A/N: I decided to just make this longer rather than have the vol3 final be a minichapter
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In mentally placing herself before the sword and staring into its mirror-like surface, she could witness any of her eidolons, or even “ste...
The King of Many Colours continued chiseling until, simultaneously, his finger-chisel wore away and his antler-hammer crumbled to dust. It was a few minutes, a few centuries, and an instant, but by the time it was over, the timespan only registered as “long enough to embed one’s entire identi...
2025-10-05 18:55:47 +0000 UTC View Post“Behold, the stele upon which your cycle shall be inscribed, and let us hope that it is merely the first of many; this is your own Binding Obelisk, and from this day forth it shall be the anchor-stone of your theurgy, granted weight and solidity by the history inscribed upon it.” 2025-10-01 06:30:21 +0000 UTC View Post
A/N: At least one more today. Maybe two more.
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Krahe felt her life flash before her eyes. This path, which she had painstakingly and far-too-often walked in the near past, simply zipped by her now. There was neither...
“So it was no fluke after all,” the King uttered, his spirits visibly lifted as unworldly hues and five or six different outfits pulsed over his form.
“For hollow vessels to be this vivid… You must admit, dear, the snake-mouthed sorcerer was right once again,”...
2025-09-30 05:05:02 +0000 UTC View PostAt this point, Krahe had completely surpassed any form of surprise or disbelief, finding it both easiest and safest to simply move with the flow of events unless something unprecedented or obviously dangerous presented itself. So, she simply nodded in agreement.
“Now, then,” th...
2025-09-27 04:46:30 +0000 UTC View PostNo verbal response came; not for quite some time. The King of Many Colours, his high brow furrowed, stared at the vessel. His gaze shifted to Krahe, then back to the vessel, and he rose up from his throne. An enormous weight smashed down upon Krahe’s shoulders, as though a waterfall striking he...
2025-09-25 03:56:20 +0000 UTC View PostIt was here that she diverged from the pure path of changing the name to change the vessel. As she saw it, there was no need. If the name of something informed its manifestation, and if looking upon something instantly conferred an idea of its nature, then it stood to reason that remaking the ves...
2025-09-21 00:12:55 +0000 UTC View PostThe two royals observed Barzai with a bearing best reserved for the aftermath of head-on train collision. Somehow, for reasons that evaded Krahe, the faux-eidolon's manifestation seemed to be utterly repellant to the two; perhaps it was a sort of uncanny valley effect.
“That's eno...
2025-09-20 00:30:33 +0000 UTC View Post“Is it not dangerous to allow my thoughts to roam too freely in Zor’Aguhastra?” Krahe questioned, expecting this to be a catch of some sort.
“Under normal circumstances, yes. You can sense the solidity of this place, no? Your thoughts, weighty though they may be, shan’t distor...
2025-09-19 01:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostIn accordance with the ritual secrets, she raised the guidestone fragment, reaching with it forward, while performing the Gesture of the Hollow Spire - known also as the Sign of Closing - with her right hand, keeping it close to her chest. In this manner she approached, with the guidestone’s sc...
2025-09-16 16:46:41 +0000 UTC View PostAs she approached, more and more detail emerged. Zor’Aguhastra’s upper half consisted of countless spires, all of whom were at once black and iridescent, just as the Wizard’s notes had said they would be. She spied among them the shapes of skyscrapers and megabuildings, of the towers of Neo...
2025-09-15 20:27:54 +0000 UTC View PostThe two titans’ struggle continued on for what felt like at once seconds and hours. Before long, the wheel on Talos’ back had come to revolve so wildly as to appear as a static circle of light, stirring up an immense maelstrom within the astral gulf. Similarly, Rahu had somehow grown a hundre...
2025-09-14 19:40:06 +0000 UTC View PostKrahe opened an array of mouths down the length of her left arm and on every other surface of charred skin, even including her neck the side of her face, and with them she invoked the names of ancient deities and kings, those who had reigned over the world in times when great men rose and fell by...
