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  • Fly

    v.1.1.0

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    Looking down was scary. Especially since Vuorruuzuu had never flown before. Calling it “flying” was maybe a little bit of a stretch. Drakes could actually only glide using their webbed, leathery wings, but to Vuorruuzuu it felt like so much more.

    The cool winds of autumn caressed the topaz yellow scales covering her entire toned body, from her snout and long neck over her arms and torso, as well as her strong legs and finned tail. But the chill was counteracted by the slight warmth that the shining suns provided. The day was clear and beautiful, and, while scary, Vuoruuzuu could see all of the world below. So much she had never explored; from the still-green cedar trees directly beneath her, far over the oceans and new lands, across the tallest mountains all trying their best to reach her as she sailed atop the winds.

    Had it always been this easy? It was over 50 years ago that Vuorruuzuu’s clutch mates had learned to utilise their wings, and yet her own had always been loose and useless. But now? Now nothing could hold the young adult Dragon back. She simply stretched her lean arms and legs, and the wings in between flexed instinctively. Same for the fins on her tail, making steering just about the smallest problem in the world.

    The freedom up here in the sky was almost magical. And Vuorruuzuu couldn’t wait to write down all of her findings in her journal. She looked to her belt and made sure that it, and her trusty ink bottle, was fastly secured.

    SCREEECH!

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  • Burn the World

    v.1.1.0

    ‘Ascan! As our Order’s Fire Hand, you should know better than to keep bringing this up!’

    ‘But Jeorn-’

    ‘Excuse me?’

    ‘Grand Protector Jeorn,’ the Fire Hand was on thin ice as the insistence on ranks left nothing to interpretation. ‘Their popularity is growing, if you would at least be open to recruitment-’

    ‘I must not be making myself clear about these Teachings of the Five Pillars…’

    ‘I’ve already discussed it with two of our Lily Generals, and-’

    ‘POLITELY CONSIDER OUR VOWS, FIRE HAND! The Knights of the Lily are sworn to protect The Equilibrium from The Ash or The Flood. Dismissed!’

    The Grand Protector turned to his table for a final showing that they were indeed done.

    ‘Then I truly am sorry, Sire,’ Fire Hand Ascan calmly said while unsheathing his sword, lighting it ablaze with a single swift motion of his glove. ‘But don’t worry. When the time is right…’

    A sharp sting went through The Grand Protector’s chest and his face warmed from the flames of the blade sticking out.

    ‘…The Ash will cleanse this world, and the worthy will remain.’

  • First Book of Dwarves: Giants Awaken

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    Rumblings could be heard from deep beneath and suddenly a great, big crack shook the earth and a Giant arose in a spectacle of fire and dust. And it kept rising ever upward.

    ‘It is going for the suns!’ one of the First proclaimed. And they were right, for the Giant had seen the suns and felt their life-giving warmth and wanted it all for itself.

    ‘But what will halt it?’

    ‘We will,’ another First Dwarf said, and so they took their mighty hammers and bashed the Giant’s side so hard that it split open and the warriors carved their way into the very heart of the beast which paused its rise for the suns.

    However, our ancestors noticed that the Giant’s ascend didn’t stop completely and so it was deemed to be sleeping.

    ‘But what if there are other Giants out there?’ a wise one worried.

    ‘Then we will do what we must and what we have done here!’

    And so it was that the First of the Dwarves split up and seeked out more Giants to make sure that The Final Strife would never come to pass.

  • Danger

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    Parthiizaax never really liked Humans. They were prejudiced, greedy, and he knew what atrocities they were capable of, even to their own kind. Indeed, he didn’t know a single Human’s name despite it being a handful of years since he settled so close to Ashencross. But they didn’t like him either, nor did they know his name. At most the townsfolk tolerated him, only acknowledging Parthiizaax’s presence when they needed healing for injuries that their precious Teachings of the Five Pillars shouldn’t know about. Or when he sold them fireblossoms so they could easily start their ovens and furnaces. Still, though, no one had turned him in to the Templars yet. That he had to give to the Humans.

    He rarely went into town for those reasons. It was only when he absolutely needed something or to study the rituals at the large Temple of the Five Pillars. Parthiizaax found religion immensely fascinating. The followers of such dogmas seemed to share a strong bond even if what was preached seemed rather illogical to a Dragon.

    However, the massive explosion coming from Ashencross was something he simply could not ignore. 

