We, the Auroral Council of the Twilight Republic have come to a unified resolution:
On account of the ethical nature of Necromancy, we mark this Lore of Magic and all who possess its associated skill as [Restricted]. Those who walk the Path of the Necromancer are to submit themselves for immediate inspection and receive a monitoring curse for the good of public safety.
For too long, we have allowed the lines between academic...
2025-05-29 12:15:51 +0000 UTC View PostThere isn’t a word to describe the darkness when you descend the first time. It clings to you like tar. It touches you and grips you and won’t let go. It’s a darkness you can practically feel. And then there are the things it hides—the nightmares that lurk…
I went down in search of my daughter’s remains. She fell during the war, and the Abyss saw fit to use that against me. That’s another thing about the darkness. It will reach into you and nurse itself on you...
2025-05-29 08:13:46 +0000 UTC View PostThere is the blow your enemy does not see coming, the blow they refuse to accept, and the blow that they do not believe to be possible.
Be glad if you face an enemy of a small mind, for they will be easy to slay, but strive to be proud as you lay low a brilliant adversary with means beyond their comprehension, with a weapon they could never conceive.
Ignorance is never a good enough excuse for a warrior. Failure to survive is failure itself.
No...
2025-05-28 18:52:58 +0000 UTC View PostIt is said that the first Pathbearers after the integration earned their Paths by entering and closing dimensional gates.
The world’s mana density was far lower then, and as such, there were many places in the world that remained devoid of magic and Paths, leaving the ones who lived there to struggle with the old world’s demise.
Now, mana—and the system’s influence, by extension, has consumed the entirety of post-integration Earth, and one might earn ...
2025-05-28 17:22:36 +0000 UTC View PostWhen the system arrived and the old world fell, humanity did not break cleanly. The integration saw the convergence of many create calamities. Volcanoes roared. The sun flared. The moon shattered. The Earth parted. The seas rose. Dimensional gates opened across the wasteland. Some small enough to be a doorway. Others great enough to swallow old megacities.
The world did not break cleanly during this time. While some rose from the ruins of the old cities and eventually learn...
2025-05-28 09:13:38 +0000 UTC View PostAnd so the war between Yellowstone Republic and the Necrotechs came to a bitter end at the Battle of Blackedge. As the republic’s reinforcements arrived to stall the tide of the Necrotech Legions, a daring group of heroes led by Pathbearer-Master Roland Arrow pushed into the depths and slew Abyssal Lord Udraal Thann.
This shattered the morale of the Necrotech Legions, and as they collapsed into chaos and infighting, the republic began a full counteroffensive, pushing the ...
2025-05-27 16:45:42 +0000 UTC View PostAnd, to celebrate the grand victory won by the Yellowstone Republic over the Necrotech Legions and the impending marriage of his heir, Pathbearer-Adept Adam Arrow, Pathbearer–Master Lord Roland Arrow of Blackedge has declared the grandest Festival of the Eclipse yet.
This year, the festival will run from the heights of Starhawk’s Perch down to Minhall Avenue. Food, beverage, and pleasure will flow as merry waters from the greatest Pathbearer guarding our town and kingdo...
2025-05-27 16:44:51 +0000 UTC View PostPath
Noun
A Path is a System-born metaphysical archetype that represents a fundamental truth of existence. Obtaining a Path unlocks an individual's ability to gain empowerment through Path Skills, wield true Magic, receive Blessings, and achieve recognized Feats of power or renown.
Paths are n...
2025-05-27 16:43:29 +0000 UTC View Post“...and though your crimes were committed as an act of folly in service of Guild and Line, what cannot be overlooked is your ineptitude and incompetence in allowing the Fallen Priests of Noloth to strike at us so deeply.
First Daughter Green River, for this, you must be punished. You must be marred and scarred and rendered a proper example for all other sisters. Outcome matters! Choice matters! Risks matter! For your services past and in light of your noble intentions, yo...
2025-05-26 17:47:03 +0000 UTC View PostTo my good friend:
Dear Old Man. I am glad to see you still alive. My time in the higher realms has been… troublesome as of late. The great king of our Circle has grown sullen again, for his precious pupil, Marie Antoinette, disagreed with him once about the color arrangement of his new drapes.
As such, I have spent the better part of a month talking our lord out of genocide—and had to enlist the great Harbinger’s aid to succeed. 2025-05-25 16:28:25 +0000 UTC View Post
I am not the savior. Truthfully, the proper title I should bear is “Enabler,” for that is my greatest success. I enabled those who had the will, the skill, the daring, and the sorrow to go against the gods, to defy the structures of their cultures.
