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Felix stepped through the Shadowgate and into his Void Sanctuary. As his foot stepped upon stone at the center of his Sanctuary, Felix took a deep, steadying breath. The air smelled of juniper and citrus, and the heat was cut by a breeze that coiled through the courtyard just the perfect amount.
Yet for all of that, there was a strangeness.
It took him a moment to figure out what it was—it felt like a pres...
2025-02-07 19:48:29 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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"I am coming with you," Vess stated firmly and without question.
Felix sighed. They stood by the Shadowgate to Gharion, preparing the final touches before their departure. It had only been an hour since the Chorus had resolved, and things were moving fast.
Legionnaires ran around him, carrying barrels and crates that were lashed down onto platforms fitted with wide, leather-wrapped wooden beams across the to...
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The night was balmy and loud, with the sound of insects chirping across the velvet skies as if nothing in the world was different. Felix knew otherwise. His Body had recovered from the fight with the gods, and so had his Mind, but his thoughts could not quite escape what he’d witnessed.
There, on the balcony atop the Bastion of Atlantes, Felix sought comfort in the sussurant sonata of a summer evening, cut generou...
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A cool wind blew, alleviating the scorching heat of summer. Ocalla Marzul stood atop the Star of Heaven. Statues of venerable humans from lost Ages towered above her, their hands reaching out toward the center of the tower. The pristine floor was set with the complicated folds of a true Seat and Seal. Until recently, it had been the only true Seat and Seal. Ocalla gritted her teeth, feeling her empire slipping further and furth...
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As exhausted as the Atlantes was, it couldn’t help but express a certain eager joy to Felix after the last few hours around his Shaper's Sanctum. Felix himself was flush with new ideas, but they had to wait until they could finish mustering their forces over the next day.
"I'm still annoyed at you," Felix said to the bark, as he stood there on the thick bough above his city. "Acting on your own, just like with the Nasce...
2025-01-31 13:00:13 +0000 UTC View PostThursday chapter! Enjoy!
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Vess had promised Felix she would rest, but she never specified when. Shortly after he had departed with Karys, she and Yin made their way up the Spirit Tree. Along the journey, they encountered a few Menders who bandaged them and applied salves, leaving them in slightly better condition than before. Vess' limbs still ached, and her head throbbed with a persistent pain she could not ignore, but Yin had it far wors...
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Felix blasted across the sky, lightning trailing in his wake. The wind tore at his slowly restoring Garment. Pit! Give me Fiendforge back!
Are the gods gone?
They are for now.
Without another word, Fiendforge returned to him. Felix immediately secured it, his Intent and Affinity holding tight to its patterned song. The chaos settled immediately as his indomitable Will c...
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Felix shot through the darkness. It was a rift in the world that reminded him of nothing so much as the tear at the center of the Pool of Halcyon Oaths, with the same heat-shot haze around its aperture. Still, it was a visceral shock when he slammed to the dusty earth just beyond. Ground crumbled like ash beneath his leaden limbs, and his thoughts were sluggish.
Here again. Felix glanced up at the blackened...
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Green light flashed through the air, faster than even Felix could track, and both Noctis and Yyero’s limbs were sliced off. They fell back, yowling and screaming in turn, only for more jets of pressurized seawater to streak across the sky.
Umbral Sculpting!
Water sliced through shadow, but Noctis’ conjurations layered over themselves as they failed, stopping the assault. An obdurate rage soared ...
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Atar fell back as Flame screeched in pain. The Urge’s wingspan thinned until the incandescent white of his feathers faded to a pale grey.
atar!
Obsidian cracked all around the mage, revealing a carmine light that poured forth like blood from a wound. Atar stumbled again, catching himself against the thickened braid of fire before him. The Pillar sputtered and flared between his...
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The seven claws of his Skill faltered, the threads of power nearly slipping from his grasp as Fiendforge failed. Felix diverted himself away from the agony of his wounds and the pressure of his regeneration, focusing all of his attention and Will upon the unique Skill. Fiendforge reignited, the pattern humming through a skipping Dissonance as visions exploded through his Mind.
He saw Atar standing amidst an inferno that s...
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The Vessels of both gods darted away from him, but Felix wasn’t aiming at them.
He focused on the city below.
Fungal Horrors, shadowbeasts, and strange misshapen monstrosities moved among the waves. Many had unique names, but Felix didn’t care to learn them—in the Empire of the Fiend, they were called only one thing.
"Intruders!” he growled. “This place is mine!"
With a snap of ethereal jaws, every...
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Felix leaned back on his green cushion, fully back in the real world once again. "So. What do you think?"
Elowen was clearly at a loss for words. She laughed. "I still can't quite believe the scope of what you’ve achieved. Your core space is broader than any Grandmaster's I've ever seen, and I have been invited to view both Tern’s and the former Grandmaster Violet’s."
That peaked Felix's interest. "...
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Acid poured over her feet, and Heva pulled back as her boots started to sizzle. "More! Westin!”
“Y-yes ma’am!" The young Arclight summoned boulders from the earth, each one six strides across if they were a span, before screaming. He thrust his hand forward, the magic of Rocksling hurling the stones into the breach. Water exploded as they landed, but the massive waves were choked off.
"Rimewall!" Stellis planted...
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The sky was black with a storm rolling into Elderthrone from the southwest, out over the Bitter Sea. Heva was wrapped in her enchanted cowl, the only thing that kept her warm and dry despite the downpour. There had been a lot of storms the past few days, and they were getting worse.
Rain rolled over the coast, sizzling against their protective wards. The Bitter Sea was acidic, but it wasn't truly dangerous, not this clo...
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"Okay," Felix said, as they stood in an adjoining room near their Pillar-weaving friends. "So I lied a little. A Link with you also makes figuring out my Core Manifestation a bit easier."
