“For any commander, there comes a point where you can recognize one of your soldiers is breaking. For some, it comes early, in the first morning after they’ve spilled blood for the first ti...
2025-06-04 16:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post“There are many words for those who the eidolons have taken. Some call them The Lost or The Unheard. Others call them relic species or endlings. In my own estimation, the title best applied t...
2025-06-03 16:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post“Our homes are built on the tombs of those who died before us. Our magic, pried from the cold hands of corpses. There is more in this universe that has been forgotten than shall ever be learn...
2025-06-02 16:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post“It is a strange thing to be an advocate for technology in a world ruled by magic. There is nothing that science can accomplish that magic has not already done twice and with far more ...
2025-06-01 16:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post“It may seem strange to speak of trust when discussing the battle against the eidolons, but trust is the fundamental building block of any fighting unit. Without trust, that the man shielding...
2025-05-31 16:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post“They say that everyone is their own worst critic. Which just goes to show that ‘everyone’ doesn’t know a damn thing. Spend a month on a relic world, training for the Ardent. You’ll f...
2025-05-30 16:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post“Justice is a product to be bought throughout much of the universe. Petty vengeance is dispersed to the highest bidder, and those who are in the most need of the law’s protection will find ...
2025-05-29 16:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post“Alliance. It is such a tenuous word for what we have become. An alliance is a group of like-minded individuals, working together to defeat some enemy. But none of these things are true of th...
2025-05-28 16:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post“It is the simplest thing to say that one must persevere through all adversity but a far harder thing to do so. Even the bravest heart knows fear, and even the most hopeful among us has felt ...
2025-05-27 16:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post“In times of crisis, it is permissible for the high council of the Empyrean to be summoned to a session outside of the usual scheduled hours. Such members who are capable of attending should ...
2025-05-26 16:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostHey guys! This is a sneak peek for a new series of short form content that I'll be releasing on social media in the coming days and weeks! We'll be doing fun, memey skits for everyone to enjoy with...
2025-05-25 23:23:49 +0000 UTC View Post“There is no crime higher than the summoning of an eidolon. Even when it has been achieved by accident, it is punishable by death in most cultures.”
—How To Be Ardent,...
2025-05-25 16:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post“There is nothing in the universe more loathed than the eidolon. It is a being of pure destruction, with no mind, no conscience, nothing that can be reasoned with. They destroy people, they d...
2025-05-24 16:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post“The fundamental nature of all living things is broad and varied. But the fundamental nature of the eidolon is destruction. Whatever else it may be, whatever facets it has taken on, at its co...
2025-05-23 16:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post“Interconnectivity is at the heart of the art of magic. Each spell that is cast draws on the mana created by the world around it. Each resultant expulsion generates mana anew which goes on to...
2025-05-22 16:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post“At its most basic, a battle of magic is like a children’s game. Each side lays out their cards, one by one, trying to secure victory before the other can find some advantage. Sometimes thi...
2025-05-21 16:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post“Join the Ardent! The bonds of fellowship that you’ll form will last you a lifetime. Shame that lifetime will only be a few short years of active service before they’re all turned to past...
2025-05-20 16:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post“Power is what you make of it. There is no mage so powerful that the correct counter could not be composed by determined opposition, given time. So too is the fight with the eidolons. They se...
2025-05-19 16:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post“In the beginning, it is best for all to love you. They will excuse any cruelty and praise any kindness. But with time, love can be broken. It can sour and become hate. When the realiz...
2025-05-18 16:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post“These things we hold to be self-evident: that each and every person should have access to magic, that each and every person should have the freedom to develop their magic as they see fit, an...
2025-05-17 16:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post“Darkness is not all that blinds. Those so obsessed with their own moral superiority overlook that their conscience is a shackle keeping them from greatness. More importantly, it is a ...
2025-05-16 16:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post“What is death? We call it a force, an act, a moment, but in truth, it is a process. It creeps in, step by step. The slowing of the heart. The asphyxiation of the brain. The cessation of chem...
2025-05-15 16:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post“The subject of the afterlife is seldom broached in polite company. We speak of how the dead live on in our memory. Or how a necromancer might interact with the energies that the dead leave b...
2025-05-14 16:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post“When we are faced with a problem that cannot be solved, that is the true test of our capabilities. Something so far outside of our understanding of things that it cannot be contended ...
2025-05-13 16:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey everyone!
The big day is finally here and I am happy to announce that the official launch of Starbreaker: Volume 2 is finally available for your reading pleasure! If you are new ...
2025-05-13 04:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post“What is madness? We prize diversity of thought amidst those academics of the universe. Seek it out in all of its varied forms beyond those limits, yet when we are confronted with a worldview...
2025-05-12 16:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post“Where the duty of the militia member is always to whosoever founded their militia, and the duty of a mercenary is to whoever pays their bill, the duty of the Ardent is uniquely to the Empyre...
2025-05-11 16:00:16 +0000 UTC View Post“Through combat we are pushed to the limits of our ability. Through learning the limits of our ability, we can surpass those limits. That is all that needs to be said of the Ardent way.” 2025-05-10 16:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post
“Outside of the Ardent, we talk about downtime. Time when you don’t have to be performing at maximum capacity, when you don’t have to be ready to drop everything and fight Eidolons at a m...
2025-05-09 16:00:11 +0000 UTC View Post“There is more that is not known about null-space than any other dimension that has ever been encountered throughout sapient history. It is as though its designation was also meant to describ...
2025-05-08 16:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post