It isn’t enough.
A mind is not enough.
A Soul is not enough.
Reality is not enough.
I must feed.
I will feed.
-Avo, the Dreamer of Ashes, Devourer of All Paths
33-20
Reunion (II)
+All right, so what’s the run?+ Chambers asked. Avo couldn’t help but smile int...
2025-02-06 14:04:46 +0000 UTC View PostEvery child knows what it means to break, to sever, to cut, to kill. This is a simple thing—to apply pressure to a structure beyond its means and foundations.
To build is sublime. To build is the path of a matriarch, of a team master, and of an experienced worshiper. For you must understand how to break before you can build.
You must observe the structures of the world and the forces you can apply to them. And thus,...
2025-02-05 08:39:55 +0000 UTC View PostHave you ever wondered who you might be without your memories? If you would be different? If you would be freer or lesser than you are?
Avo. I hope you can find an answer. Even if I am not there to bear witness.
-Defiance, Low Master of Noloth
33-18
Forget (II)
—[Fatalist Malak Hammuarari]—
“What the hells are they doing?” muttered Fatalist Malak Hammuarari. Countless scenes were streaming into his mind, fed into t...
2025-02-04 16:12:58 +0000 UTC View PostChange is a constant in life, and change is a constant in war. For every advance you take, your enemy must adapt. And as they adapt, they too will advance. In turn, you must learn to change anew.
During this process, you will find yourself growing, flourishing, and branching—if you are not cut down. You will pursue different avenues of success and possibilities to overcome your adversary, and they will do the same.
Picture this: two gardens, two forests gro...
2025-02-03 13:22:19 +0000 UTC View PostThe war minds we created are more than a weapon for destruction. No, they are a weapon of asymmetry, of breaking all common laws relating to the nature of consciousness. For in the breaking of laws, new ones emerge, new patterns or unpatterns that allows us our greatest advantage. We are Noloth, bound, exiled, torn from our rightful place in reality. But here we remain, and here we can still build.
They have left us detritus. Even after all that the...
2025-02-02 17:42:25 +0000 UTC View PostA word of advice to all aspiring tyrants, warriors, and professionals: get over yourselves. Instead of wallowing in pride, learn to work with your family—especially those who possess the skills you need. You can linger, groan, and lament everything that might have been, but while you're stuck in the past, a most promising future will collapse before your eyes.
-Wei An Wei, The Realmbreaker
II-61
Openings (III)
Five meters. Five meters of empty space existed ...
2025-02-02 09:37:07 +0000 UTC View PostNever agree to do a small favor for the Realmbreaker. Not even if he saves your life and your son’s honor.
Not because it’s not worth it—it will end up being too worth it. Because there is never just one favor with a powerful person.
-The Blackwind Sage
II-60
Openings (II)
“How many Aspect Advancements,” Rafael asked, leaning back slightly.
Wei grinned. Of course, it would be remiss to force one of his disciples to perform an ope...
2025-02-01 13:28:46 +0000 UTC View PostHere’s some advice for all you thieves out there. If you want to conduct a heist, I recommend that you find a way to be in two places at once. I mean that literally. You can do this through teleportation, through simulacrum, or through even cloning.
But ultimately, you want people to think that they know your whereabouts, that they have your measure, that they can follow and track you. But then, in an instant, you want to be in another place, where they’re not loo...
2025-01-31 16:47:34 +0000 UTC View PostConsciousness itself is a pattern. A specific one. A surgical pattern.
Where force, energy, space, or chronology affect the world on a grand scale, miracles of consciousness alter the nature of a person the most. How we understand ourselves. How we perceive. What we understand or fail to know.
These things shape our humanity. The body is the vessel, the mind is a pilot.
Just as the miracles can shape, an emanation of a Hell can destroy, and so,...
2025-01-30 18:53:58 +0000 UTC View PostSupplicants! Hear me now! Let my words strike you like lightning and forge the foundations for your resolve!
We are banished! Severed and lost in a world consumed by madness! Yet we remain! I remain! I! Once Saathwu! Once the God of Huntresses! God of Blood! Now resurrected by the esteemed hand of the Dreamer, I return! Greater! Grander! Into an unworthy world ruled by the unworthy!
But fret not! Glory has returned! G...
