A/N: 2 of 2 (chapter and status sheet)
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Name: Lirasian Sage
Race: Wisp, Tree Spirit
Class: Lirasian Sage – level 250
- Passive Flight – level 83
You can fly.
Movement, Intelligence
- Lirasian Sage Aura – level 64
Mana: All allies in range gain +64% [skill] to maximum health. Range: 186.88 feet. Reserve: 50%
Nature, Area, Wisdom...
A/N: 1 of 2 (chapter and status sheet)
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Mato glanced over as the slender Wood Elf girl sprinted around a corner, deftly using a smooth section of vertical black wall as if it were no more challenging a path than a stretch of flat pavement, running straight toward him.
It was pitch dark in the ancient ruins, but ever since his Survival Instinct had reached the second tier, his senses had been pushed past the realm that mere darkness could bother him ...
2026-01-18 15:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: 2 of 2 (chapter and status sheet)
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Name: Calen Avery
Race: Celestial Half-Elf
Titles: Rift Warden, Tracker of the Dead, Savior of Aman Rak, [Realm Traveler], God Maker
Active Buffs: Blessing of the Dawn, Mirage Armor, Motes of Light, Blessing of the Wanderer, Well-fed
Class: Realmstrider Ascendant – level 250
- Radiant Archery – level 125 (+5)
You are proficient with a bow and ranged combat. When fired, you...
A/N: 1 of 2 (chapter and status sheet)
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Calen soared out over the dark black ruins of Mi’ir Valdanis, relying on Eclipse to keep him from alerting the wheeling skeletal frost dragons. Below him, the familiar streets and artistic architecture slipped by, an empty relic of a bygone age, now filled by the swarming undead spawns of the Lich’s strongest dungeon yet – a sobering reminder of the power the Lich still kept in reserve.
Despite his familia...
2026-01-17 15:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostSeveral hours later and holding off bone-weary exhaustion by sheer willpower, Ali wobbled into the guild hall and collapsed onto the couch in the small gap between Malika and Mato. Even the normal hubbub of a roomful of people coming down off their adrenaline rush was a relief after being forced to endure the continuous detonations of magic and the unrelenting shaking of the battlements. The din had been mind-numbing. Of course, Ali could still hear the clash from the battlem...
2026-01-16 15:00:13 +0000 UTC View PostThe undead are a scourge upon the face of the world. It’s by the providence of the gods that we can smell them coming and smash their skulls with our hammers.
- Bragni Doomhammer [The Hammer of Justice], Dwarven King of Dal’mohra.
Ali hovered near the South Gate, well behind the battlements, keeping her eyes glued to the road. The gray strip of flagstones was plain and well-worn, and someone had thoughtfully repaired it in a few places, but it remaine...
2026-01-15 15:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostCalen delighted in the sense of the brisk wind flowing across his face and wings as he soared through the air, struggling a little still to keep up with Lyeneru’s third-tier flame and lightning wings. He was so close now, he could almost taste it. Tearing through demons for hours on end with Mato and Malika and the rest of the guild in the Abyssal Realm was grueling and brutal, dirty fighting, but he couldn’t deny it was getting results. He had reached two hundred and forty-...
2026-01-14 15:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostAli downed a Wind Resistance elixir and stepped through the Gate, appearing beside the Well of Divinity on that windswept scrap of flying rock in the middle of the most potent magical storm in existence. She glanced about, taking in howling reeds whipping back and forth in the lashing winds, filling her ears with their mournful, discordant song. Overhead, flowers circled on giant sail-like leaves, spilling her mana into the currents as they soared.
Her domain was firmly...
2026-01-13 15:00:11 +0000 UTC View Post“Aah, Aliandra,” Giddy said, glancing up from her workbench. “You got my message, then?”
“I did,” Ali said. “Were you able to do it? I know there wasn’t much time…”
“It was expensive, and very nearly impossible,” Giddy said, standing up. “I had to purchase a rare artifact called Veylis’ Trinket on the auction house and dismantle it to get the spell you wanted, and I used up all that death-affinity magicite you gave me. Grim stuff, that....
2026-01-12 15:00:13 +0000 UTC View PostAli, perched on the surprisingly comfortable chair Azryet had provided, greeted those arriving with a wave or a smile as they found seats around the broad, polished marble table.
They’d chosen the dragon god’s library for their war meeting, as everyone was relatively certain the Lich’s eyes would not bother them here, nor would he risk showing up in person once he was free from his phylactery due to the specter of draconic fangs. Azryet and Tiraza were already sea...