"That seemed obvious," Elowen said dryly, reaching for a drink.
The two of them were alone in the room, which was set with a couple of couches and plush rugs on the floor, along with throw pillows for simple seating. Tapestries hun...
2025-01-13 13:00:15 +0000 UTC View PostFourth chapter of the week! Enjoy!
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Archie sat atop the bell tower at the center of his strange, endless city. He watched as the skyline, filled by vague skyscrapers, was veiled by torrents of dark smoke and falling ash. Below him, and far closer, people flowed through the streets like rivers. Each carried coins that caught the light, no matter how murky the sky might seem. Those coins passed ceaselessly among them. Thieves moved thr...
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"Calm down, Beef."
Hollow's voice was as soft and soothing as ever, but Beef didn’t care. He paced nervously across the wild meadow set into his manor, stepping heavily past the statues of his Skills at the edge of the stepped Well. The feature dominated the center of his core space, progressing downward in tiers toward his glowing core. Each chitin statue was bigger than ever before. They gleamed with a blackened ...
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Vess sat cross-legged atop the edge of her core. The Temple to the Dawn Dragons spread out behind her, a vast edifice teeming with details that she had honed to perfection over the course of many months. Rising above it all was the gleaming golden Dragon, its bright wings spread wide and its eerie, uncanny gaze staring down at her back. She knew that there was no consciousness there in the statue. She had crafted it herself ...
2025-01-08 13:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostToday marks the start of extra chapters! Updates will be Monday/Wednesday/Thursday/and Fridays!
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Evie landed at the end of a frozen plain, and a tumultuous ocean roared at her back. Not half a league distant, the ocean's waves spat white foam onto the ice, thickening it, growing it a fingerspan by the day. Above her, the sky was black, bereft of any clouds that might hold in some semblance of heat. There was only the cold ...
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"Are you certain you don't wish to use the arrays I've suggested?"
"I'm sure.” Felix could feel the woman's unease with the plan far more sharply than he had before, now that they were Linked. That process had gone just as smoothly as the others he'd initiated, and now Elowen sat with a Tier III Link to him. It wasn't quite equal to some of the others—someone had to reach Tier IV in order to receive his Boon of Bond...
2025-01-03 13:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostHappy New Year!
You all have been so great to me this past year, and with the holidays wrapping up I've been able to really get ahead of my schedule. So, to celebrate (and thank you for) how much you've helped me grow my stories and support my dreams, I wanted to give a gift.
More Chapters!
I'll be doing 4 chapters a week (Mon/Wed/Thurs/Friday) for all Tiers starting next week (1/6/2025)!
This will extend through all of January and February! 8 full weeks!
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So long 2024! Hello 2025!
I hope you all had a great New Year's Eve!
Here's a little something to read on the first day of the new year.
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The training halls in Elderthrone were in the upper levels of what the locals called the Temple of the Eye. Elowen thought the name a bit fanciful, but then, the entire structure that Felix had built was nothing if not fantastical. He had Crafting Halls pumping out enchanted armor and...
2025-01-01 13:00:17 +0000 UTC View PostLast chapter of 2024!
Next chapter will be up Wednesday, January 1st, 2025!
See you next year! Enjoy!
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The Golems ran at Archie, swords held high, but he was a ghost.
Primeval Drift flared in his channels as he slipped through their iron limbs and high steel blades. Sparks from his Fanblades struck from the Golems' hide, his Molten Daggers lopping off their limbs one by one—until they were nothing more than...
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Hours later, Beef stood within the heat of the Elderthrone Forge, basking in the ringing sound of crystal on steel. Harn worked beside him at the main forge, shaping metal with a silvery flame that he conjured from his own blood. This flame, a product of his newly-evolved Skills, was apparently exceptionally good for forging.
Harn moved with exacting precision, grabbing a piece of metal, leaving it in the flame to heat ...
2024-12-27 13:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostMerry Christmas to those that celebrate!
Time for a fight.
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Beef stood upon a hill in a forest of widely spaced trees just south of Elderthrone. He could see the walls rising up above the forest, and the hill upon which the Chanter's school sat like a witch's castle.
Witch's mansion? Eh. That's not as fun to say.
He looked around, eyeing the forest as he adjusted his grip on his h...
2024-12-25 13:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostA chapter will be up on Christmas!
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In the Glyphworks, far below where Vess and the others were hashing out the details of their spar, a different sort of chaos reigned. Men and women of all Races rushed around, styluses in hand, working on strange metal and stone shapes brought to their workstations by smiths in thick leather aprons and heavy gloves. Mana sparked from every corner of the glyphworks, power swirling through th...
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Vess tried to relax.
The evening after they’d found the Nascent Fruits had been some of the tensest of her life. She had not been able to shake the bone-deep anxiety she felt for her Hatchlings, and only when Felix gave her the all-clear that morning had she found some measure of peace. A peace that was broken only by the sound of greedy, nibbling Hatchlings.
They fell upon the Nascent Fruits like a storm of empty stom...
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Deep beneath the earth, in tunnels where no sunlight had ever touched, an army slumbered. The Orders had posted their guards and scouts of course—diligent little soldiers, watching out for the evil Unbound that was in their midst.
Yyero had deemed it unnecessary.
His Plaguerats were sleepless and driven to a wrathful delirium that could not be surprised by any Lizard. They were more than enough to hold...
2024-12-18 13:00:15 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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Felix jerked away from his core space, returning to his Body and the empty lands beyond the Pool. Felix’s hands were still wrist deep in the warm soil, and the sky was stil dead.
What happens at 100%? Pit asked.
I wish I knew. But I don’t like the sound of ‘Beast Awakened’ very much.
Something touched his fingers.
He jerked his arm back, a thrill of fear lighting up h...
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