We may be the last. I passed by the old communications hub today and it had dust on it, which made me pause both because it was so odd - and because it is now so normal. &nbs...
2020-04-22 15:45:42 +0000 UTC View Post
"Of course I have heard the contention that scriptsmithing is an art, but those who say such things are invariably somewhat poor artists."
- Vumo Ra, pos...
2020-04-15 15:55:20 +0000 UTC View Post
There are those who object to the expense of fortifying Sjatel, although it can be hard to distinguish honest concern from complaints about the state of my treasury with other aims...
2020-04-08 16:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
When you’ve entered into a profitable arrangement with the Sjocelym, bear in mind they’ll give up the arrangement before the profit.
- Aesvain saying.
Fools smile on their way to Sjatel, lucky fools on the way back.
- Sjocelym saying.
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Grass spread over the wide boulevards of Sjatel, tinted gold...
2020-03-25 16:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post
returned from the shore of the eye itself and confirmed what we had feared - the array weakens, and where it does something else takes hold. There were no plans for this fail...
2020-03-18 16:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
What to say of the Aesvain? I could say they’ve suffered, as if it weren’t obvious to anyone with eyes. I could say that they’re stubborn to a fault, as anyone wi...
2020-03-11 16:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
The rolling uplands of Tinem Sjocel are some of the best country one could hope to travel through. The views are scenic, the air fresh and crisp without any of the swampy let...
2020-03-04 17:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Learning any discipline will alter your view on its subject, but for me history was the most jarring. When I was an utter novice I found history dull, then fascinating as I began to under...
2020-02-26 17:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
I am often called favored, gifted, and in truth I am. But gift upon gift becomes a burden, then a crushing weight, then a rockslide thundering upon me. Yet, I cannot te...
2020-02-19 17:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
message reaches you, we’ve been experiencing more communications failures recently and have had to strip several other systems just to keep this one active. Father would be...
2020-02-15 19:43:25 +0000 UTC View Post
It is easy to find water in Ce Raedhil, obviously, but finding drinkable water requires a coin of one sort or another. At first I thought this was a terribly clever commentar...
2020-02-12 17:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
GOZHELI: What thief do you take me for
brother of mine, am I one who at night
creeps to seize the toil of others
and sows blame for the...
2020-02-08 16:39:35 +0000 UTC View Post
A Sjocelym farmer came across a poor Aesvain in the market one day who plucked at his sleeve, asking for work. “Ye honored,” the Aesvain said, “spare me a coin and I wi...
2020-02-05 17:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Water is the best armor, but it has yet to blunt a knife.
- Sauvain saying.
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Vimodi forced himself to unclench his fists, burying the excitement ...
2020-01-29 17:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
[Alre]ady seeing destabilizations in the areas farthest from the Nexus site, and a large-scale corrective action may be required much sooner than previously thought. The continuing severe...
2020-01-25 17:30:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Her words linger and work and work and work and work until they prove themselves true. I fear that I was not made for such truths, the very blood in my veins seems to rebel at knowing the...
2020-01-22 16:59:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Of course, none of this changes the immutable truth that nothing ever happens in Sjan Saal. This is not hyperbole, but a fact I have confirmed through long and exhaustive emp...
2020-01-15 17:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Sjan Saal is the end of many things. Not even the road has the endurance to continue far past the old wall.
Lyneje Di Sazhocel Ciqi, unpublished letter. Royal archives, C...
2020-01-08 17:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
The desert bears its scars with quiet dignity. They are old wounds, but the land’s long memory is written in unyielding stone. Many seek only to ease their passage wh...
2020-01-01 17:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
[predic]tive models estimate that complete containment may be achieved within twenty-six days if there are no significant changes in scenario or deployment. Local populations...
2019-12-25 17:01:03 +0000 UTC View Post
A traveler in the desert is accosted by a Sauvain thief who brandishes a sword and demands the traveler’s purse. Upon seeing the thief’s face the traveler drops to his kn...
2019-12-18 22:03:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Those who deride the food of the Sauvain as simple fail to appreciate the savor and quality added by contrast. Begin with a simmering desert stock, add sand to taste and garn...
2019-12-11 17:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
The natural habitat of the cerein is wherever you find one growing.
Unknown, Ta Satineim
Gusje was irrepressible durin...
2019-12-03 23:45:34 +0000 UTC View Post
Modern scholars will tend to criticize elements of the Sjocelym nobility for their initial response while ignoring the context in which their decisions were made. Th... 2019-12-03 23:38:09 +0000 UTC View Post