2026-01-11 15:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post“So, what now?” Malika asked.
Such a deceptively simple question. Layer upon layer, echo upon echo of possibility could play out from the choices they made now. Ali turned to meet her friend’s gaze, instantly understanding the depth of meaning in her eyes. While she would have loved to spend hours exploring her newest skills and abilities, a far more urgent issue lurked just on the horizon.
Nevyn Eld.
It was, after all, one of the major forces...
2026-01-10 15:00:10 +0000 UTC View Post“I have a really bad feeling about this, Adara,” Kerrin said. She knew she sounded like she was whining, but the Guildmaster had effectively banned anyone lower than platinum rank from entering the dungeon training areas this morning. Platinum rank, for goodness’ sake! There had to be some reason why.
And yet, here they were, buffing up on the shattered stone remains of the giant doors that had supposedly once guarded the entrance hall to Dal’mohra.
“This ...
2026-01-09 15:00:15 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: 2 of 2 (chapter and status sheet)
EDIT NOTE: I made a minor change to 538. When Azryet offers to copy The Eye of the Lich for Ali, he now explicitly mentions the advantage of getting her a version without the Lich's mana signature. Then I removed the mana signature from the ring on the stat sheet released today.
This was an oversight that several people pointed out - she wouldn't want to feed him experience.
Thanks!
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Name: Alia...
2026-01-08 15:05:01 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: 1 of 2 (chapter and status sheet)
Enjoy!
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Ali took a deep breath, pushing down her uncertainty and listening quietly while her friends discussed the options she had unlocked.
This is going to change everything, she thought. Even though she had chosen carefully from the paths presented, and even though she quite liked the advancements she had unlocked so far, disrupting the sense of comfort she had developed with her class wa...
2026-01-08 15:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostAli led the group of her friends out across the densely forested cavern and past the blue-glowing lake of mana-purified water, enjoying the sight of the energetic nature wisps blithely ignoring the Glitter Dragonets that occasionally mistook them for dinner. They always looked so cheated when their little teeth found nothing but mana and light. Ali was in no particular hurry, but she was surprised to find out just how many people had wanted to come. It wasn’t even like ther...
2026-01-07 15:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostDarkness cradled him as his soul slept. It swirled around and through him, sustaining, regenerating, repairing, and yet his slumber was not restful. Not as it should be.
There had been a shuddering echo, a ripple through the darkness that had disturbed his rest. Sluggishly, he cast about, but there was nothing to see other than the rippling ball of soul entwined in death.
Wasn’t… there… something…
He might have sighed if he had dra...
2026-01-06 15:00:10 +0000 UTC View Post“How should we proceed?” Calen asked, glancing at his friends who were sitting sprawled out on the long grass. The winds howled unrelentingly above, but Ali had erected a domain-empowered barrier wall to shelter them from the storm. Thankfully, the surprising, pitched battle against Haverron and the denizens of the Crypt of Kings was over, leaving all of them exhausted, given that it had been forced upon them after a long day of hunting down every last island in the Sea of F...
2026-01-05 15:00:15 +0000 UTC View PostLira was dead.
The truth crushed her. It loomed all around her like the shadows of dark mountains of despair. There was no way around. There was no way through. There was no way.
They had battled through the Crypt of Kings, Nevyn Eld’s own personal dungeon, just to lay eyes upon the mystical Well of Eternity. Ali had risked insanity and been cursed with an eldritch Title from the Nightmare in order to secure their first vial from its waters.
They had wroug...
2026-01-04 15:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostCalen’s notifications appeared in his mind like the light of dawn breaking across a distant horizon. As usual, Ali had been ridiculous. She was still hovering around with an army of Mirror Images copying her movements down to the last detail, a stolen ability that required True Sight to see through. He shook his head slowly in wonder and scanned the notification of his level up.
Realm Hunter has reached level 223.
+10 attribute points.
Radiant Arche...
Mato roared at the roiling, windy skies, but the shining celestial being ignored him.
Not so, the elemental orbs orbiting its head. Beams of coruscating light crisscrossed the ground, biting into his hide and filling his nostrils with the stench of burnt fur. He grew roots and brambles, but their reach fell woefully short of the battle of light and wind far overhead.
Malika flickered back and forth, leaping off nothing at all as she punched and dodged at high speed. C...
