I was there when the Hungers shattered. I was there when love and time and memory came apart and were cauterized into each other.
I was there.
But I wasn’t alone. There were other iterations of myself. So many versions of me. Across time. Across memory.
I was never alone. We were never alone. And we will never be alone again.
-Abrel Greatling
28-20
Unravel
... 2024-09-06 12:19:36 +0000 UTC View PostAnd so the time comes,
The daughter
The mother
The beast
And the world’s womb
In embrace
Time and mind entwined
Peace and war betwixt
And the war, though fractured, evermore conjoined…
-Stormsparrow’s Chorus
28-19
Embracement
Suddenly, Avo was released. The paths broke apart around him, and the material world was exposed to him again. He c...
2024-09-04 17:24:13 +0000 UTC View PostI was there during the first battle of The Embracement War. Noloth smashed down on us. Hit us like a godsdamned motherfucking warhead made to disfigure cognition and chronology. Everyone got lost. Everyone.
The mental and material started… blurring together, and every now again, time itself tried to kill you.
I can’t tell you how many died that day. More than the numbers recorded. But I can tell you that part of me is s...
2024-09-03 15:13:32 +0000 UTC View PostAnd here's the hardest lesson of all, consangs. You can get everything right. Your prep can be mono-sharp and perfect. Your sheath can be designed down to the cell for the battle you're about to wage. But sometimes…
Sometimes shit just goes wrong.
Sometimes, you lose people.
Sometimes you just lose.
-Quail Tavers
28-17
Three Kingdoms Fall
More threads of static-confused gold pierced deep into this tapestry of nothing...
2024-09-02 11:48:25 +0000 UTC View Post{WARNING TO ALL POLITIES!
ZERO DAY METACOGNITION COLLAPSE DETECTED!
EFFECT RADIUS: IDHEIM STABILITY ZONE
NETHER HAS UNDERGONE COMPLETE DESTABILIZATION — COLLAPSE POINT NARROWED:
>>||<<
COLLAPSE IDENTIFIED AS OPERATIVE AVO
INITIATING CONTINGENCY BLEAK “MINDKILLER” TO BEGIN RADICAL QUARANTINE PROTOCOLS}
-Voidwatch Communiqué
28-16
From Nothing I Am
–...
2024-08-29 15:08:12 +0000 UTC View Post…And the deepest cut is the one no one sees coming.
-Zein Thousandhand
28-15
Hope Forgotten (II)
The Hungers raged, spewing venom with each word. They arrived like a storm cloud forming over the court. With the recession of the Heaven of Truth's cosmology, a swelling patch of darkness pooled above, forming a third boundary between Veylis's paths and the Stormsparrow's stage.
The swirling maw of darkness twisted and splashed, like waves displaced by...
2024-08-27 17:54:12 +0000 UTC View PostI basically spent the past few days having a pretty bad existential crisis. I am close to the end of processing the problem. I'm going to be fixing several personal issues. More chapters soon.
2024-08-24 16:39:45 +0000 UTC View PostHope?
Hope is a terminal affliction; a crippling ailment.
You can hope. I will take. I will inflict. I will decide.
-Zein Thousandhand
28-15
Hope Forgotten (I)
–[Mercy]–
A node of Jaus Avandaer.
How impossible.
How unfathomable.
And yet, how very acceptable.
The Famine of Mercy peered through the threshold of the deep nether and watched the scene unfold. He ...
2024-08-22 16:00:14 +0000 UTC View PostThere comes a point where a moment presents itself. A fracture on the face of history. A crack that, when struck, will shatter all the things and paths that could have been.
These moments can be felt. They can be lived.
And ultimately, they can be destroyed.
The child of an empress is to be born today, Jaus Avandaer. An empress never meant to bear children. Or so it was claimed by her court. When the babe cries ...
2024-08-20 19:05:11 +0000 UTC View PostAlright, folks. It took a bit and I got stuck for a few days, but the next few chapters are all in the oven.
With everything we've been through, the Fifth Guild War is sparking up, and in around 4-5 chapters, this volume will end.
Hold on to your hats, because what's coming up will see the setting changed in more ways than one.
Because in The Embracement War, everything comes together.
2024-08-19 16:11:07 +0000 UTC View PostNow, I'm gonna say something today that might piss off all you circuit fans, but it has to be said.
Two auged-up chromers or a gaggle of razorgirls fighting in a small pit? That's not war. That's entertainment. Bloody entertainment. Hells, the fights might even be interesting, but that's not war. The same way what the Stormsparrow's doing isn't war either.
I'm sure you all cold-dived vicarities from past wars and got “second-hand” front-row seats to actua...
2024-08-18 18:12:22 +0000 UTC View Post+MY PRIESTS!
THE MOMENT IS UPON US! THE OUTSIDERS GNAW AND TEAR AT ONE ANOTHER! THE BURNING DREAMER AND THE BETRAYER’S DAUGHTER HAVE EMBRACED EACH OTHER IN THEIR STRUGGLE. AN OPENING HAS PRESENTED ITSELF. ANGLE TOWARD NOLOTH’S SALVATION—AND ASCENSION!
HOLD NOTHING BACK. GIVE ALL OF YOURSELVES. GIVE YOUR LIVES. GIVE YOUR WARMINDS. GIVE EVERYTHING YOU HAVE, AND GRANT YOU ABSOLUTION, REDEMPTION, AND ...
2024-08-14 18:55:20 +0000 UTC View PostSurrender.
Such is the indignity you inflicted upon my father. The same poison has touched my mother, touched me, touched every living being left in existence.
For you are the tyrant of want — desire made divine.
All humans want, and when we see our desires made manifest; the ones we yearn to have, the lives we wish to enjoy, the power so intoxicating to possess—these things infest ...
2024-08-13 18:46:21 +0000 UTC View PostLament.
Lament is the poison inflicted upon a broken heart. What could have been. What might have been. What will never be. These are ingredients to despair—despair born from the understanding that if only a few variables were different, if only another choice was made, then perhaps your desire would have been manifest.
Instead of lament.
I know what it means to lament.
I lamented my pantheon even before I betrayed them. I lame...
2024-08-12 19:01:36 +0000 UTC View PostNew schedule on RR
Godclads - Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday. Potentially Friday depending on workload. Expect advanced chapters to be expanded more. I'm going to try to get this to as many updates as possible every week, but the next volume is soon approaching, and with it will come a great many changes...
TTF - Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday for RR. Updates on Patreon will be as frequently as possible. Expect at least 5 updates per week. Likely more
Ultimately, expect th...
2024-08-10 17:58:45 +0000 UTC View Post+++PRIORITY ZENITH TRANSMISSION+++
All active cells.
The High Seraph's Heaven is at full manifestation.
Temporal anomalies have been detected across all districts.
Mirrors, initiate Queenslayer protocols.
An opening has presented itself. We are deploying THE ARK to supplement efforts.
End the war. Behead the master of Highflame.
Whatever the c...
2024-08-10 17:46:39 +0000 UTC View PostWith TTF reaching the end of it's RS run, it will go on schedule and my schedule will be adjusted.
I'm going to be doing some review, but TTF will likely take on a 3 or 4 day weekly update pattern in the future while Godclads might resume its standard 5 on RR. The current volume will be approaching its end soon, and the next arc will be...
Different.
Additionally, book 3 edits are rather expansive so there is that as well.
Finally, there are some other projects in the ...
2024-08-09 18:34:27 +0000 UTC View Post