Warning: System heavy chapter incoming! I hate doing these, especially as many as I have this last week or so. But, needs must.
The adrenaline surge of victory filled my head and I felt Nievtala’s brief touch on my mind, her approval deliberately tamped down and controlled. I looked at Sybil, raising ...
2024-11-09 05:34:41 +0000 UTC View PostThe winds whistled over the plains on the day I evolved my [Fathomless Sonilphon]. Following the river upstream, we had stayed within a reasonable distance of the herd of the huge grazing beasts. The swarm had pursued them especially since they were large and a single one would be able to feed at least a dozen of us. While th...
2024-11-08 03:54:41 +0000 UTC View PostTHIS CHAPTER NEEDS A COUPLE EDITS. HOWEVER, I CAN'T FIND THE STUPID PART WHERE I MENTIONED THE KHATIF STAT BASELINES. IF YOU FIND IT, I'LL... DO SOMETHING.
Three days of travel went by without incident. The plains opened wide and somehow even more featureless before us, the grasses swaying in the wind. Far behind us, I ...
2024-11-07 05:25:53 +0000 UTC View PostThere is much to learn and much to change, much to see and much to be.
I will learn it all and change the world, see the stars and be the suns.
-From pamphlets distributed after the Apotheosis.
[Fen POV]
Fen smashed her antlers into the Sunkindred in fr...
2024-11-06 05:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostAs we had given up on the pursuit of the indlovu that had been observing us, whispers of discontent began to spread among the swarm. I couldn’t tell what they were, exactly, since the malcontents went silent as soon as they noticed I’d approached, but I knew that something was brewing since they went deliberately and obvi...
2024-11-04 21:47:29 +0000 UTC View PostLeave vengeance to me, for she who suffered was me. Leave their lives to me, for mine is the domain of life and death. Leave their suffering to me, for mine is the nectar of their defeat. Vengeance is mine, I will repay them in full for their trespasses against my divinity, against my domain, against my being. Cre...
2024-11-02 04:47:48 +0000 UTC View PostEarly today. Why? Can't be bothered to schedule it. If it matters to you, you can check it out in eight hours instead?
The swarm erupted with noise, chittering and screeching, beginning to rally for battle as I stepped forward with both my hands up after I buried my spear point first in the earth to my side. The surrou...
2024-10-31 20:56:15 +0000 UTC View PostShrieks of anger and surprise echoed out from the swarm as I instantly took in the sight of the ambushing pack of ishabaaks. There were at least 20 of the beasts, and they were nearly impossible to detect before they struck.
I rushed over to the site of the nearest attack, but was too slow to stop the ishabaak from some...
2024-10-31 04:35:31 +0000 UTC View Post“Move your lazy tails before I kick them for you!”
“If you aren’t moving in the next thirty seconds, I’ll rip your fangs out and make you a gummy child myself!”
The swarm was beginning to snap at each other as my trusted elites forced them into waking and getting moving quickly. It wasn’t a common si...
2024-10-30 04:25:08 +0000 UTC View PostWe otariid have a duty to the rest of our folk, we have a place, and you have forgotten it. We are the strongest in the seas, while the lupine and ursine protect us on the land, the mustelid and rodentia scout out our foes. Our place is not on land, nor is it found behind the walls of the Veratocracy. You are losi...
2024-10-29 04:06:03 +0000 UTC View PostA full five chapters this week for you guys! I appreciate the support so much! See you again tomorrow!
We beat a hasty retreat to the treeline, though I didn’t and couldn’t hold back my rage, even after venting it on the three Misti Hawar. I gestured for some of the swarm to gather up the corpses left behind from ou...
2024-10-28 04:54:45 +0000 UTC View PostIt wasn’t too hard to hold the leader of the late-night assault as a harmless hostage after he’d passed out from blood loss. Once we stripped his special-looking armor and bound both his handless wrists together and his snout closed, he wasn’t much more than furry luggage, and I personally threw him across my shoulders ...
2024-10-26 04:05:01 +0000 UTC View Post
I just got back the new cover from TheNobleArtist, and Jamie was an absolute pleasure to work with. Let me know what you think, because I'm quite pleased! I wanted to have a more realistic but stylized cover, and this is just what the doctor ordered!
Jamie's website: 2024-10-25 17:57:56 +0000 UTC View Post
The streets have changed. The air is tight, tense, and angry. The Apotheosis has changed everything here, and I knew that my time here would be short, and, beyond that, this would be my final time in the beautiful, artificial capital Viertaal. The happily bustling streets now ring with the constant patrol of the s...
2024-10-25 04:18:44 +0000 UTC View PostNice long chapter today!
Drolick tried to keep himself from stomping as he stalked back into Shandr. That monster was off-putting. The way it carried itself, as if a keelish talking was normal as could be, the way it simply made demands… Drolick worked to stop the shiver from running down his back as he remembered the...
