Etzos, ‘The City of Stones’ is a fortress against the encroachment of Immortal domination of Idalos. Founded on the backs of mortals driven to seek their own destiny independent of the Immortals, the city has carved itself out of the very rock of the land. Scourged by terrible wars of extermination, they've begun to grow again, and with an eye toward expansion, optimism is on the rise.
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New Subforums
So, one of the things that has changed in the new site is that the new PSF is visible to everyone. This provides us an opportunity and so, this morning I've created some subforums in there - for completed / approved threads....
The Website: Standing Trials ( / ), referred to through the rest of this thread as the website , our website , the site , our site , Standing Trials , and Trials .
You: The person reading these words right now.
The Staff: All users who are identified as...
/gallery/image.php?album_id=2&image_id=3447 Inali had spent most of her free time in the past week leafing through the reference sheets and collected ciphers of the Old Guard. While studying the collected work of her faction, she had discovered many techniques and tools that aided her work and...
Inali glanced at the page, noting the cipher than Jonah had brought to class. The key face down on the desk next to the encoded letter. This cipher was rather old, and no one of any importance used it. As such the Old Guard allowed it to...
Shalla was at the local tavern for her breakfast and after ordering for herself a hearty bowl of beef stew, she stared at the bowl of brown goodness, lifting it to smell the mouthwatering delicious aroma wafting from it before she sat the bowl back down onto the table, and spooned a healthy portion...
Ashan 1st 718; Late Evening
Location: The Underground
Stone hallways were illuminated with torches as the thief casually walked down the corridors of the Underground, it had been a full season's worth of time since he'd met with his good 'friend' Dallen. Nothing much has happened since then other...
Spoons clattered and plinked against the wooden plates. Children of all shapes, sizes, and a handful of races, all sat upon long wooden benches facing long wooden tables. Though each child spoke relatively quietly, their combined voices were enough to create a steady din,...
Mister Barnelby’s office smelled live cloves and horseradish. On their own, they were pretty pungent aromas; together? They were Barnelby. Whatever produced the disharmonious mix of scents, it was as much a part of the room as the large oil portrait of Barnelby’s cat, Whiskatz, who...
He'd heard it said before that growing boys needed food - lots of food -, and he often wondered if that was part of the reason he was so small, so puny. His stomach was more of a perpetually growling alley cat than an organ that supposedly...
You seem nervous. Is something the matter? the seductive voice rasped in his ear, questioningly. Ryder's Diri never liked when the man showed fear, and usually he tried not to. But this was the first time he'd seen Noth in a while,...
Mum? She was never there when he woke up. Mum're you okay?
In the dingy light of their drafty shack, his mother's face was pale - far paler than it should have been. Their one room home had space enough for their single bed, one they tended to share in shifts rather than together;...
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Oh but darling
What if you fly? 2nd of Cylus, 718
Truthfully, the training facilities we're hardly anything at all. Empty, spacious rooms, where the drones ran around and tossed boulders to strengthen their physique....
Finally, Ryder found himself alone. Since his raid with the necromancer, and the meeting with the rest of the group, Ryder had been incredibly busy. Some recruits wanted him to teach them to fight, after seeing him take down a fair...
/gallery/image.php?album_id=2&image_id=3292 Ymiden 1, 718
Early evening
Inali swore lightly in the Ancient Tongue, knowing that all the other members of the Old Guard were far enough that they wouldn’t hear her struggle with this particularly difficult cipher. While Lerrik Calloso was fair and...
He had made the mistake of trying to squeeze through a small opening at the back of the rundown building. As he'd always been small for his age, the concept of being too big for something was rarely at the top of his list of things that might...
He woke to pain all over his body and a grumbling stomach that was more void than a starless night sky. Grimacing, Jinu lay on the itchy straw mat he used for a bed, eyes closed and breathing slow but shallow. It hurt to lay still, and it hurt to move. In the relative quiet of the...
He hated Thomas Wilkes more than he hated being hungry - and he hated being hungry more than just about everything else. Thomas, better known as Toad , was fat. He was fat and ugly and drooled out of the corner of his mouth when he talked for longer than a couple trills and Jinu...
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Inali had done her best to research the letters that one of her students had left her over a season ago. The process had involved ordering books from Viden on Vauni, Ancient Vauni, and Grammatical Considerations for Vauni. While the books had been enough...
Inali's visit to the Northern Medical Station was mercifully brief. After she listed her symptoms to the Sev'ryn woman in the waiting area, she had been called back to one of the patient areas within a quarter break of her arrival....
Who are you looking for? the man asked. A purveyor of knowledge, or so he called himself. An entrepreneur within the underworld, knowing neither great success or great failure. He was... inconspicuous, fitting into the niches. And this place, all around them, was discreet....
While it was to be expected for Lizzie to be a little... unhappy about being forced to share her special day with the opening of F'mos Ate Most as the aukari even chose to use the girl's birthday as some publicity stunt, F'mos did not rest in his efforts to convince her otherwise....
Inali had spent the first portion of her morning working through a particularly difficult cipher. Other members of the Old Guard had each taken a stab at it and the collected parchment of notes was painfully thin. A few of her colleagues had used the...
/gallery/image.php?album_id=2&image_id=3292 Ymiden 2, 718, Early Morning
Inali eyed the letter laying on the small desk that the inn provided her. The message had been delivered to her residence early in the morning by a particularly insistent urchin that pounded on her door until she answered....
Poxis’s slumbering eyes slowly opened to the sound of a persistent cat wailing and pawing at his front door. “fucking cat..” Poxis grumbled through clenched teeth. He pressed the ends of his pillow to his feathery ears to drown out the noise but soon found himself...
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