The seven of them met at dusk in their hideout. The empire of their civilization constructed many such places of course, found all over the Heartland, strewn about and in their purity reflecting the sun's rays by day and casting great shadows by nigh
Read more…And through the city gates stumbled the squeamish silhouette of a particularly ragged and battered Nord. He held a queer envelope in his trembling hands, besmeared with unmentionable fluids, its surface already rippled from the moisture of his cold h
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It was high time we began with our accounts of scientific discoveries in respect to the looming dark at hand. We were still shaken from the events that had transpired the day before. Even after burying our two friends about fifty meters away fro
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Ringing ears. Blurred vision. Encroaching darkness threatening to consume me. The strangely lengthening shadows tried to pull me into their domain. As I was about to break, I cast a glance over yonder to our gravely wounded Dunmer friend. We were v
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The three of us safely descended the crudely constructed rope ladder down into the mound. The rope creaked and the rungs bent under our weight but the ladder held fast. Upon reaching the hole's base that led deeper into the dank ruins we collective
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I awoke to the cries of my fellows by noon of the next day. Lili's voice was the first I heard. Then followed Horace and Ravaia, Azarain joining in shortly after. "Yagir!" I could hear them holler. "Yagir! Where are you?!" Horace's voice echoed a
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On this bleak day, I write to you my old friend this letter wherein I tell of a matter of utmost urgency that requires your attention. I'm aware I could have written to the venerable Arch Mage or to his majesty the Emperor but the way I see it, I i
Read more…They have been tricked, deceived by their own god. Originally kindred spirits on the hunt for knowledge and immortality, they've given themselves tuno the dark currents in an effort to instill meaning in undeath and grant bliss to those not destined
Read more…Act I - Lost in Radiance
She woke, engulfed by cruel light, surrounded by curious architecture reflecting the oppressive incandescence in this place. Where was she? How did she end up here?
Looking at the mirroring ground, she noticed her stark nakedn
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Night has turned into dawn and dawn has turned into morning when I realized we completely disregarded the College schedule during our experiments! Immediately notifying Marcus of this, packing my belongings hurriedly, he nodded in response and quic
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From my strange and disquieting dreams, I suddenly woke to a knock at the door of the Hall of Countenance, surprisingly early in the morning. It was about two hours short of sunrise and dizzy from sleep deprivation, being so aggressively robbed of
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The weeks at the College passed by, and I was soon promoted to adept title, as were Marcus and Shelivah, being forced to migrate our belongings from the Hall of Attainment to the Hall of Countenance, wherein more advanced mages dwelt. As time wen
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As he closed in, he gently pushed back his hood with his left hand while still holding onto his mug with the other, illuminating his features in the yellow-orangey light of the inn's fireplace. His skin was pallid and his hair and beard, both quite
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As I lie here on my deathbed in the old, slightly rundown farmhouse, with its overgrown gambrel roof and the small tool shed swaying back and forth from the wind in the withering garden wildly growing throughout the backyard, my last will and testa
Read more…The Necromancer Cycle
The Darkness holds secrets blacker than night. And from the pits of unfathomable gulfs of emptiness emerges an adversary to all life. The apex predator who preys on the living. To his side rises his protégé, the Necromancer. He
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