In your Timeline of the Mother Countries, O uneducated and semiliterate students, you should have already read (but, I expect, did not) that the Five Men War took place in the 388th year of the Eternal City Ka-Rone. This is … Continue reading →
“I think this world is a terrible place. We’re born in poverty, we live in misery, we die too young, and unless you’re lucky enough to have your memories encoded in an eiodolon stone, that’s it. Maybe one-tenth of one … Continue reading →
Notes from a Commonplace Book dated 08/07/1351 Subset of Last War, entirely island-hopping in the Northwest Theater from 1105 to 1108, initiated by “Old Eyes See Clearly/Elder Brother Also Speaks/Time Flows in a Circular Fashion” aka Bug-Eye aka the R’t … Continue reading →
Fact: Popular rhetoric spread by enemies of the state declares the Perfected Empire the largest (by geography) or second-largest (by population) nation in the Mother Countries. In truth its population dwarfs that of the Diamond Isle, and more significantly our … Continue reading →
“Saw Esther last night in the woods I told her what they’d done She raised her axe, she howled in rage Said boys let’s have some fun “In Esther’s name we’ll take them on We’ll never let them win As … Continue reading →
Come one! Come all! Lords, ladies, yeomen, children of all ages. come under the Yellow Tent and see! See! See the death-defying acrobatics of the Nine Eggshells! See the enigmatic Miss Appellation and her cadre of trained flying tigers! See … Continue reading →
Every war has been fought with different technology, tactics, and effect. After the razing of Habadad, most of the Diamond Isle chose to believe that their military superiority had been proven, and for all time their might (in the form … Continue reading →
Dead Are Dead It seems difficult to imagine at this late age, as we stand in the twilight of history, informed of fifteen hundred years of progress, how primitively our ancestors and antecedents lived in the days before the Dark … Continue reading →
The treasonous Seven Errors Manifesto, as distributed throughout Branches Bend in Submission province in the weeks prior to the Faen Massacre of 1320: WE OF THE WORDWOOD HAVE BEEN HAD! Error the First: We have allowed the forces of our … Continue reading →
By singing the song of memory, we find in the world that them yet live (or exist at least, for I reckon many of them that remember it are Undying) who saw the Council’s genesis. For it is untrue that … Continue reading →
