Many have debated the exact meaning of the name attached to Yolesh the Ever Dying. Is the Ancient some form of undead? Is it a boast to stat
Far to the west of the lands claimed by the golgari, over the sunken ocean and beyond the Burning Islands, the vast area known as the Somnos Jungle lies.
Outside of the cults, there are few who remember the reason it is named so. The Legion, almost certainly, as they were the ones who named it, and perhaps the Walik tribes ...
2025-08-28 02:00:06 +0000 UTC
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Many have debated the exact meaning of the name attached to Yolesh the Ever Dying. Is the Ancient some form of undead? Is it a boast to state how Yolesh cannot truly die? Does it have another meaning altogether?
Amongst the worshippers of Yolesh, there is no consensus, but there are a few prevalent views, the most common among them being that the aura of undeath that surrounds the Ancient is fuelled by its own life force. In that sense, Yolesh is always dying, burning its o...
2025-08-27 02:24:49 +0000 UTC
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Nearly done with Tunnel Ball. I'm having fun with it :) Nothing is known of Gon the Sightless Freak, not even how we came to know the Ancie
Nearly done with Tunnel Ball. I'm having fun with it :)
Nothing is known of Gon the Sightless Freak, not even how we came to know the Ancient’s name. None have ever seen them, even in dreams. The few cultists who have dreamed of Gon report a world shrouded in darkness. A place without sight, or sound, or touch, or...
2025-08-26 02:00:03 +0000 UTC
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The Cult of the Hound live in fear of the being that they worship. Torra the Dread Dog is surrounded by such a blanketing aura of terror tha
The Cult of the Hound live in fear of the being that they worship. Torra the Dread Dog is surrounded by such a blanketing aura of terror that there are only a handful of records of anyone even laying eyes on the Ancient.
At least, laying eyes on them and then being able to speak of the event afterwards.
Not the lar...
2025-08-25 02:00:07 +0000 UTC
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“I don’t think you understand how dangerous this is.”
Tyron grunted, not bothering to give Dove any more of his attention than he absolutely had to. This obviously drove the skeleton to be as annoying as possible.
“Hey. Are you listening to me?” he demanded. “If you get caught wandering around out here with your dick in your hand, you will spend the next thousand years regretting it! You have no idea what sort of fucked up tortuous shit the Death Lords can do. H...
2025-08-24 13:23:28 +0000 UTC
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Zothoth who Feasts on Sanity is barely understood even by the Cult of Asylum, who worship them. More accurately known as ‘the Cult of the Sh
Zothoth who Feasts on Sanity is barely understood even by the Cult of Asylum, who worship them. More accurately known as ‘the Cult of the Shattered Mind’, since those who dream of Zothoth are usually unable to communicate what they saw upon waking. Or communicate anything at all, truth be told.
There are few legends of the ...
2025-08-22 02:00:02 +0000 UTC
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There were two new options for Tyron to select from and he examined them carefully. Every advancement he made in his main Class was a treasure to be treated with care, since progressing and gaining levels was such a difficult process. Truth be told, he was shocked that he’d managed to gain two levels since coming to the Realm of the Dead. The creatures who lived here were dangerous and difficult to kill, far more deadly than the average kin, but he didn’t think that he would be rew...
2025-08-21 09:00:01 +0000 UTC
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Of all the Ancients, it is perhaps Arconidem who is the most widely believed to actually exist, outside of the cults. The third stratum is a
Of all the Ancients, it is perhaps Arconidem who is the most widely believed to actually exist, outside of the cults. The third stratum is a blighted place, filled with demons under the influence of the Demon God, making it easy to imagine some creature is down below, manipulating it all.
The Cult of the Red Truth was one of the ...
2025-08-21 02:00:03 +0000 UTC
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Were there a competition for the Ancient who is the most feared, there are several contenders that all of the cults would agree on, one of w
Were there a competition for the Ancient who is the most feared, there are several contenders that all of the cults would agree on, one of whom being Tarriflyx the Hunger. Cultists of the Endless Feast tell hushed tales of those who have dreamed of the Ancient, so consumed with a bottomless, sucking hunger that they awaken to find they have gna...
2025-08-20 02:00:03 +0000 UTC
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“Ten rounds in, we have reached the midpoint of the match, and things are really heating up here, folks. Tied at two all, both teams have sh
“Ten rounds in, we have reached the midpoint of the match, and things are really heating up here, folks. Tied at two all, both teams have shown great skill and strategy on both offence and defence. It’s exciting to see just how quickly the Folk have adapted to the game, and as longtime watchers, I can tell you all that these are highly skille...
