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Duke Uriel Aventus, Dawn-Lord of Dawnhaven, Knight of the Luxan Spear, Arbiter of Law.

A card for Ceruviel's foil, and Mr Stick-Up-His-Ass!

Duchess Ceruviel Latherian, Dusk-Lord of Dawnhaven, Last Archon of Altera, Mentor of Leonidas.

An updated Card for everyone's favourite cantankerous Elf!

Cataclysm War | Chapter 09: The Price of Potential (First Draft)

Tuesday, July 19, 4 S.E.

Aylar stepped through the destroyed doorway behind Leonidas with a feeling of pity mixed with anger. The Terrans that lived in Dawnhaven were her people, regardless of whatever assertions or prejudices may have existed in relation to their strength with the System—whi...

Cataclysm War | Chapter 08: First-Sword of Dawnhaven (First Draft)

Tuesday, July 19, 4 S.E.

The thing that Aylar noticed about Leonidas' new appearance was the nature of it, before anything else.

It was not a tame beauty, like a courtly tapestry or regal painting, but a primal one; beautiful the way a naked blade could be beautiful, and gorgeous...

Cataclysm War | Chapter 07: Possibility (First Draft)

Tuesday, July 19, 4 S.E.

“{You are certain he’ll be okay, Ceruviel?}”

Aylar sat within her Royal Carriage, adorned in her white-and-gold warplate, with red cloth adornments and pennants resplendent upon her armor. Two Daggers of the Royal Guard escorted the Princess-Royal, every hae...

Cataclysm War | Chapter 06: Aftermath (First Draft)

Tuesday, July 19, 4 S.E.

Leonidas stood with resolute stillness twenty minutes later, his blade planted into the pathway under his armored feet, and his hands resting on the bastard sword’s pommel. Cerynia was slumped several feet away, unmasked and without her hood, having been forced to con...

Cataclysm War | Chapter 05: Reap What You Sow (First Draft)

Tuesday, July 19, 4 S.E.

Leonidas smiled in satisfaction when the assassins leaped out of the windows, and his right hand extended to his side—wrapping the lurking Haelfar that had remained inside near the door in bands of [Psionic Force], and ripping them into the open through the e...

Cataclysm War | Chapter 04: Chevalier Lane (First Draft)

Tuesday, July 19, 4 S.E.

Leonidas left Ceruviel’s mansion with a pace that seemed leisurely, but was a carefully crafted falsehood honed over hours of practice. It permitted him a rapid but discreet advance through the Peacock District toward the Terran areas of the Residential Quarter, and t...

Cataclysm War | Chapter 03: Preparations (First Draft)

Tuesday, July 19, 4 S.E.

“{Hello, Jefferies,}” Leonidas said upon returning to Ceruviel’s mansion and extended a hand to give the impressively mustached Butler a firm, echoing palm-to-palm ‘dap up’. Despite being at least in his late forties, Jefferies’ mustache twitched as if it ap...

Cataclysm War | Chapter 02: Infamous (First Draft)

Tuesday, July 19, 4 S.E.

Leonidas stood with his hands in his pockets when the Dawnguard arrived barely a minute after he’d put a haelfar vaelthir and two terran men face-down into the cobblestone street upon which he stood. Concern was apparent on the human Archon’s face, but not for the s...

Cataclysm War | Chapter 1: Low Profile (First Draft)

Tuesday, July 19, 4 S.E.

The years since what Terrans called the ‘System Incursion’ had changed the planet once known as Earth, or Terra, and now simply named [Planet 42] by the System, into an unrecognizable place. Plant life grew where once only man was permitted to exist, consuming citie...

System Incursion Book 2: Cataclysm War Cover Concept & WIP Blurb

A kingdom teetering on the edge of civil war.
A bloodline fractured by ambition and buried sins.
A continent unraveling beneath the weight of calamity.

“Whoever said being a Returnee Hero is easy was full of shit!”

Leonidas Achilles Romulus Paendrag survived fiv...

Cataclysm Rising | Epilogue: Ripples

The System was not a static construct, nor was its calculation a linear process.

It did not react in the way its Integrated Lifeforms often associated with it, with alarms or proclamations, nor did it announce its awareness in any language that could be translated. There was no singular moment of recognition, no thunder...

Leonidas Final Character Sheet and Bonuses (End of Book 1)

Standard System

Level Ups:

• 1 Attribute Point per level

• 1 Skill Point per 2 Levels

Health:

• VIT x 10

Mana:

• INT x 3 + WIL Total

Stamina:

• <...
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Cataclysm Rising | Chapter 75: Archon

Leonidas stepped into Ceruviel’s office casually, his hands in the pockets of a pair of comfortable sweatpants, which were paired with a short-sleeved black t-shirt. His eyes scanned the interior idly and took in the many bookshelves, random artefacts, and items of note that populated his mentor’s little sanctuary within ...

Cataclysm Rising | Chapter 74: Truth and Trust

Leonidas stood rubbing his head with a scowl for Ceruviel, watching the self-satisfied Haelfar where she stood nearby, looking like a cat with cream. The Duchess’s machinations and threats had paid off beautifully, and while he certainly had a large target on his back—nothing new, in reality—he also had comprehensive pr...

Cataclysm Rising | Chapter 73: The Black Knight

Aylar did not need to look to know her people were watching her.

The Haelfenn Court rarely moved as one—not openly—but their attention aligned with a predator’s instinct toward survival when the hierarchy that defined them was threatened. Leonidas had crossed a threshold that could not be uncrossed, and by virtue ...

Cataclysm Rising | Chapter 72: Judgment

The room seemed to subtly tense when Leonidas affirmed he would share his [Knight Oath], and Aylar felt her focus hone in on the Terran with newfound intensity, spurred by her own curiosity and interest. There was something very personal and intimate about the vow a Knight made prior to their First Temper. While the [Knight O...

Justicar Chapter 29: Alannah

Lucien sat beside Tiberius in the center of the living room lounge an hour later, freshly showered and dressed in a black long-sleeve shirt and a pair of comfortable sweatpants. The adults had unanimously agreed to postpone their conversation until he’d been able to change out of his ruined supersuit and back into regular-p...