Siobhan
Month 3, Day 31, Wednesday 8:00 a.m.
At breakfast time two days later, Sebastien arrived at the Kaiseki Ryori, a fancy restaurant owned by the Nightmare Pack. A quick flash of one of the gold invitation card’s Gera had given her got her silently escorted to a private room in the back. Gera had suggested ...
2023-05-04 23:35:13 +0000 UTC View Post
Ennis's charms and good looks have both failed him, and after months of harsh treatment in Harrow Hill, the man has grown bitter and weak.
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This is a canonical deleted scene that is set between events of Chapter 97 – “Properties of Explosive Materials.”
Sebastien
Month 1, Day 29, Friday 1:30 p.m.
Though Sebastien hadn’t been keeping t...
2023-05-02 22:37:39 +0000 UTC View PostSebastien
Month 3, Day 29, Monday, 4:00pm
Sebastien took a half-step back, but reached out to steady the woman when she swayed and heaved again. The arm under her hand was distressingly thin, so little muscle or fat covering the bone that she could have easily wrapped her fingers all the way around with room to sp...
2023-04-28 00:01:48 +0000 UTC View PostSebastien
Month 3, Day 29, Monday, 11:15am
Sebastien set The Daily Sun back on the public bench where she’d found it, then stood in thought under the tree sheltering the area as small flakes of snow started to fall, melting soon after they hit the ground. Perhaps in the city below, they would turn to sl...
2023-04-21 00:22:52 +0000 UTC View PostSebastien
Month 3, Day 29, Monday, 10:00am
Sebastien attacked the archives like an extremely respectful hurricane, careful not to do any damage as she familiarized herself with its contents at top speed. She explored methodically, starting from the shelves on the far left of the room and moving right. Many were ei...
2023-04-06 23:36:36 +0000 UTC View PostSebastien
Month 3, Day 29, Monday, 9:00am
A mixture of euphoric eagerness and stomach-turning anxiety would have kept Sebastien awake, except for a careful dose of calming potion, taken once in the evening, and again in the middle of the night when she woke to refresh her dreamless sleep spell. It might night have...
2023-03-30 23:26:57 +0000 UTC View PostSiobhan
Month 3, Day 28, Sunday, 8:00am
Siobhan had taken the time to put on a full face of makeup, learned from watching Ana create her own natural-seeming look in the morning. It was soft and feminine, much like Siobhan’s dress, a bright pastel green with flowery lace and skirts with much too much fabric. She ...
2023-03-23 23:34:41 +0000 UTC View PostSebastien
Month 3, Day 27, Saturday 8:15am
When Oliver arrived at his destination, he offered to have the carriage drive Sebastien back, but she declined.
With the map of the city that she’d attempted to memorize, she was able to find the nearest mail office, where they had letter writing stations and woul...
2023-03-17 00:31:59 +0000 UTC View PostSebastien
Month 3, Day 27, Saturday 7:30am
Oliver was in a hurry that morning, rushing off to a meeting with some new business contacts across the city, and so Sebastien joined him in his carriage.
She watched him carefully, trying to divine—metaphorically—his secrets, his thoughts, his feelings.
A...
2023-03-10 00:30:55 +0000 UTC View Post
Damien
Month 3, Day 26, Friday 7:15pm
It was in the exhilarating freedom of being post-final-exam that Damien and his friends toured the exhibition’s final day, just like he used to when he was little. Even S...
2023-03-08 23:44:36 +0000 UTC View PostSebastien
Month 3, Day 27, Friday 3:00am
Sebastien sat at the head of her dormitory bed, looking through the window. The University was quiet enough to hear the wind. She hadn’t realized how much ambient noise thousands of students could add to a place, even at night when they were all supposed to be asleep.
... 2023-03-03 02:00:59 +0000 UTC View PostSebastien
Month 3, Day 26, Friday 8:00pm
Sebastien flipped bemusedly through 100 Clever Ways Thaumaturges have Committed Suicide as she returned to the dorms, skimming the entries and the simultaneously fascinating and often horrifying illustrations that accompanied them. Some of those whose mistakes had ...
2023-02-24 01:06:15 +0000 UTC View PostSebastien
Month 3, Day 26, Friday 9:00am
Friday was the last day of the exhibitions, but as first term students all of their tests were already finished, and Sebastien and her growing group of friends could peruse the spectacle at their leisure. The University grounds were transformed, packed with stalls alongside...
