“For any commander, there comes a point where you can recognize one of your soldiers is breaking. For some, it comes early, in the first morning after they’ve spilled blood for the first time. For others, it will be years or decades into their service that the weight of their actions catches up to them. The role of th...
2025-06-04 16:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post“There are many words for those who the eidolons have taken. Some call them The Lost or The Unheard. Others call them relic species or endlings. In my own estimation, the title best applied to them is this: losers. They encountered the test that all civilizations must, and they failed it. Everything in their history led...
2025-06-03 16:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post“Our homes are built on the tombs of those who died before us. Our magic, pried from the cold hands of corpses. There is more in this universe that has been forgotten than shall ever be learned anew, and it is for this purpose that this institute will stand.”
—Foundations, Karth Veilbohr
Al...
2025-06-02 16:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post“It is a strange thing to be an advocate for technology in a world ruled by magic. There is nothing that science can accomplish that magic has not already done twice and with far more ease, yet in the study of natural processes, we find new heights that magic might ascend to, and through the combination of the tw...
2025-06-01 16:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post“It may seem strange to speak of trust when discussing the battle against the eidolons, but trust is the fundamental building block of any fighting unit. Without trust, that the man shielding you will hold his ground, or that the striker ahead of you will charge, and then it is impossible for the eidolon to be fought, e...
2025-05-31 16:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post“They say that everyone is their own worst critic. Which just goes to show that ‘everyone’ doesn’t know a damn thing. Spend a month on a relic world, training for the Ardent. You’ll find that there are far worse critics all around you. Your fellow students. Your instructors. Whoever is in charge of your training...
2025-05-30 16:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post“Justice is a product to be bought throughout much of the universe. Petty vengeance is dispersed to the highest bidder, and those who are in the most need of the law’s protection will find themselves wanting. Not so in our new republic. One law for all. One justice for everyone.”
—The Foundation of ...
2025-05-29 16:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post“Alliance. It is such a tenuous word for what we have become. An alliance is a group of like-minded individuals, working together to defeat some enemy. But none of these things are true of the Empyrean now. We squabble and bicker over scraps. We fight more amongst ourselves than we even go near to our enemies. For all t...
2025-05-28 16:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post“It is the simplest thing to say that one must persevere through all adversity but a far harder thing to do so. Even the bravest heart knows fear, and even the most hopeful among us has felt the sting of despair. Defeating despair and rising again is the challenge we all face, day after day. There are bad things in the ...
2025-05-27 16:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post“In times of crisis, it is permissible for the high council of the Empyrean to be summoned to a session outside of the usual scheduled hours. Such members who are capable of attending should take all measures to do so. Either in person or via secured communications, at their earliest opportunity. Those who fail to atten...
2025-05-26 16:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostHey guys! This is a sneak peek for a new series of short form content that I'll be releasing on social media in the coming days and weeks! We'll be doing fun, memey skits for everyone to enjoy with those who subscribe here getting an early sneak peek! I hope you enjoy it!
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“There is no crime higher than the summoning of an eidolon. Even when it has been achieved by accident, it is punishable by death in most cultures.”
—How To Be Ardent, Fal’Dulse
It was a bloodbath, but it was brief.
With everything over, a numb silence spread across the arena. At th...
2025-05-25 16:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post“There is nothing in the universe more loathed than the eidolon. It is a being of pure destruction, with no mind, no conscience, nothing that can be reasoned with. They destroy people, they destroy worlds, and they will destroy all of reality if given the opportunity. There is nothing more important than opposing them. ...
2025-05-24 16:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post“The fundamental nature of all living things is broad and varied. But the fundamental nature of the eidolon is destruction. Whatever else it may be, whatever facets it has taken on, at its core it seeks to destroy all. It is for this reason that the eidolon is considered the enemy of all living things. Even those who la...
2025-05-23 16:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post“Interconnectivity is at the heart of the art of magic. Each spell that is cast draws on the mana created by the world around it. Each resultant expulsion generates mana anew which goes on to influence the environment around it. If a fire burns for long enough, a region can be charged with its affinity. In the deep ocea...
