever went to one of the archipelagos from the Cortosi Coast and sailed South along the shore of the Falwood. The Captain was from Asturias, the same island that couldn't boast more than two hundred inhabitants, and he had made his living from...

A letter filled with errors is handed to Proctor Evangeline D’Amour as she is in her office one day. Worse yet, the handwriting is atrocious. The courier gives it to the Pirian Proctor with a disgruntled look of annoyance. “Here. Take it.” He was quickly rushing out of the office as if the...

(Credit: Best Wallpaper) The bright blue sky, the radiant sunshine, the tropical shores of the Baal-Asha River's eastern delta all served to belie the harrowing situation before the Initiates. "Listen, she's gone," said Flavien. "Only if we leave her!" Kristen protested. An unlikely ally...

Iscandor walked down a busy street as he felt the sun continuing its trip downward and out of sight. It was dusk at this point, and the orange skies were pretty enough to warrant a painting. Humming a little tune as he walked along, he would spy a small tavern nestled between other buildings of...

(Following the events of "Dance for all that we've been through") The one thing the Academy wasn't known for: peace. Another thing the Academy wasn't known for: celebratory occasions that proceeded without some woeful catastrophe (or several) occurring. This Dance tonight was not given any...

Under a bright blue sky, under the gentle shine of the afternoon sun, atop the crest of a bald hill whereupon the road gave way to a clearing of swaying grass, the duel found them. Kristen Pirian was by now well accustomed to long stretches of travel. She rode easily astride her horse, and the...

The early light of dawn revealed the mutilated and naked body of Caeso Diemut hanging from atop the gates leading to Vel Anir city's Elven Quarter. By the time the sun rose to peek over city's walls and rooftops, word had spread like wildfire; all Vel Anir was incensed in one manner or another...

After months upon months in having lunch duty, Everleigh Ebersol was given a week of reprieve from watching the initiates. After this week she would resume the role of monitoring all the children, specifically the younger ones, and would be missing lunch herself. Not that that bothered her, she...

Money? Easy to get. Just steal it. Or loot from dead body. And money made simple transactions more convenient. Vast majority of merchants were not like Douglass Mueller. All he had to do was sell her his chameleon. He didn't. So she took it. But that was neither here nor there. What was here...

Hosten's was less your average smithy and more a place of artistry, if one considered armors to be works of art. And with the backing of the renowned blacksmith and entrepreneur James Hosten himself, it was hard not to. Other blacksmiths throughout Vel Anir could pump out gambesons, chain mail...

To the Lady Jiya Luana Our days together as girls at Court seem forever long ago, and I hope that your years have been gentler than the rumors of the Court vines lead me to believe. My deepest condolences to you and yours for the losses of family and friends during and following the revolution...

Caeso Diemut slowly came to cognizance and gained awareness of his surroundings. Standing affixed was he to an X-shaped rack, his wrists bound above his head and his arms tingling with numbness. His ankles were bound to the bottom of the rack as well. His mind was clouded still with a kind of...

Cortosi Coast Sirl Seaside Estate This journey would have been laboriously long and lonely if not for prudent planning and a bit of luck. Nearly a week spent traveling by sea had gone by like a breezy day on the shore - with remarkable weather, wonderful company, and all too quickly. Elspeth...

Initiate Kristen Pirian would soon have before her the test which would determine whether or not she would even be eligible to graduate this year. Her guiding Proctor, Proctor Andre Magomo, stressed mightily that physical training was the most important thing for an Initiate to work on. In his...

“I know little about corrupted magic,” Everleigh protested. It was true however, and whatever she did know about one’s magic manifesting in negative ways was sparse compared to what the other proctors must have known. She had never even seen a book detailing corrupted magic, other than it almost...

The Ruins of Vel Janix It was a wasteland. There was no kinder way to describe what had become of Vel Janix. Not a single structure of the once thriving city remained. Not a single living thing walked what had once been its busy streets. Wood and stone blackened by fire, flattened by the hoard...

Deliv - The Cracked Galleon "It just seems like in a lot of these missions I'm the one that takes a beating." Edric protested as Duncan gently slapped him in the face, the odd tunic he was wearing shifting as he recoiled from the other Rogue Dreadlord. "That's because you are." Duncan replied...