The Fox General: Reunited
Reunited For all the faults that I began with on the campaign, we had finally achieved our first milestone with my passage across the mountains. We were now, all three of us commanders, in the heartlands of the Alphate with a clear path towards the...
Predator Fixation
Predator Fixation White air escaped from the black horse's nostrils as he walked alongside the white wolf, leaving behind hoof and paw prints side-by-side in the thick snowbanks. The wolf was grinning happily, letting his long, pink tongue loll out as...
The Fox General: Salvia
Salvia _An ideal Dicator would be from the military or the admiralty. When civic rule fails, the military must step in to provide a different perspective._ The day began like any other at the camp. The air was crisp and smoky, even inside the cloth...
The Fox General: Captured
Capture _The Grand Mercantile Republic of the Foxes is ruled by the Doge, who is elected with the assent of thirty-three Senators, one from each of the former independent Fox Republics, who in turn, are elected by the Populace of the Republic, with...
Outcast Planet: Quartz
Quartz _Ajar: I'm leaving the capsule. I'm leaving...I'm here! I've...I'm on the ground! The stars, my Emperor! There's a million of them! A million praises to the Emperor, we have landed on Lesser Regulus!_ _Emperor Hasham Regulus VII: No,...
The Fox General: The Siege of Pest
The Siege of Pest _A Dictator must be of sound morality and unquestionable character._ _He must act with righteousness and justice on all occasions._ As promised, we let the wolves go mostly unharmed the next day. There had been one only one case of...
The Ermine Princess
The Ermine Princess Life was mostly good. I've said it before and I'll say it again: I know that's a little bleak, but I can't really think of a better way to describe it. My entire life changed a month ago when my master, Princess Ylita, made me her...
The Fox General: Triumph
Triumph _A Dictator must have been previously declared a Hero of the Republic by assent of the Senate._ _A Triumph is not necessary for consideration, but welcome._ It was one thing to take a city, it was a whole other matter to rule it. Had I the...
The Ermine Prince
The Ermine Prince Life _was_mostly good. Right now though, it was very dark. Cloth was wrapped around my eyes which was the least of my concerns, because my wrists were bound behind my back with metal manacles tied around a pole. Chaotic voices cried...
The Fox General: Senator's Club
Senator's Club _Being that it is, in all respects, a temporary position born under extreme circumstance, a Dictator must resign the moment their mandate has passed._ The morning breeze blew through the room, carrying the moist scent of canal filth...
The Fox General: The Eye of the Storm
The Eye of the Storm _A Dictator must be clear-sighted in all regards._ _One eye must be pointed towards domestic affairs and the other towards external foes._ Sofia was anxious all evening, following her disastrous attempt at divining my future....
Outcast Planet: The Emperor of Planet
The Emperor of Planet _Long abandoned in modern times, even before the Regulian annexation, and a rare care of Vulpeculan social mores progressing; sibling marriage was a common practice in the oldest days of the Principalities._ _The practice went...