Epilogue
Zelktor Castle, Capitol of Piran
Visions flowed past Queen Zelkie’s mind. These weren’t her visions, not instead these were the visions being performed by her own bonded dragon. The dragon whose very eyes now glowed white and covered with thick film to protect the dead or...
2022-05-02 08:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostEveryone,
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Chapter 69
Metamorphosis
Burning pain awoke Lykan to the state he was in. On the bright side, he felt that he could now survive, if barely the contamination that had taken root within his body. Yet, there was something wrong. Something horribly wrong.
Magic, or the guiding force...
2022-05-01 08:59:01 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 68
Fight Fire with Fire
Nayali’s newly awakened mind allowed her to feel and merge with the spirit of the high wood elf priestess almost instantly. From this connection it was clear that while a connection existed for both parties, the amount of information Nayali was able t...
2022-05-01 08:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 67
Emergency Union of Souls
Octavia awoke with a sudden jolt, as she received a message from the great forest spirit.
Sister in need. An emerging sister has sent out a call for help. Gather with the High Priestess to form a Soul Union and sa...
2022-04-30 09:00:01 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 66
Courtly Intrigue
Guests remaining 97 of 100.
This time a guest on the far-right side had been killed. Nayali watched in horror as this caused multiple ripples of actions and reactions. Inevitably a group of people were drawn in, tryi...
2022-04-30 08:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 65
The Monster
To put it simply Nayali didn’t quite understand the hesitation she saw in Lykan’s eyes and body language. His entire body seemed to contract in on itself. Shoulders that looked like they could carry the world buckled and faltered at the mere sight of a psych...
2022-04-29 09:00:00 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 64
Spirit Prayers
“What?” Nayali asked not quite understanding what had just been asked of her.
“Could you pray to the great forest spirit and offer up this bounty?” Lykan asked again in a slower tone. This time making sure the concept of what he was asking was c...
2022-04-29 08:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 63
Chamelovores
Nayali stood; spell ready focusing forward. She felt her mind trying to relax itself as she readied herself for battle. With a legendary beast, she knew she would have to be at her best. She wanted to take a glance back at Lykan to see how he was doing but knew...
2022-04-28 09:00:00 +0000 UTC View PostInterlude VIII
Princess Larela Philipon, Sidherthan Capital
Being the youngest princess wasn’t easy. She had many classes on manners, etiquette, and geography that were all so boring. See Princess Larela knew she was destined for greater things, for she was a natural Seer. Or someon...
2022-04-28 08:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 62
Blessings of the Great Forest Spirit
What the Great Forest Spirit lacked in the ability to provide virtues and attributes were more than made up for in the fact that they understood what was truly needed. Nayali never having witnessed the power and glory of the great forest...
2022-04-27 08:59:01 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 61
Conquering A Pillar
When Lykan was fully certain that Nayali was safe, he then proceeded to lay out his plan. This was the same plan they had discussed earlier, prior to entering the jungle basin, but he wanted to make sure she remembered after everything that just happened...
2022-04-27 08:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostInterlude VII
Family Lineages
Hellena Cerusian sat in her throne room surrounded by her panel of advisers and clingers-on. Before her was a product of modern engineering, one that came from the Sidherthan Kingdom but had yet to be replicated elsewhere in the world. These were of cours...
2022-04-26 08:59:00 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 60
Corrupted Beasts
Of all the rules of the universe, the one universal truth is that power exposes the truth. Those with power will inevitably show their true natures as either tyrants or benevolent kings, or so the saying goes. Thus, it should come as little surprise that wh...
2022-04-26 08:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 59
Mountains and Monsters
To say that the jungle basin was large would be an understatement. No one had ever managed to cross the length of the jungle basin, at least not down its center. The reason for this lack of accomplishments is simple, up until now no humanoid creature ...