2025-08-19 02:00:03 +0000 UTC
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Despite his attempts to calm his apprentice and have her explain just what she thought she was doing, he got nothing but irritated glares. W
Despite his attempts to calm his apprentice and have her explain just what she thought she was doing, he got nothing but irritated glares. When he tried, politely, to tap her on the arm to get her attention, she simply brushed him off.
His apprentice! Brushed him off!
There would be a reprimand for this behaviour, most definitely. Only...
2025-08-18 02:00:04 +0000 UTC
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Visions swam through Tyron’s mind, a dizzying kaleidoscope of images and impressions that seemed to stab deep into his brain, leaving behind tiny shards of knowledge he couldn’t interpret. He saw magick, folding and twisting, meshing and weaving with creatures who lived and died. He saw the transition from life to death, and the reverse. He saw rebirth, he saw annihilation and he saw the immutable material that connected them.
Again and again the visions flashed, a disorienti...
2025-08-16 07:40:40 +0000 UTC
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Grey looked at the long line stretching out from the arena ahead of him, then craned his neck to look behind. If his judgement was accurate,
Grey looked at the long line stretching out from the arena ahead of him, then craned his neck to look behind. If his judgement was accurate, and as a Blademaster of the Folk, it was, he was very close to the midpoint.
“This is absurd,” he huffed. “Why are so many people eager to witness this… game,” he almost spat the last ...
2025-08-15 02:00:05 +0000 UTC
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Merigold had never imagined that she would ever be the target of an assassination attempt. After all, the Herimar family were, by the standards of the Imperial Court, a weak and unimportant branch family possessing thin blood and little wealth. She’d been lucky to study at the Twin Goddess Academy on a scholarship and her grades had earned her a minor position within the bureaucracy. That was supposed to be her lot in life. And she would have been very satisfied with it!
...
2025-08-15 00:08:17 +0000 UTC
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Vibrant raced along the tunnels, laughing brightly as she sliced through the monster who tried to reach out and grasp her, only to be left f
Vibrant raced along the tunnels, laughing brightly as she sliced through the monster who tried to reach out and grasp her, only to be left flailing in her wake.
“Too slow! Too slow!” she cried joyfully, running literal circles around them as they tried to harm her in any way.
Yet they were always too slow. To her eyes, they moved in...
2025-08-14 02:00:09 +0000 UTC
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Life slowly returned to normal around the fortress. In fact, better than normal. ‘Normal’ had come to mean an endless battle against the fif
Life slowly returned to normal around the fortress. In fact, better than normal. ‘Normal’ had come to mean an endless battle against the fifth, against the toxin, the Krath, the mucus and monsters. ‘Normal’ meant hospitals filled with partially dissolved ants, or those suffering from parasites. It meant barracks filled with humans, golg...
2025-08-13 02:00:03 +0000 UTC
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It didn’t take long to recount the story of what had occurred, and Rathwyn reacted with the same disbelief and shock that Granin himself sti
It didn’t take long to recount the story of what had occurred, and Rathwyn reacted with the same disbelief and shock that Granin himself still felt.
“That’s… that’s extraordinary,” the mage muttered. “Who could have thought that the chal were capable of such a feat?”
Granin frowned.
“They aren’t,” he said f...
2025-08-12 02:00:03 +0000 UTC
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By the time the little snails had finished singing, an entire day had passed. Much to the horror of the Brood Tenders, the little creatures
By the time the little snails had finished singing, an entire day had passed. Much to the horror of the Brood Tenders, the little creatures collapsed the moment their song was complete. Ants swarmed over the snails, gently picking them up as they retreated into their shells and then scurrying away, returning them to wherever they had come from.
<...
2025-08-11 02:00:04 +0000 UTC
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Days later, Tyron staggered out of bed, his head a confused jumble of formulae, sigils and conduits. The food he’d brought with him to the other side had quickly become corrupted by the abundant death magick in the realm, causing it to lose almost all of its nutritional value. An oversight he now regretted. Even so, he munched on some blackened carrots and slimy, spotted potatoes, trusting his constitution would be enough to prevent him from falling ill. The little water they had was...
2025-08-09 23:28:14 +0000 UTC
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The fifth stratum was changing. Tended by the healers, the heart had survived its purification, rotten and slime-covered flesh giving way to
The fifth stratum was changing. Tended by the healers, the heart had survived its purification, rotten and slime-covered flesh giving way to healthy red muscle that now pumped stronger than ever. But that wasn’t the only change.
Filled with a deep sense of satisfaction, Solant looked down into the depths of the lower chamber. The whirlpool ...
