Amisra was the only one I could push all the way to the sorcerer realm, but my other women all benefited from my guidance. I still remembered what it was like to imprint myself on Amisra like I had thought. I’d never climaxed that hard before. I could hardly wait till some of my other women were strong enough to make an attempt. Maybe I could repeat the experience.
The battle picked up the next day as soon as the big dragon came into sight again. The rest of us would have to join the ...
2023-02-26 16:00:04 +0000 UTC
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“There he is! The cretin who attacked me! Now he’s attacking Lord Kalaziel,” Commander Thorn shouted as he pointed his sword at Darren.
Fury burned in his eyes, barely concealing his lust for vengeance. Darren had humiliated him in their last fight, and he planned to erase all memories of that battle by taking Darren’s life.
Gaviel flapped his wings, putting distance between himself and Commander Thorn. He’d lost to the commander once, and now the commander had a small a...
2023-02-25 16:00:03 +0000 UTC
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Everyone was shocked by the sudden appearance of another Prime Saint, from Prime Saints to bystanders. Horon was the least startled, and he quickly worked to hide his surprised expression.
“Good of you to join us, Ashe. It’s been a long time since you’ve attended one of these meetings, hasn’t it?” Horon spoke as pleasantly as if they were simply talking about the weather.
Ashe shrugged. “Ten centuries or so. It’s hard to keep track. I see a lot of new faces around th...
2023-02-22 16:00:04 +0000 UTC
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Darren, Gaviel, and Horon hashed out a brief plan. Darren would stay back. Having a human in their midst as powerful as Darren would take a lot of explanation and would probably take a council meeting on its own, and Horon thought it wisest to cut straight to Kalaziel’s crimes. To do anything less would be risky, and he was already pulling as many favors as he could to gather the other Prime Saints on short notice.
The Prime Saints usual gathering place had an otherworldly feel to it....
2023-02-20 17:35:07 +0000 UTC
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Everyone was exhausted and wounded, but one benefit of bonding with a magical transdimensional spaceship-like The Wanderer was that I could always sleep in my own bed no matter how far from the Hearthwood I was. The Personal Chambers were still a wonder to behold, and while I rarely slept these days, today, I always did so in its warm confines. The modern furnishments reminded me a lot of life on Earth. While the elves had substitutes for indoor plumbing, I would always be a sucker for the re...
2023-02-19 16:00:04 +0000 UTC
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“By my honor, I have sworn to protect all those who have given their oaths to me!” Horon declared as he looked down the length of his sword at Darren. “I will not suffer the death of a loyal man so near the steps of my own home.”
Darren had found himself in a rather tricky situation. Fighting Horon would only lead to more problems. If he lost, he’d be entirely reliant on his Pheonix’s Blessing and his other bodies to recover. He’d be left in a weakened position at a time w...
2023-02-18 16:00:02 +0000 UTC
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“I’ll be busy with Commander Thorn,” Gaviel whispered. “We’ll fight and retreat up the tunnel. try to keep the others off us.”
Despite all his bravado offering a duel, Gaviel knew these were long odds. The first thing he did was cast a barrier stretching from one side of the tunnel wall to the other between them and Captain Thorn and their other attackers.
That just left the Gateguard on their side of the barrier, and Darren was on top of him in an instant. The Gategua...
2023-02-15 16:00:05 +0000 UTC
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Dozens of crazed seraphim frothing at the mouth charged at Darren and his companions like wild animals. He planted his feet, prepared to wrestle them to the ground. When he wanted to be, Darren could make himself an immovable pillar. No matter how many of these seraphim swarmed him, physical strength would never overcome the quality of his skills.
Unfortunately, numbers were a quality all on their own, and though they couldn’t shove him aside, they could soon swarm him. Darren was con...
2023-02-13 16:00:06 +0000 UTC
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The dragon appeared suddenly, its deep brown scales catching the light of the nearest sun. To call this dragon massive would be like calling a boulder a mountain. It was a world unto itself. I had thought it would wield gravity magic like me, but as I looked up at the beast whose wings stretched from horizon to horizon, I realized I was staring at something truly otherworldly.
Rivers, forests, and storms adorned the dragon’s scales, crossing the ruddy brown in lines of blue and green....
2023-02-12 19:30:19 +0000 UTC
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A few minutes later, Darren was standing over the ruins of what had formerly been the village.
He hadn’t meant to destroy every building, but the seraphim had proven surprisingly combative when he walked in with his sword drawn, his passive skills activated, and ready for a fight.