2022-04-25 08:59:00 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 58
Farming and Superstitions
To anyone who happened to spot the young couple traversing the ever-dangerous northern jungle basin, many could confuse the two for gods playing as mortals. Such tales were not too fantastical and were seen as a classic part of most stories of the ...
2022-04-25 08:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostInterlude VI
Zelktor Castle, Capitol of Piran
One Week After the True Coronation of King Philipon of Sidhertha
Of all the things Ezma had expected from this formal meeting with her mother, nothing could prepare her for the horror that she now witnessed. She expected rage, anger,...
2022-04-24 09:00:00 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 57
Enacting The Third Old-World Law
For two weeks proclamations about the grand coronation event were spread far and wide throughout the kingdom of Sidhertha. At first the reports were simple; a grand gathering was to be held at the capitol where news affecting the kingdom wou...
2022-04-24 08:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 56
The Proposal
Another month went by, making a total of three months since the battle of Dunthir. Coincidentally today also marked the one-year remainder mark on Lykan’s contract to the Sidherthan military. From all appearances the Sidherthan military looked content to just...
2022-04-23 09:00:00 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 55
Heresy
“So how does it feel to be amongst us mortals?” A soldier mockingly asked.
Over the months Lykan had to take many such comments in stride. This was nothing new to him, he had endured as much if not worse from Ghane. At that time, he didn’t quite understan...
2022-04-23 08:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 54
The Strange Engineer
Lykan had been on prison detail ever since he ended the war with the Azani. Everything first started when after one month’s time of recuperation he still was unable to heal his meridian channels within his body. From there it was a short quick process...
2022-04-22 08:59:01 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 53
Three Months After Dunthir
“He has fourteen months left on his contract and you have him sitting in a hanger applying runes to ships?” Admiral Shiel asked his commander in charge of the integration project. The project designed to get every ship outfitted with the runes...
2022-04-22 08:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 52
Gone
Lykan awoke to pain. A mental scan showed that he was in a bed of some kind, his body covered by sheets. On instinct he tried to circulate the energy within his body, but for the first time since he forever changed his life from being a null, he could not feel energy c...
2022-04-21 08:59:01 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 51
Ajimal The Great: Forced Peace
A golden halo first bound over Ajimal letting him know that his second in command, his sister, had first been bound in a binding oath before the gods. He had heard records of such events, all children’s stories of times before the rise of th...
2022-04-21 08:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 50
Judgment of the Gods
Pain. That was the word that could be used to describe Lykan’s world now. Pain and agony.
He had taken a dark Qi energy bolt to the chest. While he had managed to deflect a good portion of the blast, the remainder was more than enough to shut do...
2022-04-20 09:00:00 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 49
The Battle Over Dunthir
Nayali Northstar trembled with excitement at the challenge before her. To fight, battle, and not kill the opponent before her. This meant she would have to hold back, or so she thought. The goal was never to kill, at least not kill the golden male. T...
2022-04-20 08:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 48
Nayali
The morning air was crisp and biting. Warm winds carried traces of sand and powder not normally seen in the region. The dirt and debris gave the blowing winds a physical presence that would otherwise be easily avoidable. The winds were so biting that the sand and dir...
2022-04-19 10:52:47 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 47
The Battle of Dunthir
To say that the perceived battle was different than what occurred would be an understatement. Thousands of Sidherthan troops moved into position, encircling the border city with a precision never seen before. Under cover of darkness, ships breached the...
2022-04-19 08:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 46
The Road to Dunthir
Choo! Choo!
The first sounds that the Sidherthan empire were mounting a counterattack were just train horns blaring at unattended cattle that had wandered on the train tracks. Aside from that the entire movement of forces from the capital ...
2022-04-18 08:59:00 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 45
Whispers of War
The day whispers of war swept through the Sidherthan capital was a cold spring day. The type of day where nature itself was all too aware of how ominous the winds of change were. The Azani kingdom had long been emboldened by their lack of any true threats to...
2022-04-18 08:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post