Iona tier incentive for November - Elaine and Iona
As usual, discretion, yada yada yada.
2023-11-04 15:46:27 +0000 UTC View Post
As usual, discretion, yada yada yada.
2023-11-04 15:46:27 +0000 UTC View PostAs usual caution at work, etc.
Three variations!
I've told the artist "Go nuts, do what your heart feels is best", and gotten great art from it, if not necessarily what I'd request. Which is good! Variation and all that jazz.
Also, two pieces this month, because I can...
2023-11-04 15:44:24 +0000 UTC View PostEverything got a little messy after slaying Meng Ao, and I found myself flying towards the wall of the Ironside Brigade’s temporary fortress in no time at all. Most of his wounded had been healed, and nobody, nobody, tried the same stunt of injuring more people to force me to ...
2023-11-03 03:00:01 +0000 UTC View PostI was familiar with Wang Jian’s army and capabilities. We’d marched near them for months now, and I knew Optio Henrietta’s lines of [Medics] were all at full strength and mana still, and that this was the perfect chance to gain a number of levels and improve our re...
2023-11-01 03:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostI took the news of Leonidus’s death with a cold, almost clinical detachment. The man was efficient, but we weren’t particularly close, and so many people were dying I was practically numb to it. The part that worried me the most was I was now a single heartbeat away from being in command of t...
2023-10-30 03:00:01 +0000 UTC View PostMy shadow came to life.
It became solid, three dimensional, as it picked itself up off the ground, wielding the same weapons I did. I had to look to confirm with my eyes what I thought I saw - I no longer had a shadow. Sunlight just… passed through me and hit the ground as normal.
M...
2023-10-27 02:00:01 +0000 UTC View PostI woke up to a fist-sized stone slamming in front of my face, my eyes going cross-eyed for a fraction of a second before I finished waking up and the adrenaline hit.
I was up and moving, trying to figure out the situation, thankful that I’d slept in my full armor with my spear in hand. 2023-10-25 02:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey all!
Just a reminder that I screwed up when scheduling the chapters over the weekend, and Monday's chapter came out early. https://www.patreon.com/posts/91385396 if you need a refresher on what it was.
Auri and I had a fantastic reunion in a tent for four. Our new tent, our new home.
“Brrpt!!” Auri pulled out a rare present that she’d managed to scrounge up and save ever since my birthday. My eyes widened at the delicious smell.
“Mmm. Chocolate!” I wiggled in delight as sh...
2023-10-21 06:18:54 +0000 UTC View PostKaterina’s guards were tripled, and harsh Radiance bathed nearly every inch of the camp-fort. Everyone was on high alert from the raid today and Yang Duan He’s army of raiders clearly circling around, sniffing for weaknesses and opportunities.
Never before had I been so thankful that we...
2023-10-20 02:00:01 +0000 UTC View PostThere were little small moments of glory and beauty on the campaign trail, like the stolen picnic with Auri. There were grand indignities and terrible crimes, but perversely, it was the little stuff that really got to me.
Like my birthday.
It had poured recently, and the entire day wa...
2023-10-18 02:00:01 +0000 UTC View PostNina shivered in the cold air, thankful it was at least spring and no longer the deep snows of winter Vollomond. Her feet crunched over an unplanted field, the first hint of weeds seizing the opportunity to grow and meeting a swift end against the late frost.
Her legs threatened to...
2023-10-16 02:00:01 +0000 UTC View PostHey all!
I got a second Iona-tier incentive - read, don't look at it when you're at work or with other people looking over your shoulder - ready this month by a new artist, and by massive, overwhelming vote, the Iona-tier supporters on discord voted to let everyone see it.
The vote ...
Hey all!
I saw Pirateaba was running an art quest THING and thought "Hey, wouldn't a crossover with a number of pirate's favorite authors be cool?"
Quite a bit of coordinate later, and a large artwork purchase, and we have the crossover!
Titles and authors left to right!
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Hey all!
A fun little bit of bonus content for you all while I'd working on Admin Week.
The Legion!
The Exterreri Legions are modeled after the late Roman legions, and most of them include a light cavalry regiment. The Sixth is specifically focused on heavy infantry, and is one...
