It really was quite soothing, for want of a better word, to know that Kory was safely ensconced in our room at the Academy, unmolested by other acolytes or apprentices and no longer have the lightsaber hanging over her neck for failing to complete a trial in a satisfactory manner. With her safety as ensured as was possible, under the circumstances, I could devote the entirety of my focus on performing my next trial. Which was good, because this particular trial -the second to last- was going ...
2025-03-17 18:00:13 +0000 UTC
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To say that the lazy enjoyment of the day’s ride, and the anticipation of seeing the bunker, had been utterly ruined by the yong pauna’s violent interference would be a significant understatement. What’s worse, to Leksa’s mind, was how sullen and silent Klark had become when their flight had come to an end. Oh, she had shown them to the bunker, as promised, even helped them find another intact ruin that the horses could be stabled in for the duration of their expl...
2025-03-09 18:09:55 +0000 UTC
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A sword clattered to the ground, strong steel pressed to dusky skin, the sound of heavy breathing and the dim noise of the crowd the only things she could hear. Hands upraised, a gesture of supplication.
“Yield! I…I yield.”
A horn blared, signaling the end to the match, and Caris kom Sangedakru blinked to herself, withdrawing her blade and offering her free hand to her opponent, a first-timer from Floukru. The other girl looked up at her for a long moment with a scowl...
2025-03-09 18:09:04 +0000 UTC
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The clack of wood on wood filled the air of one of the many private courtyards in the Palace, interspersed with grunts, shouts, and other exclamations of effort. All of which was treated without much in the way of attention by the various staff and guards, the overwhelming majority of whom went about their duties without pause or much more than an absent glance in that direction. After all, it was hardly uncommon for the sounds of training to echo through these halls, what with their H...
2025-03-09 18:08:29 +0000 UTC
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“We can’t tell Niylah.”
Those were the first words the fell, instinctively and entirely without her input, from Ontari’s lips, even before she had fully absorbed the immense gravity of what she had been told. Klark was the Sky Princess? Pretty, awkward, inexperienced Klark was the hero, the queen, she had spent her whole life preparing for? Kind, gentle, oblivio...
2025-03-09 18:07:55 +0000 UTC
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“Damnit! They must have already moved it, it was sitting right there not an hour ago!” Williams, the young woman from the distress call it seemed, cursed and clenched her hands on her borrowed rifle as she glared at the bare dais sitting in the middle of the digsite like it had personally offended her. Which, honestly, was somewhat fair. Her entire unit, save one injured corpsman, had gotten wiped out because the geth wanted the damn thing, and now she finds out that they had already won ...
2025-03-01 19:00:09 +0000 UTC
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Akuze
2177 AD
Entering atmosphere was never the most comfortable experience, even with mass effect systems doing their part to smooth the ride out, but none of the fifty marines aboard the large drop-ship complained. They were used to it, after all. Besides, the Major and the Drop-Master were both within earshot, and the first one to belly-ache would probably get a boot up their asses in front of the entire unit. Not to mention that this was Serious Business, not...
2025-03-01 19:00:09 +0000 UTC
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Seething Hatred.
Worlds destroyed, billons slaughtered, an empire extinguished. Nothing remains. They would be forgotten, their glory erased.
Faces uplifted, they cried out for their gods to save them, cried out against the cruelty and unfairness of their fate. Clung together with loved ones, stood defiant without hope as their worlds were drenched in flame.
The Nightmare twisted. Now it was Earth, the Citadel, Mindoir, Elysium that burn...
2025-03-01 19:00:08 +0000 UTC
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“So, we’re all in agreement then? Shepard is the pick?”
“I suppose so.”
“You disagree?”
“No, of course not, I’ve known that girl for years, since she was fresh out of ICT and itching to get back to the 101st. I’m just surprised he isn’t arguing about it, that’s all.”
“She’s reckless, aggressive, far too casual with the chain of command, entirely too familiar with far too many high-ranking aliens, and is just as happy to talk someone to dea...
2025-03-01 19:00:08 +0000 UTC
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The Normandy was quite the sight as she dropped through the cloud-cover to hug the treeline, skimming low over the terrain like a particularly large and metallic falcon, the sun gleaming off of her white-and-black paint, the quiet -relatively- hum of her thrusters falling over the forest. Or, at least, should would have been quite the sight, if there was anyone to see her. Unfortunately, there wasn’t anyone to see her, and not just because Eden Prim...