He’d walked right up to the building Asuriel had followed the villager in. When he found it locked, he cut the building in half. Then, when he didn’t find Asuriel inside, he grew truly angry.
2023-02-11 17:40:37 +0000 UTC
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I'm working on Amazon Apocalypse and need you guys for a sounding board again.
I don't actually like my stat system, now that I take a second look at it. Some of them overlap and I want each point placed into a stat to be impactful in some way. So I'm reworking it! I'm seeing two options, but I haven't decided which to pick. There were other options I've already dismissed, but I need a tiebreaker for the two I like the most, for different reasons.
Which of these two systems se...
2023-02-10 18:42:40 +0000 UTC
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Darren soon found himself Captain Gaviel’s second in command. That was extremely unusual, considering how new he was to the department. But the captain stood firmly behind the decision.
The true deciding factor in accepting him was that Darren was still looking for sparring partners. Anyone who voiced their displeasure to him was volunteering for an entire day of eating sand as they were pummeled again and again while Darren slowly got the hang of aerial combat. By the time the week w...
2023-02-08 16:46:26 +0000 UTC
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Assigning quests to the Protectors was similar to assigning quests to his followers back home, so Darren quickly got the hang of what he needed to do. He copied the quest his sigil gave him and sent it to his Protector’s badge.
“I got the quest! I’m taking it!” said the Protector, ready to wrestle Asuriel over who got to cling to Darren’s arm. She was a lithe cleric-type seraph, slightly taller than Asuriel and with metallic blue hair like the water of the deepest parts of the...
2023-02-06 16:11:10 +0000 UTC
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I arrived on the Fimblesea Continent in a flash of light, with Sam and Dean at my side. Dean was worried there might be danger, so it made sense for the strongest fighters to go first and clear the way for everyone to follow.
"I told you we wouldn't encounter any danger." Sam rolled his eyes. He'd predicted our arrival would be safe with his fate magic, and he was proven right.
We stood in an open field. Whatever civilization of elves lived here was long gone. We were surrounded b...
2023-02-05 16:01:00 +0000 UTC
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Asuriel argued they should save the kraken for last, but it was the quest Darren was looking forward to the most. Eventually, she caved and agreed that they could go kill it first thing.
They stood on the edge of an old dock. From its appearance, it had been hundreds of years since it was last used. In the human world, something abandoned so long would have long since been destroyed, but with such long lives, the seraph built their creations to last.
Darren reigned in his aura to ...
2023-02-04 16:00:03 +0000 UTC
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My powers have grown since the last AI art post, and I've started blending together different checkpoints to home in on the content I want AIs to draw. Let me know if you like this style better than the one for Spellheart I did last week.
I was trying to get some new girls drawn to brainstorm future characters for Amazon Apocalypse. Let me know if you guys see anyone you are particularly fond of and would like Carter to meet.
One thing is certain though -- Stable Diffusion thinks ...
2023-02-02 21:22:53 +0000 UTC
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One of the things Darren was hoping for during this stay in the heavens was more opportunities to fight seraph. He’d spent so long fighting demons that he was afraid his habits would force him to make a mistake when fighting Kalaziel. Sparring with Callum and Asuriel could only do so much for him. He needed an experienced warrior, and now Captain Gaviel had kindly offered himself up.
Darren’s first attack was a faint. Captain Gaviel saw it coming, as Darren knew he would. The attack...
2023-02-01 16:10:39 +0000 UTC
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“Where can we find these ophanim?” Darren asked as soon as they were clear of the museum.
“You used to be able to find them in every nearby office. But nowadays, they’re more likely to be found under lock and key.” Asuriel frowned, eyes scanning the nearby buildings as though she could see through walls. “But that’s because most of them are supporting local networks. If we want one of them communicating with the wider world, we will have to visit the local cluster.”
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2023-01-30 16:00:06 +0000 UTC
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My previous experience fighting on water hadn’t been particularly pleasant. As an earth cultivator, I was used to having the home field advantage wherever I fought. Sure, earth zeal wasn’t the best for speed or to produce magical effects, but it was second to none regarding utility, at least while on land.
At sea, I lost access to the vast reserves of earth zeal below my feet.
This was an even more frustrating experience. I was sitting on a slowly melting stone raft atop a lak...
2023-01-29 16:00:02 +0000 UTC
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The area of the Seventh Heaven they emerged in was a wild forest teeming with a spiritual facsimile of life. The trees were thick and covered in beautiful, deep-green leaves. A canopy of green branches hung overhead, creating a natural roof that kept most of the light out and filtered it to an emerald glow.
