[Note: since the subject matter is mostly a mystery in the world of GW2 at the time of this journal, anything written below is mostly headcanon.]—————————-Everything around him was dark. The […]

Step and swing. Hold. Step and swing. Hold. Step and swing. Hold.Fiel’s arms and back were burning. He reached the wall of the hill, so he spun around and swung again. His thick cotton shirt was getting damp and c […]

He had been called, and so he came.Farrin knew something was wrong. Fiel had never, not once in his life, asked for his help. Not in that manner. His letter was vague. Brisk. More like a telegram. “Please c […]

The norn drink when they party. They drink to celebrate, they drink to boast, they drink to mourn.Fiel, however, was drinking to forget.Nothing to celebrate. Nothing to bury. Every day, the young norn stumbled […]

     Boy. You look pathetic.
And he was. Hunched over a bucket at the Guild’s infirmary, Fiel was purging his body from all the ale in he had inhaled while trying to win a drinking contest with a hylek earli […]

A largos.A blasted largos, in the Gilded Hollow. And she targeted Cap, too.Fiel was equal parts intrigued, angry, excited and worried. The largos did not have the best reputation, but having one so close… he had t […]

‘Bookah.’She hates that godsdamned word.Bookah! Bookah! Bookah!As if it was the only word those little brats knew to regurgitate between their nonsensical equations and their miles-long scientific terms.It’s not l […]

[ co-written with @quorgi ]
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She had made one grievous mistake.
When she came into the Gilded Hollow, she found it to be a sheltered and reassuring place. Something about its […]

Those two going to the woods are mother and daughter.The mother goes singing, while the daughter sighs.“Why dost thou sigh so, my fair daughter?”“I have much ire in me, I sense my demise.I am woman by day, and b […]

Her skin was a bit coarser know. Stiffer, but still supple. Almost like the shell of a freshly molted crustacean. It was odd. The grey patches that was covering her once ivory-blue skin, she could live with. But […]

“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 i […]

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 […]

“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, t […]

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 […]

“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 […]

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, […]

Fiel told him not to touch the plants.
Those giant maguuma lilies and poisoned orchids, so majestic, each pastel petal and frilly leaf exuding the savage and untamed majesty of the jungle.
However, he didn’t say a […]

“Father?!”Right before partaking in the rather rattling paranormal experience in Ebonhawke’s graveyard with the guild, Fiel had been informed that Farrin, his father, had popped up in the Gilded Hollow, unexp […]

“Come on, Mer! You can do it… catch!”Once again the necromancer’s arm arched over his head, and once again, the grotesque flesh abomination –stitched together from two fruit bat carcasses, the skull of a dead ca […]

To my dearest and only son,I hope this missive find you in good health, and good fortune, both you and the little fluff ball.I have a most wonderful news for you! (Your mother insisted that I do not bother you […]