“You have a brother?” Syri asked, blinking in shock.
“Two, actually,” said Luna. “This big lummox here, and an annoying crybaby little brother back home,” she clarified.
“Ah Lulu. Nice to know you’re every bit as mean as you were when last we met.”
Luna shrugge...
2025-08-14 20:01:51 +0000 UTC View PostLuna was slow to rouse from her slumber. The smell of burning herbs hit her nose first, joined soon after by a faint iron tang of blood and a chemical stink of alchemy reagents. Soft padding embraced her from below, a mattress markedly softer than that of her own bedding at the Citadel.
She...
2025-08-14 19:59:50 +0000 UTC View PostOpening her eyes, Luna once more found herself in the confines of Thulpa’s office. The place had not changed a bit since she had last been. But Luna knew well enough that that meant little when it came to alien dimensions. It had been many weeks since she had last seen the interior, but for all...
2025-08-08 21:32:35 +0000 UTC View PostThe Goddess Festival, as it turned out, truly was the massive event Velasco had made it out to be. From where he stood, a balcony on the Obelisk that overlooked a swathe of the city, he could see throngs of people filling the streets. Innumerable vendor stalls could be seen from his position, haw...
2025-08-06 20:56:09 +0000 UTC View PostThe great ringed city of Calmexia stood as a vast and many-spired beacon of civilization. The bow of the Calese ran into a great gate on one side, and emerged on the opposite end. A great source of water in an otherwise arid, sunblasted land.
It had, for centuries, been seen as he greatest ...
2025-08-04 11:31:47 +0000 UTC View PostLuna took to the air, guided again by magically manipulated currents of wind. Old Scratch chose a markedly less elegant form of movement: Leaping across vast stretches of the city in a series of swift bounds. It was a crude method, but Luna could not fault the functionality of it.
Naturally...
2025-08-04 11:28:39 +0000 UTC View PostCricket stared in stunned silence at the chestful of coins that had been set before her. In the spartan confines of the shabby, rundown room, the coins glittered with an even greater radiance. “You’re... kidding, yeah?”
“I assure you, Lady Cricket, my master is quite serious in this...
2025-07-30 20:49:23 +0000 UTC View PostLuna flew back swiftly through the air as the gargoyle took chase toward her, heating its massive wings. Each movement was like a clap of thunder, and the beast trailed black fog from its jaws. All three eyes were fixed briefly on Luna, and then steadily shifted to take in the expanse of Vyrham b...
2025-07-28 21:12:19 +0000 UTC View PostLuna took to the air in a sudden rushing whirlwind, ignoring the gasps of shock and alarm from those around her. “L-Luna?!” Syri shouted. “Where are you going?!”
“Hey!” Kiharu roared. “I dunno what’s up there, but it looks dangerous! Get your runt ass back here before you ge...
2025-07-28 21:10:18 +0000 UTC View Post“Another smart mimic,” Domajor murmured, stroking his chin with one hand. “I never would have believed it, if I wasn’t seeing her with my own eyes.”
Colony had taken a seat in the drawing room, her hands folded in her lap while the others examined her from a comfortable distance. ...
2025-07-23 20:14:11 +0000 UTC View PostBit by bit, Luna led the charge through the streets of Vyrham. There seemed no real end to the number of ashen beasts to block their path, but the young Arcanist was undaunted. If anything, the whole experience awoke within her a deep sense of nostalgia.
It reminded her of her mercenary day...
2025-07-21 20:13:37 +0000 UTC View PostWith the ogre distracted, it gave the soldiers enough of an opening to drag their wounded to safety. The guards had done their best, but their lance light had struggled to do anything worse than scarring the exterior of the ogre. And, already, that ridged shell was starting to repair itself.
<... 2025-07-21 20:10:33 +0000 UTC View PostThe central market had quickly become a warzone, with more and more Ashborn drawn to the sound of fleeing humans. Gnolls and hellcats at first, but soon small scuttling imps and winged sprites joined the fray, bolstering their large kinsmen with their superior numbers.
Yet Luna and the othe...
2025-07-18 20:19:10 +0000 UTC View PostCoin flung himself to one side, avoiding a slew of arrows and crossbow bolts. As quick as he was, the bolts came within a hair’s breadth of hitting him. Again he had to marvel at the skill of his foes.
Lightning danced on the tips of his splayed fingers, coalescing into a single sphere th...
2025-07-16 21:27:08 +0000 UTC View Post“A monster attack,” Syri murmured in disbelief. “Right here in the capital.”
Luna nodded, her grim and unblinking gaze watching as plumes of smoke and ash began to rise from various points in the city. Being able to bypass capital’s walls and outer defences in an instant, the wors...
