I think it’s somewhat unorthodox to critique your own work just after it’s finished, but I care more about becoming a better writer than I do acting like there’s nothing to improve on. JAS is...
2024-11-23 06:34:42 +0000 UTC View PostThe moon.
Long ago, it’d been transformed as a result of Lorena’s bargain with the Heralds. They used Sophia’s power of creation to create something of an isolated habitat for the lunar...
2024-11-22 06:29:38 +0000 UTC View PostArgrave and Anneliese sat by the hearth as the fire crackled, the both of them staring up at the family portrait that’d been made so many decades ago. It was a little microcosm of what they’d e...
2024-11-20 06:55:32 +0000 UTC View PostElimar watched reservedly as servants placed large platters of food in the center of the table. He was unaccustomed to such treatment, both from sixty-six years serving in the imperial army and fro...
2024-11-18 06:57:37 +0000 UTC View PostA tall, black-haired man with a white eyepatch over his right eye stared out across the ocean. The eyepatch had a peculiarly round ruby embedded on the front, giving the faintest illusion of an eye...
2024-11-15 06:25:08 +0000 UTC View PostAt the time I write this, 97AC, there is both tremendous optimism for the future and a growing sense of caution. After the Last Calamity, people had nothing to lose but time. After 92 years of labo...
2024-11-13 06:55:01 +0000 UTC View PostThe Vasquer Standard
Elenore saw the completion of the capitol of the Blackgard Union during the Age of Revolutions. The Bastion, as it was later named by the people...
2024-11-11 06:58:17 +0000 UTC View PostOne of the most hotly contested points of the age revolves around the debate between the idea that the imperial court ceded power deliberately, or were forced to surrender it and couched it in nobl...
2024-11-08 06:52:39 +0000 UTC View PostUltimately, though the Age of Fury had its troubles, there’s no denying that the Blackgard Union emerged from the other side of it better than they did the years before. The Great Chu had been ce...
2024-11-06 06:55:01 +0000 UTC View PostAs life became about more than merely survival, the minds of the people gradually drifted toward the questions that have plagued them for all eternity. Life, and its infinite mysteries, remained un...
2024-11-04 06:55:00 +0000 UTC View PostThe governance of the Blackgard Union, and the imperial family as proxy for it, was as much a product of excellent circumstance as it was excellent governance. Without the Last Calamity as a founda...
2024-11-01 06:01:47 +0000 UTC View PostWhen asked of his parent’s reaction to his brother Enrico’s death, Prince Garm had only this to say.
I thought I had seen my mother and father truly angry before that point. I was wro...
2024-10-30 06:21:23 +0000 UTC View PostThe Age of Reclamation was a period of great prosperity. The times after the Last Calamity represented the greatest period of opportunity that the wider populace would be granted for all time, oste...
2024-10-28 06:55:01 +0000 UTC View PostI worked as a mercenary long before I had even heard of Argrave. I fought in a few of King Felipe III’s wars of conquest, but decided to veer away from that path when I came to the conclusion tha...
2024-10-25 06:57:42 +0000 UTC View PostPrincess Elenore of Vasquer
BC to present
To be frank, I was hesitant to pen this profile. Prince Garm, however, has given me assurances, and wishes for Elenor...
2024-10-23 06:55:41 +0000 UTC View PostArgrave of Vasquer and Anneliese of Vasquer, known by enough titles to fill a book on their lonesome, proved to be as able in the restoration of Berendar as they were in its defense. From the outse...
2024-10-21 06:55:00 +0000 UTC View PostThe events of the previous volume of this work may make the reader question if it should be taken as a historical account or a novel born of my imagination. To that skeptical reader, I assure I exa...
2024-10-18 06:55:00 +0000 UTC View PostArgrave and Anneliese walked toward Elenore’s large command tent in the early morning. Sophia had been reluctant to see them leave, but they’d persuaded her to rest more. As they walked, Argrav...
2024-10-16 06:56:20 +0000 UTC View PostWhen Argrave and Anneliese walked out of their tent, the first thing they noticed was that underfoot.
“Grass?” Anneliese questioned. “How long have we been asleep? A week, or…?”
... 2024-10-14 06:53:41 +0000 UTC View PostArgrave drifted.
All of the things that had kept him confined to a state of existence had ceased to hold him any longer. Time had ceased to flow. Space had ceased to act. He had been consumed...
2024-10-11 06:55:01 +0000 UTC View PostSophia watched the sky with bated breath. All that remained of the wound in the world was a small sliver of blackness. She felt that, any moment, Argrave would burst free of it, triumphant. Everyon...
2024-10-09 06:48:46 +0000 UTC View Post“Do you know what’s more agonizing than having tried to gain power, and failed?”
Argrave awoke with a start, throwing his head around as he scanned his surroundings. He laid in the gras...
2024-10-07 06:55:01 +0000 UTC View PostAs the chaos all around died, an eerie silence set over the world as if everyone, all at once, was contemplating what had happened. They all feared one another, even their closest allies, because m...
2024-10-04 06:52:38 +0000 UTC View Post“So long as you stay with me, Sophia, you’ll be fine. Ignore everything that comes for us, no matter what form it takes.” He held her small hand in his, preparing for what was coming. “I wo...
2024-10-02 06:53:14 +0000 UTC View Post“Are you sure you’re alright to do this?” Argrave asked as he stared at the last fort standing between the southern valley and the city of Blackgard. The last thing keeping out Gerechtigkeit...
2024-09-30 06:57:26 +0000 UTC View PostGriffin stared at Argrave, who stood defiantly in his tattered black coat deep within the valley leading to Blackgard. In truth, Griffin himself had done appreciably little to come this far. Most e...
2024-09-27 06:54:44 +0000 UTC View PostRaven pulled away from the wound in the world from which Gerechtigkeit had emerged, his study complete. Though the Trial by Fire affected him as much as any other, the unique form of pain it caused...
2024-09-25 06:52:30 +0000 UTC View PostWith the world aflame, Argrave walked toward the shadows of the Hopeful. The tendrils of darkness writhed like snakes embroiled in conflict with their own tails, and beyond, Argrave could see the s...
2024-09-23 06:52:11 +0000 UTC View PostWielding the spark of eternity, Anneliese felt as though they finally had the upper hand in the battle against Gerechtigkeit.
As the intensity of the engagements around the continent lessened...
2024-09-20 06:56:29 +0000 UTC View Post“Argrave, the Hopeful is making steady progress through the southern valley,” Elenore told him, speaking directly into his head. “He’s already overrun a few of the checkpoints. The repellin...
2024-09-18 06:59:19 +0000 UTC View Post