    It had been late in the afternoon when Parthiizaax was watering the sweet-smelling, deep orange fireblossoms, a little belated from his usual routine, and the sound of violent thunder had come crashing. As a curious Parthiizaax turned his head, the shockwave followed.

    The force caught his webbed and leather-like wings and moved him a surprising amount, leaving deep claw marks in the stamped ground as proof. Parthiizaax’ wings had gone unused for such a long time that the meeting with the shockwave actually left them a little sore where they joined his body, all the way from wrist to ankle.

    And finally, after Parthiizaax had managed to gather himself ever so slightly, the rain and dirt came falling from what had been an otherwise clear summer’s day.

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  • Danger (Archived #3)

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    Parthiizaax never really liked Humans. They were prejudiced, greedy, and he knew what atrocities they were capable of, even to their own kind. Indeed, he didn’t know a single Human’s name despite it being a handful of years since he settled so close to Ashencross. But they didn’t like him either, nor did they know his name. At most the townsfolk tolerated him, only acknowledging Parthiizaax’s presence when they needed healing for injuries that their precious Teachings of the Five Pillars shouldn’t know about. Or when he sold them fireblossoms so they could easily start their ovens and furnaces. Still, though, no one had turned him in to the Templars yet. That he had to give to the Humans.

    He rarely went into town for those reasons. It was only when he absolutely needed something or to study the rituals at the large Temple of the Five Pillars. Parthiizaax found religion immensely fascinating. The followers of such dogmas seemed to share a strong bond even if what was preached seemed rather illogical to a Dragon.

    However, the massive explosion coming from Ashencross was something he simply could not ignore. 

    It had been late in the afternoon when Parthiizaax was watering the sweet-smelling, deep orange fireblossoms, a little belated from his usual routine, and the sound of violent thunder had come crashing. As a curious Parthiizaax turned his head, the shockwave followed.

    The force caught his webbed and leather-like wings and moved him a surprising amount, leaving deep claw marks in the stamped ground as proof. Parthiizaax’ wings had gone unused for such a long time that the meeting with the shockwave actually left them a little sore where they joined his body, all the way from wrist to ankle.

    And finally, after Parthiizaax had managed to gather himself ever so slightly, the rain and dirt came falling from what had been an otherwise clear summer’s day.

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  • Girl of Fire

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    The little girl was playing with fire in front of the new toolshed. The flames were dancing to her singing although she wasn’t very musical. But when she looked to the stone farmhouse her smile turned curious, hiding her slightly crooked teeth away.

    Her mommy and daddy were hugging each other and talking to three old Dwarves with funny, blocky hats. The one with a big, bushy beard, and a staff that seemed to be burning, pointed directly at her. The little girl didn’t like that. 

    Then one of the other old Dwarves showed a beautiful, small chest of silver and gold. The little girl had never seen anything so shiny.

    ***

    Looking back over her shoulder was difficult when the old Dwarf with the burning staff held her hand and led her down the road. The little girl tried to remove some of her fiery red hair from her face, those strands that always eluded her braid, but it was of little use. She still didn’t know what was going on but she knew that she wanted her mommy and daddy.

    The little girl saw that none of the other old Dwarves with the strange hats held the beautiful, small chest anymore.

  • Equilibrium’s Fall

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    The wave came crashing down on the heavy armour-clad Templars, dousing their flaming swords and dragging the many unlucky ones into their silent, watery graves.

    The curly, black haired Equilibrium awaited the next line of fanatics to try and enter Fortheart via the Grand River Bridge. Water swirled around her left arm.

    ‘The North Gate has fallen!’ a bloodied soldier shouted. ‘They’re going for The Temple!’

    With fear in her eyes, The Equilibrium sprinted to the Temple of the Water Lillies.

    ***

    The jet of water crushed a Templar against one of the great columns.

    Her followers laid burned or dying in pools of blood but The Equilibrium forced herself onwards to the Scriptorium.

    Amidst the scattered books and toppled desks, she found her worst fear: the skewered corpses of three children, one barely the age of two, and the burned body of a man trying to protect them.

    The two Templars in the room only heard a scream and a snap of fingers, and they themselves burst into flames.

