“Home sweet home, eh, son?” Fiel was finally putting his things down next to his bed, ready and eager to wash the stench of Orr off him. “To me, maybe. This is not your home,” he scoffed. Farrin’s features twisted in mock grief. “My only son… so eager to toss me out in the jungle, […]
She was meditating, alone between the crates and barrels in the cargo hold of the ship. Anything to distract her from the sound the water was making as it brushed the hull. It was right there, just behind a few inches of wood and metal, calling to her and her painfully dry skin. She endured. […]
“Do you hear that?” Farrin settled against the boulder he was about to climb. A few feet above him, Fiel had paused, finger in the air, his ear turned to the wind. The skaald was sweating. His legs were hurting, the pack he was carrying was straining his back, and could still smell the horrible […]
Air. No matter the cool dampness in the wind of the shore, it still felt uncomfortably warm and dry upon her skin. It was sucking the moisture out of her like a greedy vampiric void. Still, she endured. She would have endured the sun of Elona itself of it meant she would fight a decent […]
“So… this is what you do with your free time?” Farrin was standing at a respectful distance behind his son, watching. Out of cautious deference for an act he did not fully comprehend, as well as out of prim fear of being tainted by the humors that occasionally splattered over his son’s workstation. Workstation. What […]
((Very mild??? current LS spoilers)) “What is it you’re even taking, Rikvi?” Tove crouched next to her cousin, head cocked. Surely there was some reason the Necromancer was sitting on the floor in a remote corner of the Forge? She could often be seen staring off into space, but this was…a strange sort of staring […]
((Living Story spoilers.)) “Well, this looks bad.” Tove surveyed her assortment of scouts and strays and shook her head. A brandstorm had driven herself, another couple of scouts, and a few Priory researchers halfway up a mountainside, and now they milled together absently. Command settled across her shoulders like a coat forgotten in the back […]
Two objects would find their way to the Captain’s corner of the guildhall. The first was carefully wrapped in deerskin, which when pulled back revealed a simply bound book. (Simple, and yet it was the hide of a shark, and therefore fascinating in its own right). This would be Ambrosine’s original intended gift, stolen by […]
We soon arrived at our destination Slipgate and exited. “Ay we’re here!” Nokon declared excitedly as we stepped out into a bright sunny day. “This is the ancient duelin’ grounds of the Kalnor Magi. We’re not but a ten minutes jog away from the temple. Oh I can practically hear Riala call’en me name.” He […]
It was a chilly November morning when I got out of my pick-up coffee in hand and looked up to see a dwarf (Tolkien not Dinklage) in Scottish formal wear banging on the door of Jack & Jill’s. I kid you not… black tunic, red sash with gold trim and a plaid kilt wrapped around […]
The more reports she read and the more the captain fumbled his way through explanations, the angrier the Kaldorei grew. Fortunately, her amusement from the obvious nervousness bordering on fear coming from Captain McCormick soothed her enough not to do something … well, not exactly regrettable but something she’d have to find a way to […]
Justicar, I know I am a minor member of your organization and, as such, my opinions do not hold as much weight as others. Be that as it may, in all good consciousness I must still relay my dissatisfaction with how Miss Idella is being treated. She is not a criminal and has not behaved […]
She heaved the last of the bars into place, wiping sweat off her brow. The forge, gladly hired out by the Kul Tiran blacksmith, blazed long that day and night as Nynkasi worked the chunks of ore into shining bars. It had not been easy. She gulped down water, despite the bitterness and the odd […]
Nynkasi hauled the ore nuggets back with painful slowness. Literally. Her whole body ached as she left the realm of earth, and passing from Deepholm….oof. She kept stumbling in the waking world, as the heaviness of the place left her. And with a final heave, the bag of ore was shoved and slung back into […]
Thoughts swirled around her head as she once again stared into the coals. Emotions battered something inside her as well, causing her to frown and hug her knees as she huddled before the fire. She was so… She hoped Mosur could make sense of those notes. She could barely understand them herself. Her father was […]
Draenei prompt list for the month of December [link] ———- The flames were familiar. They licked at his flesh just shy of burning him. Too warm, too close for just a simple summon. This voice too, sharp and confident, the popping and crackling that flavored his Ignan was also somehow unique to the Elemental. “Shaman, […]
Etsi made her way towards the Alliance camp on silent paws, her muzzle curling and nose wrinkling to try and block some of the old, rotting blood scents coming from the trolls in the east and the strange elf-fish smell of the Naga drifting along the sea breeze from the west. Eyes that saw better […]
An invitation was mailed to every member of the Vanguard. It was on crisp, snow white parchment, and penned in Ambrosine’s delicate and precise hand. With green ink, of course. Dearest Friend,Your are hereby cordially invited to a Wintersday gathering! We will begin the evening at my residence in Divinity’s Reach, before moving on to […]
The sun had barely risen on the brisk scion morning. Rays of light spilled through the gaps in the dense canopy, and the fog clung to the forest floor at such a density it was almost tactile. Crouched in a hiding spot amid a cluster of trees and rocks, Reed and his father Cliff surveyed […]
The gentle rock of a cart. The raptor, she follows close behind, obscured by wind and rain as the night comes on fierce and flailing, a wolf of a night, howling into his ears that he’s certain are about to fall off. Beside him, a warm body, something he can’t say he’s grateful for. The […]
Flashes of reddish-orange rent the twilight sky, drawing Aithne’s attention from her work over the forge. Four meteors tracked glowing trails through the gloom. A moment later she heard the sound of distant blasting as the meteors hit smashed into the ground on the plateau below. Aithne was already strapping her sword to her back […]
The tome sat currently with Fiel, but Riathan, having noticed the norn necromancer remove it from the torture chamber or laboratory in Ebonhawke, requested to see it so he could skim through it and make some notes. Now that he sat with his notes, he was able to really settle down and think about what […]
THWAP. PTING. THWAP. Issy lowered the bow for a moment, grunting as the arrows struck home into the distant stump. Good enough. And then reached for a bottle of gin, took a hearty swig, and grabbed another arrow from the quiver. She was out of practice, badly, and it would take days of steady practice […]
Eirciel gazed upon the fallen elf and the wreckage in the forest around her. She clenched her fists and glared at the other Thornspeakers, picking up the woman, she was tall, but so were Kul’Tirans, two of the men picked her up. Her teacher, Aron, stepped up beside her. “What troubles you?” “Why are we […]
Sparks were flying at the anvil. The hammer, like an iron meteorite, crashed relentlessly over the incandescent landscape of the gestating pauldron below. Blow after blow, the metal was bending, twisting, warping. She was alone, standing by the forge outside of the temporary hide hut they made for themselves, close to her sister’s sturdier wooden […]