Going back to our territory, where packs of keelish had gone missing, I was both nervous and hoping to come across a squad of humans out on the hunt for keelish. I was disappointed. Foire didn’t sense anything, nor did we come across any humans or signs of them. Thinking of it, I was not at all surprised that, if they were ...
2024-05-01 03:55:25 +0000 UTC View PostSorry for the delay today. It's just been a low productivity day--can't get my mind to work how it should, but still got the chapter done, so there! Hope you enjoy!
What is truth? The absolute, the will of the forgotten.
What is power? The presence, that of the divines.
When will they ...
Chapter 123
Sybil’s easy agreement quickly led to the two of us luxuriating and languishing in the hot sands. Just as I’d imagined in my vision/visit with the [Administrator], the heated sands elevated the bath beyond anything I’d experienced before. The warm grains scrubbing through my scales alo...
2024-04-27 01:41:07 +0000 UTC View Post
After I ripped the terrorbird’s head from its neck, I let the body slump to the ground and rolled my shoulders. I hadn’t thought through the wisdom of throwing that first one. Though it was the smallest terrorbird I’d seen, it still weighed hundreds of pounds, and I’d slung it over at its mate without thought or p...
[Treel POV]
Treel woke to her mate’s nuzzling, and as she stirred, she gently nipped at Foire. He dodged her halfhearted attempt, then nipped back at her cheek and half bit half licked her frill there. His tender roughness sent a little thrill through her, and in response, Treel easily submitted to hi...
2024-04-25 04:51:33 +0000 UTC View PostWhat kinds of new prey and enemy do you want to see? Of course, I have my own ideas, but I'd love to see if you have anything that you'd like, and try to implement them as they fit.
If you have specific ideas, comment them! The more specific, the more likely I'll take a shining to them. If you like a comment, make sure ...
2024-04-24 04:56:58 +0000 UTC View PostAfter warning me of the “unknown” predator in the nearby jungles, Redael returned to his quarters and I took that as my dismissal. I still fought to restrain myself from turning and throwing myself at him, but I was able to stop myself for now, knowing that it was just a question of time. Soon I would ascend to become the...
2024-04-24 04:49:27 +0000 UTC View PostYou have a chance here, Djallma. If you are able to pass the tests to enter the Veran initiate now, at only 21 summers, or even in the next two years, then you will almost certainly become one of High Veran Salmar’s apprentices. For that, you simply must put aside your idealistic approach to the conflicts betwee...
2024-04-23 04:23:28 +0000 UTC View PostWith a groan, Khall forced herself to get up and begin moving. As the day before, there were the annoying words in front of her eyes that wouldn’t disappear before she read them:
[Proceed towards the Divine Summit. Ascension awaits. The System guides Stines. Ascend from the Void below.]
She was stiff and sore an...
2024-04-22 05:10:00 +0000 UTC View PostAs I approached Histy, Sybil noticed my movement and stepped close enough to fall in step behind me as I passed her. I glanced down at my much shorter Beta, and she looked at me in askance, and in response, I quietly clicked my teeth together–I didn’t know either.
“Histy, you seem well. You’re not gravid?...
2024-04-20 00:22:59 +0000 UTC View PostSeveral days had passed since my pack’s mass evolution and reaching maturity as a whole. With Took’s evolution, she was taller than my six feet, standing at least six and a half tall herself. She and Treel were among the few exceptions within our newly khatif pack. Most of the khatif had some amount of magic, even the les...
2024-04-19 04:01:12 +0000 UTC View Post[Varali POV]
Varali woke to the sound of light rain. In her eighteen years, she had come to learn that the end of the summer brought the rains, no matter how much she wished that it didn’t. There was good and bad with that, but what it meant for her today was that she would be soaked through her entir...
2024-04-18 04:21:15 +0000 UTC View PostFor once, my hopes and expectations of all being uneventful came true, and I accompanied Took and the rest with a wolfstag’s corpse in each arm before returning for the second and final load. The path was quickly worn down from the passage of dozens of feet carrying hundreds and thousands of pounds of wolfstag bodies. I wel...
2024-04-17 04:40:47 +0000 UTC View Post[Skill: Adversary; 5/10
Dominance; 62/100
Pack Tactics; 4/10]
My first thought was frustration that I hadn’t gained any Stats through these hunts. I’d killed so many, destroyed the majority of a huge pack of wolfstags, and subjugated the survivors. Was this not in keeping with the way of the Keel? Was the dist...
2024-04-16 03:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostKhall woke and immediately growled to let the world know she was grumpy. Her head was all fuzzy, it hurt. Her back hurt too, and she could feel her heartbeat in the scratches in her back. She groaned and fussed, but since she had woken up, Khall began to burrow out of her hasty shelter. After all, there wasn’t anything that...
