Arrogance.4
Entering the Forges was akin to entering a different world, one with poisonous air and metal trees. Twisting rows of gears and trollies, vast lakes of molten metal tended to by strange creatures in leather skin and bulbous tanks, cold glittering eyes...
Academia.3
It was later in class that he realized how little he had missed. Apparently there were many people absent. Some sick, others gone without notice or reason, but as of late that always seemed to be the case. He was one of the only two who were late...
Compliancy.2
12:40 -894th Solar Rotation. 'Tuesday' Smog drifts like oil over water. A swirling mass of poison that remains as inescapable as it is oppressive. It was heavy this morning, as if it had mass, but at the same time it felt dry, cloying. It tugged at...
Herald.1
[_Event Horizon_] This universe is a desolation of forgiveness. A boil of hubris and hatred on the skin of time, a blister on the foot of...
Footsteps. 6
The year is 1078 and the world is young to us.Life so long ago now grants us with possibilities; it gives us thought and reason. Her tarnish it with beliefs, unwilling to come to terms with the figure of dumb luck, and ideal circumstance. For this we...
Deliverence. 5
"Was this really what you wanted?" were her thoughts in those final years. As neglect and misuse began to erode her otherwise immortal body. She moved little because she saw no need to, she grew disdainful of her bastard children and disgusted at the...
Rightious. 4
Belrakier. The Saintly one. He saw his mother, he saw her as the cancerous whore she was, the mad bitch who had grew rotten as she fell far from the tree of divinity into the brambles and weeds of damnation. Belrakier and his loyal followers stole...
Agony. 3
Ci'e, the Creator; The Crimson Maiden she became known as such during the years of the War of Lamentation, she was in grieving. Ki'e the Trickster Lord, her brother- and lover, he had been felled, not by the hand of Lamenter alone, but by the hand of...
Hubris. 2
There was a requiem. A mass uprising amongst the mortal populace of their realm. Foulness had seeped through the cracks of heir plane and spawned. What they spawned were pitiful, selfish things that came before them, scions of the old gods, things of...
Pantheon. 1
From a branch of the immortal tree, did one leaf fall, one daughter of admiration, one daughter of promise and keep. Fall far she did, and seeds a new tree; she did, to one of thorns and nettles. This is the odyssey of the thunder that struck down...
Degredation.6
There is a place within every colony where the decent and fair-minded people dare not speak of or go. It is a sequestered place far from view, hidden and shunned. There are those in every colony, who are shunned, hated and jeered. They are scum...
Submission.5
It wasn't long after that their shift ended, and they were escorted back to the classroom where the Forge Master promptly distributed Chits and requisition stubs to everyone within the class. The Forge Master called for attention moments before any...