Aderic stood calmly, holding his mask to his chest, as the sailors scurried about the ship moving supplies and sails to make room for the gryphon bearing down on them. The gryphon's plumage was dis...
2023-06-24 09:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostThe camps were a shambles of disorganised soldiers trying to find officers, or anyone, in the chaos who knew what was happening. Some shepherded terrified camp followers and civilians, others bande...
2023-06-18 09:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostAt the end of the Scourge arc, currently set to be the 1st/2nd of July, I will be taking a one week break from posting.
I need that time to properly plan out the chaotic mess that will be Re...
While Vivi and I hadn't done much more than cuddle and kiss hesitantly underneath the blankets – Tricks could only keep Trix away for so long, and unlike some we had senses of shame – ...
2023-06-17 09:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post"Want Dad." Lianne whined, not for the first time, as she angrily threw their bedding across the uncomfortably unfamiliar room. "Want Dad! Where is Dad?!" Tiny fists struck Calia's leg as Lianne ra...
2023-06-11 09:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post"Fiend!" A soldier yelled, and the undead monstrosity was struck with immediate gunfire, blasting it back over the wall before it could cross the battlements. More clambered up after it an...
2023-06-10 09:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostThere was a tense moment of silence following Archmage Arugal's proclamation, the realisation that the battle was coming here at last and that the monsters we had been preparing for, tryin...
2023-06-04 09:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostRodger knocked loudly on the door to Darius' office, waiting a moment for an answering grunt before opening it. "I apologise for the interruption, sir," he said tightly, "but the daughter of the ho...
2023-06-03 09:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post"Gilneas. I will return with you to Gilneas." Calia said as she was presented with her options. She had hardly touched her food, largely pushing it around her plate despite the effort that had gone...
2023-05-28 09:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostMy hands against the bark of the now decidedly unnatural tree, I kept its shape steady as I expanded it. Bit by bit I smoothed out the bark of the inner bowl as I went, leaving a finish th...
2023-05-28 09:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post"The Convocation has refused to hear your petition, my prince." Grand Magister Belo'vir said, the apologetic tone in his voice little more than an affectation. "It is the belief of the Convocation ...
2023-05-27 09:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostBy the time the fighting subsided, the last of the undead picked off by the still able soldiers, Vivi, and Caedan, I was feeling the strain from all the magic I had been using. It had been easy eno...
2023-05-21 09:00:01 +0000 UTC View PostDonovan circled overhead three times, slowly descending and giving people time to get out of the way before landing as close as he could to me and Sergeant Fallan's men. On his back was Lorna, as c...
2023-05-20 09:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post"Got to speak to the Farstriders aboot ‘at lodge o' theirs," Falstad muttered to himself, "if that fancy building disturbs the gryphons there'll be problems..." He made note on the sheaf of parch...
2023-05-14 09:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostPeople came and went, a few soldiers, one of the alchemists, and even Trix all looking for me and failing to find me while I hid as a fox in my room. Trix had tried to coax Tricks to come out and p...
2023-05-13 09:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostThe Royal Alchemical Society had kept a presence at the wall ever since Darius established quarantine measures, as it turned out. Something I hadn't been aware of, even if it made plenty of sense i...
2023-05-07 09:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostIt took longer than I liked to admit to recover from the bombshell that Prince Kael'thas Sunstrider had dropped on me, staring at my door with a growing sense of dread and a lead weight in my stoma...
2023-05-06 09:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostTo explain what this is quickly, as I've managed to regain a buffer (two chapters ahead again!) I'm looking at my informationals, which are in dire need of updating.
This one is an organisat...
Even within the confines of the Palace of Lordaeron, looking out over the capital city from the royal balcony, Harris could hear the cheers that filled the air. All down the grand avenue men, women...
2023-04-30 09:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostThe questioning I underwent wasn't over with on the first day, nor the second, and it didn't seem likely to stop anytime soon. Sometimes it was the Chamber of Air with a variable number of the coun...
2023-04-29 09:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostMy notebook of seven and a half years was starting to get worn, the carefully scrawled English letters starting to fade as the ink I could afford as a child started to give out. Some parts of the b...
2023-04-23 09:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post"This is quite irregular." The herald said, his moustache quivering while he read over their invitations. Several other members of the palace's staff surreptitiously worked nearby, carefully cleani...
2023-04-22 09:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostWith the king's proclamation and the arrival of Celestine and Aderic, the ball started in earnest. While the dance had yet to start, musicians had begun to play a background tune to set the atmosph...
2023-04-16 09:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostAderic and Celestine only remained with us in the Crowley townhouse for a single night, the bare rundown of their discussion with Darius keeping me in the loop as to the Order of Amber’s plan for...
2023-04-15 09:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostAfter bidding Heather and Richard goodbye and a safe trip back home, I trotted through the snow to the northern path that Celestine, Aderic, and I would be taking to head to the capital. Of all the...
2023-04-09 09:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostI stood on the forest's edge atop a stony ridge, the wind ripping around me faster and faster; a gale of air and a wall of water mixing as a storm cloud roiled above me. The effect was localised, <...
2023-04-08 09:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post"Home sweet home," I said, stretching my arms high over my head. Staying in a bag as a fox wasn't the most comfortable of things, and had gotten old very quickly as the months swept on by during ou...
2023-04-02 09:00:59 +0000 UTC View PostDuskhaven was a quintessential Gilnean town, one of the larger ones like Crowford, built atop a small rise beside a river and beneath the luxurious retreat of the Greymane family. I was glad to see...
2023-04-01 09:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostThe moment Donovan touched down and relaxed his straining wings, a pair of foxes scrabbled their way out of the bags they had been carried in. One, the ethereally sky blue Tricks, hopped straight t...
2023-03-26 09:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostAfter escaping from Archbishop Tulvan, who proved incessant in his probing for information and leverage, and handling my responsibilities to the rest of the witches, I followed the guidance of the ...
2023-03-25 10:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post