2024-04-14 07:34:42 +0000 UTC View PostIn my chosen calling of wandering the entirety of our continent, I have seen most of our world’s natural treasures and creatures. Once, I would have been so arrogant as to say that I had seen all there was to offer. The massive migratory cities of the Indlovu and their ufudoluk mounted Sanctums to Shandr’s dee...
2024-04-13 04:36:21 +0000 UTC View PostMy immediate reaction was to snarl back, my lips curling and exposing my fangs to this aggressor. But… she wasn’t. It was me and my pack, and we had wiped out every other member of her family. Maybe this female was the long time matriarch of the wolfstags, or maybe she was a first-time mother. Did that matter to me? ...
2024-04-12 04:19:23 +0000 UTC View PostHey all! I've gotten around to adjusting and editing and adding to the original version of Divine Path, since the poll was pretty decidedly in its favor.. Find here the new and improved version for the prologue and first chapter! From this chapter onward, chapters will be at least 2,000 words each (this here is 2,087,...
2024-04-11 03:59:29 +0000 UTC View PostIf you're here early... congratulations! I'll have the free episode up in an hour or so. You're so lucky!
Unfortunately, Ytte was unable to move massive mounds of earth as I’d hoped, so, instead, we gathered up armfuls of soil and larger stones, and piled them up in the mouth of the secondary entrance. Foire detected...
2024-04-11 00:49:37 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 110
Among ones so violent, find the merciful.
Among ones so dull, find the quick.
Among ones so foreign, find the friend.
Among ones so weak, find the protector.
Among ones so hasty, find the deliberate.
Among ones so flighty, find the absolute.
Among ones so booris...
What you need to understand is the possibility of intellectual discovery! Yes, for a Veushten to enter New Nievtra is for that same person to run many risks, but we never saw the keelish as anything more than beasts. With the establishment of a civilization, we can see how their minds work! We always thought that ...
2024-04-09 03:30:53 +0000 UTC View PostMan, I feel foolish with the timetable I said before. In my defense, I suddenly needed to reschedule three flights, and that sucks in a big way, and did take precedence. Anyway. Enjoy the last chapter of the double days!
I watched as my keelish swarmed over the last of the living wolfstags, the whimpers...
2024-04-08 05:36:39 +0000 UTC View PostHey, thanks for reading! I know I've been a touch slow on these updates compared to the public ones. That'll change starting tomorrow, once I'm not quite so stressed by all this. Do know that the second chapter will be up tonight, significantly earlier than last night, which I think only barely passed by as yesterday ...
2024-04-07 23:34:45 +0000 UTC View Post“Everyone, eat your fill! Don’t eat so much you get sluggish, we got more hunting to do! Leave the bodies, then follow me!” My voice filled the area as I stepped close, cut a leg off the nearest body, and began to eat it as I walked towards the wolfstags’ den. The plan was to ambush them before they reached the corpse...
2024-04-07 07:00:00 +0000 UTC View PostIt didn’t take much instruction for my pack and the new, temporary additions to be ready to leave the security of the den and begin our march to the wolfstags’ territory. In order to keep ourselves as strong as possible, I brought every single one of my pack with, Sybil easily agreeing to come along and bringing the rest ...
2024-04-06 23:54:41 +0000 UTC View Post“The Apotheosis of the Gran Verat laid its foundation in his youth–his steps taken to found the Holy State of the Veratocracy were divinely led, as he is deity himself. Those originally disparate tribes, spread around and without guidance, quickly found themselves bowing to his supreme knowledge and power, bec...
2024-04-06 03:57:36 +0000 UTC View PostAfter thinking and deciding that a demonstration of strength and competence was all I could realistically come up with, I spoke again. “You can see what we did today, what our hunters were able to bring to the den. We have enough to eat, and we eat until we are full every day. These… thunderfangs are a plague in our terri...
2024-04-06 03:54:44 +0000 UTC View PostI didn’t take long to show Solia and a couple other keelish how I wanted the more complete skins removed from the wolfstag corpses, but I did explain to them that after scraping all the flesh off the remaining leather, the skins should be cured. Solia especially could help with that, and I framed the low, steady heat necess...
2024-04-05 03:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post[Skill: Quaking Claw acquired.]
Internally I cheered while desperately wanting to look more deeply at the effect of the [Skill]. Regardless of my desires, though, I needed to continue guiding the pack quickly back to the den. After all, this many full-grown wolfstags was enough for the entire pack for two days, if we he...
2024-04-05 03:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostWith Foire leading us, our pack approached the lair of the wolfstags. I planned for this first ambush of ours to be quick, and to take, at most, ten of our prey. Any more, and we couldn’t guarantee that none would escape. We wouldn’t be able to return with our “gifts” with that many on our tails, so I was trusting Foi...
2024-04-04 03:05:17 +0000 UTC View Post
