Ceruviel's Harsh Truths (Chapter 17)
Here you go, you animals.
Not quite exact, but, there you go.
2025-12-31 04:46:01 +0000 UTC View Post
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DEFUNCT - DRAFT DISCARDED
Disclaimer: This is a first draft, and this chapter is a little confronting. I know what I'm going for here, but I'm also aware it may be executed poorly. I heavily encourage detailed and clear feedback on what is and is not working. I appreciate you guys for alpha reading this.
Content Warning: Nudity, discomfort, trauma, hormones.
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Leonidas turned promptly on his heel as awareness caught up to his reality, and reache...
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Wednesday, July 20, 4 S.E.
Leonidas stepped out of the Guild Hall with Bardulf and Synthra twenty minutes later, having purchased but not yet claimed his [Manastorm Pinions], and having distributed both the [Acceleration Cloak] and [Crown of Displacement] to his soon-to-be delving companions.
“You are certain you wish to go already, Achilles? The day is yet young! There is food and drink to be had, should you desire it,” Bardulf said with a grin and a...
2025-12-30 23:10:40 +0000 UTC View PostCataclysm War | Chapter 14: Essence of Freedom (First Draft)
Wednesday, July 20, 4 S.E.
AETHERIUM STORE
Welcome to the [Aetherium Store], Leonidas!
An ideal selection of items has been curated for your perusal by the [Guild Administrator]!
All selections are subject to [Purchase Priority]!
Cloudstep Boots
[Quality]: Rare
[Price]: 65 Aetherium
[Requirement]: 30 Intelligence
[Effects]:...
2025-12-30 02:20:49 +0000 UTC View PostCataclysm War | Chapter 13: Perks of the Position (First Draft)
Wednesday, July 20, 4 S.E.
When Bardulf joined them a few minutes later, after Sinalthria had seen to it that the man was brought in and a message was sent to Ceruviel detailing Leonidas’ whereabouts and the new plan, Leonidas himself smiled wryly at the half-Lycanus Shadowblade.
“{Did you also think I was pursuing Synthra in some strange attempt to make her my partner, Bardulf?}” Leonidas asked him directly, while Synthra narrowed her eyes at them ...
2025-12-29 11:25:45 +0000 UTC View PostQuick PSA
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As a result, the page may be unavailable for 5 - 30 minutes, not certain.
Just letting you guys know before I do it.
EDIT: Done! That was pretty painless actually.
2025-12-29 08:08:21 +0000 UTC View PostCataclysm War | Chapter 12: The Arrangement (First Draft)
Wednesday, July 20, 4 S.E.
“{...absolutely ridiculous, Synthra! In the middle of the Guild Hall at that, in front of who knows how many watching eyes from the Aristocracy!}”
Leonidas leaned against the wall of Sinalthria’s office with his arms folded, eyes moving from the stern guild mistress to her daughter, sitting with her hands folded in her lap and shoulders hunched in mortification as her mother dressed her down. Typically, he’d hav...
2025-12-29 00:48:48 +0000 UTC View PostCataclysm War | Chapter 11: Daughter of Dragons (First Draft)
Wednesday, July 20, 4 S.E.
When Leonidas Achilles entered the Guild Hall, Synthra knew it immediately.
The chatter, the casual banter, the idle conversation—all of it stuttered, drawing toward silence when Bardulf paraded in with his arm around the tall, royally dressed Terran as if they had been friends since the crib. Synthra’s eyes narrowed from where she stood a floor above, leaning over the railing overlooking the hall proper. The crowd’s react...
2025-12-28 09:01:48 +0000 UTC View PostCataclysm War | Chapter 10: A Walk in Thought (First Draft)
Wednesday, July 20, 4 S.E.
Leonidas stepped out of Ceruviel’s mansion the next morning with a satisfied smile on his face and inhaled the scent of blooming lilacs. Settling in John, Sonya, Elise, and Patrick had been a relatively painless affair. Once the family had been shown the amenities available in Ceruviel’s estate, they’d all but fallen over themselves thanking the Duchess for her benevolence, which had been exactly the right way to win Ce...
2025-12-28 04:16:06 +0000 UTC View PostDawnhaven Map Framework
I used ChatGPT to summarise and create a comprehensive list of locations in Dawnhaven mentioned in Book 1, and qualified some things that were left more ambiguous as well. If anyone can use a program to create a map using this guidance, it would be greatly appreciated, and I'll reward you with 3 months of Patreon membership if you do a good job.
Note: A good job means it's accurate and clearly readable, not haphazard and rushed.
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Core Information
Cataclysm War POV List
Hey guys! Just thought I'd take a second to list out the (rough) idea I had for POVs in Book 2 of System Incursion, for those that may be interested.