2025-03-01 19:00:08 +0000 UTC
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The fallout of the slave raid on Mindoir, Aethyta’s resultant ‘un-retirement’, and what amount to the armed invasion and conquest of an independent world by her private army of a mercenary organization was significant, to say the least. Significant enough to change the face of galactic politics and cause an upheaval to Citadel space that hadn’t been seen since The Morning War three centuries prior.
The Alliance, furious at the invasion of their planet and the slaughter and ensla...
2025-02-18 22:38:29 +0000 UTC
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The Rivenroad.
A group of sky-borne, magically-airborne islands in the Eastern Highlands of Coerthas, near the border to Mor Dhona. Not a particularly popular group, it must be said, too small and lacking in resources to be worthy of any sort of presence from the Eorzean Alliance, unlike the far larger and more lucrative Sea of Clouds.
Perhaps that was what had made it such a lucrative location for Nael van Darnus to emplace the transmitters required to pull Dalamud from the sky. ...
2025-02-11 17:00:10 +0000 UTC
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Malora strode purposefully through the winding corridors of the academy, acolytes and lesser apprentices scattering out of her way, sensing her foul mood and dark intentions. None of them knew what had happened nor who had earned her ire, but none of them were remotely interested in finding out, either. A wicked grin played across her lips as she saw and sensed their fears, saw them throwing themselves out of her path, and she imagined the delicious scene that would soon unfold. She could alm...
2025-02-08 19:54:18 +0000 UTC
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There were a lot of places that Cassandra Jackson had been on her adventures, most of them less than enjoyable given the circumstances that she had found herself visiting them. It was quite hard to enjoy the Hoover Dam when you’re being relentlessly hunted by the immortal skeleton warriors, for example, and that was before you even factored in the whole ‘defying a prophecy to save to lives oh God what the hell am I doing’ thing that she had been dealing with at the same ti...
2025-01-31 19:27:34 +0000 UTC
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Crown of Slaves
Chapter Sixteen
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My ancestor hadn’t been wrong that Kory and I had obligations to deal with the day after our arrival, but fortunately for me (and far, far more so my cute little plaything, sore and limping after a night of helping me christen our dorm room) it wasn’t anything particularly physical. Instead, it was lectures and lessons, predominantly (at the moment) in Imperial and Sith culture, as well as Sith P...
2025-01-26 22:47:55 +0000 UTC
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Shadows and Dust
Chapter Eight
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Omega Nebula
Sahrabarik System
Omega
Omega Departure Lane Alpha
60 Hours post Mindoir
Wrex, Clan Urdnot, was an old man. A very, very old man, who had seen more than just about anyone else still living in the galaxy his race, and dozens of others, called home. Hard to miss things, really, when...
2025-01-16 18:00:08 +0000 UTC
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Nothing Is True (Save For The Blood We’ve Shed)
Chapter 21
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Clarke's eyelids fluttered open as the warm sunlight caressed her face. She blinked, momentarily disoriented, as her eyes adjusted to the golden glow filling the room. Soft animal furs tickled her bare skin, and she became acutely aware of the warm body pressed against her own. Looking down, she felt a gentle sigh flow from her heart through her lips at the sight o...
2025-01-10 17:31:32 +0000 UTC
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Nothing Is True (Save For the Blood We’ve Shed)
Chapter Twenty
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Clarke had known that The Clans were far more sexual than the world she was used to, having significantly less in the way of shame or restraint and considerably more in the way of free-love and fetishistic indulgence. She’d even known about the institutionalization, for want of a better word, of sexual dominance and submission that seemed to perm...
2025-01-10 17:31:03 +0000 UTC
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Nothing Is True (Save For the Blood We’ve Shed)
Chapter Nineteen
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Niylah couldn’t help the cheerful humming in the back of her throat as she bustled around her stall, making sure her finest products were displayed in the most attractive way possible, and they were very fine products indeed. Relics of the Old World, one and all, that no one else in Polis could hope to offer, save perhaps Heda. An...
2025-01-10 17:30:26 +0000 UTC
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Crown of Slaves
Chapter Seventeen
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I should have known better than to tempt Lady Fate, for though she was beautiful, she was terrible in her beauty, and known to take confident statements of security as an invitation to cause me as much trouble as possible…which, given the situation I was in, was quite a bit.
