"You're Alcer, are ya!?"
Again. Why is everyone staking out in front of my house?
By now, Alcer felt like he was back in the jungle, with enemies in waiting all along his hunting paths at all times, in search of a moment of weakness. Every time he thought he was safe, with his home in view, someone would jump him from nowher...
2023-01-24 23:57:55 +0000 UTC View PostHello there.
No new chapter today. Instead, here's some extended excerpts from Medala's new constitution, the one introduced in Chapter 371 - Miracle.
I've been going back and forth on most of this several times, so I'm sorta text blind to it all right now. So there's a good chance that this thing is full of simple mistakes a...
When Alcer left the promenade for the side road that led back to his familiar neighborhood again, he breathed a deep sigh of relief. Finally, he was back home. At once, he felt the pressure in his head and chest ease. However, he was still troubled by the meeting in the ale house.
What to do?
Even after he had spent his enti...
2023-01-22 10:56:56 +0000 UTC View PostAs Kyunya's story continued, the atmosphere around the table became heavier and heavier. Just in time, the flippant blacksmith chimed in again.
"Well, we handled the war just fine in the end, even without you," he joked.
"Wait, you were in the army as well, Mallku?" a surprised Alcer asked. Before, when he had been introduced as a wa...
2023-01-21 00:30:46 +0000 UTC View PostInside the 'Tipsy Tradesmen', Alcer was shocked by Mallku's sudden invitation towards the man in the corner.
Wait, the drunkard?
Before Alcer could rue his decision, the aforementioned drunkard, who had been slumped in the corner of the ale house up until now, had already stood up and staggered up to his and Mallku's table.<...
2023-01-21 00:29:51 +0000 UTC View Post"Killari! How good to see you!" Alcer shouted, happy to meet his friend again after more than half a year.
Back in the day, the two of them had been comrades, who had fought together during the war against the central kingdom. However, ever since Killari had his leg injured in the war, he had been forced to retire from the army. As a resul...
2023-01-18 23:02:31 +0000 UTC View PostThe sharp smell of gunpowder covered his nose, like a snowy blanket over his surroundings. A constant, steady noise filled his ears, like endless waves made by humans and machines. The brown mud of the trenches and the light gray of the insurmountable walls in the distance drew in his eyes, like an inescapable whirlpool. His entire being was env...
2023-01-17 23:15:26 +0000 UTC View PostAs the budgetary meeting continued, Corco got increasingly upset by their weak financial situation. Why had he spent so many years improving his country's income when they still ran out as soon as he wanted to spend a little. Annoyed, he questioned Brym. Surely, his money-hungry ward was exaggerating their problems.
"I don't see how we ha...
Inside Rapra Castle, the year-end summary of the southern kingdom's government continued. Once Fadelio had organized his thoughts, Brym was given the floor once again, to continue his account of the accounts.
"As previously stated, crop yields are up by 7%, mostly due to an increase in the total area of farmland. For the next year, we can ...
2023-01-15 22:35:53 +0000 UTC View PostA familiar pillow pressed against Corco's back. At last, the King of the South could sink back into his familiar seat, with the familiar desk of his familiar study in front of him. As far as he was concerned, he would have loved to just close his eyes and enjoy the long-lost sensation in quiet for a bit. However, there was no time to lose. As al...
2023-01-12 01:41:37 +0000 UTC View PostAs Corco's wife stared back at him through her own mirror across the room, with her enticing eyes, Corco felt impulsive again. Though just as he turned around to continue their previous activities, Sumaci seemed to notice his plans and tried to change the topic.
"Right, let's go over the itinerary one more time, in case you forget," she sa...
2023-01-10 00:11:19 +0000 UTC View PostUnlike other rituals for the dead from around the world, Medala's Funerary Rites were not only about dealing with loss, or about remembrance. Rather than treating the dead like they were lost, Medala's funerals treated them like warriors going into battle. After all, their beliefs told them that the dead would make a long, arduous journey throug...
2023-01-10 00:07:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello, hermit here.
Here's the updated political map for the epilogue of book 6.
I may have to zoom the map out in the next iteration, since more and more outside forces are getting involved, though for now, this one still seems sufficient.
Colors are the same as before:
Light blue are areas directly controlled by C...
2023-01-06 03:05:38 +0000 UTC View PostWith the signature of the Antila Agreement, ripples of peace spread throughout Medala.
After half a year of unrest, Sachay was the first to escape the clutches of war. Once Antila was taken and the Arcavians had surrendered, the King of the South continued to travel to the estates of each rebellious lord to force the old families of Sachay...
2023-01-06 02:57:52 +0000 UTC View PostOn the Forty-Seventh Day of Spring, in the sixth year of the Era of Strife, the civil war within the Southern Kingdom of Medala ended with the signing of the Peace of Antila.
In the final peace agreement, the two arcavian kingdoms of Cahlia and Borna gave up control over Port Ulta, their only possession on medalan territory. A...
