“Report! The Undead have renewed their assault!”
“Show us.”
The Gao runner stepped forward at Rana Kizurra’s command, looking down at the map on the table. After a moment, he pointed a claw.
“Here,” he said. “They’re pouncing straight in. The Ranas on the front...
2023-02-28 20:09:58 +0000 UTC View Post“Squads Four and Five, push to meet with Raul’s advance. Squad Six, advance one kilometre straight ahead.”
Ludmila observed silently as Olga directed her forces to isolate the salient forming from Raul’s river assault. The clamour of battle below rolled forward as the two spearheads...
2023-02-26 22:10:55 +0000 UTC View PostIn the darkness before dawn, Saraca opened his eyes. A knock at his door came a moment later. He sat up from his litter, untangling himself from the mess of limbs that had developed overnight.
“What is it?” He said.
“A runner from Rana Kizurra,” Girika’s voice came through t...
2023-02-25 00:08:00 +0000 UTC View Post29th Day, Middle Wind Month, 1 CE
“Khorstaq? Hey! How big of a shit are you taking?”
Ludmila wasn’t sure how badly Khorstaq had to go, but he certainly wasn’t concerned about that sort of thing anymore.
The Nar shouting for his c...
2023-02-23 02:08:01 +0000 UTC View Post“Just run away please…”
The Beastmen couldn’t hear her, nor would they probably oblige her even if they could. High above the Royal Army’s front north of Eastwatch, Olga scowled down at her increasingly numerous opponents as they continued their stubborn resistance against the adv...
2023-02-21 04:06:58 +0000 UTC View Post『Stop doing that.』
『Doing what?』
『Looking worried. If you look worried, how do you think that makes us feel?』
Ludmila frowned across the corner of the war room table at Liane. Liane frowned back. Was she not allowed to worry?
As she had feared...
2023-02-19 06:10:39 +0000 UTC View Post“So tired…carry me…”
“I swear, if Rana Renatha hadn’t asked me to accompany you, I would have left you for the Undead.”
“You…you wouldn’t have done that, would you?”
“Is that a trick question?”
The barge sent from Eastwatch to Rol’en’gorek’s...
2023-02-17 08:16:35 +0000 UTC View Post28th Day, Middle Wind Month, 1 CE
“I had really hoped to return here under better circumstances.”
“Y’know, every other time you say something like that, unbelievably stupid shit happens to the place in question.”
“…no it doesn’t.”...
2023-02-15 10:16:16 +0000 UTC View Post“Mhh…so young. Hopefully, they do not spoil themselves.”
“Spoil themselves, Your Majesty?”
“Umu,” Queen Oriculus nodded. “The way they run off on their own like that is indicative of their upbringing. From the day they are born, Nobles are cared for by their mother or ...
2023-02-13 12:08:01 +0000 UTC View Post『Do you smell anything?』
『No.』
『I think I smell something.』
『Do you want to smell something?』
Liane was pretty sure it smelled like something. After reading the reports, she figured it had to.
A mere day had passed since Clara had received wo...
2023-02-11 14:08:00 +0000 UTC View Post“Captain, data collected by our high-altitude observers report a potential lull in the current weather conditions.”
“It’s not going to stop raining,” Ludmila replied absently as she examined the scenery below. “It won’t even lessen in intensity until after midnight.”
...
2023-02-09 16:08:00 +0000 UTC View Post
24th Day, Middle Wind Month, 1 CE
“Thirty more warbands just arrived from the south,” a runner said from the stairwell, “where should we send them?”
“Il-Enoweli’s people?” Il-Enre...
2023-02-07 18:58:24 +0000 UTC View PostThrough the rains of the deluge, a swarm of dots slowly made over the highway east along the Oriculon. They were quarry of a different sort, and Ludmila idly mused over how things had turned out.
The Humans below were one of the many groups that had been encouraged to flee their homes by th...
2023-02-05 20:12:45 +0000 UTC View Post“This is all steel, ain’t it? Won’t it rust up?”
“We have models that won’t rust, but the suite of enchantments that they come with increase the price of the frame and whatever attachments it comes with twenty-fold.”
Liane’s legs dangled over the edge of the crate she ...
2023-02-03 22:33:22 +0000 UTC View Post23rd Day, Middle Wind Month, 1 CE
Il-Enoweli con He’leyia made his way through the mist along the broad stone road that followed the river to the sea. The river’s rushing waters offered the only sounds in the stillness of the morning as he walked past the ...
