Winds of Change - Squall
"Gullivarth was one of the most important role-players during the Age of Legends. He was a pioneering shadowspawn, meaning that he started existence within the chaotic realm of Barathrum Proper. He was also the greatest of souls to pass through the...
Darkness Revived - Echoes of Yesterday
"Mana (or Aether in its tangible form) is the form of energy which is used to fuel magical spells and enchantments. It is not native to the Epangelian Universe, but originate in another dimension known as Barathrum where there appears to be an endless...
Darkness Revived - Fractures of Today
"The time after the Magic-flashback was chaotic to say the least, with all the towers of the Magi and even several important official buildings of the majority of the Five Kingdoms destroyed by the wild ignition of Mana. With the authorities in...
Wages of Honour: Sweat
"Even since the glory days of the Barthon Empire, Serephal had been rather independent. This was because the Melserni and Tithen Ridges made any land routes from the northwest difficult and the constant threat of storms made a sea route via the...
Darkness Revived - Shadows of Tomorrow
"After the failed attempt to lay siege to the third Ivory Tower being constructed on the island of Teniele, the remaining members of the Alliance of Light launched a coordinated attack on the traitorous kingdom of Arthulle. However with the help of the...
Gahntuar's Epilogue
"The War of Shadows was a baffling series of separate military actions and related events that historians now believe were attempts by survivors of the Demon Council of Juinkarr to re-establish the severed link to Barathrum Proper, as well as to...
A Cold Dish
A Cold Dish by Icurthus After a strenuous climb, they finally reached the Contour Path, the main footpath of the Drakensberg that connected the various visitor camps. Benjamin wiped sweat from his face with his bandanna and collapsed with an...
Rite of Passage: Whispers of Fate
"It often comes as a surprise to hear that the Third Witch War started very slowly, with no large set-piece battles or military campaigns to speak of other than several daring jailbreaks, like that of Victor of Sercrum by three magi and five gryphons...
Rite of Passage: Words of Influence
"Although classes such as Summoning and Mind-Bending is tolerated from time to time when used upon non-sentient creatures as previously discussed, Morturing on the other hand is the only class within the Forbidden Arts that is strictly and without...
The Phoenixpyre - Ignition
"After dominating the continent for about twelve centuries, the Barthon Empire was ripped apart violently by the Great Barthon Civil War. From this chaos emerged the five Great Kingdoms that would persist until the Shattering. There did exist lesser...
Winds of Change - Doldrum
"The five Divine Commandments are a list of religious concepts which form the basic rules of civil life: \* “Thee must honour and obey thy God in all aspects of life.” The most important of all the commands. Often these include not idly...
January 2025 - If ferals were to tell bedtime stories
A long time ago, in the valley beyond Roundpeak Mountain, there once lived humans. What are humans, you ask? That is a surprisingly difficult question to answer, since your generation will never meet one now that they have disappeared. They were...