The mood offstage was tense; there were thousands of Lords and hundreds of thousands of hangers-on already in the seats, and many hovering over the stage to get a better look at the upcoming duel. Pressure had focused him, tightening Leon’s muscles and getting his heart to beat like a war...
2025-08-18 15:00:30 +0000 UTC View PostWar Cry was, as her name implied, a vessel designed for war. She had her comforts, to be sure, but ultimately, the ark had been built to cement the domination of the Great Black Dragon Clan over its domain. She had fulfilled that intent magnificently; during the conquests bef...
2025-08-15 15:00:17 +0000 UTC View PostThe deck of the ark was made of beautiful, aromatic wood, with a dark grain that formed subtle arcane lines. Whatever tree the planks had been cut from was specifically grown in this way, showing a mastery over nature magic that only the tree sprites in Leon’s Kingdom would match.
A...
2025-08-13 15:00:14 +0000 UTC View PostStunned, Leon couldn’t form any words to respond to Theron. He stared at the man, utterly flabbergasted that vassalization came so easily to him.
‘Then again, he said it’s been a thousand years of defending his territory on his own without his patron, or something like that...
2025-08-11 15:00:14 +0000 UTC View Post“WHERE IS HE?!” she shouted. “WHERE IS VROTHGAR?!”
In the face of Ingrid’s wrath, the dozens of men and women in the hangar went completely silent, a palpable aura of fear settling within. They faced only two people: Leon and Ingrid—Leon had sent his friends and fami...
2025-08-08 15:00:16 +0000 UTC View Post“Always remember: I love you two dearly.”
Those final words, spoken by Serana’s projection from the memory slate, rang in Leon’s ears. He’d listened to the slate’s message many times over the past century and a half, carving every word she said and expression she made into...
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I guess reminding people to like and comment does actually help, do...
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2025-08-01 15:00:21 +0000 UTC View PostThe time to leave Khosrow’s Fane quickly loomed, but not quickly enough for Leon’s tastes. He found the entire place quite distasteful, and while he felt some regret at not seeing the War Gallery or taking his ladies through the forums that Valeria had mentioned, he wouldn’t look back...
2025-07-30 15:00:12 +0000 UTC View Post“Given what you know about Khosrow—if anything at all—if he were here right now, able to look out into the universe and see how the world he built fares now, what would he think? What would he say?”
Sasan’s question left Leon speechless for several long seconds. His ey...
2025-07-28 15:00:15 +0000 UTC View PostThe time soon came to meet Sasan at the fane’s central temple, and Leon assembled a small escort to join him. Given the fane’s apparent widespread attitude toward those with Inherited Bloodlines, he decided to leave Anzu, Clear, and Red behind, though his other four Paladins joined him ...
2025-07-25 15:00:17 +0000 UTC View PostThe atmosphere in the courtyard was tense and silent. No one said a word, and even the sounds of the people outside the courtyard seemed to die down.
‘Or they fucked off,’ Leon noted as he glanced behind him and projected his magic senses. Sure enough, the arrival o...
2025-07-23 15:00:14 +0000 UTC View Post“We’ll need cover,” Leon said as he kept an eye on the surrounding streets with his magic senses. “Invisibility? We made it here easily enough…”
“We might make it far,” Archelaus said, “but drawing close to the Lumenite bands will make proceeding under...
2025-07-21 15:00:12 +0000 UTC View Post“This is a magnificent ark, Despot Raime,” Perenelle purred as the group reached an appropriate sitting room to relax in.
“The pinnacle of the Thunderbird Clan’s arksmithing… circa eighty-thousand years ago,” Leon replied with a grin.
“Sticking with that story?” she pr...
2025-07-18 15:00:13 +0000 UTC View PostBeauty, beauty as far as the eye could see; Miuna’s arrival at Khosrow’s Fane put on display the power of the Ocean King as she filled the streets with all the beauty she could bring to bear.
Her jellyfish ‘docked’ at an arkyard close to Storm Herald, and the smooth, fish-l...
