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Demesne 489 - Important Talk… Really Boring

There were two benches in front of each other, with a fire pit in between them. They weren’t as nice as the ones back home. Instead of proper legs, the benches were supported on a pair of rocks that looked like they’d been magicked, and the wooden seat was made of branches bundled together with maybe-also-magic instead of planks. Between the two was a fire pit, although there were only ashes in it.

Wiz Rili sat on one bench, and while Lord Rian, Shana and Karina sat on the other. Ka...

Let’s Play Lorian Academy Amour Ep# 007

Hello everyone and welcome BACK! For those of you who are watching this video without watching the ones that came before in the series… Well, if that’s what you’re into, but things would make a lot more sense if you watch from the start of the series. As you know but might need some reminding, we’re playing the Demesne spinoff Lorian Academy Amour, which is basically a highscool AU dating sim/stealth game.

So, for those just tuning in and have for some reason d...

Demesne 488 - Talk About Grown Up—And Shana—Stuff

River’s Fork was at a place where two rivers joined together to make an even bigger river. Both rivers were pretty wide and deep, so to cross one of them and get to where River’s Fork was now, someone—Karina said ‘someone’ because if she said ‘Shana’s inay’ her friend would stand there for a bit and then slap herself, and she didn’t want that to happen—had gotten some big rocks and sank them into the river to make a place where it could be forded.

It was still too de...

Demesne 487 - Dungeon Binder Reasons

“Scrub-scrub-scrub!” Karina sang as she moved her scrubbing rock up and down her left arm. It was a good rock, not too rough or too smooth, with a flat edge she could use to scrape her skin when the scrubby parts weren’t getting her clean enough. “Up and down! Scrub-scrub-scrub, all around! Wash your arm, shoulder to wrist, soap it clean, then do it all over ag-een! Scrub-scrub-scrub!”

She didn’t really need to sing the song anymore since she knew how to take a bath now, but...

Demesne 486 - Not A Holiday

As Lori needed to wait for Taeclas to finish fusing the bone panels to her jig—the woman claimed to be slow, but she did good work and the bone panel and wood she’d already fused together had been solid—she decided she might as well be productive and caught two more seels. According to Rian, that would just barely fill their cold rooms, but they would be sending some to River’s Fork for their own supplies. The air soon filled with the smell of seel blood and intestines as the sun cont...

Demesne 485 - Live-To-Dead Testing

Lori carefully angled the bone tablet in her hands, moving it so that the aiming binding she had anchored to it was pointed right at the seel below her, then activated the unseen piercing light binding to double check. With the lightning ball binding deactivated there was no lightning to unleash, and through her connection to the demesne’s wisps she could tell that the second line of light also struck the seel.

“You know, the rope is supposed to be a precaution, not encoura...

Demesne 484 - Preparation For Live Testing

As Lori dragged a seel out of the river using a binding of waterwisps, she made an idle note to ask Rian if there was room in their cold rooms for more meat, since she might as well draw out some more seels to butcher while they were still around. While there was no such thing as too much food, there was such a thing as not enough space. The seel itself was a large adult, and was very fat, which was why she’d picked it in the first place. If she was going through all this trouble, ...

Demesne Deleted Scenes! Chapter 428 to 487

So, I wrote a bunch of Karina stuff but ended up not liking where it was going. It was less 'cute girls doing cute things' and more 'Sayaka killing people on the train', in mood if not in actual content. So rather than trash it, I figured I'd give it to you guys. Might still use parts of it later, but for now it's on the cutting room floor.

Then I remembered I had a whole file of cutting room floor stuff.

From Chapter 428:

Karina was glad that Shana...

Demesne Patron EX SS 41 –The Negotiator

Rilianne—no other name, and definitely not Cayvud of Vusvalbel Demesne—knew that hers was a badly kept secret, at least among her fellow militia. She’d made too many mistakes when she’d first enlisted, acted too different, for her to pass herself off as merely a Deadspeaker, been too ignorant of things like fusing wood and too knowledgeable about creating precisely controlled undead. Her attempt to pass off the latter as some sort of innate talent had fallen apart during an i...

Demesne 483 - Depleting Capacity

Ugh, Lori hated it what Rian had a point. However, it was a resigned hatred, and she would even grudgingly admit that it was useful… sometimes. While she had been justifying putting aside proper notation and testing for the more immediately urgent goal of having a lightning jig—and she hadn’t even bothered to properly think of it like that until Rian asked what it was—Rian had rightly brought up questions about her jig’s abilities that… well, that she’d simply not gotten to yet....