“Hmm, ...
2024-12-07 06:10:27 +0000 UTC
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Shadows and Dust
Chapter Seven
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Aria T’loak, Queen of Omega, prime warlord of the Terminus Systems and ‘secret’ lover of Councilor Elana Tevos of the Citadel Council (who was the ‘father’ of her very, very secret daughter Liselle), was doing the same thing she did every day: lounge comfortably in her private balcony and look out over her domain while drinking the finest alcohol and reading her re...
2024-11-28 03:45:41 +0000 UTC
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On Ashen Wings
Chapter Seven
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To say that Gale, former lover of the goddess Mystra and current walking magical Armageddon, was less than pleased would be something of an understatement. Today had not gone the way that he had wanted it to. First, he had woken up to find the lovely Ciri rather entwined (even if not in an overtly sexual manner) curled up with that damn Sharran she seemed so fond o...
2024-11-19 03:48:44 +0000 UTC
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Nothing Is True (Save For The Blood We’ve Shed
Chapter 18
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“C’mon, doc, you gotta let me out of the Palace. I’m going to go insane if I keep sitting around like an invalid all day!” Clarke groused as the head fisa (the ‘trigedasleng’ word for doctor, based on ‘physician’ if she were goi...
2024-11-04 01:58:29 +0000 UTC
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Crown of Slaves
Chapter Fifteen
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Emerging back into the blazing sun of Korriban after several hours in the cool, dimly-lit rooms and halls of Ajunta Pall’s tomb wasn’t a pleasant experience, and I swore rather viciously and threw an arm up over my eyes. An action, I saw, that was mirrored by Kory, though she didn’t react as violently as I was. More used to being in the heat and sun than I was, perhaps. Even before N...
2024-09-27 15:05:26 +0000 UTC
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Shadows and Dust
Chapter Six
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Five minutes. Three-hundred seconds.
That’s how long it took for Cassandra Shepard and Liara T’soni to go from enjoying a fun day out at the movies in Mindoir’s capital of Landing City, to running for their lives as the world collapsed in on itself in fire and smoke and fear.
It had been intended to be nothing more than a fun day trip out in town. Her grandparents needed ...
2024-08-29 19:59:36 +0000 UTC
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On Ashen Wings
Chapter Six
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The enormous statue, white marble gleaming in the light of the setting sun even through the wear of ages and the green vines wending across it’s surface, was beautiful in despite it’s simplicity. Beautiful, and unnerving, for it depicted a robbed, skull-headed figure holding a quill in one bone hand with a scroll of finely etched names that was nearly as long as the statue wa...
2024-08-11 23:02:45 +0000 UTC
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Like the title says, I really want to try and get a handle on what stories people are supporting me for! While I'm not going to abandon a story because of a lack of financial incentive, I do want to know what stories people hold in the highest regard/have the most interest in!
2024-08-06 22:57:42 +0000 UTC
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Bring Me That Horizon or Stand Together and Smile (As Heroes Do)
Chapter One
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My death could have been a more impressive one, that much was certain to be true.
Granted, I don’t know how I died, but the last vestiges of my old life linger into my new one as sheer, appalled incredulity. Not the most heroic emotion, obviously, compared to something like ‘resigne...
2024-08-04 00:44:40 +0000 UTC
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Nothing Is True (Save For the Blood We’ve Shed)
Chapter Seventeen
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Clarke was not sure what she was expecting Lexa and Costia’s private suite to look like, but she didn’t expect it to look like this. ‘This’ being normal, by every reasonable measure, perhaps even a tad understated. Oh, the quality was clear, both in the well-maintained artifacts of the Old World and the masterfully-created examples...
2024-07-27 16:38:32 +0000 UTC
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Well, I wasn’t planning on coming back to this anytime soon. Have my hands full with other projects both fanfiction and professional alike, but then someone went and did a youtube review of this story before mentioning to me. If someone is going to go and do that, and mention that they really want to see how the Nine get handled, I suppose I really must handle the Nine, mustn’t I?
As always, many thanks to my Patrons, whom are currently (and, presumably, hap...
2024-07-21 21:43:24 +0000 UTC
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