When he achieved Apotheosis, Leon had largely been insensate to what was happening outside of his body. He knew that quite a bit had to have happened given how trashed his meditation room had become, but he’d been far more concerned with the process inside of his soul realm to pay much attention to anything else.
Now, as the Lord Protector settled into a training chamber by himsel...
2024-04-17 15:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post“Clear Day,” Leon said in greeting as he joined the tau on the terrace.
“King Leon,” Clear politely responded. After a moment, he rose from his seat and gave Leon a deep, respectful bow. “You’ve achieved Apotheosis.”
“I have.”
“Congratulations.” Clear spoke with all the passion as if he were commenting on the weather, and Leon almost lau...
2024-04-15 15:00:12 +0000 UTC View Post“Leon! My friend! It’s been too long! Too long!” Ambrose sprang from his chair the moment Leon entered the room where he’d been waiting and rushed over, pulling a surprised Leon into a brotherly hug.
“Ah, Ambrose,” Leon murmured awkwardly. It had been fifty years—more than half his lifetime—since the last time he’d seen the man, and he wasn...
2024-04-12 15:00:16 +0000 UTC View Post“… and this one is from the ambassador from Beloran,” Gaius said, indicating a long, thin box on the table in front of Leon. “It came with a special note for whoever was presenting it to you to note that it was made by the master Bogdan.”
Leon resisted the urge to roll his eyes. In fifty years, he’d received a few gifts from Beloran, and with his name and habits be...
2024-04-10 15:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostApotheosis. The process of becoming divine. Now that he’d achieved it, Leon could understand why it was named as it was.
Power filled him like it never had before. An ocean of magic was available to him, and not just stored in his soul realm, but flooding his physical body, too. So much magic that a mortal would likely explode if they tried to contain even a frac...
2024-04-08 15:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostInto the air above his Mind Palace Leon rose, his heart hammering in his chest. Apotheosis. Something he’d been working to achieve for half a century at this point, more than half his life. He’d trained so long that his soul realm had grown to a radius of fifteen thousand miles, half again as large as a freshly ascended tenth-tier mage. He’d made many attempts to a...
2024-04-05 15:00:16 +0000 UTC View PostThe ore shivered as magic entered it. It shook and shook, and dust fell from it as it might from an old rug being beaten and cleaned. This dust was all of the impurities that lay in the metal, much of it metal itself that glinted in the artificial lights that illuminated the spectacularly well-appointed workshop.
Leon smiled in satisfaction. He could sense the iron was p...
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From the main pavilion of the palace, the Patriarch kept an eye on his Clan. The wind blowing in from the mountains was gentle, though cold, and c...
2024-04-01 15:00:14 +0000 UTC View PostBlood dripped from Anshu’s sword to pool at his feet. The Indradian was facing away from Leon, but Leon could see his shoulders heave with every breath and hear his every labored inhalation. The results of his choice were right in front of him, but Anshu hardly seemed interested in looking at them.
Instead, he seemed keener on processing his choice, on thinking over all that...
2024-03-29 15:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostAbove the Rajah’s palace in Kaia, Leon’s power warped the air and pressed down upon the palace’s wards. Even though he couldn’t see into the palace and examine the wards himself, just based on how his power interacted with them and how they responded to his power, he knew what they were and how they were likely designed.
Several of the more fortified towers around the palace...
2024-03-27 15:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostAs the wind whipped through his feathers, Leon couldn’t help diving and gliding through the fluffy white clouds in his way, each plunge leaving him soaked but joyous. He required nothing more than a quick burst of water magic to clear the water from his feathers anyway.
Beside him flew Anzu and Red, though of the two, Anzu was having much more fun. Behind them flew a flock o...
2024-03-25 15:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostThe cold bit into his skin. Hunger gnawed in his belly despite his relative lack of need for food. His body was covered in barely-healed lacerations, signs of the many varied tortures he’d endured. The steady drip, drip, drip somewhere in the cell rang in his ears, an ever-present reminder of just where he was.
Imprisoned.
Captured.
Shame burned wi...
2024-03-22 15:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostLeon’s departure from Sentinel lands came quickly. It was all too obvious that Keeper wanted him gone, and he was only too willing to oblige. Besides, while he wasn’t walking away from the palace with anything physical, he was at least satisfied with what he’d learned there, especially about what happened in the wake of Jason Keraunos’ death. He’d known for many years now that the Bri...
2024-03-20 15:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostFrom the central dome, the lead golem escorted Leon’s party to the comms building just on the other side of the gardens that encircle the dome. While they were outside, Leon noted that the sandstorm that had enshrouded a wide swathe of the northern Sundered Lands had dissipated, leaving the sky clear and the air still, with hardly a hint of a breeze blowing through the palace complex’s stre...
2024-03-18 15:00:13 +0000 UTC View PostIron Pride appeared in Leon’s hand, silver-blue lightning blazing across the blade. Beside him, the rest of the party readied themselves for battle, too, and the dome of sand frozen in place lit up with arcane light. However, the hundreds of moving figures Leon could see below didn’t even falter as the auras of some of the most powerful mages on the plane crashed down upon the palace.