Demesne 482 - Keeping Dungeon Binders Alive

After helping pick the fruit, we left to go back home.

Well, no, of course not. After the children finished picking the fruit from the trees, it still needed to be carried to the food stores in the mine and the Coldhold. As Shana was back on ground level, I could stop keeping an eye on her and help with carrying the baskets of fruit, assisted by Yllian and the other adults Shana was able to gather. The children could probably have carried the baskets themselves—event...

Demesne 481 - ‘Talking To People’ Matters

Lori liked to say I was her lord in charge of ‘talking to people’ matters. What she failed to understand was that everything about being an authority figure was a ‘talking to people’ matter. In making me her lord and functionally her voice in the demesne, she had essentially made me its absolute ruler in her name, as my word could only be gainsaid by her, or something she had previously ordered.

Many people would literally kill to be in this position. Absolute authority...

Demesne 480 - Exchange

“Do not accost Lord Yllian any further,” Shana said flatly. “He has things to oversee, and you’re wasting his time. You have already been informed as to how things are in this demesne. I would advise you not to make further issue of your lack of comprehension, lest you wear thin your welcome. Good day, wizards and civilian.” She was willing to admit a moment of petty satisfaction as she heard someone sputter indignantly.

Shana turned to go once more, making sure to walk past L...

9/4/2025 Update

We would like to belatedly inform everyone that due to the IRL matters, there will be no updates next week, as I am unsure whether I will be able to write enough to support the current update schedule. We're sorry it took this long to inform everyone.

We would also like to remind everyone that Rian is not the Last Master of Humanity, and that the Iridescence is not a plot to eradicate the human race, even though they're asking for it and large numbers of them kinda deserve it for writin...

Demesne 479 - Binder Lolilyuri Never Has These Problems

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Shana found herself coming back to her senses as the disruptive emotions receded, and was glad to see that Captain Yhallisu had said nothing during her temporary absence, though he was staring at her with a disturbed expression. Fortunately, her previous statement made for a good reason to fall into an emotional silence.

“So do not presume that you alone possess a moral imperative to not ‘give up’ on this demesne,” Shana said, filling the ...

April 2025 Poll

All right! It's time for this months poll as to what the next Patron Exclusive short will be. For those who are new, you can vot--er, poll for any of the choices you want. We'll end up with a majority somehow.

I will hopefully be able to get back to writing Marla again this month.

Yes, that last bit is weird, but I've always wanted to write a story where a fantasy world encounters space aliens, NEITHER of which are from a racist HFY setting.

Demesne 478 - I Had To Watch Them Die

“Yoshka, would you play with Karina for now?” Shana said as she walked back to her office, keeping track of the life of those following her through her connection to her core. Captain Yhallisu was still shadowing her footsteps but that could be because Lord Yllian was leading the former. He and Lord Rian had spoken briefly, and in the end the latter had stayed behind—no, wait, he was now walking in their direction, keeping his distance. The other wizards were trailing behind Captain Yha...

Demesne Patron EX SS 40 – What She Saw

Nansi Hightown, formerly of the militia of Lomabuyar Demesne , now retired, had been looking forward to seeing River’s Fork Demesne. When she’d first seen it… well, the view had been from the air as she had flown on the grip of her own thought force, so she had only seen a large dome, and it had taken a second look to see the gaps of the branches beneath the leaves.

At ground level, the fact it was a village was much more obvious.

Admittedly, at a first glance it looked like...

Demesne Special - Ryan Is An Isekai Lost Galaxy! - April Fools 2025!

“All right Ryan, what is this about?“ Lori demanded as she closed the door behind her. For some reason, she gave Mikon a suspicious look.

“Well, there’s something I needed to tell you, but if I was going to tell you I needed to tell Umu, Mikon and Riz too,” Ryan said, looking at the other women in question. The latter three were sitting on the bed, which had their bedroll on it in preparation for going to bed. He took a deep breath, and took the plunge, revealing his deepest, ...

Demesne 477 - Respect To Rank

When Shana reached the little orchard where they grew the majority of their fruits—there were also the ones growing on the trees that were part of the dome—she found Lord Rian and Lord Yllian speaking to some people, while off to the side Wizard Lidzuga seemed to be pointedly ignoring the situation in favor of focusing on tending to their fruit trees.

