“In magic we find the contradiction that proves all rules. Where belief and power are exerted against what we know to be true of the universe, the truth falters. Where mana is shaped and Aion...
2025-05-07 16:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostHey everyone!
I hope that you have all been enjoying Starbreaker so far! I am here with a few housekeeping updates!
First off and starting with the update that might affect some readers...
2025-05-07 13:33:52 +0000 UTC View Post“Accidents happen. That is the nature of the universe. Sometimes these accidents are happy, sometimes they are not. Yet pretending that those who have a series of accidents in their favor are...
2025-05-05 16:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post“Fighting eidolons and the undead, to a lesser extent, results in a very diverse collection of individual foes for the Ardent. In turn, this makes practical training exercises in preparation ...
2025-04-25 16:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post“The majority of species encountered across the universe have thus far been relatively similar. Offshoots from some common progenitor perhaps, or simply a matter of the same evolutionary nich...
2025-04-23 16:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post“Healing magic is much abused by society. Used as a replacement for proper care more often than not. Just as any mind mage is forced to undergo a full scan of their own consciousness prior to...
2025-04-21 16:00:10 +0000 UTC View Post“There is an inverse value attached to any given object or achievement based in how easy it was to achieve. The most treasured things in the world hold value only for their owner, and only be...
2025-04-18 16:00:12 +0000 UTC View Post“Fringe experiments in chronomancy aside, time is the one resource that none of us will ever get back. Through study of magic and the ensuing improvements to our bodies, we can prolong our li...
2025-04-16 16:00:10 +0000 UTC View Post“Minimum unit sizes of three are to be used when squads are to be deployed in direct contact with Eidolons. This eliminates the likelihood of affinity lockout, reduces the dangers of mental d...
2025-04-14 16:00:16 +0000 UTC View Post“A man can be healed within hours of his injury. The cruelty of fate reversed, if it is reached in time. But beyond that we discover the world of prosthetics, amputations and transplantation....
2025-04-11 16:00:12 +0000 UTC View Post“There are many things that they don’t tell you about waging war in a squad. Things that the textbooks and lecturers overlook and sidestep because they find them distasteful, or harmful to ...
2025-04-09 16:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post“It is easy to be deceived into seeing something that is not there. Pattern recognition was a vital asset for our ancestors trying to survive in a hostile world, and it has been carrie...
2025-04-07 16:00:10 +0000 UTC View Post“If repetition is the mother of learning then failure is its father. But while those who pursue the lesser disciplines can make full use of both of education’s parents, the mage is limited ...
2025-04-07 16:00:10 +0000 UTC View Post“In the heat of battle it can be difficult to tell friend from foe. For this reason, soldiers wear uniforms. This may produce some confusion, as you might come to believe that anyone n...
2025-04-07 16:00:10 +0000 UTC View Post“The reason that rapid advancement through the circles of magic is discouraged should be self-evident. The mana base is destabilized each time an additional circle is added, and by rus...
2025-04-07 16:00:10 +0000 UTC View Post“Magic is an art. Magic is beauty. Magic is grace. Magic is everything and anything that the user projects onto it. An artist sees every spell as the brushstrokes of creation, a builder sees ...
2025-04-07 16:00:10 +0000 UTC View Post“Thy legend was born in the shadow of the beast.
Marked with their sign. All dust in the wind.
Thy strength was forged in the shadow of the beast.
“Much has been said of the Eidolon. Much speculation has been made to its purpose in the universal order. Its fundamental nature. What will drives them to do as they do. I say to you t...
2025-04-07 16:00:10 +0000 UTC View Post“While there have been many theoretical treatise written on the subject of temporal magic, the practicality of it has always escaped us. The amount of power required to overturn the pu...
2025-04-07 16:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostMagic as an art has always developed on every world with species capable of attaining sentience. The particular format in which knowledge of magic was conveyed between practitioners and their a...
2025-04-07 16:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostHi everyone!
With today's epilogue chapter being released, it now marks the official end of Volume 2 for free readers! I hope that you've all enjoyed the story so far! I truly appreciate all ...
2025-03-26 17:47:58 +0000 UTC View PostValtoris Blackstar was training. There were some who said such things were pointless, that his power was in his empire now, not in the strength of his flesh, or the reach of his magic. But they did...
2025-03-05 17:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey everyone! I am happy to announce that Starbreaker: Volume 1 is now available for your reading and listening pleasure! (At least for those of you who haven't already read it ahead of time)
“Yet in the Eidolon we find nothing unique. It is a creature, arcane where others are biological. It requires sustenance, arcane where others require chemical. There is little to distinguish ...
2025-03-03 17:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post“How do you kill a world? Is a world even a living thing that can be killed? In the abstract it would seem the answer is no. It is simply a sphere of solid matter in a vast expanse of emptine...
2025-02-28 17:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post“Hating yourself is part of being leader. So is being hated. Your job is not to be everyone’s friend. Your job is to complete your mission at whatever cost has been deemed acceptable. More ...
2025-02-26 17:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post“It is impossible for any worldsoul to bear an affinity, for the simple reason that a world cannot exist except as a holistic whole. To remove death from a world would be as destabilizing as ...
2025-02-24 17:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostHey everyone! I hope you have all been enjoying the story so far!
I am writing here for those who are still reading Volume 1 of the story and letting you know that the story will be stubbed/p...
2025-02-24 15:02:38 +0000 UTC View Post“No matter how good you are. No matter how hard you train. Eventually you will hit the wall. This isn’t through any fault of yours. Circumstances and ability very rarely align, and even les...
2025-02-14 17:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post“Relic worlds stand as a testament to how far it is necessary for us to go to defend ourselves against the Eidolon menace. They show sophisticated culture, technology and magic existed across...
2025-02-12 17:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post