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As the creature grew closer and closer, the certainty I had about the meaning of my visions began to waver. I expected the creature to be large all right, but this was a completely different kind of large than what I had in mind....
2021-01-09 16:28:34 +0000 UTC View Post
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Few winters had passed since my initiation, and I had become accustomed to the life of a warrior, and protector in our clan. Every time our village was in danger, we were there to quell it; be it predators of either beast or huma...
2021-01-09 16:27:38 +0000 UTC View Post
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There was much cheering and back-patting as I returned weary and beaten from the wilds. My wounds were tended to by the shaman, however my eye was beyond saving. I decided that I will carry it with honour, to remind me of the con...
2021-01-09 16:26:47 +0000 UTC View Post
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I have been hunting the creature for two days now, or perhaps it was hunting me, and I felt in my very bones that the inevitable confrontation was growing nearer and nearer. But until then I had to survive and prepare myself. I d...
2021-01-09 16:25:15 +0000 UTC View Post
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The freezing northern wind was crashing into my bare chest, yet it wasn't the wind that made me shiver to the bone; in fact I didn't feel the cold at all. My trial trial into adulthood was about to come, and even though I was awa...
2021-01-09 16:23:52 +0000 UTC View Post
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I expected, that the pain will arrive any moment now, but I felt nothing. No impact, no shock, no pain. I braved to open my eyes to find out whether I am in afterlife, but I was greeted by the same horrifying scenery that made me...
2021-01-09 16:19:43 +0000 UTC View Post
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After all the hardships; fatigued, hurt and tired, our expedition, now consisting of about thirty men, has finally found a way to the centre of the forest. It had to be it, for it was too peculiar and awe-inspiring to be an...
2021-01-09 16:16:24 +0000 UTC View Post
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We are close. I believe we have reached the depths of the forest and it surely looks that way. Extremely dark, so much so that we can't differ between day and night, it is also home to many horrendous creatures I am n...
2021-01-09 16:14:57 +0000 UTC View Post
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As we healed up and supplied ourselves thanks to the hospitality of the monks, I began to grow anxious, as that would surely mean an impending end to our stay in the monastery, and the place still had secrets to unravel. I tried ...
2021-01-09 16:13:44 +0000 UTC View Post
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The threads of information about those mysterious monks and their deity slowly began to unravel, and I think I am now capable of painting them in a just picture. I am still not sure whether this Gambis being is a very...very powe...
2021-01-09 16:12:23 +0000 UTC View Post
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It was during our journey through the fungi domain that our supplies started running low and we had to find different means of sustenance. My vast scholarly knowledge of fauna and flora didn't really aid us in our endeavour, &nbs...
2021-01-09 16:04:47 +0000 UTC View Post
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Not only were the natural hazards of the newfound fungal region substantial, but unfortunately we were given no quarter in the realm of living adversaries as well. The elves whilst brutal and savage at least had a purpose in thei...
2021-01-09 16:03:49 +0000 UTC View Post
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Our incursion into the part of the forest uninhabited by sylvans stirred up my scholarly instincts, for we had surely ventured into a place no other civilised individual ever dared to explore and research. At first I was flabberg...
2021-01-09 16:03:02 +0000 UTC View Post
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As we encountered and fought more treestriders, we recognized some form of hierarchy in their system. They work in groups or cells and many of these cells have different purposes and skills. The most cells we encountered were mos...
2021-01-09 16:02:05 +0000 UTC View Post
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The forest is home to many peculiar creature, but few are as elegant and graceful as the Feymare. They are very shy, however also remarkably curious. If anything of note is taking place in the forest, you can be certai...
2021-01-09 16:00:34 +0000 UTC View Post
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A tool rather than a weapon, this hammer is reserved only for the most accomplished of smiths. Even though it appears cumbersome and heavy, it is quite light and very well balanced so that even the more delicate parts of the smit...
2021-01-09 15:21:40 +0000 UTC View Post
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Since the discovery of the core fragments, security and order needed to be maintained in the now bustling dwarven city of Smältdurg, and the creation of Forge Guardians was the first step keeping order. Nothing but chassis...
2021-01-06 14:29:13 +0000 UTC View Post
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It was but a matter of time before the fragments would be weaponized and it was nigh time to teach the dragonspawn to fear the weapon they so gladly utilize, fire. The research into creating a gun was all but successful, though i...
2021-01-06 14:28:12 +0000 UTC View Post
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A shield passed down from generation to generation of among a famed warrior clan. The heroes who carried it were always leading the vanguard and stood as the stalwart wall among their comrades during the heat of battle. A s...
2021-01-06 14:26:46 +0000 UTC View Post
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An automated siege equipment was one of the first ideas that came to dwarven minds with the discovery of core fragments. Firing high powered metal cannonballs due to the magical discharge caused by the fragments, the Guntomaton f...
2021-01-06 14:24:16 +0000 UTC View Post
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One of the very earliest designs created using the core fragment technology, a bright lantern that doesn't go out and that doesn't require active use of magic to charge. A delicate, yet simple tool, were it not for the fact that ...
2021-01-06 14:21:06 +0000 UTC View Post
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The war on the Eastern front with the dragonspawn is one very taxing on dwarven lifes, for it is hard to fight an enemy one can't even reach. Aerial ambushes are the scourge of their armies that are brave enough to leave their pr...
2021-01-06 14:18:11 +0000 UTC View Post
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The initial observations concerning the core fragments led the populus to believe that their effects on living beings were entirely of a psychological nature; but unbeknownst to them, further research found that exponentially lon...
2021-01-06 14:16:22 +0000 UTC View Post
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While golems and other such constructs are formidable in their own rights, their innate nature often makes them inferior to common mortals, who often through sheer shrewdness and resourcefulness manage to accomplish tasks t...
2021-01-06 14:12:54 +0000 UTC View Post
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As the mining expeditions dug deeper and deeper, and the many problems and accidents started to take place, often leading to deaths and disappearances of the miners, a rumour started circulating among the workers. That something ...
2021-01-06 14:11:55 +0000 UTC View Post
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Because of the need for destructive weapons of war and soldier augmentations, most of the research funding for core fragments went into just that and the other more subtle effects were still an enigma. But a small group of resear...
2021-01-06 14:10:41 +0000 UTC View Post