PRIMARY POV (Main Narrative Driver / Majority Chapters)
Leonidas (Duh)
SECONDARY POV (Assistant Narrative Driver / Multiple Chapters)
Aylar
Synthra
Kairi
???
TERTIARY POV (Narrative Insight / 1 ...
2025-12-27 17:32:33 +0000 UTC View PostDuke Uriel Aventus, Dawn-Lord of Dawnhaven, Knight of the Luxan Spear, Arbiter of Law.
A card for Ceruviel's foil, and Mr Stick-Up-His-Ass!
2025-12-27 17:14:42 +0000 UTC View PostDuchess Ceruviel Latherian, Dusk-Lord of Dawnhaven, Last Archon of Altera, Mentor of Leonidas.
An updated Card for everyone's favourite cantankerous Elf!
2025-12-27 16:36:18 +0000 UTC View PostCataclysm War | Chapter 09: The Price of Potential (First Draft)
Tuesday, July 19, 4 S.E.
Aylar stepped through the destroyed doorway behind Leonidas with a feeling of pity mixed with anger. The Terrans that lived in Dawnhaven were her people, regardless of whatever assertions or prejudices may have existed in relation to their strength with the System—which she was fully aware of being just as guilty of, to her shame—and its myriad intricacies.
Her eyes moved through the house’s interior with assessing intensity...
2025-12-27 16:19:08 +0000 UTC View PostCataclysm War | Chapter 08: First-Sword of Dawnhaven (First Draft)
Tuesday, July 19, 4 S.E.
The thing that Aylar noticed about Leonidas' new appearance was the nature of it, before anything else.
It was not a tame beauty, like a courtly tapestry or regal painting, but a primal one; beautiful the way a naked blade could be beautiful, and gorgeous the way a roaring maelstrom was gorgeous when viewed from behind powerful wards. The armor did not merely encapsulate him; it announced him, turning the First A...
2025-12-27 03:35:30 +0000 UTC View PostCataclysm War | Chapter 07: Possibility (First Draft)
Tuesday, July 19, 4 S.E.
“{You are certain he’ll be okay, Ceruviel?}”
Aylar sat within her Royal Carriage, adorned in her white-and-gold warplate, with red cloth adornments and pennants resplendent upon her armor. Two Daggers of the Royal Guard escorted the Princess-Royal, every haelfar carefully selected. Tychar led the first dagger, and Leona the second; both of them were trustworthy, and each of the haelfenn below them was a solid Red.
It w...
2025-12-27 02:19:42 +0000 UTC View PostCataclysm War | Chapter 06: Aftermath (First Draft)
Tuesday, July 19, 4 S.E.
Leonidas stood with resolute stillness twenty minutes later, his blade planted into the pathway under his armored feet, and his hands resting on the bastard sword’s pommel. Cerynia was slumped several feet away, unmasked and without her hood, having been forced to consume a healing potion to avoid dying from his impaling strike. Lothran had been charged to take care of the insensate, still-weeping blonde highborn, much to the mercenar...
2025-12-26 20:08:12 +0000 UTC View PostCataclysm War | Chapter 05: Reap What You Sow (First Draft)
Tuesday, July 19, 4 S.E.
Leonidas smiled in satisfaction when the assassins leaped out of the windows, and his right hand extended to his side—wrapping the lurking Haelfar that had remained inside near the door in bands of [Psionic Force], and ripping them into the open through the entrance to 17 by knocking the door outward off of its hinges.
The man was dropped, groaning, into the grass a moment later.
At the same time, Leonidas looked ...
2025-12-26 05:36:41 +0000 UTC View PostCataclysm War | Chapter 04: Chevalier Lane (First Draft)
Tuesday, July 19, 4 S.E.
Leonidas left Ceruviel’s mansion with a pace that seemed leisurely, but was a carefully crafted falsehood honed over hours of practice. It permitted him a rapid but discreet advance through the Peacock District toward the Terran areas of the Residential Quarter, and though it would fool most eyes, to anyone who understood the cadence of a Duelist, his movement would be an alarm bell—but he had to take that risk, given his own lack o...
2025-12-26 02:38:00 +0000 UTC View PostCataclysm War | Chapter 03: Preparations (First Draft)
Tuesday, July 19, 4 S.E.
“{Hello, Jefferies,}” Leonidas said upon returning to Ceruviel’s mansion and extended a hand to give the impressively mustached Butler a firm, echoing palm-to-palm ‘dap up’. Despite being at least in his late forties, Jefferies’ mustache twitched as if it approved, and he gave Leonidas a firm, warm nod.