With almost bated breath Leon stared out into the dust storms of the Sundered Lands. The wall of sand whipped up by the palace’s defenses was thick, obscuring all view of what lay within. Even the odd lightning bolt from deep within gave no hints as to what the palaces looked like.
Flashes of opulence raced through Leon’s mind, visions of the great works that his Ancestors might’ve ...
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Memoria was at the same time both a surprise to Leon and exactly what he expected. It was a city that acted as the capital of a powerful Empire, one of...
2024-03-11 15:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostWell, here it is. Let me know what you think down in the comments below, I'm eager to see how people take it.
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‘What makes a good King?’ the Grave Warden idly wondered as he dangled his legs off the edge of his great tower’s roof. ‘Power? Ruthlessness? The strength to take something, and the will to use violence to that end? ...
2024-03-10 05:36:58 +0000 UTC View PostThe apartments that Leon and Cassandra were to stay in were the same that she grew up in and were just as lavish as her rank had demanded then. They had more than a dozen rooms all to themselves, while Cassandra’s guards would share their barracks with Alix and some of the Tempest Knights that accompanied them. The remaining knights would alternatively guard Silver Spear, Gaius, and ...
2024-03-08 16:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostFor most of the first day flying northward, Leon, Cassandra, and Andromache spent their time handling their own business. Cassandra was stuck to a comm lotus with her mother, grandmother, and a number of different druids in Evergold, while Andromache was doing much the same only with a comm stone.
Leon, meanwhile, was handling his business on his own comm lotus, having meetings with many ...
2024-03-06 16:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostI finished a first draft for a new prologue over the weekend. I'm going to let it sit for a few days, then give it a reread. I'll undoubtedly have to edit some of it, but once that's done, I'm going to post it here. Expect it maybe Saturday or Sunday. Hopefully, if there are no glaring issues that have to be resolved, I'll then post it on RR and my website that Monday. 2024-03-04 16:00:10 +0000 UTC View Post
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When the ark bearing Nestor back to Stormh...
2024-03-01 16:00:15 +0000 UTC View PostIt wasn’t hard for Leon to find who he was looking for; all he had to do was follow the sound of roaring. Even in his palace, with all its defensive wards and privacy enchantments, two large wyverns made a lot of noise.
A large part of his palace had been set aside as a stable for war beasts. For the most part, horses and pegasi were the only residents, though there were ...
2024-02-28 16:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostThe private training room in the palace felt rather empty to Leon as he walked in. Most of his retainers were off doing other important things, leaving only a mere handful of people left to fill the space.
Valeria was there, as she was essentially in charge of his retinue, though the number of people she was responsible for had shrunk considerably. Marcus and Lucianus were there, too, as ...
2024-02-26 16:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostWith the capabilities given by Tikos’ comm lotuses, getting in contact with the Director was quite easy. The only real obstacle was whether or not the Director was immediately available. Fortunately, almost as soon as the magic from Leon’s call went out, it was answered.
The screen of light hovering in front of Leon illuminated, resolving into an image of the Director and Penelope in ...
2024-02-23 16:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostThe latter half of Leon’s first day back fulfilling his role as King had him meeting with the foreign dignitaries that had arrived in his absence. Fortunately, they only numbered four not including any aides they’d brought, each representing one of the four Empires on the mainland.
‘That much I can deal with,’ he thought, though the idea of creating a Diplomatic Corps of ...
2024-02-21 16:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post“Your Majesty,” Iron-Striker formally stated as he gave Leon a straight-backed bow.
“Your Majesty,” Ipatameni repeated as he, too, bowed to Leon.
“Your Majesty,” the Jaguar stated with a wry smile as he followed suit.
“Enough of that,” Leon growled as the three men stared at him with some amusement.
This was his first real day back as King, having spent t...
2024-02-19 16:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostWith a long, contented sigh, Leon slid beneath the surface of the pool-sized bath. The water was almost scaldingly hot, with steam rising from the water’s surface. But to Leon, its heat was delightfully comforting, heating him down to his core and relaxing his muscles until he felt like he was nothing more than a puddle of flesh at the bottom of the bath.
He didn’t stay beneath the su...
2024-02-16 16:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostLeon led Mari out of the Elder Hall and onto the spacious porch. He’d hardly been back for more than a few minutes, but he could already feel the city starting to light up with excitement and movement. He decided to give everyone at least a few minutes to get ready, so he stood out in front of the Elder Hall with Mari, gazing out on Stormhollow.
The city was no Ilion, certainly, with it...
2024-02-14 16:00:14 +0000 UTC View PostTrue to his word, Ambrose returned to the stone villa after only a day. Leon had long since finished his chat with Nara by then, and after having left the man to continue resting, had taken to exploring the villa.
It was a remarkable building, having been constructed on a tiny plane amidst the Divine Graveyard. Leon found it surreal to stand on the edge of the plane, his toes curling arou...
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