It helps to understand the battlefield as a living thing when you are campaigning in a field. Scouts, Assassins, Thieves—these are your diag
It helps to understand the battlefield as a living thing when you are campaigning in a field.<...
2025-07-24 09:17:03 +0000 UTC View PostI bring my wife, Zein, to diplomatic occasions because she is my finest diplomatic tool. She and Naeko are my most effective instruments, for true diplomacy always carries a final, unspoken message: accept this handshake, or it will be forced ...
2025-07-23 19:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostWhat happens in the Halls of Highest Power? What happens beyond Preceptor's Descent? What do the Princes, Princesses, Kings, and Queens scheme about?
Ha! Nothing! Nothing particularly interesting, my dear children. Nothing, my d...
2025-07-23 18:38:08 +0000 UTC View PostLet me tell you something, Sijik. I hate Roland Arrow. I hated him since the first time I laid eyes on him. I hated him when we were in the
Let me tell you something, Sijik. I hate Roland Arrow. I hated him since the first time I laid ey...
2025-07-23 18:06:09 +0000 UTC View PostTeam and armies have a breaking point, just like individual Pathbearers. That breaking point is variable. It depends on a hell of a lot of t
Team and armies have a breaking point, just like individual Pathbearers. That breaking point is ...
2025-07-23 13:29:58 +0000 UTC View PostGet up, Adam. Get up. You're not done. You're not done until you beat me. And look at me. You can do it. With your team. With the people by
Get up, Adam. Get up. You're not done. You're not done until you beat me.
And look...
2025-07-22 18:54:25 +0000 UTC View PostI like to think of most Pathbearers as puzzles to solve. It's an effective way of thinking about dealing with enemies that aren’t like you.
I like to think of most Pathbearers as puzzles to solve. It's an effective way of thinking abou...
2025-07-22 12:47:44 +0000 UTC View Post—Confidential— [Ambient Mana Recognized — Incoming Message from Inquisitor-Master Sijik] Oldsmith. If the situation at Gate Theborn is truly
—Confidential—
[Ambient Mana Recognized — Incoming Messag...
2025-07-21 18:45:45 +0000 UTC View PostThere is a slight benefit to living in a low-trust society. The thing about living in a low-trust society is that the people there also hate each other, so you can always rely on them to betray each other. And if you have something everyone wa...
2025-07-21 16:29:50 +0000 UTC View PostDeathstalker Perspicacity Pricelles 2 reporting in to Siege Force Main. Observation post SC102 at Old Santabarb reports no abnormal activity
Deathstalker Perspicacity Pricelles 2 reporting in to Siege Force Main. Observation pos...
2025-07-21 09:57:16 +0000 UTC View PostThe way I look at revenge is the same way I look at replacing a lost limb. You lost the arm. Yeah, that happened. It's never coming back. The same arm is not coming back. You're going to need to accept that. Now, different people have differen...
2025-07-21 03:23:31 +0000 UTC View PostScouts are the eyes, nose, tongue, ears, mouth, skin—everything that relates to the senses for an army. No scouts means that you're fighting
Scouts are the eyes, nose, tongue, ears, mouth, skin—everything that relates to the senses f...
2025-07-20 17:27:59 +0000 UTC View PostYou will not become a true Pathbearer if you're afraid of taking risks, if you're afraid of doing new things, if you're afraid of developing
You will not become a true Pathbearer if you're afraid of taking risks, if you're afraid of doin...
2025-07-20 13:58:34 +0000 UTC View PostSometimes, you don’t need to actually kill or hurt someone to get what you want. Sometimes, a few threats, a bit of charm, and some bribery
Sometimes, you don’t need to actually kill or hurt someone to get what you want. Sometimes, a...
2025-07-19 20:10:48 +0000 UTC View PostIt's not enough. It will never be enough. Look at me, Naeko. Gaze into my eyes and heed my words, for you know them to be true. You know them to be true, despite the pain it brings you. It will never be enough. You can continue torturing that ...