2022-12-31 15:48:39 +0000 UTC View PostHey there, Hermit here.
After a lot of e
2022-12-30 10:09:36 +0000 UTC View PostThe medical tent at the back of the southern army's main camp smelled of sweat and blood. Row upon row, soldiers lay on their straw mats and silently told of the war that had just come to an end. Among them lay two whose status was quite unusual, though they also couldn't have been more different.
One was a former scout, whose exploits wou...
2022-12-30 09:57:29 +0000 UTC View PostAfter a long march through Antila, Corco and his two subordinates finally arrived at the goal of their journey.
In comparison to Antila's ruins in the outer city, Lord Sucopia's luxurious manor looked like it had just been renovated. Although there were some traces of combat left from the previous day, they were very all rather minor.
<... 2022-12-28 23:01:33 +0000 UTC View PostA day after the charge that broke Anitla, the fires in and around the city had finally died down. By now, the former battlefield was largely pacified, and safe enough for the king to inspect his new holdings, with protection of course.
Thus, Corco — together with Fadelio and General Scolo, and surrounded by a hundred guards — finally c...
2022-12-26 01:15:22 +0000 UTC View PostHello, and happy holidays.
Hermit Here.
Here's a special treat for christmas, or whatever you happen to celebrate this time of year. I've been working on Book0 for a while, and I think I can finally show a bit of it on here.
The following excerpt picks up after the current Chapter 5 - Their Respective Plans.
Compare...
2022-12-24 03:14:48 +0000 UTC View Post
Heyho, here's some image to better visualize what's happening in chapter 411. Hope that's useful. There's also gonna be a new map on the new borders soon-ish, once the epilogue for book 6 is done.
Oh, and I may as well use this post for some minor updates:
1. rewrite of Book 0 is going okay, I may post a couple of new chapters ...
2022-12-22 01:19:08 +0000 UTC View PostFinally, it was time for Herak to enjoy his revenge. However, when he pulled on the axe to retrieve it from the recently slain soldier, he could feel the weapon brush against bone. The axe was stuck. He had never liked using axes, and this was the reason.
Time is of the essence.
Rather than try for the axe again, he instead ...
2022-12-17 02:05:35 +0000 UTC View PostHerak was falling towards his certain death. Even if he could somehow survive the spike pit below, he would surely be dealt with by the soldiers waiting for him beyond the spikes. Yet only for the smallest fraction of a second, Herak resigned to his fate.
Not here!
He would be damned if he gave up like this! He hadn't come t...
2022-12-17 02:00:24 +0000 UTC View Post"Charge!" At the same time as Herak's command sounded across the battlefield, he himself stopped and pulled out his bow again. While the four hundred native warriors charged ahead towards the camp, his own knights formed around Herak. At the same time, twenty of his knights began to ignite torches, just how they had previously been instructed. 2022-12-16 04:10:08 +0000 UTC View Post
Three days had already passed since the collapse of Antila's outer walls. By now, Saniya's troops had taken full control over every portion of the newly built star fortress that surrounded the old city walls. Atop these outer walls, they had already built reinforced positions, which they had even managed to defend over night. From within th...
2022-12-15 03:03:16 +0000 UTC View PostThe earth itself trembled and threw every single man on the battlefield to the ground. When they rose to their feet, they saw a plume of muddy dirt rise in the air, together with an eardrum-shattering boom. The primitive and violent fireworks signaled, in essence, the end of the southern kingdom's civil war.
Once the fireworks had died dow...
2022-12-12 03:20:14 +0000 UTC View PostAs if a giant hand was sweeping through the tunnel, Chalco was pulled off his feet and fell backwards. He heard a boom, and then only ringing in his ears.
When he looked back up, he saw that his men were lying on the floor as well, their life or death unknown. Chalco wanted to run back and save them immediately, but just as he tried to get...
2022-12-10 02:09:33 +0000 UTC View PostAs if he was stuck in a bog, Chalco was felt like he was slowly drowning in his desperation. At first, he had thought that his task would be easy enough: Just collapse the tunnel their enemies were trying to dig. The day they had succeeded in destroying the first tunnel, he had celebrated for the first time since the start of the war.
Alth...
2022-12-10 02:08:19 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey, hermit's here.
Here's some images that should make visualizing the siege in the most recent chapters a bit easier. As I was making these, I realized that I can't actually post the most useful one yet, since the relevant chapter hasn't been written yet, so I will update this post with a fourth, more useful, image once that become...
2022-12-08 01:40:40 +0000 UTC View PostDrip------Bang----Drip---------Aaah!------Boom-----Crash
-------Charge!-------Grrr-------Boom-------Drip---Nooo!---
---Splash---Aaah!-----Drip----Bang-----Hold!------Woof-
Did I hear a dog?
No that couldn't be right. Making out any sounds within this mess was impossible. A vile cacophony of noise was a...
2022-12-05 02:19:34 +0000 UTC View Post