2025-01-29 19:50:47 +0000 UTC View PostBe mindful in what pond you fish.
-Old Sang Proverb
33-13
Information (IV)
—[The Majority]—
The Majority surveyed the situation through their various Constituents. At present, several were protesting. A few even threatened the Chief Paladin. All this was to be in vain. Naeko’s Heaven gave him sole lordship over all applications of violence, but that was a tertiary concern.
For all his power, he couldn’t rea...
2025-01-28 19:40:41 +0000 UTC View PostThere’s a secret to raiding Guilder facilities. A little trick you can pull on all of them.
Most Squires don’t have the firepower to raid a Guilder stronghold. Sorry, juvs, but the vics lied. A couple of half-strands with a slap-dash golem, a dozen drones, high-end augs, and a bit of grit aren’t going to be anything but an “x” mark on Guilder detection systems if you make a suicide run. You’ll get a spatial-kinetic slug put through your skull from a multi-functi...
2025-01-27 19:04:51 +0000 UTC View PostThe only thing more dangerous than fighting in the Everwar happening at the Base of the Claimed Hells is trying to play politics with the big players in the Heights.
-The Trespasser’s Compendium
II-58
Out of the Pan
The Collectress hid her surprise as she watched them emerge from the crumbling nest. She would have assumed a few of them to be lost to the Dying Queen. Instead, every last one of the boy’s minions were alive and… well, she couldn’t call them ...
2025-01-26 18:08:08 +0000 UTC View PostYeah. The “Realmbreaker.” I’m not calling him that. The little bastard’s ego is already large enough as it is. If I pop and kill him for good, the bloody princess might actually try to put me to her flame. Might be the Scion of Death, but being disfigured and mutilated physically and spiritually isn’t really a fun experience.
Still. Wouldn’t have made it this far without him. Would’ve been little more than just a slave for some power broker in hell. Always a p...
2025-01-25 15:06:01 +0000 UTC View PostThere are many kinds of death one can experience, and the way one dies also matters immensely.
But my favorite to inflict in battle is the slow death. The bleeding death. The looming death. This is the foundation for your enemy to make mistakes, for a bleeding adversary often seeks a path of salvation, to live or strike back. All because of hope. Hope to survive. Hope to escape the shadow of death.
Hope to betray you at the last instant.
-Wei An We...
2025-01-24 18:52:06 +0000 UTC View PostThere is bitter wisdom in offering a tiger an envenomed limb…
-Old Sang Proverb
33-11
Information (II)
—[The Majority]—
THE INNER COUNCIL HAS CALLED AN EMERGENCY VOTE INTO SESSION:
MOTION TO RENDER ALL CONSTITUENTS OF ORI-THAUM IMPOTENT IS PROCEEDING
“What?” A horrified cry sounded from hundreds of enshadowed Constituents 2025-01-23 11:44:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Anyone who understands the Ori knows that our primary focus is not only on mastering the mind, but also the shaping and manipulation of knowledge itself. The mind is only a portion of the equation, after all. Essential, of course, but merely the receiver compared to everything “that is.”
Consider this: Your mind is like a mechanism that dilutes water rather than the water itself. It can interface and apply various solutions to the water, but ultimately, it does no...
2025-01-22 18:32:29 +0000 UTC View PostEveryone is spying and scrying on each other. That is the most natural thing. Especially between allies. Trust is for amateurs. Professionals verify. Professionals know. And professionals understand that other professionals have obligations to meet and duties to perform.
This is why you Juv-Necs shouldn’t be surprised if you find some Ori sequencing in your Stormtree paydata. Because of course they’re there. The Incubi are taking a peek too. And while they’re watching...
2025-01-21 17:47:03 +0000 UTC View Post“Sarah. It happened. Hound came to a bargain with the boy. Yeah. Not sure what deal they made—didn’t think it was a good idea risking my life for a peek.
Well, Wei’s definitely has a connection back to the Final End in himself now.
William’s fine too. They told me the Harbinger offered him a bargain. Yeah. That kind of bargain. Of course he took it—it’s gonna be pretty shit being someone else...
2025-01-20 10:15:48 +0000 UTC View PostThe gods are not how we understand them to be. In the Fathoms, the gods are more like administrators for specific concepts, or perhaps even more like anchor points from where these Concepts flow. Every time someone dies, they go to the hound here. Of course, if they’re a Trespasser, the rules are different. But then again, that applies to everything. The other gods, such as Ignium, have domains over fire and creation, and the performance of such acts relating to these concepts allows yo...