2025-08-08 02:00:03 +0000 UTC
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I think I hate you. [Oh, I am well accustomed to being hated. If anything, I find it an honour to be hated by you. This is the human who did
I think I hate you.
[Oh, I am well accustomed to being hated. If anything, I find it an honour to be hated by you. This is the human who didn’t hate his family, no matter how poorly they treated him.]
You never let that go, do you? My life wasn’t that remarkable. I had some hard times. Who doesn’t?
[You-]
I know how I ...
2025-08-07 02:00:02 +0000 UTC
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Well, I’ve been on this ride before. Spinning like I’m going down the toilet, only to sink so far and deep I can only imagine I’ve landed ri
Well, I’ve been on this ride before. Spinning like I’m going down the toilet, only to sink so far and deep I can only imagine I’ve landed right in the middle of Pangera, right at the core.
Of course, I have no way to confirm that, I’m just a disembodied consciousness along for the ride. How does that even work, by the way? Who i...
2025-08-06 02:00:04 +0000 UTC
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The contamination inside Anthony had spread too far and too fast. Without the ant himself to hold back the tide, there was only so much the
The contamination inside Anthony had spread too far and too fast. Without the ant himself to hold back the tide, there was only so much the golgari and healers could do. Working with mana inside the body of another was so much harder than manipulating it in almost any other context.
The triad maintained their connection, pooling their three mi...
2025-08-05 02:00:02 +0000 UTC
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Working through his minions was something Tyron had grown accustomed to, it was what a Necromancer did, after all. But it wasn’t just being in direct control of these minions he was worried about. Without wights or revenants to lead them, addingto add their Skills and abilities to provide punch and durability, his base skeletons were on their own. He hadn’t fielded such a weak force in a long time, even if the numbers were still significant.
Two thousand skeletons in...
2025-08-05 02:00:02 +0000 UTC
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For Theresant, the slow ‘march’ of the snails through the fortress was agonising. At every turn, she would fret and worry. What if they hurt themselves? What if some soldier came blundering around the corner and stood on them? What if they were getting tired?
Yet she was powerless to intervene. She knew as well as anyone that locking the chal up within the snailcare centre would only result in them staring at the door once more, putting them right back where they started.
She ...
2025-08-04 02:00:07 +0000 UTC
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The Soul Eater was heavily mangled, but even so, Tyron was able to piece together just what it had looked like in undeath, and it was a disturbing picture indeed. Grey skinned, hunched, with a distended, toothless void of a mouth and hollow, black eyes, it was more horrific than any kin he had ever seen.
What’s more, he had no idea how to extract the souls from its gut, so he did the next best thing. Butcher knife in hand, he carved its stomach out of the remains before having ...
2025-08-02 05:24:29 +0000 UTC
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BOD is back boyssssssss! Time for shenanigans in the Realm of the Dead lets goooooooooooo.
Work consumed Tyron. There was a great deal to do, and he keenly felt the pressure of time weighing on his back. Despite his confidence, he knew that a single false step would spell his doom. He didn’t underestimate the Death Lords, he believed they were every bit as powerful as Dove had said they were. Should they notice him, he would be destroyed as easily as a human swatting ...
2025-07-31 05:03:37 +0000 UTC
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Made a few changes to the species. Felt like it lacked proper tier eight OOMPH. As an editor said, if he isn't going to become OP now, then
Made a few changes to the species. Felt like it lacked proper tier eight OOMPH. As an editor said, if he isn't going to become OP now, then when?!
So it's happening NOW!
New evolution menu text (new bit bolded):
[Mythic Evolution: Toxic Spring Colony Bulwark. +100 Cunning, +100 Wil...
2025-07-29 05:13:26 +0000 UTC
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I’m cooking over here. Chill out.
“Where are they going?” Theresant fretted.
She constantly darted forward, then mastered herself and retreated a little, desperate to intervene and protect the chal but knowing they wouldn’t appreciate her interference.
“Everything is fine,” Florence said, trying to soothe her sister. “They’re perfectly safe, the path has been cleared. They seem quite happy. What is there to worry about?”
She wa...
2025-07-29 01:42:19 +0000 UTC
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By this time, the Colony had somewhat managed to hold Anthony down using some sort of threaded rope, magic and sheer weight of numbers. He was still wiggling about, but his range of motion had been greatly reduced, which made keeping in contact with him much easier.
[Anthony,] the triad said, trying to break through to him. [We have two options that should help you survive, do you have a preference?]
[I’d prefer it… IF MY FACE WASN’T ON FIRE!]
[The evolutions!]<...
2025-07-28 13:02:33 +0000 UTC
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