2025-09-12 20:07:03 +0000 UTC View PostThe Sorcerer’s Hand effectively played the role of a substitute in a “rehearsal” of the ritual proper. After imprinting her thauma upon it, she placed it where she would begin, and spurred it into motion by pouring thauma into it. The corpse hand twitched to life, barely managing to stand u...
2025-09-08 08:16:49 +0000 UTC View Post
Once the Sorcerer’s Hand was done smoking, the hand needed to be left to rest until it stiffened to a stone-like hardness. Krahe took this opportunity to take a break, moving to the be...
2025-09-07 06:13:41 +0000 UTC View Post"I hope, for your sake, that you didn’t eat all of Calvus’ souldregs,” Krahe thought as she walked, directing it towards Barzai. If the eidolon had indeed devoured them, she would need to source another hand and souldreg pair. Not difficult, but a...
2025-09-04 04:28:29 +0000 UTC View Post
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2025-09-01 20:26:57 +0000 UTC View PostKrahe stared into the middle-distance for a moment, steeling herself for the great struggle to come. A few minutes later, with only some grimacing, she had choked down the rest of the decoction and returned to Firminus with the glassware. She immediately rinsed and refilled the glass in the sink,...
2025-09-01 03:48:52 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: I got stuck on what to do with Barzai's evolution ability-wise. I had the design worked out months in advance but I hadn't settled on the ability changes so I went in circles working up multiple different versions of his evolved powerset before I eventually settled on the current version. Th...
2025-08-29 02:54:34 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: Edited to expand body formation sequence on 26th Aug. 2025
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The diminutive figure of a humanoid raven stood stone-still at the center of the angle-web, meeting its contractor’s gaze with a single eye. To the world, it see...
2025-08-24 02:48:58 +0000 UTC View PostYazata’s bindings came undone, and from within fell a formless mass of smoke and tar, and upon its fall it instantly began coalescing, moving along the angle-web in the only direction permitted to it by the ritual — into the Gate of Metamorphosis, along the Initial Angle, towards the dreg-gem...
2025-08-13 18:48:15 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: This one is a bit shorter. Next one is a significant bit longer.
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Krahe’s anger didn’t abate; that she understood why Barzai had done what he had done didn’t change anything. She resolved to punish the demonic b...
2025-08-13 18:47:03 +0000 UTC View PostA sudden churning and writhing came over her. It was no pain — pain would’ve been easy, a momentary disruption that she could fight head-on with sheer force of will, but this was different. This discomfort was altogether more insidious than mere pain. It was a churning and shuddering comparab...
2025-08-13 18:45:27 +0000 UTC View Post“Oh, Black Trapezohedron, sound forth from the spires of Zor’Aguhastra…” Yazata invoked.
Slowly, the sense of the sublime that already filled the chamber began to grow. The sound of machinery intensified, and one after the next, seven pillars rose up from the floor, each depicting a...
2025-08-07 08:20:21 +0000 UTC View PostYazata paused for a moment, waiting for something. That something was the arrival of three further individuals, through a heretofore concealed side door — two of which the four men recognized. The first was none other than the madwoman who had assaulted and captured them. The second was their v...
2025-08-07 08:19:19 +0000 UTC View PostThe ground shuddered with the whirring and thumping of distant machinery.
Two kinds of incense hung heavy in the air; a bluish haze just above head-height, and a greyish one at the floor.
Four prisoners waited in their cells. Even these cells were suffused with incense, piped in...
2025-08-03 04:35:28 +0000 UTC View PostKrahe wasn’t sure what to say to that. On one hand, the statement itself, “Weakness is a sin,” sounded idiotic to the utmost extent, it was the sort of thing she expected to hear as a non-justification from some dehumanized psycho before turning them into a greasy stain. But the sentiment b...
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