“My mom would always say that no one is evil. That all the pain and heartbreak in this world was because a few unfortunate people were never able to get the help they needed. She believed, deep down within, that there was good in everyone: e...
2024-09-25 14:03:17 +0000 UTC View Post“Do not mourn me, my beloved. I… for so long I had been broken: drifting without purpose in this cold, miserable expanse. I suffered endlessly, beset with a gnawing emptiness that saw no escape, but then I met you. And this accursed gift c...
2024-09-22 19:39:14 +0000 UTC View Post“I had always wondered how my life would come to an end. Would it be sudden - my time finally run its course - or would it be a slow, drawn out death in an experiment gone wrong? I have never been much of a fighter, yet here I am: struck dow...
2024-09-21 00:43:23 +0000 UTC View Post“I am becoming too fond of Ascalon. Ever since that moonlit night together, I find myself shying away from his gaze. It is gentle and warm and… confusing. I once thought him to be just like that lonesome Star, but now I am not so sure. The...
2024-09-18 03:29:29 +0000 UTC View Post“You might find this odd, Lorelai, but… I have always felt somewhat passive. I suppose it is more accurate to say that I do not really have any interest in leisure. I do not care for gold or wealth; I have neither hobby nor passion that I ...
2024-09-15 00:57:11 +0000 UTC View Post“It was upon the following year of my coronation that I began to wonder… what does ‘invulnerability’ truly mean? There were very little records of Kings and Queens in the past ever requiring the full invocation of the Monarch’s Wings...
2024-09-13 07:58:00 +0000 UTC View Post“The study of Creation is endless, and while I am a staunch advocate for the teaching of all knowledge - even the more… shall we say controversial subjects - there are some pursuits far too heinous to risk being spread throughout this worl...
2024-09-10 06:08:20 +0000 UTC View Post“To think I would be forced to expel my stockpile of vapor… curse that Sarathiel. My tankard runs dry. It will not be long until it is fully empty, and then time will rewind. Back to that day. Back to the fate I so desperately cheated. 2024-09-08 16:47:51 +0000 UTC View Post
“All children are born equal: That is the motto of the Moral Educational Reform of Institutionalized Tutelage, or the Merit Act for short. It is by far the most sophisticated and influential change writ by the Grand General, for the Merit Ac...
2024-09-04 05:01:35 +0000 UTC View Post“Humans are social creatures; this has not changed since the very beginning of our existence, and it is why we so often seek solace in the companionship of another. We congregate around those of similar beliefs, forge trusting relationships,...
2024-08-30 22:05:11 +0000 UTC View Post“In truth, I do not understand myself why I dislike Sarathiel. Unlike Dismas, I suffered no familial losses save for some far-removed cousins. I had never interacted with him before all too often either, for he was a direct descendant. And w...
2024-08-27 07:11:57 +0000 UTC View Post“There is one truth that all scholars of Cosmos herald as certain: Creation is alive. Though we may not see its form, the divinity is always with us. It reacts to our impulses: feels joy when one is happy and sorrow when one is sad. 2024-08-24 06:36:42 +0000 UTC View Post
“Ever since their antiquity, the Powers had been the most prideful and haughty of the Seven Orders. Sir Kay was a boisterous man, one whose ardent passion surpassed even the other Round Table Knights, and it was this very nature that spread ...
2024-08-20 21:50:48 +0000 UTC View Post“Sarathiel confided in me his trauma, desperately hoping for some manner of salvation or reprieve. And I wished so dearly to give it to him, but… I failed. There were no words I could say: no manner of comfort that could mask the horror wr...
2024-08-16 08:53:59 +0000 UTC View Post“The Powers were a prideful bunch, and I was no exception. Since birth, I had been hailed for my large stature and strength—raised to become a knight with no equal. I was a pure, unsullied noble-born, a man of the direct lineage, and so ev...
2024-08-13 05:04:17 +0000 UTC View Post“They carved out my eyes. They tore every last one of my fingernails. And when I could scream no more, beg no more for mercy, they stuffed my butchered body into a sack and then tossed me out with the rest of the garbage. There I laid, a few...
2024-08-06 23:17:28 +0000 UTC View Post“Heh, gettin’ tired are ya, Sarathiel? Don’t tell me a big oaf like you can’t handle o’ bit of heat! Though, I guess the desert is a little… hot. Very hot. Ah, well, all the more reason we should ‘urry up and gut this Caelum snak...
2024-08-02 07:10:29 +0000 UTC View Post“Curiously, despite how Polus legends allude it so, the Celestial Zweihander Mattatron does not grant its wielder invulnerability. I had the fortune one fine day to have a ‘heart-to-heart’ talk with the late King, Dainsleif, and he was e...
2024-07-29 20:34:46 +0000 UTC View Post“To serve as amongst the Grand General’s inner retinue requires one to be ever on guard, for there are no shortages of those who wish to sow chaos in our fair empire. I cannot fault them; it is simply the nature of filthy, scum-sucking rep...
2024-07-26 04:46:34 +0000 UTC View Post“Nokron… that man was not always so mad. Far from it, his passionate love for the science of transmutation was once a time respectable. Such was the reason I granted him the position of Alchemist Regent, and that title was not his sole res...
2024-07-24 02:20:39 +0000 UTC View Post“Once upon a time, in a far away forest, there lived a great and mighty Boar. The Boar was a proud, confident beast, for they had a snout that could sniff out any predator, powerful stumpy legs to deliver a devastating kick, and a thick skin...
2024-07-19 06:20:47 +0000 UTC View Post“I’ve never understood why Xeros chooses such insane people to be his commanders. Gravitas is a crude battle-junky: Velcroz is a twisted deviant; Libevich is completely, utterly, terrifying… but Nokron? Even out of them all, he’s a dis...
2024-07-16 09:31:15 +0000 UTC View Post“Years ago, when Sarathiel was still Templar of the Powers, he was sent to the desert region under orders to intercept the then acting Caelum Commander: Rosengarten Velcroz. We had but only two Thrones at the time—Lorelai and Annalay, both...
2024-07-11 04:54:35 +0000 UTC View Post“Xeros, just how far must you go? It pains me to see you like this, so filled with hatred, when I know a glimmer of that righteous young man of the past still dwells within you. Your dream is something wonderful, but this is not the answer. ...
2024-07-11 04:53:46 +0000 UTC View Post“Hate. Every damned second I spend awake in the presence of that despicable, vile man fills me with such unceasing hate. It is all I think about, all I feel, all I must carve deep into my wretched beating heart, for I can never forget this r...
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