Days later, Arlak got to his feet.
His wounds had healed. He closed his eyes.
The second step and a new dream schematic—turns out all I needed was a good fight.
And the village was getting more people for the Festival of Sparks.
And with the ever-growing numbers came trouble—and that of the severest kinds.
Arlak...
2025-09-18 20:32:01 +0000 UTC View PostTell me what happened.
Arlak and Mirard stood in his office and proceeded to relay what had happened.
They added why they had chosen to do the things they did.
“So it ran when it saw you.”
The two boys nodded.
“The lone ones are rabid; they don’t retreat… There is a pack nearby.”
“Uhh.”
...
2025-09-12 18:28:32 +0000 UTC View PostMetalweaving:
The central magical art of shaping personal soul-metal into tools, weapons, armor, and constructs.
Rules:
- Every person is born with around 10 -pound core of soul-bound metal.
&n...
2025-08-26 20:38:27 +0000 UTC View PostAs the nobles feasted, the hunters and soldiers did the same, at least in their own way.
The night was like any other, besides the many carriages that were stationed around the baron’s small castle. The Ashfield side was filled with encampments of hunters, where the fighting men and women who held the line against the tides of tailed goblin...
Tulrun grinned at the two fighters in the arena.
He was angry and furious at both his master and the half-blood boy to whom he had given his sword. The sword was one of seven, and from the rumors, it had the power to kill dragons—something most people did not believe. Letting a half-blood touch Scarlet’s Brand was just wrong, and unfai...
2025-08-25 19:58:59 +0000 UTC View PostMarcus watched as the hall was cleared. The tables in the center were pushed to the side, and before he knew it there was enough space for a spar to take place.
“What were you thinking? You already have a grimoire; we do not need this one.”
“More grimoires mean more power for us.”
“It doesn’t matter. If Arlath wants...
2025-08-25 19:52:29 +0000 UTC View PostAs they prepared, Marcus had given the wands to the different members of his house. He did not hesitate to tell them what the different rings did, and they were quick to trust him and thank him.
And Clara.
Clara was both excited and anxious for the event after the rider had personally delivered the letter to their compound. Arlath h...
2025-08-25 19:39:32 +0000 UTC View PostNo matter how you looked at it, the broken manor was a broken manor.
The building had eleven rooms—or it would have, had they had the time to clean up and repair half of them.
The manor had an attic large enough for Marcus to do all his work in.
Below that was the first floor, which they had gotten Gael and the other filthy...
2025-08-25 19:37:02 +0000 UTC View PostSometimes it took months to get to know people, other times it took less time.
There was no more evidence, and the search had to be stalled.
Arlak was not on the village watch the next day—he was to be training at the barracks with two other squires.
He was asleep when he heard the croaking sound.
It sounded...
2025-08-23 19:43:25 +0000 UTC View Post“You almost left us to die.”
“Well, I thought we would never win.”
Orlan and his seven, and Gael and his five, stood far in the distance of the compound after they had returned from their patrols of the surrounding buildings—if you could call them that.
“Well, I almost died,” he said, before he was interrupted. 2025-08-06 16:43:56 +0000 UTC View Post
First, they sent the diplomats with their sweet words to offer up any demands they may have, and concessions they may be willing to give, he thought as he looked down at the crowd of nobles in his courtyard.
The courtyard was small and filled with sand at the center. He loved that very much—it matched the tone of the matches to continue....
2025-08-06 16:35:39 +0000 UTC View PostPenrin was an enchanter by all rights. He was good enough to make a living in Fordgehold, where the city is for crafters and competition with rival enchanters is high. Not to say that anything about the enchanters who study in the magical school…
His innate magic, [Arcane Claws], was not restricted as long as he used it to carve...
2025-08-06 16:22:50 +0000 UTC View PostMercer is an Argus Corp employee with Level 10 Avatar, his job is simple as a data-carrier, his cyber space Avatar is just high enough to deliver encrypted payloads through the Net without dying, but low enough that his name doesn’t show up on anyone’s threat board. It’s honest work. Mostly. He doesn’t shoot things, he doesn’t hack int...
2025-07-19 19:17:51 +0000 UTC View PostIf he thought life in a barracks far away would be simple, the old knight just had to think of his first day.
