The walls of Beroh Keep rose against the twilight sky.
Constructed from dark, imposing stone, the keep stood tall and formidable, a mighty presence atop the steepest hill for miles around. Beroh Keep had the aura of a battle-hardened soldier, whose walls no doubt knew countless tales of war...
2024-11-11 18:00:13 +0000 UTC View PostJust when Lar Tathvaal thought he was working out a solution, Redmane went and made things easier for him.
Evidently he had just come into armed conflict with another Faction, the creatively named ‘Defenders of Volos.’
The notification made him drop what he was doing and return to...
2024-11-10 18:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostKamil Velibor, silhouetted against the sun, descended on Redmane at terminal velocity.
Redmane decided he’d rather not be there when he landed.
He leapt backward, and when Velibor impacted on the ground it kicked up a wave of rocks, grass and dirt which pelted Redmane in the face, s...
2024-11-09 18:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostRedmane watched, with a certain satisfaction, as Aerin Morholt and his companions processed the sight before them.
Aerin's grip on the hilt of his sword tightened, his knuckles white. His eyes were wide, pupils dilated as he took in Redmane's presence. The air around him seemed to still, hi...
2024-11-08 18:00:13 +0000 UTC View PostAeric Morholt embarked on his journey to Mount Merkuur with four companions, in the fashion of the Five Heroes of old. He felt it was auspicious. And appropriate, as he recently learned that the Five Heroes themselves made this very same journey a long time ago.
At his left and right rode S...
2024-11-07 18:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostThe hammer came down, and Redmane caught it.
Specifically, he caught the invisible nimbus of force surrounding its head. It smacked down into his palms, and his claws dug into it, as if it were a physical substance. Redmane gritted his teeth as he felt the heat of it searing his hands, maki...
2024-11-06 18:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostAs Redmane walked into the darkness, lights sprang into being all around him.
They were torches on the walls, lit one after another by some spell which sensed his presence in the tomb. They gave off a golden radiance, a stark contrast to the black stone. It illuminated a carved mural on tho...
2024-11-05 18:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostRedmane ate until his Corpus was at a satisfactory level.
Corpus: 9657
He explained his intentions to Vang and the demi-humans, had them remain in the village to clean up any leftover Gill-Men.
And then he was off, to the Abyss.
Submerge...
2024-11-04 18:00:15 +0000 UTC View PostFreydis of the Deep was mighty, to be sure.
But she wasn’t especially bright.
Redmane didn’t know how long this creature had lived, or what had drawn it up to the village of Kenvik from the depths. The Blight, more likely than not. But it had just made the final mistake of its lif...
2024-11-03 18:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostAs with Vang, Redmane made the process quick and painless.
Warlock Dobrogost Slain
Tasks Complete: 3/3
Level Up
Level 86 —> Level 87
Level 87 —> Level 88
Le...
2024-11-02 17:00:15 +0000 UTC View PostHelmold Brecht laid his plans and carried them out, but he failed to account for something.
There was a little bird watching him.
The little bird followed him on the night he smuggled Aric Morholt out of the castle. From a distance the Magister wouldn’t have been able to see, if he ...
2024-11-01 17:00:21 +0000 UTC View PostAs it turned out, only three demi-humans were brave enough to join their leader. Their names were Zorn, Nuk and Throk, and they volunteered for their communion with something like religious fervor in their eyes. All three looked to be stout warriors. They had wiry muscles, scarred bodies and batt...
2024-10-31 17:00:18 +0000 UTC View PostA growing crowd of demi-humans formed around Redmane and Vang.
More and more of them emerged from concealed tunnel entrances up and down the mountainside road. There were so many Redmane raised an eyebrow at them, wondered where they’d all been when their kin were down in the Gruu burrow ...
2024-10-30 17:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostIn what the Numantians called the center of Astral space, a consciousness arose.
It had no name, no identity, no sex. No sense of itself beyond simple self awareness.
‘I am,’ it observed.
And then it observed everything else.
The consciousness dwelt within a vast nexus...
2024-10-29 17:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostThe Gruu Glutton rose to its full imposing height, and the ground beneath Redmane’s feet trembled with the sheer mass of the creature as it stood. Two more arms grew out of its torso, and it raised all four with claws glinting in the sun.
It then began to fill its lungs with air, drawing ...
