Shen knuckled his back as he straightened up. The Sowing was upon them and they had a couple more weeks to finish so that they would get the optimum yield come harvest. He had tilled this field his whole life, as a child and, after he grew up without access to the potent powers of Animus, forty y...
2023-01-23 13:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostAfter nearly a week of travelling and training, Yuriko noticed that Heron’s Anima reach had exceeded the First Growth stage. Ten inches from his skin. The azure light was quite catchy, although if seen during the day, was sometimes hard to see. It was actually the colour of the clear skies duri...
2023-01-16 14:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post“Isn’t it strange that the Chaos Lords are holed up in the Fysalli rather than fighting us in the open Chaos Sea?” Riley remarked as he sighted down his new Plasma Caster. His target was a particularly horrific Behemoth, an amalgamation of flesh and steel, shaped like an orb covered in meta...
2023-01-16 13:45:00 +0000 UTC View PostYuriko got Heron a few barrels of water to cleanse the filth off his body. The black sticky mass was magnitudes more than what she expelled back then, and even compared to Gwendith’s, it was at least half again as much.
‘It’s either because he’s much bigger, or more likely, the furt...
2023-01-16 13:30:01 +0000 UTC View Post‘Loot and plunder!’ Fri’Avgi yelled enthusiastically while Yuriko rolled her eyes.
‘And where will we loot and plunder?’
‘The enemies!’ came the eager cry.
‘There aren’t any here,’ Yuriko replied, and she felt the disappointment in the littl...
2023-01-16 13:15:01 +0000 UTC View PostIt took just a bit longer than two days to reach the oasis village. Or rather, a couple of stone carved dwellings around a well that only held a ThiRen of water, a hundred Ren. That was barely enough to slake the thirst of eighty people and a dozen horses. Not nearly enough, but then again, Yurik...
2023-01-16 13:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostThe once fortified Fysalli, Witton Hold, was once again the centre of Imperial activity. Little remained of the rubble and ruin that Witton had been turned into after the disastrous attack by the Chaos Courts more than a year ago, and in its place were once again layers of protective Waypoints, q...
2023-01-09 13:45:01 +0000 UTC View PostSaki left the next morning, after a brief, yet poignant goodbye to Yuriko. Her Shadow Guard had actually spent that time clinging to her while sniffling, all the while commiserating that her young mistress wouldn’t have protection and had spilt a hundred and one worries, most of which included ...
2023-01-09 13:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostThe bodies of the dead nameless were scattered at the bottom of the cliff. Several were burned, showing little but charred bones and a few were in pieces that sat on muddy puddles. There were still bits of ice lingering, however, and they didn’t show any sign of melting. Yuriko thought that the...
2023-01-09 13:15:00 +0000 UTC View PostBeneath the eponymously named Zarek Mountains, the great Avos slowly traversed its territory. The dirt and stone of the mountains, so jagged and dry, were its shell. The great spine of the Rumiga plane spanned north to south, and top to bottom. The plane wasn’t just wide and long, but also tall...
2023-01-09 13:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's where we consolidate all the fan art we've received for Chronicles of the Exalted Sun Child.
The name of the sender is in the caption, and we'll keep updating the artwork here whenever they come in. ^_^
Thank you so much for sending these in!
- L&R
2023-01-02 13:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post“You two were in that room for a week,” Amiri said in a flat, slightly hostile tone when Sadeen exited the suite with her husband. She flashed the redhead a smirk and Amiri scowled.
“Why Miss Cypher! How nice to see you after so long,” Sadeen said mockingly.
The other woman ju...
2022-12-30 12:44:19 +0000 UTC View PostJust a reminder that there will be a posting break next week, January 2-6 2023!
Posting will resume the week after. Happy New Year!
- L&R
2022-12-26 14:05:01 +0000 UTC View Post“Hide me,” She Who Whispers into the Light said. To the rays that illuminated the hallway within the fortress city of Siderious. Well, her tiny homunculus said it. Her main body hovered beyond the walls, concealed from sight by the very light that made seeing possible.
The tiny Whispere...
2022-12-26 14:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post“I wanted to challenge you alone, anyway,” the Wielder of Divine Flame said while she crossed her arms under her prodigious bosom. Her maul, Burning Embers, hovered beside her. “Not that Weaver’s provided much help,” she added.
“That’s cold, even for you,” one of Weaver’s ...
