I batted Aurier’s hands away. Then I fended off Sreketh. This was a difficult battle.
“Your cape isn’t fully straight,” Aurier said, ignoring my recalcitrance and straightening the flapping fabric on my back.
I jerked away. “...
2025-10-27 13:20:41 +0000 UTC View PostOne of the fears I had of being a leader of sorts was that I would suddenly be a lot busier. There were so many little things that Escinca had handled as the Elder of the Cult of the Sun, many of which went unseen by me and the rest of the cultist...
2025-10-26 14:04:00 +0000 UTC View PostI paced. Tomorrow, two days after the big trial on Ring One that had decided the fate of House Kalnislaw, we were supposed to have the remembrance ceremony for Elder Escinca.
Tomorrow, I would be doing my first, new Ritual.
Or at least...
2025-10-25 14:57:31 +0000 UTC View PostI swallowed a little as the Councillor started introducing me. It felt a bit odd, if I was being honest. My skin felt tight, almost a little cold, as the attention of nearly everyone in the courtroom swivelled towards me again.
“As you are...
2025-10-24 14:25:44 +0000 UTC View PostRing One was a lot more practical-minded than I had been expecting. It was obviously rich. The lights shone brighter than even on Ring Two, and there were many statues lining the thoroughfares or adorning the corners.
But where Ring Two had ...
2025-10-23 14:13:38 +0000 UTC View PostUnlike the fancy evolution of my Path of the Newborn Star, which was now Path of Burning Starlight, my Acolyte Path didn’t undergo anything as extravagant. No world turning into space, no distant stars blinking at me from the walls and ceilings....
2025-10-22 14:18:18 +0000 UTC View PostThe rest of the day passed in a strange blur. There were so many things to figure out. Whenever I felt like I had dealt with something, yet another little issue popped up that I needed to find a solution to.
For instance, the very first thin...
2025-10-21 13:48:14 +0000 UTC View PostSome of the rewards I saw were a little surprising.
[ Rank Up!
Your Vitality and Spirit Attributes have risen by two Ranks.
Your Power and Agility Attributes have risen by one Rank.
... 2025-10-20 13:51:12 +0000 UTC View PostThat was only Glonek’s first convert. In the weeks that followed, he found more converts. More people who were willing to become Scarthralls. More people entranced by the Woven Way.
Willing was perhaps stretching. But he wasn’t ...
2025-10-19 14:53:13 +0000 UTC View PostTwo new Aspects. Not one. Two.
That was what evolving my Path had granted me. It made me feel a little crazy, and a little blessed, to realize that I had gained two entirely new evolved Aspects just from evolving o...
2025-10-18 14:29:04 +0000 UTC View PostWhite-hot mana channelled through my body, rushing through my arms to alight with burning threads on the heart I held in my grasp.
[ Sacrifice
You have Sacrificed 1 [Moderate] Heart of a Gold-ranked Cultis...
2025-10-17 13:29:12 +0000 UTC View PostGlonek, unsurprisingly, recovered fast. He had lost a lot of his composure, his face twisted in a scowl as he reached for me again, shrieking out a curse.
A futile effort, because a chunk of the ceiling even bigger than the vampire slammed i...
2025-10-16 14:50:53 +0000 UTC View PostI had been so focused on taking down Glonek himself that I had failed realize that Tural was already here. And unlike Escinca, who seemed to be strong enough to resist Glonek’s control, Tural obviously wasn’t.
Rolling after the collision...
2025-10-15 13:20:01 +0000 UTC View PostThe power of a Gold nearing Opal. I really needed to stop staring at such displays of strength. It wasn’t that I was just impressed. There was some of that, sure.
But what I really felt was eagerness to get to the same point.
<... 2025-10-14 14:33:12 +0000 UTC View PostI stared for a bit. No, I was not open to criticism for my actions. This was the kind of magic someone at Gold—someone nearing Opal—was capable of. Of course, I stared.
Still, my real priorities asserted their position before long. We ha...