“—n’t just let people pick fruit as they please, Yhal,” Lord Yllian was saying. “These are going to our winter stores. And ...

Demesne 476 - What Friends Did

When Shana left the office, she was immediately bodily assaulted.

“Shasha!” her little cousin Yoshka cried happily.

A smile curled on her lips as she hugged the younger girl. “Hello, Yoshka. Have you been well?”

“Tota won’t let me sleep as much as I want,” Yoshka said with a pout, then reached up and mashed the palm of her hand against Shana’s left cheek.

While Shana understood why she would, it wasn’t necessary in this instance. She gently pulled the...

21/3/2025 Update

So, because of IRL things, I might only be able to post one chapter next week. It's my Dad's B-day, and there's going to be a thing, and planning and stuff.

Anyway, the Monday post is certain, but not the Thursday one. Sorry guys.

Demesne 475 - Frowny Face, Smiley Face

Shana stood on the roof of the Coldhold’s cabin as the boat sailed—was it sailing when they didn’t have sails?—downriver towards the approaching dome of River’s Fork Demesne. The wind made her hat flap and try to fly off her head, the ties pulling tight under her chin as her hair as she stared ahead, trying to prepare herself for the encounters she was soon to have. She wasn’t unaware of her appearance. Even among those in River’s Fork, it had taken her some time t...

Demesne 474 - The Other Dungeon Binder

Dungeon Binder Shanalorre—Shasha to a few, Shana to some, Great Binder or Lady Binder to most—double-checked that her pack contained what she would need, even though she had already done so last night and again that morning after she’d come back from the baths. Clothes, towel, her ration of soap, her bath bucket, socks and boots—in case she had to walk through the woods, but until then the tsinelas woven from ropeweed fibers would do—her bone tablet wrapped with a leather folder to ...

Demesne 473 - Like A Classroom Alchemy Distillation Rig Covered In Black Paint

A part of Lori had been a little surprised that had been everything for now. Rian sometimes recalled matters while in the middle of eating and brought them up as needed, but today Lori had no distractions as she ate, still contemplating the question of lightning. With targeting now resolve and the proof of concept functional and usable, it was time to refine it all into something practical.

This wasn’t the first time Lori had used otherwise simple bindings to make a tool...

Demesne 472 - For Her Consideration

The bone that Lori would have used as an improvised tool for throwing around lightning or any other binding she felt necessary yesterday had been part of the bones extracted from the typhon abomination’s corpse, and had been the equivalent of a foot bone. Claw bone? Talon bone? Whatever. On the dragon born thing, the bone in question had been almost the size of the arm bones of a smaller beast, and was much more pleasantly symmetrical besides. This one was about the length of Lori’s forea...

Demesne 471 - How To Aim Your Lightning

Despite her frustrations, it was still a good day. That was still objectively true.

A part of Lori was wondering if perhaps she should do be doing this testing outside of the boundaries of her demesne. It would probably be more effective, as it would reflect the conditions she’d need to use these bindings, but… well, she could still do the prototyping, iterating, testing, and calibrating here, so she would!

Her first attempt to try to make aiming the unseen piercing l...

Demesne 470 - Looking Like A Good Day

The din of conversation in the dining hall seemed louder than usual the people of her demesne began to fill the room. At first Lori thought it might just have been her imagination, but as the volume of the voices kept growing and growing, she had to retract that thought. It wasn’t especially annoying—well, it was no more annoying than usual—but she had to wonder why. Even the children, sitting at the table behind her with Shanalorre and the brat, were talking enthusiastically about… s...

Demesne 469 - Clarity and Regret

When Lori stopped screaming in frustration, Rian had helpfully put a cup of water in front of her. She glowered at him, but picked up the cup with a muttered thanks that made her wince. Her throat wasn’t all that sore, but it was a little scratchy, and it might get worse later as she ate. The water in the cup was slightly green, and it took her a moment to realize he’d mixed some honey into it. Had she been screaming so long that he’d actually had time to get honey. Appare...

Demesne 2025 Anniversary: LEWD!!!

The pre-dawn period of mornings in Lorian Demesne were surprisingly peaceful.

Riz was used to villages, towns and forts waking up well before dawn, in that period of time when the sun was still beneath the horizon but the sky was bright enough to keep you from tripping over your own feet. Mikon had told her that in the south people woke up even earlier because it was too hot to work in the middle of the day, and those who tried risked getting heat-sick. That didn’t mean there wasn’t...