“Eventually, everyone fails you. Whether through betrayal or weakness, they cannot take the next step with you. It is the nature of being more that others must be less. It is the nature of seeking greatness that others pale in comparison to ...
2025-10-29 16:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post“Premonition is, at its core, a flawed form of magic that can never be successful. There are simply too many factors for it to ever work as intended. Time is not linear but branching, with every decision that we make, and every electron spli...
2025-10-27 16:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post“One aspect of mana that remains outside of mortal reach is chaos. We often see eidolons manifest with it as their defining characteristic, but no mortal has ever been able to access it. We are creatures of reason, so magic that is inherentl...
2025-10-24 16:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post“Trust is a fool’s invitation. Ultimately, the only living creature in the universe that you can be entirely certain of the intentions of is yourself. When you trust, you put a knife in a traitor’s hand. When you trust, you accept that y...
2025-10-22 16:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post“Completing your mission is of the utmost importance. It is essentially impossible to get past the inherent cowardice encoded into every life form, the survival instinct that says that living to fight another day will be the best way to achi...
2025-10-20 16:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post“Sometimes I have to do the right thing. I hate doing the right thing. It always ends up costing me more than I’m willing to pay. I still do it, because otherwise I can’t sleep at night or look myself in the mirror. But it still sucks....
2025-10-17 16:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post“Proposal Three: The shikari are the cause of the Aion’s downfall. A predator that the magic-reliant Aions had never encountered before, and which could dispatch their defenders faster than they could cast. An outside context problem for a...
2025-10-15 16:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post“Proposal Two: The shikari are the watchdogs of the Aions. Knowing that they would no longer have a physical presence upon this plane of existence, the Aions recognized that they would still need something here to protect the resources that ...
2025-10-13 16:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post“Proposal One: The shikari are the Aions. Faced with their inevitable decline, the Aion people instead chose to divorce themselves from magic and their higher brain functions, leaving behind only their bodies, which they had enhanced beyond ...
2025-10-10 16:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post“The problem with Aion defenses is that they’re always an outside context problem. They’re never straightforward or easy to navigate. They always have to be approached with a novel solution because it seems that the Aions were allergic t...
2025-10-08 16:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostHey everyone! Happy Tuesday!
I am here with a non-Starbreaker post to announce that my latest new series – Aetherforged is available now! Co-written with the awesome Harmon Cooper, this book is a wild cross of Epic Fantasy, Academia, and D...
2025-10-07 15:21:10 +0000 UTC View Post“What we know about the Aions fills up only a very tiny corner of what they were. We lack almost every piece of the puzzle, and much of our attempts to understand them come not from examining the evidence that we have but from pondering the ...
2025-10-06 16:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post“Eidolon incursions are the most common cause of a planet’s death. Second is necromancy. Third, shikari outbreaks. From there, we have a massive drop-off in percentages until we reach natural disasters, magical accidents, prolonged interna...
2025-10-03 16:00:21 +0000 UTC View Post“While one might consider a creature without magic to be ill-equipped to face a world in which magic exists, one would be grossly underestimating the limitations of the physical. Magic allows us to go beyond our own limitations, but that is ...
2025-10-01 16:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post“The shikari have a hive-like social structure with a single queen that lays eggs, reproducing through partial parthenogenesis. Some of the shikari seem to have special adaptations that are coded into them at inception, including any future ...
2025-09-29 16:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post“The way that mages are taught to fight is multi-faceted, but it lends itself equally well to inter-ship combat as it does to direct interpersonal confrontations. The problem that most mages of the Ardent encounter when placed on duty aboard...
2025-09-26 16:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post“Some mana is inaccessible. While our affinities grant us access to a broad spread of the mana in the universe, some floes of it are untouched and untouchable. Beyond even our ability to sense. It is these that we often see the eidolon feast...
2025-09-24 16:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post“Your squad will become your friends, no matter how hard you try to avoid it. Even if you start off loathing every single one of them, hating everything they do and wishing they’d all drop dead so you could get reassigned, by the end of yo...
2025-09-22 16:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post“Standard operating procedure for any clandestine organization is to go in soft, make your presence invisible, don’t let anyone know that you’re there until you’re done, and, for preference, not even then. Make them think it was an acc...
2025-09-19 16:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post“This universe is composed of infinite diversity in infinite combinations. Whatever collection of celestial bodies the mind can imagine can be found somewhere out there in the expanse of space. Anything that you can dream of is out there som...
2025-09-17 16:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post“For the duplication of the self produces ethical dilemmas as yet unthought of. Whatever is created is you, but only at the moment of its conception. After that moment, all that it perceives and does begins to differentiate it from you. It b...
2025-09-15 16:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post“This troth I forge, with no expectation
Of reciprocation nor love returned
No promise I beg
But asking only this
Live until hammers no longer ring
Until the forge fires of the stars burn out
Know only the embrace of mother...
“While humanity was still divided into nation states in the cradle of its homeworld, the dwarves had spread beyond their own system to begin prospecting and mining the asteroids contained in the belt beyond their star’s light. But with the...
2025-09-10 16:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post“Of the myriad and varied species that make up the Empyrean Alliance, none are more stalwart in their support of its ideals than the dwarves. While there have been isolationist factions among the elven people who would have happily seen the ...
2025-09-08 16:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post“Those who study the eidolon in its natural habitat are few and far between, primarily because its natural habitat is a chaotic dimension filled with eidolons that want nothing more than to kill anyone and everything that is not an eidolon. ...
2025-09-05 16:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostThe vault is the most sought-after of all the remnants of the Aion civilization, not because it has any greater value than those things discovered outside of the vaults, but because of the degree of organization that went into their creation. ...
2025-09-03 16:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post“Null-space is something of a misnomer because it implies that it is a place. A place with nothing in it, but still a place. Rather, null-space is the absence of all things, including all laws of physics, all mass, energy, everything. It is ...
2025-09-01 16:00:10 +0000 UTC View Post“Digging through the ruins of dead civilizations is the prerogative of those species that have survived, and nowhere is that truer than in the case of the Aions, from whom so much of our modern understanding of the universe has come from. In...
2025-08-29 16:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post“Violence is never the answer.”
—Lies the Elves Told Me, Fal’Vaelith
The blow hit him in the jaw, which, through the power of his embodiment, currently had the density of a compressed planetary core. A fist wa...
2025-08-27 16:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post“There is no such thing as a criminal. There is a person who has been pushed beyond the limits of the law by their circumstances or who has made bad choices so that they can survive and thrive. Both of these are matters that can be addressed...
2025-08-25 16:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post