2025-10-13 13:34:10 +0000 UTC View PostRevayne was probably the last person I was expecting to meet on my way back to the temple. But honestly? I was glad that I had. Because otherwise, I would never have remembered that tonight was the night that the Guards of Zairgon were going to st...
2025-10-12 12:58:14 +0000 UTC View PostI wasn’t in the mood to entertain people who didn’t mean well, and everything about the guy screamed that he definitely wasn’t coming at me with good intentions.
“Hoi there, fake-Gold,” he said, twirling a short stick that made me ...
2025-10-11 15:56:23 +0000 UTC View PostAn Oath was far from a necessity. In fact, the look I got from Guille was an obvious giveaway. But it wasn’t really a lie. Oaths were a part of the induction process, just one that Escinca tended to disregard. In this case however, I wasn’t ta...
2025-10-10 16:22:59 +0000 UTC View PostGlonek looked uncomfortable, and I wasn’t going to lie, that made me feel good. It was petty, especially considering that Zoltan had been the real asshole here, but I remembered how much of a jerk he had been at Kalnislaw Estate too. In fact, th...
2025-10-09 14:46:39 +0000 UTC View PostIt wasn’t exactly a formal feast. We weren’t sitting at one large table forced into a single position where we had to keep to our seats. That wouldn’t have been appropriate, according to Escinca. After all, our oh-so-vaunted guests were nobl...
2025-10-08 15:13:32 +0000 UTC View PostEscinca further detailed that the vampires of Kalnislaw wanted a more public meeting with us all. Something almost like the fete we had performed, which had turned rather disastrous due to the Scarthrall attacks.
“Why are they insisting on...
2025-10-07 12:55:04 +0000 UTC View PostUnsurprisingly, Augmentations for Vitality were almost all related to things like defence, health, and stamina. Though, in Ugnash’s case, he had a separate Attribute for energy and stamina management called Endurance, which I had heard of before...
2025-10-06 13:04:50 +0000 UTC View PostI wasn’t expecting to get hit so quickly. No, it wasn’t stupid of me to not expect that, even if I had seen just how easily violent almost everyone in the Adventurer’s Guild could be. I was literally talking with and standing very close to t...
2025-10-05 08:16:01 +0000 UTC View PostNaturally, after Ugnash had been so kind to come personally inform me that things were underway for my main reward, I went with him all the way to the Adventurer’s Guild at Ring Two. When asked why we had to go to Ring Two instead of the Ring Th...
2025-10-04 11:26:44 +0000 UTC View PostThe next day, I woke early. If I was going to lead the prayers, might as well start it early on.
Sreketh, Santoire, and Guille, were ready. They looked eager, which wasn’t helping my nerves. I wasn’t even sure where my nervousness was co...
2025-10-03 16:27:43 +0000 UTC View PostI took some time basking in the afterglow of having finally achieved my Augmentation. There wasn’t any descriptive text stating exactly what I had accomplished. Typical of the Weave. But in any case, I knew what I was doing. I knew what I had ga...
2025-10-02 16:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostI wanted to focus on getting my actual job here done before I focused on getting my Augmentation. In part, that was because there was a weird sense of integrity about it that I felt kind of sort of obligated to follow. As in, I was here to do a jo...
2025-10-01 16:26:41 +0000 UTC View PostI kept the information about Xokrist and the fact that I had to pick up another Sacrifice job soon on the side. The first thing I did was look through the list of Augmentations for Power that Kostis had suggested.
It wasn’t that illuminati...
2025-10-01 01:54:46 +0000 UTC View PostThe new vampire was even worse than Lady Kalnislaw. It was like being in the presence of a living lightning bolt, where the air was charged so much that one wrong move would get me electrocuted.
He even looked similar too, though that might ...
2025-09-29 15:18:18 +0000 UTC View PostWhile I was ready to head out with Hamsik—and Sreketh, who had gleefully accepted the invitation to House Kalnislaw—I hadn’t been expecting that to happen at the crack of dawn before the next day even started properly.
“Are they even...
2025-09-28 15:21:19 +0000 UTC View Post