2023-02-02 00:04:44 +0000 UTC View Post
22nd Day, Middle Wind Month, 1 CE
“Captain, squads nine through twenty-one have finished reporting in.”
“What did they discover?”
“Th...
2023-01-31 02:06:48 +0000 UTC View Post“Hey, Kskel.”
Kskel’s eyes opened. He sucked in a deep breath.
“I’m up. What’s going on?”
“Nothing,” Fensis said. “They’re getting ready to move.”
Kskel sat up from the floor, wiping the crust out of his eyes. Light leaked through the slits of the n...
2023-01-29 04:07:24 +0000 UTC View PostRivulets of rain ran off of Ludmila’s cowl and mantle as she silently watched the assault on Rivergarden unfold from high above. Saiko floated beside her, uncaring of the water seeping through its black robes and over the bones beneath. The Elder Lich maintained Invisibility on itself ...
2023-01-27 06:08:01 +0000 UTC View Post20th Day, Middle Wind Month, 1 CE
Kskel lup Inui squinted as a gust of wind drove the rain under the roof of the hoarding straight into his face. After the wind settled down, he shook the water from his coat, wiped his face with the back of his right paw, and ...
2023-01-25 08:08:00 +0000 UTC View Post19th Day, Middle Wind Month, 1 CE
“Squads one through ten have assumed the positions defined in the updated schedule.”
“How much time do we have left?”
“One hour.”
Olga looked down past the neck of her Skeletal Dragon. It was rain...
2023-01-23 10:08:01 +0000 UTC View PostHaaah…it’s finally over.
A grouchy feeling settled over Clara as she departed Phelegia’s central keep. It wasn’t over the fact that she had been forced to sit outside the great hall for eight hours just in case Queen Oriculus’ court required her, nor was it because Liane ...
2023-01-21 12:08:01 +0000 UTC View Post“Can the corruption be fixed, papapapa?”
The Brightness Dragon Lord’s movements paused for a moment before he continued his work.
“I don’t know, Draudillon. None of the hardest questions in life have easy answers. I can only continue to try.”
Deep under Oriculon Pala...
2023-01-19 14:09:00 +0000 UTC View Post17th Day, Middle Wind Month, 1 CE
“What’s a ‘breeder’?”
Tira nearly spat out the straw in her mouth.
She’s opening with that?
From the shadows of a nearby alley, Tira monitored Liam and ...
2023-01-17 16:08:59 +0000 UTC View Post16th Day, Middle Wind Month, 1 CE
This is impossible. Just how do we…
With an exasperated sigh, Emmad Zorlu tossed his quill on the desk. He leaned back in his chair, combing the fingers of his unstained hand through his hair as he stared at t...
2023-01-15 18:08:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Two more Lianes, this time in a different art style. Since the AI emulates anime/ln/manga-style characters, creating images in a workshop setting seems to result in Atelier-series looking stuff.
2023-01-15 03:55:54 +0000 UTC View PostHave you seen the man from Eastwatch; the man so tall and brave?
Defender e’er defiant, ‘fore hell’s own steaming gate!
Cloaked in his rugged mantle, so boldly does he stand,
Ten thousand shining lances, arrayed at his command.
15th Day, Middle Wind Month, 1 CE
“I must say these past few days have been remarkably fruitful.”
A wisp of breath rose from behind the Goblin Strategist’s white feather fan. Two Elder Liches came up to the war room’s central table. One rolled up the map sp...
2023-01-11 22:08:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Two Lianes with two expressions. The second one feels more upper-class merchant-y, but the first I think has the personality that most attribute to her.
2023-01-11 07:16:07 +0000 UTC View Post15th Day, Middle Wind Month, 1 CE
“…you broke your promise.”
“I’m sooooo sorry!”
Mitra ran up to Winter Moon and rubbed her cheek against her arm. Winter Moon turned her head away.
“Something came up that we had to atte...
2023-01-10 00:10:43 +0000 UTC View Post“They’re back.”
Saraca looked up from where several Humans were installing a simple crane. The parts to the device were recently manufactured by the artisans working for Xoc, and the first would be used to lift stone blocks out of their slowly-expanding quarry. Nearby, a few Ocelo wer...
2023-01-08 01:54:51 +0000 UTC View Post