Given that Primals don’t have biology, and reproduce through either budding off new, semi-cloned versions of themselves or by being generated outright by an essence heart, why do so many of them have distinct genders? Well, as far as we can tell, humans are mostly to blame. Evidence from the Po...
2025-12-05 13:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostSponsorships are something of considerable debate when it comes to the Tamer’s Consortium. While corporate sponsorships aren’t too much of an issue, older tamers sponsoring younger ones with money, materials, and mentorship has a small but tangible benefit, especially in the beginning stages,...
2025-12-04 13:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostNaturally, I was immediately tempted to go into Dusk’s realm and look over the paper that had been passed to me, but that was simply untenable for now. The Storm King had eyes everywhere, and even if he hadn’t been watching, and if the privacy technique and near-instant pass had been enough t...
2025-12-03 13:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post“So at the end of the day, you need money,” I said, glancing around the group while taking a sip from my cup of coffee. Unfortunately for you, I really don’t have much rent money. What little money I had was just spent on advancement resources, and I only have about two dozen Mossford Stand...
2025-12-02 13:00:13 +0000 UTC View PostI didn’t like the arrows. First of all, I wasn’t an archer, so I couldn’t even use them as intended. Second of all, it wasn’t my power. Something like the Frozen Time let me better use my own power, and even the cyan crystal would operate not too horribly dissimilarly to my Ephemeral Rebi...
2025-12-01 13:00:14 +0000 UTC View PostNot sure I love this new Tamer Consortium rules update. With a maximum of four Primals per person for any fight, it means that any Tamer who has five, six, even seven or eight bonds is somewhat punished for having so many. Sure, it allows for a bit more strategy for them, where they can build mul...
2025-11-29 13:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostMagic provided a solution to a lot of problems. Nearly any injury can be healed, if it’s fresh enough. Underlying conditions are harder to deal with, but there are options, especially as magitechnical implants and prosthetics become easier to create and more advanced. A single wood spell made t...
2025-11-28 13:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostThere seems to be a strong dislike for bugs in the Pre-Arrival cultural artifacts that we have been able to dig up. There are people who advocated for the extermination of mosquitoes, records of people screaming at the mere sight of a spider, and the tiny insects seem to have possessed some abili...
2025-11-27 13:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostSo, due to the weirdness of the upcoming American holiday (And the friends and family moving around to visit that come with it), I've had to post all Mana Mirror chapters today, on Monday. Primal Soul, Tamer's Heart will still go up as per usual on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. Sorry fo...
2025-11-24 13:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostWhy do Primals have the urge to bud their essence, when essence hearts are perfectly capable of producing a Primal from seemingly nothing but time and ambient essence – the very thing they produce? The answer is simpler than you may expect. Primals, like humans, can’t live forever. Outside of...
2025-11-22 13:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostGifts are a fascinating topic. All biological organisms on record – billions in total – have the same gift, the ability to aspect their core to a different sort. It’s fairly useful as gifts go. Nothing staggering, but useful. But let’s be real. The slide on your augpads says ‘Essence He...
2025-11-21 13:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostStorage gems. Common, but interesting, magical items. They rely on the fact that Primals have no biological tissue whatsoever in order to operate, bending essence in such a way that the Primal is able to recover faster and remain in a semi-conscious state, like the liminal state between sleeping ...
2025-11-20 13:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post“What do you mean you’ve never done clap pushups?!” Liz asked, her voice holding back a mix of disbelief and laughter. “What’s the point of having superhuman strength if not to use it?”
“My full-gates infuse the created spell circuits with energy from it. The strength is reall...
2025-11-19 13:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostThe orb rose into the air, and I began clashing with my opponent. For better or worse, I’d definitely been right about the state of my mana senses, as I was able to force the orb back quickly, but they were also fundamentally unstable. Every half second or so, they practically turned off entire...
2025-11-18 13:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostIf I failed now, it might be fine. But it being fine was predicated on the idea that I would easily win future events, which there was no guarantee of. Worse, what if I was in another situation like this, arguing if I needed to strain myself? Better to push myself early in the tournament, in a si...