When he met him for the first time.
In the squire's barracks, Arlak Malen slept, dreaming and at peace with Morphius, when he heard it. A bell, ringing like many other times. He had transferred from the capital to barracks wh...
2025-07-09 14:33:20 +0000 UTC View Post"Soul forms meant nothing; they held no true power in the battles of men. This was true—unless the blade knew who had forged it, who had kissed it, and who was meant to wield it."
He was sleeping, dreaming and at peace with Morphius.
He heard it then. A bell, ringing like many other times.
He jumped out of his bed.
...
2025-07-01 23:06:18 +0000 UTC View PostAfter the test of strength, Clara had hugged him, and they had left the temple with the Chater of their House—a document detailing their granted rights, land, or privileges, along with the agreement defining the duties of vassal and House lord.
Unbeknownst to them, two figures followed them out of the Church.
The streets w...
2025-06-30 21:48:50 +0000 UTC View PostSpeaking of the seven sacred swords said to be wielded by the first guardians:
Vedran, after his escape from the prison, had been looking for one of the sacred blades.
It had taken him but an hour to reach the King’s City of Lona and make his way to the Aasimar Royal Palace. He had spoken with the king, asking for the Sacred Blade ...
2025-06-30 21:37:51 +0000 UTC View PostThe courtyard outside the castle was filled with about less than twenty of the Baron’s personal guardsmen, mostly human and Goliaths—no Aasimar. The Aasimar often thought:
“Look at them all… they aren’t as strong as warriors. I could probably take them on with one hand,” Tulrun said.
“Well, if he’s hiding among them, ...
2025-06-30 21:29:38 +0000 UTC View PostThey say when metal bends, so does fate.
In the border barracks seven recruits train to survive a world shaped by soul-metal—an essence born with you, refined by hardship, and lost only in death.
Among them is a boy who dreams of flying. In his sleep, he sees wings. And he hears the h...
2025-06-29 18:50:39 +0000 UTC View PostElric is a young guard stationed alone on a misty mountain trail. He’s supposed to stop anything that moves. Something moves.
⸻
Elric hated the fog.
It clung to everything—skin, armor, breath. Like the mountain wanted to chew you up and spit you back out as mis...
2025-05-23 20:46:00 +0000 UTC View PostAs soon as Marcus realized that it was no man but a creature, a monster that devoured human flesh, he stepped back and tried to warn Ismay by his side, trying not to alert the creature and failing to do so.
As soon as the creature's eyes shifted to look at him and realized that it had been seen, it moved like a predator that did not want i...
2025-05-20 03:14:07 +0000 UTC View PostThe spells were interesting, and after getting a feel for them a few hours ago, Marcus had focused on his enchanting. He worked with even more layers to put together spell forms he thought would work as enchantments. The problem he came across was that he needed more enchantments to work with—some different variations that were not from the gr...
2025-05-14 20:21:11 +0000 UTC View Post—
Alone in what was his room, where Clara and the others had left him to study this world, Marcus pulled out the Serpent Leather Grimoire that, until days ago, had belonged to one large Goliath. The book was filled with pages that clearly did not belong. Pages were stitched together to add new spells. On the outside, it looked like a nor...
2025-05-14 11:14:47 +0000 UTC View Post## First Wall (Peak Citadel)
1. **Egoron**
- Type: Fortress / Church
- Rulers: Unknown
- Feature: Floating above the clouds
- Special: Source of the river originates here
- Size: Small
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## Second Wall
1. **Zlork**
- Type: Large city
- ...
2025-05-07 12:55:32 +0000 UTC View Post———
A few days later, after that evening, the reaction on the streets was different, especially among the young men and women who often roamed the muddy streets. This could be seen by the lack of their dirty faces in the alleyways, under bridges, or fishing for junk in the dirty streams of Srok.
It was often that when someone ...
2025-05-07 04:40:28 +0000 UTC View PostBridged to the Third and Second wall, Mountain Peak City of Dragons Landing, Landing port.
...
The wyvern stables were not always so loud at this time of day. The only reason the wyverns would be so excited, chirping and roaring, was because of the return of the riders.
Lady Vemm Ann Vardaro, Duchess to the Archduke Desmond Dei...
2025-05-05 06:17:06 +0000 UTC View Post