The ground was littered with bright flowers and shiny emerald grass. The air was filled with a myriad of smells, most as lovely as the finest perfume. The beauty belied the dangerous...
2023-01-28 16:00:05 +0000 UTC
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It's been a while since we did some AI art, and I just switched over to Automatic1111 and have been getting a feel for some of the models available there. I ended up rendering out a few thousand elves of various sorts using keywords I frequently use to describe fashion and elves in Spellheart. I picked the ones I liked for your viewing pleasure here.
Think of these as some of the people Theo might meet in the palace of Deania or when visiting other nations. Heartwielders and Mage Acolyt...
2023-01-28 06:22:23 +0000 UTC
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[Darren, you are not going up that staircase alone!] Cassandra said the moment he told her of their discovery through their telepathic bond.
Darren wondered why Cassandra’s first thought when he told her about a pathway to another dimension filled with otherworldly entities was worry that he’d jump in to fight them.
Granted, he’d done that a few times, but he was a married man now. He had to be a little safer about these things.
[I’m not going to run up the staircase...
2023-01-25 16:00:04 +0000 UTC
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Darren had done this conquering thing enough times by now that his people knew what to do without even getting orders from him. They established order, made their presence and the change in rulership known in every town and village that still had enough people left to matter, and generally told everyone things would be just fine.
But that was far from the only thing they did. The disruption caused by the loss of so many people was great, and what supply chains they had were broken. The ...
2023-01-23 16:00:05 +0000 UTC
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“Thousands of giant dragons that fly through space?” My mind returned to the massive dead dragon in the center of the Hearthwood. It had been the center of Segolas’ cultivation path, and the entire Circle of Necromancers to the north had coveted the amount of death zeal it emitted. And that was just a dead juvenile. I shuddered to think what a live, fully grown dragon of this type could do. Especially if it was in a swarm with thousands of its kin. I took a deep breath, dreading the ans...
2023-01-22 19:00:31 +0000 UTC
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Under Sasha’s father’s direction, they were headed for Whiteguard City, the place from which the kingdom got its name. Now that it was in sight, he understood why so many other sprawling settlements were considered only towns.
Even Limedeep looked small compared to the city of Whiteguard. The walls were cut from brilliant white granite, polished, smoothed, and standing proud. Such cuts would be impossible for traditional stone masons. Only a paladin with an enchanted blade could hop...
2023-01-21 16:26:17 +0000 UTC
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Since no one came out to fight, the signal went up for the rest of the army to head into town and truly scour the place for clues.
They’d arrived in Watershed quickly enough to prevent the manifestation of demons, but they hadn’t arrived quite soon enough to stop the undead from rising. Some of the corpses started moving, and a few less-experienced holy adepts around him grew excited at the prospect.
“I think this one’s alive! She just twitched!” A young man said wit...
2023-01-18 15:44:59 +0000 UTC
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Darren spent the rest of the day rushing around the various castles and preparing. The regular soldiers needed to be updated in person. Getting those within his sigil network was far easier. All he had to do was send out a quest.
New Quest Available!
Invade Whiteguard (Unknown difficulty)
Join the offensive force at the rallying points along the Northern and Eastern borders!
The only thing Darren regretted was that the...
2023-01-16 15:57:28 +0000 UTC
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Sava had been terribly worried from the moment she heard Segolas went all alone, but Mac had informed her I was keeping an eye on things. That was the only thing that kept her from tearing her way through the dungeon herself.
She gave Segolas quite a talking to when we finally got to the surface, and I knew he would be in trouble for a while. But true to his word, he promised to rest and recover and not do anything too strenuous.
“To think, I’d been working all day and night t...
2023-01-15 15:40:40 +0000 UTC
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Cassandra was a handful on her own. Adding in the attention of the rest of his women, even Darren had his hands full. His only reprieve came when Callum finally woke up, recovered at last from his transition to archpaladin.
“Darren! When did we get back to Blackwind? The nurses told me I’ve been asleep here for a week!” Callum asked, voice full of worry.
“You had a reaction to the transition to Archpaladin. How do you feel?”
“Good. Very good, actually! I feel str...
2023-01-14 17:03:16 +0000 UTC
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Darren and his forces spent the next few weeks in an uneasy celebration. The battle for Eastwood had been more of a cleanup operation than a fight for true control. The Northern Trade Union was more eager than ever to be brought into the new umbrella his forces were forming now that they had secured Neverhorn Citadel. The massive reduction in demonic activity was palatable to every man, woman, and child on the surface. Trade was flourishing across the Sacred Seas in a way that it hadn’t for...
2023-01-11 16:00:04 +0000 UTC
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