2024-10-24 04:11:26 +0000 UTC View PostHey! I said it was a break week. Still wanted to write, so here's a bonus chapter for you top subscribers! I think you're all the best, so here you go! I'll definitely post a couple more chaps this week, but no guarantees when they'll be.
“Inhabitants of this city! I am Ashlani, fahvalo of Bloodpriestess Ana of the Mo...
2024-10-22 03:32:32 +0000 UTC View PostAs a reminder: Next week is a break week. I might have a chapter or two get posted here for you highest level patrons, but no guarantees.
My concerns yet unanswered, we continued our trip further east day by day, continuing through the Sheer Pass. There was the possibility of hunting more Nanuk for their tender, succul...
2024-10-19 05:11:30 +0000 UTC View PostWith more time and a little assistance from one of the Wave Wolfstags Joral named Childra, I finally got to see my new “brand” as I decided to call it. The mark was a pure white spear, pointed upward and onward while at the base of the spear’s haft was a strange little wiggly bit, something I couldn’t understand what ...
2024-10-18 05:03:20 +0000 UTC View PostWith a shuddering breath, I took in my surroundings. Sybil laid next to me, her tail still curled around my own, stirring at my own movement. Some members of the swarm were beginning to wake, a comforting chorus of hissing, shrieking reptiles. I looked over, around, verifying that the swarm hadn’t diminished in number overn...
2024-10-17 05:20:09 +0000 UTC View PostThough curious, I indulged in the meal with my swarm before allowing myself the opportunity to fall into the details of my [Status]. Instead, I watched the swarm all around me as they gloried in survival and victory. Took, though sluggish and slow, ate until her belly was distended and she couldn’t keep herself conscious an...
2024-10-16 05:27:27 +0000 UTC View PostIt was a stressful hour, but in the end, Took came out of unconsciousness long enough to mention how hungry she was, so I allowed myself to breathe normally once again. Now that I had finally shaken myself out of the worried stupor brought about by Took’s uncertain state, I began to feel the agony of my roasted hand, even t...
2024-10-15 05:23:31 +0000 UTC View Post“Nievtala devour the bastard’s soul, may his hunts end in failure, may Narsha’at poison his blood and Huldtar scorch his eyes…” I cursed the nanuk in every way I could think of in every language I knew as I sprinted over to my fallen friend. Looking down, Took shuddered and struggled for breath, but she remained bar...
2024-10-12 05:09:34 +0000 UTC View PostBehind me the majority of the pack spread out while Joral, Took and Silf took the front alongside me. My supporting pack ready to follow my command, I continued to search around us, looking to see if there were any more of the Nanuks around. Foire and Silf both shook their heads, and it registered as intensely hot to my therm...
2024-10-11 04:23:19 +0000 UTC View PostFor your failure in exterminating the keelish menace, you are punished. The Sunkindred Bastion on the Thufir must fall. You have 12 days. Use whatever avenues are available to you, including the High Speakers still at Fort di’Thnufir. You Speak with my authority, so long as you Speak to destroy the cows. 2024-10-10 04:59:14 +0000 UTC View Post
I rolled my neck, satisfaction then neutrality slowly replacing the unnatural pleasure that Nievtala’s had forced on me. In the end, the wolfstags and I indulged in four successful hunts, with each one being more streamlined and effective than the last, eventually adjusting it to have two more wolfstags hiding alongside me ...
2024-10-09 05:38:02 +0000 UTC View PostIt had been a long time since I’d been able to lead a hunt. Since we had begun our journey in earnest, I had been forced to occupy myself with the less interesting parts of life, such as teaching the common tongue to the swarm, leading the direction we were meant to go, coordinating the ever more segregated sections of the ...
2024-10-08 04:21:48 +0000 UTC View PostThis new place, the Sheer Pass, was foreign but strangely nostalgic to the keelish of the swarm, myself included. It was strange, as these mountains were different from those I had fallen in love with when I’d seen them for the first time just a month ago. These mountains, somehow, felt like home, like we belonged. My home ...
2024-10-05 05:21:27 +0000 UTC View PostAs the sounds of the “tender” care the hatchlings were receiving at the hands of Trai, I finally let myself think about what new [Skills] I would focus myself on progressing in next. [Crippling Cry] was the main one that I could actively focus on experimenting with. I’d used it before on a swarm of insects, but I’d qu...
2024-10-04 05:13:21 +0000 UTC View PostI wanted to simply dive into my [Skills] and decide what to prioritize for my next focus to evolve, but I couldn’t shove off the entirety of integrating our new members of the swarm to my inner circle, as much as I would have liked to. I rolled my shoulders back and, flaring [Imperial Bearing] and [True Dominance], I walked...
2024-10-03 06:36:56 +0000 UTC View PostWhen you dream, dream of the heavens
After all, the heavens are your future.
When you cry, lament your weakness
After all, your weakness is the source of your pain.
When you cheer, cheer for the Gran Verat
After all, he is the source of your ...
