Amdirlain’s PoV - Material Plane
Throughout Sarah catching her up on events she’d missed, Amdirlain continued creating simple bacteria and chemical chains for their reproduction. Verdandi’s death resonated with the stray memories the plinth had ensured she’d witnessed. She tried various psionic techniques to catch and handle their impact without noticeable success...
2025-06-13 02:52:02 +0000 UTC View PostAmdirlain’s PoV - Vehtë - Southgate
With gentle chiming notes, Verdandi’s Soul lifted from her body, and Amdirlain ended the lingering song that prevented the acolyte and priestess from hearing anything.
“Goodbye, Verdandi. Whatever your journey holds next for you, I hope it’s with beings that treasure you.”
As Verdandi’s Soul finished separating,...
2025-06-10 01:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostAmdirlain’s PoV - Vehtë
Phoenix’s Trail sped her across successive longitudes at a pace that saw the sun shift in the sky, taking her from early evening to early afternoon in a few seconds.
As she approached the northern shore of the Great Lakes, she paid more attention to the network of roads crisscrossing the countryside ahead of her. The late summer season s...
2025-06-06 01:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostAmdirlain’s PoV - Demi-Plane
When the hug finally ended, Rachel winked. “Don’t keep the family waiting too long for a barbecue.”
“Once I’m settled, I’ll put regular family gatherings high on my list.”
Rachel laughed and wiggled her eyebrows. “That’s an excellent idea. There is much to discuss, but you need some catch-up time first.”
Amdirlain’s PoV - Atonement
Silpar and Eldest barely began to field questions when the whole cloister jumped planes. The atmosphere shifted as the planar energy changed to calm consideration from the oppressive, chaotic pressure of the Abyss.
Purification energies washed through the stone, clearing the place of every trace of corruption and the last shattered frag...
2025-05-29 23:21:57 +0000 UTC View PostAmdirlain’s PoV - Culerzic
Amdirlain considered the nearby trio of Eleftherios, Laodice, and Naamah as the flames from the corruption’s incineration died, and she shrank to her typical height. The pendant of the Redemption’s Path, having survived her various transformations, sat coldly beneath the green silk of her robes. She could feel her evolved Mana Font churnin...
2025-05-26 23:10:46 +0000 UTC View PostAmdirlain’s PoV - Primordial Essence
Her initial impression had grossly underestimated the tens of thousands of shards she’d scrambled to locate and assemble. After the memory she’d retrieved of surviving the mines, time had passed with the steady beat and tiresome progress of a pickaxe tunnelling through granite. Initially, snippets of memories had made her feel li...
2025-05-23 05:56:47 +0000 UTC View PostAmdirlain's PoV
Liquid darkness drank her thoughts. A blink tickled her eyelashes across the icy surface beneath her, and she imagined herself lying face down on a sheet of ice; yet she became immediately unsure of what ice might be or why she was lying on it. Aches and sharp pains ran through her body, and she gingerly shifted her head to the left so her ear rested again...
2025-05-20 01:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostAmdirlain’s PoV - Ijmti - The Cloister of the Fallen
The lifetimes she influenced loomed like an avalanche poised to crush her. Amdirlain sought her soulscape, but the plinth yanked her back into the moment. From within the plinth, billions of tales linked to her were assembled, the bleakest themes stabbing into the forefront of her thoughts.
It tallies my fai...
2025-05-16 01:56:05 +0000 UTC View PostAmdirlain's PoV - Outer reaches of the Material Plane
The latest of the string of stars she'd left behind had only barren planets orbiting them. While ready for life to be created, she focused on pushing True Song. By not yet increasing her classes further, she was better able to judge what changes came from improvements in her capabilities over level increases. She'd mad...
2025-05-12 21:47:26 +0000 UTC View PostAmdirlain’s PoV - Demi-Plane
It’d taken under a month to have sessions with all the Enyalië. The gradual increase in group sizes as her Power improved was offset by the rests she took throughout the process. The process of supplying realistic simulations of True Song for them had been a continual stretch of her capabilities. With all the details she’d provided, th...
Amdirlain’s PoV - Outpost of the Monastery of the Western Reaches
A few days later, a Gate contracted behind them, disappearing into the shadows beneath the trees. Amdirlain could see the fields outside the Outpost of the Western Reaches through the gaps between the trees. She had already examined the forest and the mountain for kilometres, Livia’s Domain greeting her...
2025-05-06 07:32:35 +0000 UTC View PostAmdirlain’s PoV - Demi-Plane
She’d only been there a few minutes when Sarah arrived—her look of relief at seeing Amdirlain changed to concern when their eyes met. “Your eyes look a lot older.”
“You could say I did some closed-door training. There was a time loop that repeated a day. I used it for meditating and lived out a half-dozen lifetimes of those t...
2025-05-01 22:45:55 +0000 UTC View PostAmdirlain’s PoV - Hades
Lysandra shifted them to a gigantic grey cliff face carved with Grecian columns and balconies. Ancient shed ectoplasm provided ghostly echoes from all the souls that had trudged through the barred gates at the cliff’s centre. The stream of residue washed a chill breeze over the pair, as the figures’ hollow, phantasmal faces looked their way. ...
2025-04-28 22:44:19 +0000 UTC View PostAmdirlain’s PoV - Hades - Observation Platform
She appeared with the green figure in a vaulted chamber. Around them, sturdy constructs that had thick elephant legs attached to a central core used long tentacles to shift stacks of material from various storage containers. They moved them into feeder tubes that delivered them into hoppers linked with scores of glowing cyl...