2024-10-28 17:00:15 +0000 UTC View PostLar Tathvaal watched ‘Häerz Castle’ become ‘Castle Redmane,’ and he grinned from ear to ear.
An ‘anomaly’ indeed.
He’d bet on the right chariot.
No normal Faction could have upgraded their Sanctuary so swiftly. Not even in a Blight this massive. It had been mere ...
2024-10-27 17:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostIn the small hours of the morning, Redmane and Flora lay together in the Lord’s bed. He held one of them close under his arm. Another lay against his other side, dozing. Two stood, one dressing for the kitchen, the other pouring wine from a decanter beside the bed. Two cups, one for Redmane, on...
2024-10-26 17:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostFrom the heights of Rollo’s Pass, it was a surprisingly short flight to Häerz Castle.
The fighting had drained his Gnosis, and lacking any innate way of recovering it he decided the best course would be to make a return trip now, before trying to engage with the next Zone. There wa...
2024-10-25 17:00:14 +0000 UTC View PostMy lord, Pietr called out. Master, can you hear me!
But there were other voices crowding his out. Voices full of malice, smothering Redmane in body and mind.
Your defiance is pathetic, a futile gesture against the inevitable. Surrender to despair!
<... 2024-10-24 17:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostCaptain Solveig bounded forward like a giant ape, and Redmane met him in the center of the bridge.
Huge arms whooshed just over his head, or out to the side, and every time he evaded, Redmane felt how much air those limbs displaced. Being struck by one would likely knock off half his Corpu...
2024-10-23 17:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostRedmane and Fedor ripped into each other, and blood, flesh and fur sprayed all over the inside of the shed.
He couldn’t see it well, but he could tell by the stench that the entire interior of this room was painted with blood.
Redmane felt his heart thundering faster and fas...
2024-10-22 17:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostRedmane took a few deep breaths. And then one long one, inhaling slowly, filling his lungs all the way up with air.
Then he dove back down into the water.
The Abyssal Well had no bottom he could see. Not that he could see anything in water this dark to begin with. It occurred to him a...
2024-10-21 17:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostRedmane sank into nothingness.
He moved his arms as if to swim upward, and his hands indeed felt substance resisting them, as they would if one were truly underwater. But if he were moving, he could not tell. There was no visible surface above, nor bottom below.
After a time he gave u...
2024-10-20 17:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostDirge of the Devourer
Gnosis: 619
Redmane began a chant, in a sonorous voice. He sang a song older than the line of the Stahlmen kings. A song once sung to pacify the beast within, to offer praise to the primordial gods of forgotten antiquity. He didn...
2024-10-19 17:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostHelmold Brecht’s attention went straight to the Pharos when it sounded, hoping it was the Dicentis Lar Tathvaal.
When he saw who it really was, he went pale for a moment.
He straightened himself out before answering, took a deep breath, and answered with a smile.
“My Lord R...
2024-10-18 17:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostBlazh and Vasili charged at Redmane from across the church, smashing aside pews and sending prayer books and votive candle holders hurtling through the air on their way.
Redmane broke out into a sprint, happy to meet them in the middle.
Blazh’s stature gave him a monstrous stride le...
2024-10-17 17:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostRedmane leapt through the doorway after Samo, the wings of the Manticore unfurling behind him.
Too late.
The Keeper of the Well had already jumped from the edge of the stairs. Whether by accident or on purpose he couldn’t know, not that it mattered. But now he fell toward the dark ...
2024-10-16 17:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostFour more monks emerged from rooms adjoining the main chamber, drawn by the sound of Samo’s voice. There were a total of ten then, not including the Keeper of the Well himself.
The monks were all at or around Level 80. Their bodies were huge, and freakishly muscled. Many had re-fas...
2024-10-15 16:32:09 +0000 UTC View PostLar Tathvaal heard a door bang open, and he knew precisely whose door it was.
He hustled down the hallway toward Jarel Craith’s offices, intercepted him when he came around the corner.
Lar smiled. “A moment of your time, Praetor?”
Jarel looked as stressed as was possible ...
2024-10-14 16:42:34 +0000 UTC View PostRedmane quelled a stirring of panic.
He wasn’t truly Level 55. Not anymore. Unlocking the Seal of the Manticore put him on this thing’s level, or so the numbers suggested.
He could fight it.
[First Generation Imbued] Marked as Prey
Blessing of...
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