Maikana

Chapter 17 – The definition of insanity

In her idle hours thoughts of creating ointments and other wonderous concoctions war in her mind with those of fulfilling her deepest desire, to finally wield magic. With [Mana Control] added to her list of Skills, Kori has a long awaited chance to acquire the [Spell Shaping] Skill. The Skill tha...

Chapter 16 – Other side of the table

An afternoon of attempting, and only occasionally succeeding, to reproduce her results followed for Kori, until they ran out of luminous moss at least.

“We’ll have Har inspect the products to verify consistency, it’s a good thing he’s not leaving until the morning. At a glance it lo...

Chapter 15 – Unexpected but not unwanted

“How… How’d I… I don’t understand…” Kori stares with a flabbergasted expression at the notification crossing her vision. “I tried everything to get it… How does grinding herbs finally work?”

“Work with what apprentice? You still haven’t explained what you were trying...

Chapter 14 – The morning after

Somewhat confused and more than a little dazed, Kori finds herself laying in her bed and struggling to recall exactly what had happened leading up to that point, “Why am I in bed? Wasn’t I just in the workshop?” The last thing she remembers, drinking some tea made with her herbs, but those ...

Chapter 13 – Getting high on your own supply

What followed Kori’s lesson given to her on herbalism was yet more days of mind numbing meetings, afternoons of errands, cleaning, and occasional tests of her memory to write down various details of the herbs that Ortik had lectured her about. These were of course followed by evenings with her ...

Chapter 12 – Talking about shrooms

The next few days passed in a slow march of mostly boredom, though Kori did learn a great deal about how the Clan was run. It seemed that each day different Elders were in attendance in their chambers for the morning, though the Chief was there every day, for members of the Clan to approach and d...

Chapter 11 – A little dust up

After their conversation and a bit of time for Kori to compose herself and to realize just what she’s gotten herself into this time.

Ortik? Really? No wonder Ylst said this was going to be hard… If I fail again…

Korse directs her to the Elder’s Chambers to meet with h...

Chapter 10 - Begin again

Late that evening Kori decided to finally head back to the brood chambers, slowly plodding along through the various tunnels and chambers on her way. Lines left by tears already scrubbed from her scales but her eyes still bleary and downcast as she ignores the looks from the various passers by. 2025-02-13 16:59:51 +0000 UTC View Post

Chapter 9 – Up in smoke

As predicted, having [Mana Sense] made no difference in Kori’s attempts to meditate during the morning sessions, in fact it just became an even bigger distraction as she now saw the eddies and flows of the worlds mana drifting about and her many attempts to reach out and seize control were exac...

Chapter 8 – Lacking Sense

Kori spends the next several hours after cleaning up the sparring area following a more senior mage around as he trekked about Emberscale caverns, on the plus side she got to explore places she had never seen before, on the downside it was done while lugging about a load of tools and supplies tha...

Chapter 7 – Medi-what?

Over the course of her first few hours of being an apprentice Kori has come to an exceedingly difficult conclusion, she does not like meditating. Sitting still? No talking or asking questions? None of these are things that come naturally to Kori, hell, her Trait even says ‘The mind of a dragon ...

Chapter 6 – Idle Tails

As Kori stands outside the door to the Elder’s Chambers, letting her nerves settle after being presented to the council like a newly caught fish, she begins to shuffle and twitch not from her nervousness but as the excited energy builds. She’s going to learn magic. Real magic. She can’t hel...

Chapter 5 – pulling on threads

After being guided back to the hatchery and her brood chamber, Kori found that she was no longer in the mood to be celebratory, today did not go at all as she had expected it to. Laying on the leather pad within her den in the brood chamber, Kori stares at her status and its unexpected entry and ...

Chapter 4 - Oooh, it tingles!

"Now, young one, I cannot force you to keep this secret, but I believe it best if you do, both for you and for our Clan. That you have told the two of us is already too many and as the Elder Matron and the guardian of Clan Emberscale's spirituality," Matron Kles looking between Korse and Kori, he...

Chapter 3 - My status says I'm 'unique'

"So, uhmm... I do have another question, well 2 really, but one leads into another..." Kori begins, though with significantly more insecurity than typical for her, her feet kicking on the stone beneath her and hands tensing and scraping her claws at the table

"Hmm? You've never been shy of ...

Chapter 2 - The why of things

"So, there are a few, should I start from the top of things?" Kori begins pondering the ordering of questions, if she asked the big ones first then maybe they'd forget about the little ones or run out of time, but she really wanted to ask the big glaring question, what in the Scale was that title...

Chapter 1 - The truth of it

The day had finally come, no longer a hatchling, now a youngling, and for her first day of her new life, Kori, was going to celebrate, which was good since there happened to be a festival today too. Hatchlings were not permitted to leave the Hatchery, so it would not only be her first time explor...

Prologue 7 - Finally over

After the excitement of the display of magic, the days seemed to drag on, knowing that just weeks remained until the clutch joined the ranks of the younglings and would both unveil their status and receive their names, an exciting milestone for all young Kobolds. As the days pass, the first of th...

Prologue 6 - Just a little more

In the wake of the story of the Kobolds past and the loss of their once purpose, the hatchlings took little time to return to their usual chaotic selves, as is the way of children and especially of Kobold hatchlings, and often Kobolds in general, time passes and the end of their third year approa...

Prologue 5 - not quite yet

The next year proceeded quickly, with a certain hatchling finally understanding the trick of the doors latch and making her departure, several designs followed before someone eventually started barring the door whenever the hatchlings were by themselves, even that proved insufficient as she just ...

Prologue 4 - Almost done

As the months pass and the questions continue unabated, they near the end of their first year, the nursery is needed for the next clutch of eggs. It's time to move the hatchlings to one of the brood chambers, a larger set of caves with a central chamber and many smaller openings leading to alcove...

Prologue 3 - Still goin

Nearly half a year after the runt's hatching, the clutch has diminished by a further 9 down to 48. This is still considered a good year as the Culling slows as they get older and sturdier. Around this time is when the hatchlings begin to actually listen to speech as words, rather than just noises...

Prologue 2 - It Continues

The Elders spend the next few hours going over the happenings of the festival, Ortik shares that his tail suddenly stopped aching in the middle of his ritual to commune just before the feast was to begin, so hopefully whatever ill omen has passed them by. This of course was met with several jibes...

Prologue 1 - It Begins

Our tale begins deep in the South-East of the Kingdom of Glas, near the human town of Whatzakt, but has little to do with either of those entities, what we're interested in is the mountain beyond the town, the Lone Peak, a towering mountain separated from the mountain chain known as Vor's Spine. ...

Welcome to Emberscale Caverns

Welcome all to Emberscale Caverns, home of the Kobolds and our stories about a certain little Alchemist. Happy to have you here with me and looking forward to our future together.