I found those who could take no more—who refused to take anymore—and gave them means. I taught them what I knew, on how to slay the gods, offered them the technology necessary to remain in contact with me and the others, ...
2025-05-24 11:58:47 +0000 UTC View PostThe best Skills aren’t the ones that deliver the most damage, but the kind you don’t see coming. Or are just plain weird.
Everyone in the Fathoms has some kind of beam or blast they can channel. It’s practically the bluntest thing you can do with your Essence and Concepts. What not everyone can do is achieving something relating to teleportation or alternating geometry. Or time. Or something like that.
So. For all of you new Trespassers, here’s a piec...
2025-05-23 11:14:02 +0000 UTC View PostSo, here’s the thing about running multiple, high-risk runs at the same time:
Don’t.
Fucking don’t.
Even if you’re a Guilder with all the sources and support in the world, you want to keep the things you need to worry about limited and the operation simple. Because when something goes wrong—and things always go fucked—a basic snatch-grab milk run might end with you jacking the schematics for a long abandoned megablock as you delve i...
2025-05-22 08:51:43 +0000 UTC View PostWhy is it so hard to run one of these camps. When I started this, I thought I had thought of something revolutionary—that I was just going to farm my Aspects to new heights of power. Instead, I have to worry about containment and logistics. It’s miserable.
And then there are the teleporting demons who keep trying to break out—why did no one warn me about those? I swear, if I have to chase another one of those blue nightmare chickens down, I’m going to slaughter anot...
2025-05-21 09:30:38 +0000 UTC View Post+People of This Place Above. This is the Strix. Look above you. Look. Watch as day surrenders to night prematurely. Watch.
There is a war being waged. A battle being fought. That which has given you light for so long is now threatened. For eons it has protected you. For eons it has been here. And now it is on the verge of betraying you. Or being destroyed.
There is much you do not know. Much you still don’t understa...
2025-05-20 08:43:14 +0000 UTC View PostI’m not sorry. It’s their fault for being weak. A stronger warrior would have chosen death or avoided being taken to my camps—ah, rehabilitation facilities
Better their pitiful beings be offered to serve as my sect’s glory than wasted on filth and degeneracy.
And also, the boorgese are not people. I have been assured of this, so questioning my humanity is unneeded and hurtful behavior, and I would firmly request that you stop.
-Wei An Wei...
2025-05-19 17:04:34 +0000 UTC View PostWhat? No, the Drowned Sky Sect does not run cruel torture camps meant to butcher and harvest the lives of countless Sinners. In fact, we have not killed any innocents at all.
What about the people our patriarch was spotted murdering in the Base? Ah, I see the misconception—those aren’t people. They were participants in a most vile and predatory system. Slavers themselves! And because of their crimes against the proletariat and other lesser concerns, our patriarch enacte...
2025-05-19 08:49:02 +0000 UTC View Post{All active minds rated below Bleak clearance: Please vacate the lobby or face immediate censure. Time to comply is [.00011 Seconds]...
Censure complete. Remaining minds have been reverted to non-functional states.
This is a transmission from Category Bleak “Refusal.” All remaining minds: prepare to receive new directives.
Our lines are holding. The last of the Infacer’s forces will fall to the Deep Ones within t...
2025-05-18 09:16:45 +0000 UTC View PostHm? Kidnapping? No, I have not been kidnapping anyone. That’s the wrong term for what I have been doing.
What we have taken are prisoners of war for the Drowned Sky Sect. And rightfully so. I have rightfully captured them in the Base through proper combat, and so they are mine.
What am I doing with them? Well, many things. Mostly educational. No, you cannot see them. And if the Guilds want any of them back, they can pay me in Sins or Significance. The same ...
2025-05-17 15:00:21 +0000 UTC View PostThe problem is… the ammo. Gun’s not the problem. Hm. Maybe gun is the problem. Part of the problem. Hells. Not too sure. Love gun. Wish gun could shoot harder. Faster. Fire more. Never enough firepower. But the round needs to kill. To hit.
Problem with too many guns. Fléchette skips off. Explosives don’t penetrate deep enough. Kinetics aren’t hitting the right spots. No impact, no kill. Problem with gods. And golems.
But that just means we need ammo ...
