Heed me now, my children. I am going to ask you all the only question that will ever matter.
Who holds the sword?
-Wei Tong Tian, The Dawnfather
1
The Fracture
A dungeon was really quite a boring place once one ran out of demons to kill. Su...
2024-02-13 19:56:06 +0000 UTC View PostGreetings,
As the Hidden Empire volume of Godclads begins, we will be expanding the cast, crew, and way the story is told. Avo's point of view will be kept, but as he increasingly a memetic plague rather than a person, we're going to start getting "third-second point of views" as he mantles...
2024-02-10 19:56:26 +0000 UTC View Post{THE GHOUL DID WHAT?}
-EGI “Kant Was A Prick”
22-18
Awakening
RESURRECTION - 100%
The wind rose of its own accord.
The heads of the Fardrifter whistled out from Avo as he returned to reality. Coiling free, they passed through the c...
2024-02-10 19:37:51 +0000 UTC View PostDo you know what it took to set the foundations for the Guilds to be born? The amount of dissent Jaus had to sow? The machinations he never mentioned?
Let me tell you something about forming an empire: It's easiest born from the corpse of a preceding order. Harvested legacy, in...
2024-02-08 19:43:40 +0000 UTC View Post+This is Elder Mwaba D’Rongo.
I have something for you. Receive it in my stead. It will make our clan strong; and protect us from our enemies.
Within. And… without.
You will know what they are. You will understand what I have done. I ask that y...
2024-02-07 16:19:00 +0000 UTC View PostListen, let’s not bullshit ourselves here: there are only a few situations in which we mask the egos of our finest Glaives and hide them up in the Purgatories.
And of all those reasons, it’s almost never because Highflame has their number, or a No-Dragon flesh-coded smart p...
2024-02-05 18:30:54 +0000 UTC View PostThey call them sanctuaries? Better term is processing plant. If you see what the Guilds are playing at here you’ll know what they’re saying is all godsdamned bullshit.
Voidwatch tries to help, but they’re crippled here. Omnitech’s keeping their eyes limited, and the mac...
2024-02-04 17:01:23 +0000 UTC View Post“Take everything! USE EVERYTHING! FIND HIM! FIND THE BASTARD WHO DEFILED OUR SANCTITY! THE DEVOURER OF PEACE! THE BURNING DREAMER! FIND THE THIEF OF OUR TREASURES! EXTINGUISH HIS FLAME! ALL THAT IT TAKES! WHATEVER IT TAKES! WE UNBIND YOU FROM YOUR RESTRICTIONS! WE UNCHAIN YOU FROM MERE SERVITUD...
2024-02-02 19:05:35 +0000 UTC View PostYou can despise the faithful. You can hate them. You can hurt them. You can hunt them.
But if you hunt them, it's important that you never underestimate them. They have ruled the world for most of history, after all, and this was no accident.
In faith there is a ...
2024-02-01 17:51:43 +0000 UTC View PostWe’re gonna be tested in this life, Cas. You know this. You know that we have a burden. A responsibility. A crusade. You how hard the struggle is. Know that it was going to cost us. Has cost us.
I know… that it’s hard to have faith sometimes. Especially after what they di...
2024-01-31 12:02:07 +0000 UTC View Post1. State of Godclads
Hey, everyone. Hope you're having as good a time reading the story as I ma writing it. Right now, we're about the halfway mark in the story. As you might see, things are entering a more strategic scope and the conflict is getting increasingly complicated.
Guild po...
2024-01-29 18:46:20 +0000 UTC View PostBREACH-LEAD-1: +Aero down. Crashed in the courtyard of megablock designation: Tower-2. Permission to converge and secure package.+
JOCK-3: +Jock-3 to the Breacher-1, we have satellite reign over airspace. Scrambling bombers to...
2024-01-29 18:39:20 +0000 UTC View PostSeeding a dragon takes more than just thaumaturgy. The ability to manipulate the chronological matter of the beasts is important, yes, but also understanding what makes their seeds bear fruit.
Culture: this is the water of their nourishment. Zeitgeist: what makes them grow. Mom...
2024-01-28 19:04:34 +0000 UTC View PostMono-god cultures are a rarity on Idheim. Not a surprise considering most gods are spawned from Souls, and a rising civilization usually has a hell of a lot more than one powering their miracles.
Sure, we can talk about [REDACTED] or ...
2024-01-26 18:20:26 +0000 UTC View PostWhy are there so few Gods of Time, you ask? Hm. A commonly asked question. What is the first thing you might do with time?