2025-01-19 17:33:23 +0000 UTC View PostThere is someone watching the world from inside me. I can’t hear them, I can’t feel them, but I know they’re there. Patches of my memories go missing, and there are these times when I can’t separate my dreams from the waking world, but I know… I know…
What I don’t know is who I really am. Not anymore.
For the last fifty years, I’ve lived a life. A real life. An entire life. I was a kid again—or at least planted in the body of a child. I went...
2025-01-18 13:29:57 +0000 UTC View PostSlightly sick today. Will finish editing chapters when I finish burning out the fever. Expect updates in around 12-15 hours or so.
2025-01-17 17:50:01 +0000 UTC View PostThis is not acceptable.
Failure—right now—is not acceptable. All Inheritors need to know what is at stake. Understand that if we are not the ones to reach Earth first, then we will be condemning our home—our people—-to the Fictionals and degenerates that lead them. Think of what they’ll do to our world. Our culture. Think of what might happen to all of us if they manage to reach the Vault first.
Firstly… You tell the Crosssroads that we don’t ac...
2025-01-16 09:48:21 +0000 UTC View PostThe role of “emissary” is often seen more as a punishment than a position of privilege. Those who enter such roles usually do so under genuine belief toward the institution of diplomacy, or—more often—are forced into such positions after being displaced by internal power struggles.
For those familiar with military matters and the nature of the ongoing Shadow Wars, the expense of keeping a public figure alive incurs astronomical costs, given the material, metaphysica...
2025-01-15 18:08:53 +0000 UTC View PostWhat we are doing is pure folly. Transporting millions of Citizens down into the Warrens, trying to displace the FATELESS. This is stupidity of the highest order — and being an act of stupidity, all the Guilds have taken to practicing with it with unmatched fervor and zeal.
The Warrens are mostly underdeveloped. Disrepair is not strong enough of a word to describe its current condition. Apocalyptic would be more proper. I have brought up complaints about us not revitalizi...
2025-01-14 17:53:59 +0000 UTC View Post{It’s not a question if the terrestrials are going to kill each other — They simply will. Eons of unending warfare and mutual loathing have created a people so desensitized to death and creative in its implementation that even with every safeguard put in place, there will inevitably be those who try regardless of the cost they might suffer, regardless of the norms they will break.
But that doesn’t mean there is nothing to be done.
If there is one thing ...
2025-01-13 16:52:39 +0000 UTC View PostDeath doesn’t care about you. I don’t mean that in the metaphorical sense, but very literally.
I’ve met the Hound of the Withered Moon, you see. Saw the dog of the Final End and the bringer of the Gravechill themselves. I’ll tell you this much, if neutral and indifferent could be distilled into a single entity, they would be it.
Functionally, they’re more like an admin rather than anything else. Interested in processing your death and going over the...
2025-01-13 07:35:55 +0000 UTC View PostThe composition of a Fictional’s being comes in six parts. Six parts that connect their beings to the rest of the Fathoms. They don’t consist of component atoms. Hell, their biology isn’t even consistent with our protein-based structures. They are, for lack of a more scientific way of describing things, shaped by the lores that spawned them.
The very grounding of their existence is how they interact with the world—the feats they can achieve. The Essence Level? That ...
2025-01-12 12:13:55 +0000 UTC View PostDeath is not my domain to rule. It already has a master, a Hound that governs that final journey one takes in this lifetime.
A final journey that fuels its power and invigorates its Concepts.
Oh, the Hound of the Withered Moon. One of the few intact gods left in the Fathoms—and what a god at that. This one has been here longer than I by far. Eons and eons, with countless trillions feeding their abyss, with accords s...
2025-01-11 18:20:51 +0000 UTC View PostThe foundations of war are cast during ages of peace.
What you do to your population, how you raise the young and the talented, how you create institutions, industries, and organizations, determine what you can spend when the time of the fires call.
My father taught me this in theory at first, and then I learned it first-hand during the war against the pantheons. I watched their societies, studied how to break their empires from within, spent centuries learni...
2025-01-09 18:48:37 +0000 UTC View Post