“{Welcome home, young master. The Duchess is in her study, if you wish to speak with her.}”
“{Perfect,}...
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Tuesday, July 19, 4 S.E.
Leonidas stood with his hands in his pockets when the Dawnguard arrived barely a minute after he’d put a haelfar vaelthir and two terran men face-down into the cobblestone street upon which he stood. Concern was apparent on the human Archon’s face, but not for the situation at hand—that was, in Leonidas’ eyes, a complete joke of a problem. No, what he was dreading was the reaction his mentor would have when she found ou...
2025-12-25 19:38:44 +0000 UTC View PostCataclysm War | Chapter 1: Low Profile (First Draft)
Tuesday, July 19, 4 S.E.
The years since what Terrans called the ‘System Incursion’ had changed the planet once known as Earth, or Terra, and now simply named [Planet 42] by the System, into an unrecognizable place. Plant life grew where once only man was permitted to exist, consuming cities and small, now-abandoned townships and remote properties with rapid progress as the System’s mana infused the world with hitherto unseen vitality.
Native wildli...
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A kingdom teetering on the edge of civil war.
A bloodline fractured by ambition and buried sins.
A continent unraveling beneath the weight of calamity.
“Whoever said being a Returnee Hero is easy was full of shit!”
Leonidas Achilles Romulus Paendrag survived five brutal years waging war against the Demon Lord Azrageth and the legions of Hell. He won. He lived. He returned to Earth expecting to see his loved ones again, and enjoy...
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The System was not a static construct, nor was its calculation a linear process.
It did not react in the way its Integrated Lifeforms often associated with it, with alarms or proclamations, nor did it announce its awareness in any language that could be translated. There was no singular moment of recognition, no thunderous decree etched into the firmament, no titanic slate offering the mysteries of Heaven for ambitious Cultivators. Instead, when it took action, it did so as a subtle rec...
2025-12-25 00:29:48 +0000 UTC View PostLeonidas Final Character Sheet and Bonuses (End of Book 1)
Standard System
Level Ups:
1 Attribute Point per level
1 Skill Point per 2 Levels
Health:
VIT x 10
Mana:
INT x 3 + WIL Total
Stamina:
END x 3 + VIT Total
Psi:
WIL Total + ½ INT Total
Leonidas (All Inclusive)
Level Ups: 2025-12-24 23:32:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Cataclysm Rising | Chapter 75: Archon
Leonidas stepped into Ceruviel’s office casually, his hands in the pockets of a pair of comfortable sweatpants, which were paired with a short-sleeved black t-shirt. His eyes scanned the interior idly and took in the many bookshelves, random artefacts, and items of note that populated his mentor’s little sanctuary within the east wing of her expansive mansion home.
“I take it you enjoyed your ablutions?” the Dusk-Lord herself said from behind her desk, finally looking up toward ...
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Leonidas stood rubbing his head with a scowl for Ceruviel, watching the self-satisfied Haelfar where she stood nearby, looking like a cat with cream. The Duchess’s machinations and threats had paid off beautifully, and while he certainly had a large target on his back—nothing new, in reality—he also had comprehensive protections that would work to mitigate the direct threat he faced from the factions within Dawnhaven that wanted him eliminated.
“{So, is someone going to tell me ...
2025-12-24 06:42:14 +0000 UTC View PostCataclysm Rising | Chapter 73: The Black Knight
Aylar did not need to look to know her people were watching her.
The Haelfenn Court rarely moved as one—not openly—but their attention aligned with a predator’s instinct toward survival when the hierarchy that defined them was threatened. Leonidas had crossed a threshold that could not be uncrossed, and by virtue of proximity, association, and her Royal bloodline, they would expect her to define where she stood.
It was the moment Aylar, Ceruviel, and Synthra had been waiting...
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The room seemed to subtly tense when Leonidas affirmed he would share his [Knight Oath], and Aylar felt her focus hone in on the Terran with newfound intensity, spurred by her own curiosity and interest. There was something very personal and intimate about the vow a Knight made prior to their First Temper. While the [Knight Oath] could evolve as they rose through Tiers, based on necessity, it was a known absolute that the core of the vow never deviated much from its initial creation....
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Lucien sat beside Tiberius in the center of the living room lounge an hour later, freshly showered and dressed in a black long-sleeve shirt and a pair of comfortable sweatpants. The adults had unanimously agreed to postpone their conversation until he’d been able to change out of his ruined supersuit and back into regular-person clothing, which had prompted Ty to opt to get showered and changed as well. Amusingly Lucien also noted the scent of cologne when they’d reconvened, no doubt in a...
2022-10-27 03:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post