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The nip in the air bit hard like a timber wolf gnawing down an the freshly captured deer. The sky was bright, white clouds sprinkling snowflakes upon the frozen stones that stretched on forever in these mountains. The nearly vertical peaks and valleys were dark and shadowed from the morning sun...

The room has the look and feel of a study, bookshelves covering the walls and overhead lights and desk lamps providing a warm glow. Large round tables with plush arm chairs are scattered throughout the room. Taking a book and reading it in one of these chairs, you can almost feel as if another...

Wood flooring fills the space, cluttered by several pots with dirt spilling over and onto the surrounding floor. The entire place has a very earthy aroma to it, though the smell of rot lingers.Simple stools sit next to large workbenches filled with gardening tools that also litter the walls...

The rooms floor is polished marble, black and white squares reflecting the light of crystal chandeliers. The air smells strangely of wax and blood. There are several ornate looking wooden chairs with stiff backs and dark polished curves situated around several glass tables. Mirrors posing as...

Authors Note: This is a 'solo' sidestory, detailing Reiner Braun's inner thoughts post the events of House of M. Something like an introspection. I'm not sure if this will have multiple 'entries' or just one, but regardless... There's my summary of what it is. I may make edits and/or updates...

Perfect serenity filled the universe. Nothing moved. Nothing spoke, or made any sound at all. All reality simply existed. Then, the first beasts crawled on the land. They were simple, small, made from earth and ash like clay. Some time passed, as the universe grew, and it's Allfather was...

You are cold. You didn't think it was possible, you've never felt this way before. Cold. But this far out away from the surface of Avren, out here in the void, you are a bit cold. You have been falling for a while now, and the world (your world) floats below you. The void has never truly had an...

From far up in Northdawn, down to deep south in Denzen, there was an air of hope and rejoicing among the people, both scattered and in the empires. For almost all of those on the surface, never before in their whole lives have there been times like this: The sun was visible. That was it. Most...

Through the red door in the sky, was a place so mindbogglingly far away from reality, so distant from understanding and logic, that all of this dimension fit in the view of one window entirely. The ground was diamonds. That was all you could understand about this place. Stairs made the ceiling...

As Written by Lazzamore Horses nay'd as carriages wandered through the small Easttowne, a trading hub and port on the far east coast of Idain. Someone shouted at another, sending shock waves through the ports main, winding road. Out here in the fringe, people are untamed, controlled mostly by...

The Lines have been drawn in blood and misery. In the Great Mount, bronze is sharpened, magic honed, and bows bent. The beasts and beast-masters of the Garden of change ready there souls for an onslaught of fire and vengeance. This time is the War of the Gods, and it will be known, unmistakably...

It was been nearly a thousand years since the world was cursed at the hands of the Obsidian lord. The People of Idain are getting along in life well enough; society has been born and it grows healthily like a great oak's sapling. Bronze is worked, plants are grown, and the world is in little...

Crime and corruption is overflowing in the Empire. The Revolutionary Army, host to assassination guild fore hire Night Raid, are our only solution under the crushing thumbs of the powers that be as well as the newly formed counter-group the Jaegers, led by high ranking sadist General Esdeath...

Obusett's radiance shined like the sun, even though it was night, and the moon had yet to be born to stabilize the world. There on the far side of the world, this light was far off and out of sight. It rose out of the water; mountains, laden with copper, zinc, iron and gold, colored with all...

It has been a long journey, traveling with the caravan headed to Begdor. The wind howls above you on this dark and cold night. Walking for miles, your feet ache as you trudge on. The sound of huge wagons, clanking with goods, dragged on by tame Bohaber is the only sound for everyone is quite...

The wind was a loud howl between the tops of the crags above. You find yourself standing on a bed of pine needles in a canyon of dark emerald evergreens, and walls of slate-blue stone. the canyon walls reach up and form spires, that resemble giant blue hands. To the west, the mountains climb to...

Where Heroes are Made For the past few months the Silverhearts were hiring mercenaries and anyone who'd agree to help them with their cause, but after being given menial tasks of little worth they were either let go and paid or quit where few remained. And from this few, fewer still were sought...

Stout stone walls surround Tria, the city of scum, both water and carbon-based. Tria was built on the great Porsance Delta, where the river Porsance splits into the Muzzan and Kaval rivers. The fort of the city is built east of the delta, but despite the Olginnian's best efforts, the water has...

Participants: Cato L'astaer Elin Virier Shiori Lessa DIADEM DIVE The Matriarch of the noble House Jarla seeks an ancient diadem, located in the Batzig Valley caves. This Diadem is said to paint the wearer in a shimmering golden light. The caves may be guarded by beasts or bandits. Report to...

Participants: Tyvin Tormen Alethea Rudicum PARANORMAL ACTIVITY The forested city of Chenive to the North is experiencing strange activity in an abandoned keep. The Duke's office is requesting Nomad investigation. ⦖~~~~~~~~----------------------♛----------------------~~~~~~~~⦕ "Alright, you...