2025-07-19 15:28:48 +0000 UTC View PostYour equipment is going to break. Your weapons are going to break. Your armor is going to break. This is inevitable. If you are a martial Pa
Your equipment is going to break. Your weapons are going to break. Your armor is going to break....
2025-07-19 11:40:47 +0000 UTC View PostRepeat that. Say that again. Say it. Keep your straight face and say it to me. Say “someone killed an entire court of our descendants and st
Repeat that.
Say that again. Say it. Keep your straight face and say it to me.<...
2025-07-18 19:23:39 +0000 UTC View PostSometimes, the solution to your problem will deliver itself to your door. Well, a solution wrapped in the form of a problem, most often.
Let me tell you a story.
One time, I was supposed to escort this guy across ...
2025-07-18 15:14:53 +0000 UTC View PostThe beautiful thing about all biology is mutation; the transformation is synthesization. Everything can be something else, all can be true,
The beautiful thing about all biology is mutation; the transformation is synthesization. Everythi...
2025-07-17 19:01:22 +0000 UTC View PostIt is beautiful how the smallest thing can bring down a giant. Consider how minute a virus is, how delightful, how delicate. A slight chang
It is beautiful how the smallest thing can bring down a giant.
Conside...
2025-07-17 12:31:40 +0000 UTC View PostThanks to the gifts offered to them by the Lineage Cores and the malleable and ever-enduring nature of their bodies, the embraced of the First Blood are unfettered from consequence, free to use their bodies as a canvas, the blood as paint, the...
2025-07-16 18:41:25 +0000 UTC View PostWhat can we say about Greatest, Prince of Pride? What can we say that doesn't end with "asshole," "bastard," "won't take no for an answer"? He can sew up his own ass—that is a skill. His asshole literally has a singularity inside of it. He h...
2025-07-16 17:00:24 +0000 UTC View PostSo, here's the thing about killing Heroes. It's hard, they're very destructive, but it can be done. It can be done if you get about a hundred masters together on average. A hundred masters with a hundred varied skills, and that's usually the m...
2025-07-16 13:06:45 +0000 UTC View PostBecoming a vampire means immortality, but it is not your immortality alone. Rather, with every lineage core spread, from those who sired vampires before you, to the one that sired you, to the one you will sire, your entire line grows stronger....
2025-07-15 18:56:12 +0000 UTC View PostAnd as for this next song, I call it, "There Is No End." Because there is no end. There is no end to the depravity, there is no end to the degeneracy, there is no end to the blood they will spill. Our blood, your parents' blood, your brother's...
2025-07-15 16:34:12 +0000 UTC View PostI'm starting to think that you need to be a pretty good Biomancer to achieve the best kind of cooking possible. I can't believe how effective Biomancy is at making my cooking better. I can tell the quality of meat without even really getting i...
2025-07-15 09:32:21 +0000 UTC View PostMixing different ingredients and methods of preparing them also modifies the effects you can gain from a specific dish. Let’s go back to the basilisk. Because the basilisk is a pretty cool creature. Ican cook it straight and eat it straight....
2025-07-14 19:06:08 +0000 UTC View PostPolitics is the act of getting what you want through whatever means, including war, but whatever means without saying truly what you want. Politics is getting your enemy to betray themselves. Politics is waving a stick and going "nice doggie" ...
2025-07-14 17:16:16 +0000 UTC View PostAlright, this book of recipes is more than just about taste, ingredients, and the monsters you can kill to find them—or well, the plants and other stuff you can forage, but not as fun as monster killing anyway, at least in my opinion. 2025-07-14 10:35:24 +0000 UTC View Post
Practically every Pathbearer knows that breaking something is easy, but building it back up, or even just making something new, is harder than hell. I appreciate this more than anyone else because even though I am a war mage, most of what I do...
2025-07-13 16:16:46 +0000 UTC View Post