2023-02-17 04:29:29 +0000 UTC View PostSebastien
Month 3, Day 25, Thursday 2:00pm
After leaving the infirmary with a bill of clean health, Sebastien and Damien returned to the Flats to give their “after-action reports,” which took a distressingly long time. She was sure most of the other students weren’t treated like witnesses in an investigation...
2023-02-10 01:32:11 +0000 UTC View Post
Titus
Month 3, Day 20, Saturday 12:45am
The adrenaline of Titus’s confrontation with Lord Dryden had passed, and it had been long enough since Titus’s last meal that he no longer felt hungry, only tired and...
2023-02-08 01:59:21 +0000 UTC View Post
Oliver
Month 3, Day 20, Saturday 12:30am
Oliver had known from the moment Titus arrived, six hours late to the dinner party he had sent last-minute regrets for having to miss, that something strange was going o...
2023-02-03 23:47:23 +0000 UTC View Post[Accompanying Book 4's "Harry Harold Had no Hands"/ Chapter 147]
This rhyme details the life and untimely demise of Harry Harold, who had no hands but cast through his jeweled shoes. In cadence, it is often a...
2023-02-03 02:14:47 +0000 UTC View PostDamien
Month 3, Day 25, Thursday 9:45am
As the shield went up around Sebastien, who stood with his hands raised while Professor Fekten threatened him, Damien’s vision swam and his knees almost buckled. He was hyperventilating. Wrapping both of his hands loosely over his mouth, he blinked rapidly as he tried to f...
2023-02-03 01:48:36 +0000 UTC View Post
Titus
Month 3, Day 20, Saturday 12:15am
Oliver was speechless, frozen, so Titus continued. “The investigator I tasked found that some of Princess Krell’s servants escaped the palace before the execution. S...
2023-02-02 03:01:35 +0000 UTC View Post
Titus
Month 3, Day 19, Friday 11:30pm
Hours had passed since Titus sat down to research Sebastien Siverling’s past. After reading the small report, he had gone to the Edictum Council library to explore some h...
2023-01-31 02:29:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Titus
Month 3, Day 19, Friday 5:00pm
Three days later, Titus sent Copper Alma to pick up his attempted blackmailer for “questioning and detainment.” The situation wasn’t a secret, but at the same time, it...
2023-01-28 23:56:55 +0000 UTC View Post
Titus
Month 3, Day 16, Tuesday 7:00am
When Titus got to Harrow Hill, he called for all the witness statements from Malcolm Gervin’s arrest to be brought to his office. He had read them already, of course, the...
2023-01-28 00:49:14 +0000 UTC View PostSebastien
Month 3, Day 25, Thursday 9:35am
Sebastien took a deep breath and bellowed, “Down the stairwell! Get down to the ground floor!” loud enough for her voice to echo off the stone around them for several blocks.
Damien flinched, pressing one hand protectively over his ear as he stared at her incred...
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This is a side story novelette set near the end of Book 3. It can also be considered volume 3.3
Titus
Month 3, Day 16, Tuesday 6:00am
Titus woke before the sun, only a few minutes before the alarm spell h...
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This is a deleted chapter that is set directly before Chapter 98 - "Excessive Force." It can also be considered Book 3.1
Oliver
Month 1, Day 30, Saturday 11:00 a.m.
Standing at the base of the stairs that...
2023-01-24 00:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Our favorite amateur detective and really good friend.
Coming next is Ennis Naught, as always at no particular set schedule, as my main focus is on writing the story.
In other news, check back this coming Monday for the first of the deleted scenes/bonus content from A Sacrifice of Light. It's going to ...
2023-01-21 00:17:35 +0000 UTC View PostSebastien
Month 3, Day 25, Thursday 9:00am
As the clear bell signifying the start of the test rang, Sebastien removed her blindfold, blinking as she adjusted to the sudden brightness. Beside her, Damien and Rhett did the same. They stood in a featureless room made of the same white stone that composed the white cl...
2023-01-20 00:56:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Professor Burberry. Notice the subtle blurring effects of what is likely a glamour spell to "youth-enize" her appearance. Haha I'm so punny guys.
Coming next: Damien
As always, no set schedule for posting these, but I do have a lot more portraits on the hard drive, just waiting to be put into the frame and given a...
2023-01-05 00:59:01 +0000 UTC View PostThaddeus
Month 3, Day 19, Friday 10:00pm
Thaddeus sat at the desk in his cottage as a storm raged outside, writing the last few pages of a guide to translating one of the more common pre-Cataclysm languages. Such a comprehensive and coherent reference would have been invaluable to him some years ago, but as none e...
2022-12-30 03:47:48 +0000 UTC View Post