  • Danger (Archived #2)

    v.1.2.0

    Parthiizaax never really liked Humans. They were prejudiced, greedy, and he knew what atrocities they were capable of, even to their own kind. Indeed, he didn’t know a single Human’s name despite it being a handful of years since he settled so close to Ashencross. But they didn’t like him either, nor did they know his name. At most the townsfolk tolerated him, only acknowledging Parthiizaax’s presence when they needed healing for injuries that their precious Teachings of the Five Pillars shouldn’t know about. Or when he sold them fireblossoms so they could easily start their ovens and furnaces. Still, though, no one had turned him in to the Templars yet. That he had to give to the Humans.

    He rarely went into town for those reasons. It was only when he absolutely needed something or to study the rituals at the large Temple of the Five Pillars. Parthiizaax found religion immensely fascinating. The followers of such dogmas seemed to share a strong bond even if what was preached seemed rather illogical to a Dragon.

    However, the massive explosion coming from Ashencross was something he simply could not ignore. It had been late that summer’s day when he was watering the sweet-smelling, deep orange fireblossoms, a little belated from his usual routine, and the sound of violent thunder had come crashing. As a curious Parthiizaax turned his head, the shockwave followed. The force caught his webbed and leather-like wings and moved him a surprising amount, leaving deep claw marks in the stamped ground as proof. Parthiizaax’ wings had gone unused for such a long time that the meeting with the shockwave actually left them a little sore where they joined his body, all the way from wrist to ankle. And finally, after Parthiizaax had managed to gather himself ever so slightly, the rain and dirt came falling from what had been an otherwise clear summer’s day.

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  • Danger (Archived #1)

    v.1.1.0

    Parthiizaax never really liked Humans. They were prejudiced, greedy, and he knew what atrocities they were capable of, even to their own kind. Indeed, he didn’t know a single Human’s name despite it being a handful of years since he settled so close to Ashencross. But they didn’t like him either, nor did they know his name. At most the townsfolk tolerated him, only acknowledging Parthiizaax’s presence when they needed healing for injuries that their precious Teachings of the Five Pillars shouldn’t know about. Or when he sold them fireblossoms so they could easily start their ovens and furnaces. Still, though, no one had turned him in to the Templars yet. That he had to give to the Humans.

    Parthiizaax rarely went into town for those reasons. It was only when he absolutely needed something or to study the rituals at the large Temple of the Five Pillars. Parthiizaax found religion immensely fascinating. The followers of such dogmas seemed to share a strong bond even if what was preached seemed rather illogical to a Dragon.

    However, the massive explosion coming from Ashencross was something he simply could not ignore. It had been late that summer’s day when he was watering the sweet-smelling, deep orange fireblossoms, a little belated from his usual routine, and the sound of violent thunder had come crashing. As a curious Parthiizaax turned his head, the shockwave followed. The force caught his webbed and leather-like wings and moved him a surprising amount, leaving deep claw marks in the stamped ground as proof. Parthiizaax’ wings had gone unused for such a long time that the meeting with the shockwave actually left them a little sore where they joined his body, all the way from wrist to ankle. And finally, after Parthiizaax had managed to gather himself ever so slightly, the rain and dirt came falling from what had been an otherwise clear summer’s day.

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  • Calamity

    v.1.3.1

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    The fires in the candles lit up. So did the flames of the fireplace. They always did that when Hu’orhun was agitated. Furious might be a better word, judging by the roars coming from the hearth. In fact, the heat was getting a little too much, even for a Dwarf, so Tu’wehan took a step away from the blazes. He looked at his wife with apprehensive hazel eyes.

    ‘You are NOT leaving!’ Hu’orhun almost shouted, trying to get some of her fiery red hair, those strands that always eluded her braid, under control. She was standing by their dinner table made of solid, dark granite. The matching granite chair, she was sitting on moments earlier, had been toppled over when she jumped to her feet in anger.

    Hu’orhun let out an irritated groan as she gave up on the flaming red locks, turning her attention back to Tu’wehan. ‘By the Slumbering Giants, who put this stupid idea into your head?’ Hu’orhun asked. The stare following the question was so intense it seemed as if she was trying to light her husband on fire that very second.

    Tu’wehan looked at the black leather jerkin in his hands. He was wearing his brown one already on top of a dark green linen shirt, ready to leave as soon as he was done packing. His grey, woollen travel cloak was hanging by the door.

    ‘The Chapiters and their entourage are leaving Zhi’Na Qien to spread the Teachings of the Five Pillars to more lands and they are in dire need of craftsmen. So, I figured I would lend them my skills as an Iron Artisan,’ Tu’wehan explained as he placed the black jerkin in his travel chest.

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