2025-11-17 13:00:21 +0000 UTC View PostI was nothing before the arrival of dungeon hearts. When magic came back, I thought… well… I thought I’d be a hero. I thought that my military background would make me special. That instead of being stuck in a dead end job working for a boss who makes in an hour what I make in ten years, I'...
2025-11-15 13:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostGreed is a poison. Oh, certainly, everyone needs to have their needs met. More than that, people want to live well, not just to survive. But the creeping desire to have more and more and more, with no mind for the costs to the people beneath you on the ladder of wealth or power or whatever else t...
2025-11-14 13:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostImmortality. The goal of countless Obsidian Kings, research groups, and wood magians. But is it actually possible? Even if you look at the issues with biological immortality, such as telomere shortening, there are issues with the ousia. It begins to fray into threads that require constant mainten...
2025-11-13 13:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostOkay, so the event ‘Sensory Sphereoids’ might not literally be tug of war, but to my mind, it was basically tug of war. The event was one of the ones that could potentially net me the training time needed to keep Ikki and Orykson around for a bit longer, and I’d signed up for it immed...
2025-11-12 13:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostI spent that night processing the golden soul potion, which helped condense my mana slightly. It wasn't nearly as dramatic as the first time I'd drunk one, not after having taken so many drops of destiny and advanced so far, but the following morning, my mana definitely felt denser. After a coupl...
2025-11-11 13:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post“I’ll be training, probably,” I said, waving a hand. I knew that I needed to find where the Sekhem earring had gone, but I could use every bit of training right now if I wanted to get far enough to potentially enter the top eight and earn some personalized prizes like a spellbinder rose.&nb...
2025-11-10 13:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostVoice One: What’s the deallll with four core slots? You’re telling me that– Oh. You actually have an answer? I mean, this isn’t really th–
Voice Two: Well, think of the core like a cell. The ‘organelle’ of ousia within the condensed core that serves to link the pneuma and anim...
2025-11-01 12:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostWhy don’t Primals eat?! This does not make sense at all! I’m… What do they subsist on? I know that their bodies are made purely of ousia structures rather than atomic structures, and they sustain themselves on essence, either through cultivating, or through battle. Great! Fine! Lovely! No p...
2025-10-31 12:00:26 +0000 UTC View PostHello everyone! For the last few days feeling a bit under the weather, only for it to worsen today, and it's going into pneumonia. I'm now on some medication, as well as a nebulizer every four hours, so I should hopefully be on the path to recovery.
I had been hoping the poor writing days ...
2025-10-30 23:13:40 +0000 UTC View PostAnd so, we come to the end of our miniseries! So sad to see you all go… But we’re going out with a bang. Or maybe I should say, going out with a flash? Hah! Radiance, also known as light, transcendence, celestial, and a handful of other things, is a strange one. It covers light magic, meaning...
2025-10-30 12:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostThankfully, the Patriarch didn’t take long to dismiss us, as he quickly turned to talking to the crowd and trying to build up hype around the fights, pointing out several of the key individuals in the fight: the mysterious blood mage, seemingly capable of completely shutting off someone’s mag...
2025-10-29 12:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostFor some reason, the first thing that flashed through my head was that I felt sorry for the people broadcasting the match. They’d have to either broadcast Kamal’s foul language, or try to bleep it out mid-broadcast. Could they do that?
Then I didn’t have time to think of anythin...
2025-10-28 12:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostIn response to the question, I flung a hand out, as if offering a handshake. That probably had been a mistake, as the summoner tensed, fingers crackling with lightning, before he relaxed.
“My name’s Mal, what’s yours?”
“Dario,” the summoner responded.
... 2025-10-27 12:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostWhere do essence hearts come from? We don’t know for sure. They're clearly solidified essence, and made of the same stuff as an essence stone, but what does that actually tell us? Measurements of essence levels in areas that have formed an essence heart don’t decrease. In fact, they actually ...
2025-10-25 12:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostHello everyone! Thank you all for taking the time to read and support me, as always. I wanted to lay out a few minor changes as they pertain to work.
First, I wanted to let everyone know The Restored is out now! You can purchase it 2025-10-25 00:35:00 +0000 UTC View Post