2025-07-11 21:31:07 +0000 UTC View Post“As you can see from the model above, imps and gnolls are known to attack in groups. While all ashborn are allied in their mutual hatred of humanity, these two are the only ones seen to regularly hunt and fight in packs.”
The class watched as Gallow Cade gestured to a great drawing pinn...
2025-07-11 21:29:49 +0000 UTC View PostOnce they drew near to the coast of Arcadia, Coin made a point to pull in toward an isolated dock just a short distance from the seaside town of Kwart, and only did so under the cover of night. That gave them the privacy for Colony to pull her extra mass up from beneath the waters, forming it int...
2025-07-09 18:47:14 +0000 UTC View PostLuna was rather surprised. Back in her old world, there was no such thing as a form of magic tied exclusively to a bloodline. Nor were their ‘Ways’ that limited the forms of magic a person could use. The power and wisdom of a wizard was tied to the honed strength of their mind and body, and h...
2025-07-04 21:58:05 +0000 UTC View PostAs Luna had expected, Kane was going through a steady kata on one of the training platforms. His weights had been left stacked off to one side, allowing his movements to flow with uncanny swiftness and agility. Calvert was seated a short distance away, reading from a sheaf of paper and occasional...
2025-07-04 21:57:00 +0000 UTC View Post“It’s an interesting boat,” Colony said, staring at the sunlit frame of the steamboat as the waves gently lapped at it. “I’ve seen a few over the years, but none quite like this.”
They had gathered on one of Colony’s shores in the morning, preparing for what was to be their de...
2025-07-03 06:48:48 +0000 UTC View PostThe two walked together along the rolling grassy hills and groves of trees that dotted the surface of Colony’s mass, talking as they went. Coin would give credit where it was due, the illusion was shockingly convincing.
Each blade of grass, each leaf on the branches, they all moved and ru...
2025-07-03 06:47:41 +0000 UTC View PostThe sun was starting to dip by the time the Hawks made it back to the Citadel. Luna had not bought anything more than her books and scrolls, but she had still taken the time to join the others for a meal. It seemed the socially acceptable thing to do, and the girls weren’t bad as far as comrade...
2025-06-29 22:28:49 +0000 UTC View PostIn the days that followed, life returned to relative normalcy around the Citadel. The students resumed their daily lessons and drills, The Hawks were, however, regarded with greater respect than what they had previously been used to.
People wouldn’t say as much aloud, but they were not a ...
2025-06-29 22:27:26 +0000 UTC View PostYifang’s office was a large oblong chamber with stark white walls and spotlessly clean hard wood floors. The furnishings consisted mainly of a large desk, and rounded bookshelves which covered the walls. Luna had glanced at them in passing, seeing if there were any titles that looked particular...
2025-06-24 06:40:36 +0000 UTC View PostThe prince’s screams echoed around the arena, and he staggered away from Luna with his arm dangling limp at his side. It was a clean dislocation, the Clerics could easily mend it. But it would hurt something fierce.
Luna sighed, settling her hands on his hips. “I gave you an easy out. Y...
2025-06-16 21:50:53 +0000 UTC View PostIf the bout between Kiharu and Gravide had excited the cadets then he brawl between Luna and Aryn had been enough to send waves of rapture racing through the crowd.
The two duelled back and forth across the arena, the prince’s tides of steel being repeatedly encountered by an assortment o...
2025-06-13 22:34:32 +0000 UTC View PostWhen the time came for Syri’s bout, it fast became clear that she would win without much issue. Having seen Luna and Kiharu in action earlier, here was much to be said for how people saw the Red Hawks now. Her opponent was nervous, shaky, and only managed a few glancing blows before Syri knocke...
2025-06-13 22:33:19 +0000 UTC View Post“You’re a bastard,” Luna noted.
Kane sucked a breath in through his teeth. “Not... my preferred term, but yes.”
With this information in mind, she could tell that Kane was being sincere. His skin was darker in tone than Aryn, and his nose was pointier, but the similarities i...
2025-06-06 21:39:28 +0000 UTC View PostThe infirmary was just a short distance from the training arena. A pragmatic choice, given how easily a training session could lead to some kind of violent accident. It was led by a contingent of veteran Clerics on rotating shifts, using their considerable mysticism to mend any injuries brought t...
2025-06-06 21:38:46 +0000 UTC View PostKiharu and Gravide came at each other with relentless ferocity, their punches and kicks shattering chunks of the arena and sending great tremors racing through the arena. With her weights removed, Kiharu’s strength and speed and risen to the point where even Gravide’s precognition was struggl...
2025-05-30 21:53:00 +0000 UTC View Post