The air blasted past Mirian’s force shield, white jets of cloud streaming past. The taut chains followed behind her. Below, Alkazaria rapidly shrank.
Unlike with the storm she’d conjured a few days ago, there was little nuance or complexity to her spells. It was simple: go up fast. Fast enough that she could feel th...
2025-12-31 14:30:47 +0000 UTC View PostMirian sat on the cliffside overlooking Arriroba. Nearby, Zayd was explaining his recent adventure to his friends. “… and then we went wooosh and we were so high up! And there was a two-headed vole-tur and it said scraaaw! and then we flew past a big magic color going bwooosh! and then we were h...
2025-12-29 18:49:14 +0000 UTC View PostEquinox materialized around Mirian.
“Oh,” Quintus said.
The last thing he saw was the shine of her gritted teeth, predatory, like a bog lion’s.
The fire poured out of her in waves.
The Lord Governor and his lackeys were melted; even their bones turned liquid. The tapestries burned like paper, the...
2025-12-28 16:36:25 +0000 UTC View PostEnded up moving my travel to tomorrow, so you get an update. However, things have been busy, and now the holidays are upon us, which has not made anything less busy. No fun tangent this week. So far, I've been able to avoid missing a day posting during the holidays, but there's a fair chance I miss Wednesday. If I do, I'll m...
2025-12-22 00:24:06 +0000 UTC View PostThe archives were meticulously organized, and even more meticulously guarded. There was no protocol for maintaining an illusion while accessing them, and no way someone who was a mere “informant” would be allowed to see them. However, there was a flaw in the wards. The Deeps were frankly amateurs when it came to runic arc...
2025-12-21 20:50:06 +0000 UTC View PostDivir fell early again. It was only the next loop that Mirian and the others realized just how inaccurate her forecast was. With Ceiba Yan’s roots just over the Labyrinth, the Uxalak Gate offered a way to siphon even more energy from the leylines than the Jiandzhi Gate. According to her calculations, six Gates attempting to...
2025-12-17 15:00:22 +0000 UTC View PostThe dark hall of the Mausoleum greeted them, both familiar and strange.
“It feels like something’s stinging me all over my body,” she heard a nagual say.
“I believe that’s the entropic field decaying,” Xecatl said, looking to Mirian for confirmation.
She nodded. “We will encounter the tertiary ...
2025-12-14 18:11:09 +0000 UTC View PostMirian watched the auroras over Alkazaria. They’d intensified dramatically over the past four days, but they were still at lower levels than usual.
She stood atop one of the towers on the central hill wearing Equinox and summoned the leyline repulsors into place. A collective murmur went through the priests and arcani...
2025-12-10 20:44:30 +0000 UTC View PostMirian watched as members of the Cult of Eintocarst went through their final test of the Holy Crucible. The divination spell engines around the room began to glow as illusionary projections danced in front of her. She only half paid attention to them, preferring to sense the magic currents herself as they moved through her au...
2025-12-07 16:26:28 +0000 UTC View PostJiandzhi, West of the Gate - Duala 27
“It’s coming! Run! Run!” Qian said, and began sprinting east through the trail. Behind him, he could hear the thunderous steps of a lesser titan crashing through the jungle. Not for the first time, Qian wondered what egg-headed fool had decided to cal...
2025-12-03 19:25:29 +0000 UTC View PostOnce the early business of the next loop was taken care of and everyone had their focuses, they met for the first Council of the 252nd loop. As usual, they met in the dreamscape, in the cavernous throne room of the Mausoleum, the Ominian sitting still in Their great chair, unmoving.
It started off about how Mirian expec...
2025-11-30 19:22:55 +0000 UTC View PostMirian made her way to the conduit room near the Gate immediately.
I made it, she told Eyeball as she blinked into the room.
HAHA. HAHAHA, Eyeball thought at her, but they didn’t have the usual amusement flashing on their skin. HOLD ON. I’M DELAYING.
Pact stuff?
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2025-11-26 21:38:09 +0000 UTC View PostMirian stood over the corpse of Scebur. He’d bound a silver mask to his face, and when the RID had taken it off, some of the flesh had come with it. The mask was nonmagical, but mimicked the pattern of jewels embedded in the Skull of the Second Prophet. Why the obsession with the Second, though? Nothing she’d found in the...
2025-11-23 18:38:46 +0000 UTC View Post
I think this is the final draft of the map of known Enteria. If you do notice errors, problems, or nonsensical parts, feel free to point them out.
Like a real map, plenty of information is left out for comprehensibility. For example, only major rivers are shown, most villages and towns aren't on the map, and not every p...
2025-11-19 20:31:48 +0000 UTC View PostShe and Zhuan spent three more days together in the mountains. On the third evening, Mirian felt something change as she was speaking to a scimitar lion. It was like when she’d been practicing Eskanar. For a time, she’d been able to muddle through conversations. Then something had clicked, and she was thinking in Eskanar....
2025-11-19 20:10:19 +0000 UTC View PostFun Tangent
As people have probably noticed, I like to use history to inform worldbuilding so that the world feels more realistic.
Fahrenheit cobbled together his temperature scale by making the coldest thing he could make (a brine solution, which he set as '0 F') and 90 F being the human body temper...
2025-11-16 21:28:30 +0000 UTC View PostThe next cycle, Liuan re-exerted her control over Akana Praediar, and Mirian was pleased to see that Akana Praediar’s aggression was restrained until late in the month of Nerevain, which meant the attacks on Cairnmouth and Palendurio were just starting when moonfall annihilated all life on Enteria.
Two cycles later, X...
2025-11-16 21:04:05 +0000 UTC View PostMirian’s robes were in tatters and her wounds still slowly closing as she asked Eyeball to lower the Gate back down into the underground. The Gate now had a family of mildly confused lesser titans guarding it, but they’d gorged themselves enough that they’d be sticking around. And, if there was one thing the Akanan army...
2025-11-12 19:06:10 +0000 UTC View PostHere's this week's chapters:
Extra-Advanced Tier
Chapter 262
Chapter 263
Advanced Tier...
2025-11-09 18:30:00 +0000 UTC View PostThe artillery waited a dozen heartbeats while the Akanas passed through the pre-sighted areas. Then they opened fire, airburst shells spitting out lightning, fire, and magnetic pulses that thundered across the sky. Shields lit up all around. Two battleskiffs plummeted to the ground, trailing smoke and bursting with multicolor...
2025-11-09 18:14:23 +0000 UTC View PostAkana Praediar’s attacks on Torrviol had been blunted initially, but as the 243rd loop proceeded, they redoubled their efforts, now coming from the south instead of the west. Presumably, that meant Cairnmouth had become occupied. Occasionally, Mirian would negotiate with a leadership figure and agree to halt attacks on Torr...
2025-11-05 18:56:13 +0000 UTC View PostMirian began the arduous work of re-scribing the glyphs in her spellbook. She took the time to import specialized materials using Nurea’s connections with the Syndicate and used Torrian Tower’s specialized precision-scribing equipment. Along the way, she found ways to improve the efficiency of the glyphs she reconstructed...
2025-11-02 18:22:26 +0000 UTC View PostOver the next month, the Prophets discussed the finer details of the plans they needed to try, as well as the research that needed to be done. In addition to that, Zhuan and Mirian took turns instructing them on use of the violet focuses and soul-communication. They still hadn’t solved the non-linearity problem of the dream...
2025-10-29 16:28:58 +0000 UTC View Post