2025-04-25 00:18:58 +0000 UTC View PostAmdirlain’s PoV - Hades - Beneath the seal
The descent proceeded for a couple of kilometres through granite polished enough to shine like marble, and Amdirlain could feel the dimensional energies shifting across her skin. Oddly, it was a magic firmly laced with Chaos rather than silvery Celestial energies that was responsible.
They were nearing the bottom of the s...
2025-04-21 23:57:56 +0000 UTC View PostAmdirlain’s PoV - Hades
When Amdirlain stepped out of the gold pane, Damon froze in mid-word with Medusa, who sat nearby. She caught him mentally setting aside their idle chatter to follow his duty.
He shook his head and looked up at Amdirlain in concern. “It concerns me that another dire challenge will occur.”
“They’re mostly scaled for mortals to t...
2025-04-18 02:58:54 +0000 UTC View PostAmdirlain’s PoV - Hades - Halls of Athena
A steady progression of knowledge points into the Arcane Knowledge had caused two evolutions. Her understanding of the realm’s rules and True Song made it far easier to see how the arcane elements of the realm linked. After hundreds of points had been spent, another significant notification shone in her awareness amid the patt...
2025-04-15 02:55:58 +0000 UTC View PostAmdirlain’s PoV - Hades - Halls of Athena
Within Amdirlain’s Soul, the group of elves had grown distinct. A male among them drew Amdirlain’s gaze. While previously, only his lack of face tattoos had distinguished him from the others in the group, now he appeared worn and fatigued, the worry lines radiating from his eyes and tight mouth painted a picture of trapped m...
2025-04-11 01:04:16 +0000 UTC View PostAmdirlain’s PoV - Hades - Crete
Amdirlain waited near the closed gate, aware of the throbbing sour notes from her destroyed arm. Only when the sour notes eased did she move to the open floor area of the amphitheatre, checking for signs among the benches of where Medusa and Damon had gone. Dried blood stains, the same greenish hue as the Colchian dragon, were the only si...
2025-04-08 03:54:07 +0000 UTC View PostAmdirlain’s PoV - Hades - Tartarus
Lava streamed off the figure as they rose higher in the volcano’s central pool. His stony brow alone was three hundred metres across while beneath his eye ridges pits of molten lava seethed in his eyes socket.
[Name: Ekdikésis
Species: Earth-Born Primordial
Defence: 122,772
Health: 109,344,268
... 2025-04-04 02:48:04 +0000 UTC View PostAmdirlain’s PoV - Hades - Crete
Amdirlain emerged from the wormhole to find Damon staring at Medusa with wide-eyed fascination. “No one has ever returned from a trial with someone else before. What’s your name?”
“Megaera,” offered Medusa, without a glance at Amdirlain.
How would Damon have reacted to her real name?
“Were you part o...
2025-04-01 02:10:24 +0000 UTC View PostAmdirlain’s PoV - Hades
Amdirlain easily located both the attackers and those who knew. Theodotus, despite his misogyny, hadn’t been involved at any point. Though he looked down on women, he considered such assaults to show a lack of prowess and honour. She concealed her rage as she patiently followed Petrov, who sent one of his ‘children’ ahead to tell the elder....
2025-03-28 05:09:19 +0000 UTC View PostAmdirlain’s PoV - Hades
Her perceptions contract to a churning conduit of white and black, with a pinprick of light in the distance. The threads of energy along the tube looked like the inside of the eye of a dust-laden twister. She felt herself rush along in the tube for minutes, and as quickly as it had started, Amdirlain found herself spat out on the edge of a churned-up field. The e...
2025-03-25 03:56:48 +0000 UTC View PostAmdirlain’s PoV - Hades
Wind and lightning battered Amdirlain as Aetos Kaukasios raced up the mountain. Every beat of the giant eagle’s wings pulsed the surrounding air with energy, and a rift split the grey clouds high above them. The psionic pattern aimed at her targeted location, divided between a route over the mountain range and the purple rip in the clouds.
<... 2025-03-20 23:20:12 +0000 UTC View PostAmdirlain’s PoV - Atonement
She arrived a few million kilometres from where Nazha and his father were sparring atop the building. Amdirlain had expected as much since the Plane’s automated processing of souls left them little to do. As she started to plan her next steps, the evening spent listening to Verdandi’s sorrow continued to niggle. Though the conversation ha...
2025-03-17 22:17:46 +0000 UTC View PostAmdirlain’s PoV - Beijing
From the hills outside the imperial city, Amdirlain looked over the red-tiled roofs and the neat lines of the paved streets. In a variety of sites beyond its limits, she observed large fortified compounds that contained the themes of multiple practitioners. One of them had a banner of five white rings on a red background prompting her thoughts ...
2025-03-14 05:42:56 +0000 UTC View PostSarah’s PoV - South Wind’s Court - Ayutthaya
As the two servants escorted them through the palace they caught glimpses into the rooms they passed. The interior was a mixture of polished stone, airy screens, and engraved wooden furnishings. Though it was immaculate by Human standards, each inhalation brought Sarah the scents of thousands of beings. Some of the oldest s...
2025-03-11 05:32:41 +0000 UTC View PostAmdirlain’s PoV - South Wind’s Court - Ayutthaya
The river around the island—Ayutthaya—teemed with fishing and trade boats, as Amdirlain and other practitioners raced along the waters in the early dawn. They’d been in the guest house for days without invitations or obligations. While Kadaklan had shown Klipyl, Sarah, and Jinfeng the sights, Amdirlain had studied...
2025-03-07 13:40:55 +0000 UTC View PostHi Folks,
I'm running late with the second chapter this week. I've spent a lot of time finishing book 2, and chapter 496 needs reworking.
Will look to get three chapters together next week, but will see how things go.
2025-03-07 04:05:32 +0000 UTC View Post