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In the darkest reaches of the Falwood they gathered. The outcasts. The lost. The hate-filled-blind. Centuries of war with the humans had cost them homes, families, and even limbs. Although generations ago to the men of Anir, there were those amidst the Falwood who remembered what was done to...

OUTSKIRTS OF ALYR'SYLINA Soleil couldn't be more excited. She had thought that with the coming of the Republic, missions like this would be no more. And this was a mission like the ones of old. No rules. No compromise. No mercy. Butchery. Two Initiates, of which Soleil was one, had been...

"What called?" Soleil asked the shopkeeper, Douglass Mueller. "That," Douglass said of the reptile on the counter which had caught Soleil's attention, "is a chameleon." A slow day was it, here in Mueller's Odds and Ends general store. Not situated in the bustling markets closer to Anir Square...

Western Falwood - Elvish Rebellion Display. Violetta had seen it before. It wasn't her fight in the end. She stood just a few hundred feet away from the show of it. Hooded and hidden from sight behind the trees, Violetta had hooded herself and dressed a bit unlike herself. Less motherly and...

Liriel looked around herself, seeing nothing but darkness. The sort of pitch-black darkness that was far, far darker than black. The sort that Liriel had felt all her life, for as long as she could remember. It had once frightened her, or rather, it still frightened her but not as much now that...

Sunlight peeked through some of the treetops above the wooded road where Ereven had been traveling, down to the dirt path and small scrub below. Trees of various sizes and heights surrounded the elven warrior in his teal mirthril plate armor, towering above him and providing the cover of verdant...

The Spine It had been some weeks since Valdr had settled in his temporary quarters of Route. Months since he and his betrothed had toured his Homeland. The truth of it, was that he found much more peace out east. Less confined. There were more kingdoms, more warbands, more variables and far...

It had been a few weeks since Arastan had proposed in front of everyone and his mother had not so subtly vowed to torture Taliyah into the perfect Princess. The Queen had not been kidding either. Etiquette lessons were by the far the worst thing she had ever been subjected to and that was...

Ayel Anen - The Falwood Liliana sat atop her steed with an expression of pure and utter boredom. They had been riding for what felt like weeks now, though the reality was more like like five or six days. Most of it had been easy going, only because the Carriage at the center of their party had...

The Council of Mevenua, Tarnossia, Falwood Early Afternoon Even in the height of summer, the heat of the sun seemed to dissipate amongst the trees of the Falwood. So while Mevenua was sometimes uncomfortably warm while the season was at its peak, there was never any true discomfort amongst the...

"Alright, you can open your eyes." Arastan pulled his hands away from covering the eyes of Taliyah. They were currently standing on the shore of a small cove just outside the city. Standing before Taliyah was a small rowboat that looked like had been cleaned recently and then fitted with a roof...

In the heart of the Falwood, trees towered higher than some of the tallest buildings you might find in other realms. The thick canopy allowed only so much sunlight to the forest floor below, and such a forest held many dark and terrible secrets. It also held life: here you would find the home of...

The night was cool, but it was calm and quiet. It felt right. She was alone now, her former companion having brought her as far as the city's borders before departing. Or at least, that's how it seemed. His ways were so... interesting. But what was certain was now she approached the gates of...

“Did you hear the news?” Thorn canted his head to the side. The youngest elf in their little band. Riley’s head swiveled for him. “What?” “There was a revolution in Vel Anir. Dreadlords fighting dreadlords. Heard things have changed.” “Holy fuk,” Riley breathed, shifting on her horse as they...

OSTIA ANIR "Stop the carriage." Walter's bannerman banged on the driver's side wall of the carriage's interior. The driver slowed the horses and the carriage came to a slow stop, the rest of the mounted entourage stopping as well. Horses milled, tapping their hooves against the clean cobbles...

Northern Epressa - Camp Alegro "God I hate rabbit." Vass said with a frown at the strip of meat that he held between his thumb and forefinger. He stared at it with no small amount of contempt. "You hate rabbit?" The voice came from Marcus, one of the others across from him at the bonfire. He...

"Take her - Go!" Her father's voice rattled her to the marrow. Her home, her life, was crumbling like wet sand and Sorai couldn't think of a time when she'd ever felt so afraid as she did right now. She could hear the anarchic pandemonium taking over Vel' Anir, the city outside her smashed...

He looked forward, knowing that the weather didn't fancy him. In truth, Diedrick hated rain with every fiber of his being. It was wet, unwelcoming. It created mud everywhere and painted his beloved skies a moldy grey. Despite wearing a waterproof jacket, the exposed parts of Diedrick's body grew...

The sounds of combat, dispersed and fading even as they were, behind Hahnah. Behind and distant. Like echoes of someone else's life playing out in the downward street leading to the Shallows of Alliria. And that is truly what it felt like to Hahnah, as if she now were a person separated from all...