2023-10-13 12:20:47 +0000 UTC View PostThe Iona-tier incentive for October. As always, use discretion at work.
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1023554870009143386/1161041267753492500/commissi...
2023-10-11 09:41:27 +0000 UTC View PostGiven that Imgur decided it didn't like the Iona-tier artwork, I had my assistant redo it all with Discord hosting. I've also split everythi
Given that Imgur decided it didn't like the Iona-tier artwork, I had my assistant redo it all with Discord hosting. I've also split everything out int...
2023-10-11 09:34:30 +0000 UTC View Post
Life makes a fool of us sometimes, and has turned me into a liar.
Betas let me know that my current set of backlog chapters were BAD, and require significant TLC. Like, almost rewrites of all of them level of work and editing.
Sorry all, admin week is going to be this upcoming week...
Because someone asked for it, and I thought it'd be a good refresher with the current arc
2023-10-06 08:33:24 +0000 UTC View PostHey all!
Let's start with the elephant in the room: Admin week.
I'm going to be taking an admin week this month as always.
I don't know which week it's going to be.
I want it to be as late and as deep in the month as possible, to get admin week back to the 'normal' time, ...
2023-10-06 08:25:18 +0000 UTC View PostSoldiering was boring. Mind-numbingly, absurdly boring.
March here.
March there.
March in the sun.
March in the rain.
March on the rocks.
March in the rain that turns frigid as a frost wyvern flies by.
I loved Iona but damnit Fenrir,...
2023-10-06 08:10:49 +0000 UTC View PostI teleported into my [Vault] and fumed for a minute while I navigated to where my ‘Ironside Brigade’ gear was, and started to get dressed.
First thing first - makeup. Not my usual set of cosmetics, but some subtle pieces to change the shape of my face. Long lasting, sti...
2023-10-04 06:27:05 +0000 UTC View PostI paused before I dove down to the Sixth’s camp, debating how I wanted to do this.
The Sixth was in full swing. They’d already felled a few hundred trees and assembled an entire fort out of wood, tall walls, walkways and all. It was one of the things the Legions were very, ...
2023-10-02 06:12:45 +0000 UTC View Post“Push!” I yelled.
It was cliche. It was classic. But there was a reason for it.
What other advice, what other orders could I give to a young woman giving birth? What else could I say that would permeate the haze of pain and exhaustion as I helped deliver new life?
We were in...
2023-09-29 07:58:22 +0000 UTC View PostWhen Hong Jia was a child, he had a dream.
He would stand triumphant on the battlefield, his spear raised up to the heavens as legions of loyal troops shouted his name. In the way such childish fantasies were, he had one foot on the head of his enemies, his armor would be HUUUUUUGE, and per...
2023-09-27 02:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostStep.
Heal.
Regenerate.
Step.
Heal.
Regenerate.
Haze coated the battlefield, a miasma of death. Dust, dirt, sand, metallic shavings, and a thousand other things floating through the air, making people cough now and then. Nothing particularly deadly. Maybe a min...
2023-09-25 02:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostI poked Iona with my toe.
“Come on, we’re just getting started.”
Iona rolled up onto her feet, and quickly scanned the battlefield. Seemingly content at what she saw, she took a knee and started a quick prayer up to her goddesses.
It was good timing. I viewed the battlefie...
2023-09-22 08:57:42 +0000 UTC View PostI’d been on the edge of the cliff for less than a minute, a tenth of my mana already gone. It had been sheer hubris to imagine that I’d defy death entirely for the entire army for any length of time, although my mana wasn’t dropping as hard as it used to. I’d fixed everyone’s problems, ...
2023-09-20 07:36:00 +0000 UTC View PostMy mind split into five practiced parts, and I was thankful to Katerina for ‘forcing’ the centuries to keep battling each other while I was around. I wasn’t fumbling in the dark, I wasn’t trying to find an optimal configuration.
There were still plenty of unknowns though. The centur...
2023-09-18 07:53:48 +0000 UTC View PostThere *might* be a second one depending on how things go with a new artist.
New artist sent a number of really neat sketches over! I really like them, going to hire said new artist to do more stuff, but for now, enjoy!
2023-09-15 12:01:00 +0000 UTC
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