2022-12-26 13:45:00 +0000 UTC View PostEver since Yuriko began to practice the Ender’s Waltz, her control over her sunshards had reached a sublime level. Before, she could manually control the sunshards but her level of finesse was rather low. Now, she could impart a set of instructions that the shards would follow, and in truth, sh...
2022-12-26 13:30:00 +0000 UTC View PostAsami was nervous the entire time they waited to launch the ambush. Miss Saki Mishala had come with a warning that was thankfully early enough to capitalise on. Her Wind Whisper and Wind Scour techniques, honed by long use as well as dozens of flashes of insight during last Season’s battles, ha...
2022-12-26 13:15:01 +0000 UTC View PostThe Wyldhounds sniffed the air and circled around the craters. The Wielder of Divine Flames stared thoughtfully at the glassed sand. The edges of the crater actually had obsidian. She crouched down next to it and touched the volcanic glass with her finger. She sliced her fingertip open, running i...
2022-12-26 13:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostThere will be a posting break from January 2-6, 2023.
Posting will resume the week after. Thank you!
- L&R
2022-12-19 14:05:01 +0000 UTC View PostRadiant energy filled the grains of sand, each one heated to such an extreme point that they should have liquified and then boiled off, but they didn’t. The substance remained solid, and firmly in Yuriko’s control, which incidentally gave her another method of attack. It was rather crude and ...
2022-12-19 14:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostThe Weaver of the Warp and Weft of the World transitioned into the plane through the Chaos Channel. Well, one of him did. Of the other three incarnations he had, one was still in the Telurian Court, another was in the Asheron Court, and the third was in Baratrum, the fortress built upon the Chaos...
2022-12-19 13:45:01 +0000 UTC View PostThe ocean water was both cold and warm. Qatir’s tentacles enjoyed both. Burn marks and other scars dotted its leathery skin, coloured green now but it could change to suit its moods. Several weeks had passed since the Primordial Spawn returned to this plane, though it had a brief foray last yea...
2022-12-19 13:30:01 +0000 UTC View Post“The palm fruits could feed us for a couple of days,” Yuriko muttered as she surveyed the rest of the village. She saw a few of the liberated captives…refugees now, she supposed, milling around the crop gardens. Most of those plots contained brown and wilted vegetables. A waste and a pity.<...
2022-12-19 13:15:01 +0000 UTC View Post“A mirage.”
The sole surviving Adept who pledged to Yuriko, Dominic Hurin, spoke up. Yuriko judged him to be about twice her age, though being an Adept, it might only be that he had advanced at that age and was much older. Or, since Spirit Binding was an entirely different Anima trainin...
2022-12-19 13:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostReminding everyone that we'll be taking a scheduled break next week, December 12-16, 2022, and on January 2-6, 2023.
Posting will resume next week. An advanced Happy Christmas to those who celebrate it and we'll see you again then!
- L&R
2022-12-05 14:05:01 +0000 UTC View PostMaster Crow the Binding Chain was dead. Lawrence Tang of the Haveenian Security Office, its Director-in-Fact, stared at the missive in disbelief.
A Master-level Spirit Binder, dead, just like that? Who?
The message didn’t come through letters befitting its urgent and important statu...
2022-12-05 14:00:12 +0000 UTC View Post“Ah!” Yuriko yelped as her condensed Anima buckled and cracked.
As the empowered chains penetrated, she saw her outer Animus reserves start to dwindle. She watched speechlessly for a moment as the metal sucked her Animus into itself and then discarded it away from her body.
Fortun...
2022-12-05 13:45:01 +0000 UTC View PostKassy froze for a long moment when she heard the Verdanians begin the attack.
‘It hasn’t been ten minutes yet!’ she thought furiously, but then, it didn’t matter much. All that happened was that they would draw more attention away from the family.
Her nose twitched as she caug...
2022-12-05 13:30:02 +0000 UTC View PostThe last time Yuriko fought on the same battlefield with another beastkin was in the Bella plane, and the last time she encountered a feline beastkin, except for dear Masa, was against them. Lion, tiger, and cat. Kassy seemed different from the three tribes before though, considering she was full...
2022-12-05 13:15:01 +0000 UTC View PostBy dusk, Yuriko had reunited with her friends. Gwendith had two of the Federation warriors subdued, with their wrists bound together with ice. They’d settled next to a ridge, roughly a league away from the convoy. Heron and the twins were keeping watch, their eyes aglow with Enhanced Senses. 2022-12-05 13:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post