In this modern age, the outmoded concept of the tacent likely requires some explanation. As a full understanding of Zoeticism is impossible lacking comprehension of this basic tenet of their beliefs, it seems time must be set aside for its … Continue reading →
–Shut up. I’ve been thinking about the Lamplighters. –Lamplighters? –They made sibeccai. –Right, right. Lamplighters. –Uh-huh. –Why? –Why was I thinking about them? –No. No. I know why you were thinking about them. Why did the Lamplighters make sibeccai? –You … Continue reading →
Notes from a Commonplace Book Truism: every conflict fought w/ diff weapons and diff (flawed) tactics. Spice Wars greatest conflict of the past generation indication wars of next “terrible beyond imagining.” (1300-1306) Named for source in territorial dispute between two … Continue reading →
There’s a story that a certain class of professional sailor tells. By “certain class” I mean a romanticized, highly fictionalized, but still ultimately extant type; by that I mean those who, after a tour of duty within the Unified Front … Continue reading →
If the Smelter of Souls were not real it would be a necessary lie. All the world is a bubble, and outside an endless storm: the cosmos beyond the fixed stars of the Celestial Firmament. Anything could come in at … Continue reading →
The rare devices called rune-cubes are a peculiar holdover from the magical populism of Old Habadad. By rites unnatural and probably dangerous, the artificer casts a spell but binds the energies raised into a glass box, sealed with rune and … Continue reading →
