14th Day, Middle Wind Month, 1 CE
“Tilapia! Fresh Tiger Tilapia from Crystal Lake!”
“Bamboo baskets! Canes of all lengths!”
“Liana! Jute ropes! Straw and thatch!”
Ilyshn’ish adjusted the yellow rawhide band wrapped snugly around...
2023-01-06 04:08:00 +0000 UTC View Post13th Day, Middle Wind Month, 1 CE
So like this, and then like this…
“You keep doing that one,” Mitra said. “What does it mean?”
“I’m not sure…”
Ilyshn’ish made the swiping motion again. The movement she was making...
2023-01-04 06:08:00 +0000 UTC View Post“There was once a righteous ascetic by the name of Sattva, who lived in the days before magic was known to all and sundry. He was a man renowned for his wisdom and virtue, and was a welcome guest in many countries.”
When they crossed the plaza to its eastern side, they found Ilaan at th...
2023-01-02 08:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
An image of Florine that I made for a future character sheet. I love how this one turned out and I think it captures her character well, but it's difficult to work in this style for some reason...
2023-01-02 01:43:23 +0000 UTC View Post“Were there any fires?”
“Nah, it was just Mitra screwing around.”
“I see…”
Xoc’s eyes went back and forth between Saraca and Girika as the rough-looking Nar bodyguard reported his findings. What sort of ‘screwing around’ resulted in lightning bolts falling fr...
2022-12-31 10:01:38 +0000 UTC View PostThis is a habit, isn’t it?
The stray thought crossed Ilyshn’ish’s mind as she wandered around the shaded trails of Xoc’s clanhold. Though the Ocelo called it that, it was more a lived-in ruin than anything else.
It’s because I grew up in Feoh Berkana…no, it wo...
2022-12-29 11:56:38 +0000 UTC View Post10th Day, Upper Wind Month, 1 CE
In the darkness past nightfall, a barge silently glided up the river to bump against the pier below Xoc’s ancestral clanhold. Xoc disembarked, padding her way over the wooden boardwalk and ascending the ramp to the top of the...
2022-12-27 14:08:59 +0000 UTC View Post7th Day, Middle Wind Month, 1 CE
A small tornado tore its way up Achi’s western wharf. Saraca and Girika silently stared at the phenomena from where they were seated near one of their barges.
“Hey, Girika.”
“Yeah?”
“Can you get to...
2022-12-25 16:08:01 +0000 UTC View Post
I thought this one would be easy but it actually took a while? Hopefully this image of Florine somewhat matches what people envisioned~
Personally, I think her chest got too big, but what do I know :0 Well, there will be other images of her for people to peruse...
Is this the ‘Noble hospitality’ that Lady Wagner spoke of?
The hold of Clan Oro bore little resemblance to the holds of Human Lords. There was no manor or keep – only a spacious expanse under the boughs of a great t...
2022-12-23 18:08:00 +0000 UTC View Post5th day, Middle Wind Month, 1 CE
“Hold it right there!”
Ilyshn’ish froze just as she was about to leap from one cliffside outcropping to the next. Below them, on a narrow ledge, a set of eyes reflected the faint moonlight leaking through the clouds.
“...
2022-12-21 20:08:59 +0000 UTC View Post2nd Day, Middle Wind Month, 1CE
“I can see why the civilian clans fled, now. I’ve never seen so many Undead in my life.”
“None of us have, il-Enrenatha. Thank you for preparing the appropriate response.”
“One would be a fool to dismiss ...
2022-12-19 22:08:18 +0000 UTC View PostSo many Dragons…will we be running into them everywhere beyond the Theocracy’s influence?
Ludmila and Ilyshn’ish departed the huge Beastman city by the lake, heading off to see how far the country extended to the south. After an hour of flying over misty jungle carpeting low ...
2022-12-17 23:15:10 +0000 UTC View Post1st Day, Middle Wind Month, 1 CE
“B-Beastman!” The man shrieked.
“Hiiiieeee!!!!” Zu Chiru shrieked back.
Ilyshn’ish unbent her Human frame and popped her head out of the cargo container. Both the Human Merchant and Zu Chiru were cowering ...
2022-12-16 01:13:44 +0000 UTC View Post
So I've been jiggering around with art. This is the first image that I'm somewhat pleased with.
2022-12-15 12:26:31 +0000 UTC View Post30th Day, Upper Wind Month
“Are you alright, Your Excellency?”
“I’m good.”