2026-01-02 15:00:22 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: Happy New Year!
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Ali stepped through the runic circle and out onto the portable locus she had entrusted to Calen, arriving last, but she had already been studying the scene through the eyes of her minions, so the hostile environment didn’t take her by surprise.
The long-range teleportation spell deposited her upon a precipice near the edge of a strange, floating island that immediately gave her flashbacks to the Infinite Maze; however, t...
2026-01-01 15:00:17 +0000 UTC View PostThe village of Blackwell huddled in the valley, squat houses hunkered down, braced against the elements like a relic left behind while the world had marched on by. No more than two dozen houses – several not much more than huts – clustered there, fenced in by a rough stone wall with a rickety gate that likely offered more peace of mind than actual protection against monsters. Thin wisps of smoke curled upward from the soot-blackened tops of brick chimneys only to be violentl...
2025-12-31 15:00:33 +0000 UTC View PostThe giant shrine towered above her, casting its runic glow across the grove of majestic oaks. Silent, now that most of the visitors seeking to evolve their classes had departed for other parts of her dungeon. Little had changed down here in her grove. The trees were a little bigger, and there were several new kinds of flowers and herbs nestled among their sprawling roots. Moss grew everywhere, coating the ground with a lush, verdant carpet of green and giving the area an impr...
2025-12-30 15:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostHe stepped through the Gate and, to his surprise, Calen found himself appearing in the far smaller Ciradyl grove Ali had planted just south of Myrin’s Keep instead of deep in the heart of the Dal’mohran ruins. Arrows whistled overhead as raid- and champion-level Sylvan archers unleashed a continuous long-range barrage at the undead advancing out of the blighted remains of the old Lirasian Forest. All their efforts at healing it had been undone in the last couple of weeks, de...
2025-12-29 15:00:49 +0000 UTC View PostMalika sat comfortably on the springy grass surrounding the Well of Souls, grateful for how quickly Ali had taken care of all the foul corruption that had spilled forth from the Well. She smiled as she glanced over at her friend, who seemed to be wearing a slightly lost and dazed expression in the wake of what had been a week of intense, never-ending battle. It was amazing what a little well-placed dungeon magic could achieve.
She glanced over at the items beside her.
... 2025-12-28 15:01:43 +0000 UTC View PostThe surge of magic as her domain touched the Well of Souls was like nothing she had ever experienced. Its power was overwhelming, and yet there was a soft gentleness to it, as if her entire being, domain and all, were cradled in the palm of a gigantic presence. Instinctively, she twisted her domain, just like she had when she had saved Lira and merged their domains, and that enormous surge of power poured outward, a vast rush of wind and mana that had the raid members gasping...
2025-12-27 15:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostWhy is he so strong? Is he invincible? Ali had faced so many challenges, and so far, she’d overcome every single one. Sure, many had required help, friends, or the guild itself, but still, they’d found a way. This? This was something else.
It was, in truth, an outstanding effort from the raid – they had done an unbelievable amount of damage to Nathaniel in the short time his shields were down, but the stark reality was demonstrated to be woefully insuffic...
2025-12-26 15:00:15 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: I wish you all a safe and happy holiday season.
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They came in the night, under the cover of darkness. And by morning, Mi’ir Valdanis was no more. I see them still, the relentless armies of the dead; they are there in my nightmares. They haunt me when I close my eyes. I dare not sleep, for I fear I will drown in the blood of the fallen.
- Journal of Eldorien Spellsage, Recordkeeper, Mi’ir Valdanis.
Ryn rubbed her eyes, t...
2025-12-25 15:00:27 +0000 UTC View PostMalika sat cross-legged in quiet meditation, hovering just over two feet above the carpeted stone floor beside one of the great tree’s reaching branches. The library had quickly become one of her favorite spots for meditation – it wasn’t still, but the air of studiousness and quiet activity paired well with her steady, clear stream of awareness.
Hovering was a trick she had discovered a while ago, and channeling just a tiny trickle of stamina slowly and continuously...
2025-12-24 15:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostMalika handed the rest of the leather items to Vivian after having appraised each of them. Loot distribution in these large groups was supposed to be challenging and filled with drama; however, the goals of everyone in this group seemed to be closely aligned. Assigning the items to the person who could best make use of them to finish clearing the dungeon was the single most important criterion, and those items which were immediately usable were distributed with minimal fuss. Th...
2025-12-23 15:00:12 +0000 UTC View Post