Many answers come with this question, but what unites them is change. People wish to change the nature of time. In relation to themselves. In relation to s...
2024-01-25 13:03:23 +0000 UTC View Post+Hey, hey, New Vultun. Do you have a migraine? I sure do. How did everyone enjoy this year’s annual Low Master mind-fucking? At least that’s who I’m guessing is behind this. Either that or Ori-Thaum tripped over the “Nether” cord again.
Anyway. If the threat of anothe...
2024-01-24 12:14:03 +0000 UTC View PostCONFIDENTIALCONFIDENTIALCONFIDENTIAL
SYNCHRONIZING MEM-CODES…
100%
CLEARANCE GRANTED TO FATE-SKEIN: [SAMIR NAEKO]
Report No.: CATZENITH-002-CELEDON
...
2024-01-22 19:00:12 +0000 UTC View Post[Operational Damage Report for Critical Sovereignties in the Spine]
1. Kainhal
Death Toll: Estimated 23 Million
Casualties: Over 120 Million
Damage: Decimation of all major Syndicates; operational members, active enf...
2024-01-21 18:46:04 +0000 UTC View PostOsjane Thousand: Naeko. What do you want? The fires have settled. Nothing remains of our foes but ash and ruins. The slaves are unchained. The pantheons they fed are but fragments we bear within us. Our victory is total. More and more of our brethren are arriving fro...
2024-01-20 19:31:13 +0000 UTC View Post[EGI] “Kant Was A Prick”: What a mess. Calvino? Can you talk him down? Because we still need Thousandhand. As much as her death might–
[EGI] “Loch-Ness Bomber” has entered THRESHOLD-Node-Zeroth
[EGI] ...
2024-01-19 07:55:34 +0000 UTC View PostWe call it the Heart of Noloth.
Don’t worry. We have it well-trained. We had the faith culture this one into being a particularly stupid god. The sacrifices are made to believe that it is more beast than person–the shaping made easier by the fact of its arrival.
...
2024-01-17 19:05:11 +0000 UTC View PostAkusande. Will cut in my stead, in exchange for your life?
…Yes.
Will you serve my will in death, as you would in life?
…Yes.
Will you defy time itself to ensure my fall be undone, my return be s...
2024-01-16 18:17:35 +0000 UTC View PostAnd Veylis, remember this always: if something can be taken from you, it was never truly yours.
-Zein Thousandhand
21-14
The Disagreement (II)
They stood as pillars amidst the chaos, the misted torrents that once made up totality grasping vainly at their forms. Th...
2024-01-15 12:08:29 +0000 UTC View PostVeylis Avandaer: Why?
Jaus Avandaer: Veylis, listen–
Veylis Avandaer: No. Do not use your rhetoric on me. I am your daughter, not your enemy. Tell me why. Only why. Tell me why you se...
2024-01-13 18:10:29 +0000 UTC View PostFate is a fickle thing.
Even in years of yore, the gods of destiny and the weavers of preordination were not omnipotent. Such is the great weakness of all Heavens, after all, for the conceptualization of all-knowingness remains beyond even the genius of the minds.
Veylis Avandaer: Father.
Jaus Avandaer: Veylis? Is there something you need?
Veylis Avandaer: I wish to speak to you about our undertaking. The “safeguards” we are building into the...
2024-01-10 17:53:45 +0000 UTC View PostThere have been gods of knowledge, gods of wisdom, gods of intellect, gods of creation, gods of innovation, gods of technology, but an overarching god of thoughts, of minds, of memory? Those are few and far between, and their faithful are usually killed before they can ascend from their cradl...
2024-01-09 17:58:41 +0000 UTC View Post“Impossible. I am the Sword of Swords. I am the Sword of Swords! I am the–”
-Last words of Huen-Vai, God of War, Sword of Swords, shattered by the once-mortal Zein Thousandhand in single combat
21-9
The Godslayer
Zein strode.
Calamity ...
2024-01-08 17:58:10 +0000 UTC View PostNaeko… Naeko…
Ah. Yes, yes, scream in pain. You’ve earned that. But scream while listening! I have something important to say.
To you as well, Veylis!
It is not enough to perform perfection.
Indeed, I have known many a talented...
2024-01-07 17:32:19 +0000 UTC View Post+It was a miracle–+
+The palm! Did you see it?+
+We should have died. My aero hit that building at over 200 miles an hour…+
+He pulled the flechettes out of me. They were just… gone.+
+He stopped the flames from burning my children. He stopped...
2024-01-06 14:51:39 +0000 UTC View Post