2025-07-16 15:00:14 +0000 UTC View PostThe group hightailed it away from the marketplace as quickly as propriety allowed. Gwarim and Archelaus, after exchanging a look and what felt to Leon like a brief mental exchange, steered them in the direction of the Roaming Lark, a high-class dining establishment whose schtick was hiring ...
2025-07-14 15:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostDisappointments kept coming as they made their way through Khosrow’s Fane. Beneath the luster, the shining stone, a change was happening that Leon, who had never been to the fane before, couldn’t identify. But Gwarim, who had visited often enough, could hardly walk a single block ...
2025-07-11 15:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostArks seemingly made of slivers of radiant light escorted Leon’s convoy to a huge arkyard on one of the mountain-sized ‘moons’ suspended over Khosrow’s Fane by enormous bands of golden Lumenite. While some of the arks in the convoy were so large that they almost had trouble fitting t...
2025-07-09 15:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostMagic stormed around them, pulsing and whirling, and in a flash of black and blue light, Storm Herald, alongside her escorts, were spat back out into the Void. The engines thrummed, and the arks cleared the river gate to make way for the arks following them in the convoy, while the...
2025-07-07 15:00:17 +0000 UTC View PostAfter meeting with Ramin, Leon’s party stayed in Voidshore for only two more days. Ramin himself was eager to move on, though Leon found himself enjoying the city well enough with more time to stop and walk around. Archelaus showed him to a few exotic parks and restaurants, all of w...
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By the time Jericho’s gala wound down, Leon was dead tired. His mind had been taxed to its utmost limit by the sheer number of introductions he’d endured, the strain of matching hundreds of names to as many faces, while not impossible to bear, wearing him thin. Even Elise and Cass...
2025-06-30 15:00:19 +0000 UTC View PostMagic engines pulsed, braking hard as the space around the transport ark was suddenly filled with the magic senses of a hundred post-Apotheosis mages and their powerful attendants. Such concentrated power almost physically manifested, and though the ark pilot and his giant partner were skil...
2025-06-27 15:00:16 +0000 UTC View PostDeep breaths broke through the barrier of Leon’s lips as his muscles relaxed, the catharsis of his exertions turning his body to jelly. Beside him on the right lay Elise, trapped against his body by his arm, which held her tightly while his hand wandered over her expanse of formerly prist...
2025-06-25 15:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostFor an eternity that lasted the slightest of instants, he didn’t exist. He drowned in a black, abyssal sea, aware yet unaware, deaf and able to hear everything in the universe, blind yet able to perceive all the secrets of the universe.
He drifted through currents of time and space,...
2025-06-23 15:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostTerror. Sheer terror unlike almost anything she’d ever experienced had Elise’s heart beating louder than her husband’s thunder. She disliked physical conflict, training only at the rest of her family’s insistence, and her gratitude at having so many more martially inclined peo...
2025-06-20 15:00:16 +0000 UTC View PostThe crowd chattered as Leon and Gwarim calmly walked toward Triyr, Morui, and Britta. The weight of nearly a thousand post-Apotheosis mages was crushing, but Leon weathered it well, as did the others on the stage. For all their whispered words—most concerning this duel—Leon paid t...
2025-06-18 15:00:13 +0000 UTC View PostUpon Leon’s return to Storm Herald, wrath, cold and dark, had settled into his stomach. He made no grand declarations nor promises. Instead, he led his family to their quarters on the ark, leaving Anzu and Archelaus to give the necessary briefings to his people.
When ...
2025-06-16 15:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostAs Archelaus made his introductions, Damini’s dark, midnight eyes never left Leon, nor did her sultry smile fade. Leon could feel Elise and Cassandra’s irritation at being ignored after Damini insisted on the introduction, though before Archelaus had even finished, Leon wondered if that...
2025-06-13 15:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostThroughout the day, Storm Herald continued to attract attention. Occasionally, someone vaguely important came to inspect the ark as well as her escorts, but none disturbed the arks enough to get Leon’s attention. This served him just fine, for he and his family faced a monu...
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