“In our pursuit of perfection, we mutilate. Healthy minds are broken with magic as surely as with trauma, and in their breaking we find cause for celebration, because we can squeeze out a mor...
2024-11-15 17:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post“Speed is the distinction between combat magic and that practiced in everyday life. There is no effect that combat spells can enact that does not have parallel in the civilian experience, no ...
2024-11-13 17:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post“The most simplistic of spells is invariably an attack. A raw expression of mana sent out from the caster towards some perceived threat. This is the least useful, and least potent application...
2024-11-11 17:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post“Teleportation is one thing, but moving a whole fleet is another. Every ship needs a mage. Every ship needs etherium to power each jump. These are ongoing costs. Investments. The promise of s...
2024-11-08 17:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post“By the time that an affinity for a particular type of mana has emerged, the signs have likely been there for quite some time. A fiery temper. An inclination to go with the flow. Affinities r...
2024-11-06 17:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post“The Ardent differentiated themselves from the regular militias of the Alliance through many means. Their focus on arcane warfare, flexibility of deployment and purpose as a deterrent to exis...
2024-11-04 17:09:00 +0000 UTC View Post“What a mage is, and what a mage can become very rarely bear much resemblance to one another. All of us began as nothing. All of us end at the upper limit of our capability. What shapes us is...
2024-11-04 17:08:00 +0000 UTC View Post“Embodiment and Paradigm are both archetypal and non-specific, a broad variety of esoteric techniques from across myriad traditions folded together under the umbrella of their specific effect...
2024-11-04 17:07:00 +0000 UTC View Post“Pain is one of life’s great educational tools.”
—The Necessity, Valtoris Blackstar
Sylvas was shunted out of the infirmary shortly after that, even tho...
2024-11-04 17:06:00 +0000 UTC View Post“To be possessed by a fear of the future is natural, it is the unknown. Without falling victim to the fallacy of inductive reasoning, there is no possible way in which events yet to come can ...
2024-11-04 17:05:00 +0000 UTC View Post“The difference between a soldier and a mage is that the former must accept realities as they are. Terrain is a fixed and unmovable reality, positioning, transportation, materiel and logistic...
2024-11-04 17:04:00 +0000 UTC View Post“Failure means death. Perhaps that death will not arrive now. Perhaps it will not arrive for many years. But the seed of it is planted in the moment that you first taste failure and allow you...
2024-11-04 17:03:00 +0000 UTC View Post“The most valuable resource on any battlefield is time. Time for you to cast. Time for you to assume a favorable position. If you can steal time from an opponent without cost, you should alwa...
2024-11-04 17:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post“Pressure. Without it the rough carbon of a mortal could never be compressed into the diamond of a wizard. Yet it is the same pressure that transforms some into the best possible version of t...
2024-11-04 17:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey everyone! It’s me again!
I’m back again with another big release today, this time with book three of Immortal’s Ascent – Blade and Banner! This book kicks off a brand new story ar...
2024-10-15 13:39:48 +0000 UTC View Post
Nice uniform. Be a shame if something happened to it.
2024-10-09 17:13:31 +0000 UTC View PostThe world shook beneath the Emperor’s feet, but he was not daunted. Above him in the sky beyond the monolith, two black holes swallowed the stars, debris and anything else that came into their re...
2024-09-25 16:05:01 +0000 UTC View PostHi everyone! As you may have already seen, Starbreaker Book 1 is now complete! Thank you all so much for supporting me through this!
For those of you who have just been been supporting or hav...
2024-09-25 16:05:01 +0000 UTC View Post“The Hammerheart Consortium is a potent business enterprise within the Empyrean, with members stretching across almost every aspect of society. In government, the military and even the Ardent...
2024-09-25 16:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post“In the Eidolon, witness perfection. It does not hunger, it does not tire, it consumes mana, but not at a rate less than it produces mana. Each Eidolon in our universe is a perfect engine of ...
2024-09-23 16:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post“Of late, there has been some criticism of the training schedules and their intensity within the Ardent. Need I remind you all that the only way that it is possible for you all to live in mod...
2024-09-13 16:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post“The manners in which magic can be applied to improve yourself is endless. There are spells to improve every metric by which a person might be judged, and if applied correctly and consistentl...
2024-09-11 16:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post“For every spell, there is an equal and opposite counterspell. A construct of spell forms that cancels out its effects. Sometimes these can be repurposed into a ward against a specific branch...
2024-09-09 16:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post“This degree of psychological stability is a double edged sword, of course. There can be no using the excuse of an excess of emotions or a moment of madness when a mage is involved. If they c...
2024-09-06 16:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostHi everyone! Happy September!! I hope that you’ve all enjoyed the last month of Scion of Magic and Starbreaker, along with the last few weeks of Summer! It was a short working month for us here a...
2024-09-05 18:12:15 +0000 UTC View Post“The fine tuning of a recruit’s place within the Ardent is a rapid, and at times, unpredictable thing, at least for the recruits who enlist while still in the lower circles of magic. As suc...
2024-09-04 16:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post“Gravity affinity is ranked among the rarest in the known galaxy, with only 134 known mages with that affinity having existed throughout the history of the Empyrean Alliance, and 4 of them ex...
2024-09-02 16:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post“Cut away the parts of you that are weak. Cut away the parts that care. Let your weakness bleed away. You are more than this.”
—The Necessity, Valtoris Blackstar
“There will be loss. There will be suffering. There is a price that must be paid. But whether you will it to be so or not, the price will still be paid. If you choose to go kicking and scream...
2024-08-28 16:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post