2025-05-22 16:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post“At its most basic, a battle of magic is like a children’s game. Each side lays out their cards, one by one, trying to secure victory before the other can find some advantage. Sometimes this can mean a battle does not need to be fought for the results to be predicted. Other times, it means the exact opposite.”<...
2025-05-21 16:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post“Join the Ardent! The bonds of fellowship that you’ll form will last you a lifetime. Shame that lifetime will only be a few short years of active service before they’re all turned to paste.”
—Washout: Reject of the Ardent, Anonymous
Sylvas passed the bottle back to Kaya as the suns rose...
2025-05-20 16:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post“Power is what you make of it. There is no mage so powerful that the correct counter could not be composed by determined opposition, given time. So too is the fight with the eidolons. They seem unsurpassable, but there is one thing that must be remembered when faced with the hopelessness of fighting them. We are still h...
2025-05-19 16:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post“In the beginning, it is best for all to love you. They will excuse any cruelty and praise any kindness. But with time, love can be broken. It can sour and become hate. When the realization strikes that so much of who they are has become an adjunct of you, they will loathe you for it. You will face rebellion from...
2025-05-18 16:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post“These things we hold to be self-evident: that each and every person should have access to magic, that each and every person should have the freedom to develop their magic as they see fit, and that each person should have the freedom to choose how they shape both their mind and body. Never shall be passed into law any r...
2025-05-17 16:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post“Darkness is not all that blinds. Those so obsessed with their own moral superiority overlook that their conscience is a shackle keeping them from greatness. More importantly, it is a shackle that renders them inherently immoral. If you care more for the manner in which lives are saved than actually saving those ...
2025-05-16 16:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post“What is death? We call it a force, an act, a moment, but in truth, it is a process. It creeps in, step by step. The slowing of the heart. The asphyxiation of the brain. The cessation of chemical functions. Social death can occur long before physical death, or long after, depending on the funereal customs observed. Yet ...
2025-05-15 16:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post“The subject of the afterlife is seldom broached in polite company. We speak of how the dead live on in our memory. Or how a necromancer might interact with the energies that the dead leave behind, but it is never considered politic to acknowledge that those energies are the dead themselves, and the place from which the...
2025-05-14 16:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post“When we are faced with a problem that cannot be solved, that is the true test of our capabilities. Something so far outside of our understanding of things that it cannot be contended with, or something so integral to our beliefs that it cannot be confronted.”
—The Limitations of Magic, Albrech...
2025-05-13 16:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey everyone!
The big day is finally here and I am happy to announce that the official launch of Starbreaker: Volume 2 is finally available for your reading pleasure! If you are new reader just joining us now and want to catch up with the series, or if you're an OG reader and want to continue supporting me and ...
2025-05-13 04:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post“What is madness? We prize diversity of thought amidst those academics of the universe. Seek it out in all of its varied forms beyond those limits, yet when we are confronted with a worldview that does not align with what we know of things, we call it madness. Is it our own lack of insight and education that marks anoth...
2025-05-12 16:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post“Where the duty of the militia member is always to whosoever founded their militia, and the duty of a mercenary is to whoever pays their bill, the duty of the Ardent is uniquely to the Empyrean. Not to any specific leader within it who has risen to power, nor to any faction with which they are aligned, but to the ideals...
2025-05-11 16:00:16 +0000 UTC View Post“Through combat we are pushed to the limits of our ability. Through learning the limits of our ability, we can surpass those limits. That is all that needs to be said of the Ardent way.”
—Training Manual of the Ardent, Fal’Laehdra
Against all odds, Sylvas managed to turn the tables on his...
2025-05-10 16:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post“Outside of the Ardent, we talk about downtime. Time when you don’t have to be performing at maximum capacity, when you don’t have to be ready to drop everything and fight Eidolons at a moment’s notice. Inside the Ardent, it isn’t a concept. Every moment that you are in the Ardent, you are ready. Every moment, f...
2025-05-09 16:00:11 +0000 UTC View Post“There is more that is not known about null-space than any other dimension that has ever been encountered throughout sapient history. It is as though its designation was also meant to describe all that we could learn about it. It is a place devoid all forces and natural laws. A place devoid of even the ever present thru...
2025-05-08 16:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post