“But your clothes…”
“I’m good.”
Emmad Zorlu limped alongside Baroness Zahradnik as they performed their inspection. It was the fifth time h...
2022-12-14 03:54:00 +0000 UTC View Post28th Day, Upper Wind Month, 1 CE
Emmad Zorlu disembarked onto a pontoon pier anchored off of the city of Oriculon. A hundred metres of water stood between the pier and the Sorcerous Kingdom’s future exclave, which had been cleared of every building. Even the...
2022-12-12 06:00:46 +0000 UTC View Post“The Sorcerous Kingdom is up to something.”
Zoren lolled his head towards where Salacia had seated herself in the city hall’s lounge.
“We’ve been travelling and working all day,” he said, “yet you still have the energy to make ominous statements.”
The buxom young...
2022-12-10 07:55:07 +0000 UTC View Post“Nothing personal,” Liane said. “It’s just business.”
Silence filled the main hall of the Blighthold Merchant Guild. The space was recently used as an inner-city shelter, but the men and women gathered before her were oblivious to its lingering odours following Liane’s statement...
2022-12-08 10:08:59 +0000 UTC View Post27th Day, Upper Wind Month, 1 CE
“One Beastman Lord,” Tira said, “as requested. I’d call it an abduction, but we never left his place.”
Ludmila glanced at the Gao Lord, who was glaring at them from where he was chained and bound to a column in ...
2022-12-06 12:08:01 +0000 UTC View PostLiam joined Kai on the rooftops, testing his footing on the slick wooden beams. The expected moonrise never came, but the rain that he smelled earlier certainly did. He looked up for signs of their ‘aerial observers’, but he couldn’t see anything against the starless sky.
“Are those...
2022-12-04 14:09:10 +0000 UTC View Post
25th Day, Upper Wind Month, 1 CE
“Next.”
A sheathed dagger was placed in front of Liam. He drew the thirty-centimetre-long blade, examining its honed and oiled edge. After a moment, he reac...
2022-12-02 16:08:01 +0000 UTC View Post“What makes a good story, papapapa?”
Draudillon looked up at her great-grandfather as he flipped a page of well-oiled vellum. The rich scent that rose from the leather-bound tome on his lap added to those in the air of the Royal Archive: the odours of countless other tomes, varnish and ...
2022-11-30 18:08:00 +0000 UTC View PostThey didn’t stay long with the clerk from the Merchant Guild, not wanting to take up what was likely limited time for him and his staff. What they learned, however, was invaluable in developing their picture of the Human country. After leaving the office, Xoc breathed a quiet sigh as she stole ...
2022-11-28 20:09:00 +0000 UTC View Post8th Day, Lower Water Month, 0 CE
“Rana–er, Maharana Dratha sure is amazing…”
Great, even Xoc’s calling him that now.
“Is he?” Saraca asked.
The young Ocelo looked up at him, nose and whiskers twitching slightly.
...
2022-11-26 22:10:30 +0000 UTC View Post“You,” Saraca leaned forward. “What’s your vocation?”
“Noooooo!!!”
The Human male fled with a shriek. It was a flight that only lasted up to the bars of his cage. The entire thing shuddered as he knocked himself out.
I guess we won’t be able to speak...
2022-11-25 00:08:01 +0000 UTC View Post5th Day, Lower Water Month, 0 CE
“Keep going,” the Baagh official said. “The lands here have already been claimed.”
“I see. Thank you.”
Saraca pushed off from the wharf and returned to his seat. The wind and the steady splashing of the ...
2022-11-23 02:08:01 +0000 UTC View Post
4th Day, Lower Water Month, 0 CE
It took Devi two days to liquidate her remaining inventory for a ‘satisfactory amount’. Without cargo to ship, however, their journey down the Rol’en’gorek wa...
2022-11-21 03:42:41 +0000 UTC View Post“You’ll…you’ll really do it?”
“Of course,” Elder Patli chuffed in good humour. “Karuvaki and I have discussed many of the opportunities that our efforts here might lead to. To seize them efficiently, however, leadership is required. Besides, I think it will be good for our p...
2022-11-19 06:08:01 +0000 UTC View Post“You’re really going to teach me?”
“You make it sound as if you never expected me to hold up my end of our bargain.”
Karuvaki, of course, wasn’t satisfied with a summary of Elder Patli’s operation, so Saraca’s entourage split up to pursue their respective tasks. Devi w...
2022-11-17 07:54:57 +0000 UTC View Post