People don't want to know what hides in the dark.
There's nothing wrong with that. There's nothing wrong with the fear, with the paranoia, with the ignorance. It's there to keep you safe. It's wired into us, evolutionarily or in...
2025-09-21 19:06:31 +0000 UTC View PostGoing to spend a bit longer on this new chapter. Will have more time to write starting now, and so I'm going to reduce the errors and issues in the chapters if I can. The last few chapters have been a bit lacking in a few ways, so I hope to improv...
2025-09-20 19:11:44 +0000 UTC View PostMost people do not truly understand their own flaws. It is easy to notice what weaknesses you have on a surface level, but past that, your problems are usually systemic and structural, majorly influenced by your environment and the context you...
2025-09-19 19:58:08 +0000 UTC View Post“You’re a godsdamned fool… Should’ve left me. I wasn’t…”
“Oh, be quiet, Harlon. This is your fault, you know. I wouldn’t need to risk my life if you would’ve just won that fight and stopped yourself from gett...
2025-09-18 19:54:15 +0000 UTC View PostI've always been interested in borders, even as a child. Borders are fascinating things. A powerful Pathbearer can ignore the borders drawn by a weaker nation, for they are beyond consequence. Yet, the same Pathbearer must recognize the border...
2025-09-17 19:07:11 +0000 UTC View PostYou’re wrong, Shiv. Dead felling wrong. Gods, boy, it’s like you’re not paying any attention at all. The reason why the Swan-Eating Toad works isn’t fear. People don’t cook here because they’re afraid of me. I’m not dangerous. My...
2025-09-16 19:01:51 +0000 UTC View PostLeadership is made up of three things, son. Vision, choice, and imperfection.
When you lead, you need to sell people on an idea, a path that they can follow. This ties into choice, but the main reason people seek a leader out is...
2025-09-15 19:17:21 +0000 UTC View PostThe most important skill you can all develop in this course is Awareness. Awareness and not stealth. Awareness will teach you about stealth. It will instruct you on all the aspects of Stealth that you have not understood yet. There is no absol...
2025-09-14 19:12:48 +0000 UTC View Post…Aside from the Starhawk, the only other Ascendant that holds true subversion potential is the aptly titled Cripple the Strongest. Yet, Cripple will prove to be a fascinating case as it is not its avatars that are vulnerable, but rather than...
2025-09-13 18:24:23 +0000 UTC View PostJust brief update again: the weird scheduling I warned about has kicked in fully. Have not gotten to cleaning up the latest chapter yet, but I'll get something out in a while.
Maybe next week will get better, but I'm probably going to need t...
2025-09-12 19:10:16 +0000 UTC View PostAh! Dungeons and jails! My favorite place to socialize and meet new friends. Naturally, because I don’t like being captured, I usually sneak in myself and hide in the walls.
You learn a lot of things when hiding in people’s ...
2025-09-11 13:34:42 +0000 UTC View PostI'm getting off an odd OT shift and will be uploading in a few hours instead (not a full day's delay, don't worry). I'll also try to get back to releasing Godclads tomorrow as well.
Stay tuned for more chapters. Also, if the schedule and tim...
2025-09-10 15:14:32 +0000 UTC View PostAlright. So. You’ve been captured. First thing about getting captured—tell no one you were a pupil of mine so I can be spared the shame, at the least. There are Pathbearers that say getting captured is an inevitability if you live and figh...
2025-09-09 19:14:35 +0000 UTC View PostIt is a universal truth that every Marital-Pathbearer has imagined themselves breaking free from prison at least once—if only for the novelty of doing so.
As someone who has escaped from multiple prisons, dungeons, and slaught...
2025-09-08 19:29:29 +0000 UTC View PostThere are situations where certain threats are deemed too grave a danger to be allowed to roam free, yet too valuable to kill, at the same time. In these circumstances, the Yellowstone Republic has a solution: The Rubix Wells.
T...
2025-09-07 19:39:07 +0000 UTC View PostIn my experience, everyone seeks to betray themselves in some way. It is cathartic to confess your sins. It is cathartic to release all burdens lingering in your mind, like extracting an arrow. It hurts, but you yearn to feel an absence where ...
2025-09-06 19:12:18 +0000 UTC View PostYou should cultivate a certain madness in your heart. To be a good warrior and a great Pathbearer, one must hold two conflicting desires at the same time. A willingness to be gentle and nurse the wounds of your flesh and mind after battle, to ...
2025-09-04 20:10:38 +0000 UTC View PostDrown in your defeat. Learn to savor the taste. Let your limitations hurt you. Let yourself rage against your failure.
Or you can turn away. It won’t fix anything, but there is a mercy to getting struck down from behind. Warri...
2025-09-03 19:31:57 +0000 UTC View PostHave you ever gazed into the heart of an apocalypse? I have. I have seen things inside the mind of Tarrasque so deep, so true, inevitable. It is our inevitable end. They… they aren't born yet, do you know that? They aren't born yet. They're ...
2025-09-02 19:54:52 +0000 UTC View PostPsychomancy will wound your heart, Uva. There is no way to avoid the pain. There is far too often talk about ethics and rules regarding your skill, but so little about the cost it will inflict on you. You are a person too. Never forget that. E...
2025-09-01 19:22:27 +0000 UTC View PostThe main goal of Project Deathless is multifaceted. It is more than just creating an entity that can make the system choke on its own eternal urge to constantly engender war and strife. An entity that simply won't die no matter what world they...
2025-08-31 19:58:04 +0000 UTC View PostOld.
You think I'm on the Auroral Council because I'm old? Let me tell you something about being old, girl.
The system doesn't want you to grow old. The system doesn't want you to extend your life beyond any...
2025-08-30 19:34:06 +0000 UTC View PostHello. Thank you for your patience. I will resume all writing tomorrow.
This week has been hell. Sorry for the wait. God help us all.
2025-08-29 20:19:17 +0000 UTC View PostStill getting destroyed at work. Apologies. Will try to make up for severe delays. I'll try to deal with the problem by tomorrow.
2025-08-27 19:05:03 +0000 UTC View PostHello, this is just an update touching base about my currently running fictions.
Before that, thanks for reading and all the responses. I have been looking over some universal feedback (Issues people have noted in the story over and over aga...
2025-08-26 15:18:59 +0000 UTC View PostThere's an art to picking out your benefactor in the Claimed Hells, and that's understanding that you're going to be screwed. How much you get screwed is a negotiation between you, your benefactor, and the environment you occupy. But ultimatel...
2025-08-25 19:04:37 +0000 UTC View PostPoor, poor Sullain.
Every time I look upon the fool, I am reaffirmed that his life is destined for eternal tragedy. It’s not that he never got the affirmation he needed as a child from that pathetic degenerate he has for...
2025-08-25 18:55:56 +0000 UTC View PostAn avatar of an Ascendant consists of three aspects. The first is a sacred phylactery. They must be in its vicinity to properly draw on the
An avatar of an Ascendant consists of three aspects. The first is a sacred phylactery. They must be i...
2025-08-24 19:05:42 +0000 UTC View PostMost Legends don't live long enough to experience the fullness provided by their newfound power and skill. This is because the Post-Legend M
Most Legends don't live long enough to experience the fullness provided by their newfound power ...
2025-08-23 19:15:17 +0000 UTC View Post