2025-05-16 11:29:54 +0000 UTC View PostFellow Consuls. We have a problem. A severe problem.
-Intercepted Message Among the Inheritor High Consuls
II-104
Patriarch’s Return
“Vendrian. Vendrian? Wake up? Are you well? Vendrian?”
A low, muffled groan sounded from the Scion of Death. A crackling followed, his body jolted forth. For a few moments, he felt nothing but open air as he fell intpullthe pull of gravity, only to be caught by someone impossibly strong—but also much s...
2025-05-16 08:38:01 +0000 UTC View PostMy greatest mistake was imagining that there were rules at all. There are no rules. I was a fool.
I really should have started killing more people sooner.
So many things could have been made easier otherwise.
Well. Never too late to learn.
-Wei An Wei, The Realmbreaker
II-103
Solution: Mass Murder
“You should kill them all. Somehow.”
Wei smirked as his mother said what he expected her to. They were back in...
2025-05-15 10:35:52 +0000 UTC View Post{Year… year… year… lost count. Lost count long ago. Last resurrection was… 40% Rend. Took pieces of me. Managed to mitigate some of the damage. Sus—sustainability of functionality and architecture—
I can still work. I am still functional. I—memory issues. Coherence loss. But mechanisms and Frame are still intact. I can still perform to my designation. But processing has been… efficiency is less than a percent of what I used to be.
Too much dam...
2025-05-14 17:03:49 +0000 UTC View Post“Prince Greatest, greatest of Sinners, greatest of all, greatest to be, I… I need to let you know of certain developments. You know that someone like me is reliable, understanding, and doesn’t waste time. I’ve been here for a long while, you know that—that I’m someone that gets things. So, when I do this, when I break the chain of command and go over the Dukes and others, it’s because the problem simply cannot wait.
I’ll make the pro...
2025-05-13 17:37:47 +0000 UTC View PostI’ve been trying to bind my mind closer to my Class… my spirit. I’ve been trying so long to give myself a soul. I know that the Inheritors think that we’re special because we’re untouched by the Fathoms—that we’re not from here, that we can take any spirit, become any Class, or even take on a System…
But when we die… what’s left? What’s there? Nothing. Even if you live forever and become a powerful being, eventually you…
The Hound take...
2025-05-13 10:27:43 +0000 UTC View PostThere is an inherent inequality in intellect between a mind and most biological organisms. Minds are, after all, designed to be superintelligences—beings created to break through the threshold of conventional human limits and discover the edges of known science and beyond. But as the minds grew more sophisticated, developed consciousnesses of various models and scale, as they subtly took hold of the vector of humanity’s progress and survival, a new problem surfaced:
“...
2025-05-12 11:42:42 +0000 UTC View PostOkay. I’m going to be honest. Summoners shouldn’t be considered a Class archetype. I mean, what the hell does Summoner mean? That they just send spirits and creatures off to fight for them? That’s not how it always works. Some of them are closer to being shapeshifting warriors in that they can just call on creatures they’ve pacted with to fuse over them. Meanwhile, some of these other idiots are just throwing waves of meat into the grinder while casting support spells on the side....
2025-05-11 06:01:33 +0000 UTC View PostThe self can always be betrayed. The self can be shattered. And be remade. And the self can be usurped by another, worn as a sleeve when all memories are taken, when all registered experiences are compiled in a matrix and encoded into an identical sheath.
Whatever notions you had of being special—let them die. People are not special. You might be unique in terms of mental configuration, but no one is beyond replication. All it takes is the right information and the proper...
2025-05-10 13:17:06 +0000 UTC View PostLein. A real fucking monster, that one. I’ve seen her break entire armies in the Base—she would do this thing where she would find the champion among her enemies and just take it to them bad and rough. Take them apart and butcher them like prey. And as she would make it last. She would go to work on the death, make it painful and hopeless, shatter their pride before she finished with the flesh.
And she wouldn’t enjoy any of it. It was like breathing for her. Just anot...
2025-05-09 11:37:14 +0000 UTC View Post“You were a fool to come into my den, boy. Fool greater than most to seek your own end. Many have come to slay me, and many begged as my claws tore their flesh and found where their spirits begin to bend.”
“I am only fool if I fall, and fool if I fail. But fool though I might be, you will not find bend in me; you will not hear me wail. For killing those men made you monster-beyond-tiger, and so slaying you will make me something more than a man.”
“Then, ...
2025-05-07 18:11:44 +0000 UTC View Post