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Apocrypha: Building Bridges (I) * * * AN: a short story showing a glimpse of David meeting with various leaders on Earth, to go over his roles as DEATH's Keeper and guardian of creation. Begins after the fourth part of Aftermath, but can be read as having happened, still happening, or about to happe...

Sudestory: Witch of Bindings (I) * * * AN: This chapter is (mostly) from Sofia's perspective, as it is the first of a sidestory series focused on her character arc. I expect the upcoming updates to be short (less than 10k words) as I advance storylines through sidestories. Chapters dealing with the ...

Book IV, Chapter 3 * * * The fraction of the Rainbow Burst I had been given was a small, surly thing. Not just in terms of size: it was also petty. Despite being able to shift size, it insisted on appearing as a small, cramped rowboat, though it lacked any oars. Despite being unable or unwilling to ...

Apocrypha: Prodigal Princes * * * Six times a dragon spoke with the Serpent... This story from Ying Lung's POV is the first SS apocrypha in a series of stories that I do not believe fit either as main chapters or sidestories. Maybe they're lighthearted omakes or slice of life stuff without impact on...

Sidestory: The Uncrowned King * * * Note: this story is from the perspective of David's strigoi side. * * * There was no being, in this creation or any other, caught in a predicament more stupid than mine. Can you imagine it? Sharing the corpus and animus of existence's guardian, but being unable to...

Book IV, Chapter 2 * * * Finding the Clockwork Court was like finding contentment in life: the closer you got, the more the goal seemed to move. As I leaned on the steamer's rail, narrowed eyes trained on the horizon, my fingers beat a meaningless rhythm on the dull, bronze-coloured metal. My cane, ...

Sidestory: Patch Works (I) * * * "We cannot simply handwave the murders, mister..." "Kricher. Adam Kricher." One of the officials had smiled at that. Barely, just an upwards twitch of her mouth's corners. A reference I hadn't understood at the moment. I wasn't amused after meetin...

Sidestory: Lady in Flames * * * 'Mia.' I looked up from the cauldron to see David leaning on the spatial fold leading to the workshop as if it were tangible. I treated it like it was, too; but he had a hand on it and his head was just barely visible as he peaked in, as if it were a door. 'Am I inter...

Sidestory: Knight Shift * * * 'I want to kill something.' The whisper does not disturb the silence of the moors. It would barely be audible to a human, in fact. The cambion shakes his head, realising he is lying to himself - inadvertently, this time. Still, honesty is a better policy than most he ha...

Sidestory: The Creed Ascendant * * * The Unrealm did not know place or moment, and never had. It could not have been.described as crowded or stifling, for it was beyond the bounds of space, nor could anything be new or outdated. And yet, the paradigm shift had everyone feeling caged, as if unseen wa...

Sidestory: The Zhayvin Files: Strigoi * * * Classification: aethervorous necromorphic aberrants. Colloquial name: strigoi. Origin: the first strigoi was Domna Economou, current de facto leader of the Strigoi Society (referring to the undead organisation; for the strigoi research group of the same na...

Book IV, Chapter 1 * * * AN: Might start a sidestory at some point, with the crew acting as a troupe, which has been mentioned in the background so far, the Observers' meddling notwithstanding. Unsure if I'll start it after the main plotline is done or before. * * * I'd rarely felt so tired in my sh...

Sidestory: A zmeu's worth * * * Maws rubbed his jaw as he pondered the offer he'd received on his comm. Unbeknownst to him, he wouldn't be taking care of it today. Well. That was another occupational hazard in action. Life as a mercenary meant you tended to pick up the strangest phrases and use them...

Sidestory: The Zhayvin Files: Vampires * * * Classification: hemovorous necromorphic aberrants. Colloquial name: vampires. Origin: the original vampire is Primus, who was cursed, in a multi-pantheon punitive in action, in retaliation for violently murdering his young daughter, a potential champion o...

Sidesotry: Family Matters: Silva (One), part two * * * 'I wanna talk to Costi about this, too,' Mia began as she sat down on a bed I'd created in one of DEATH Keep's endless rooms. If she wanted to clear the air, the least I could do was help her get comfortable. 'But...after we set things straight....

Sidestory: Family Matters: Silva (One), part one * * * Cloudshade was a woman on a mission. She did not think of herself as such, of course, for multiple reasons, but it did not change her purpose. A purpose Cloudshade was so focused on, she barely even questioned how she could see the world around ...

Sidestory: The Zhayvin Files: Therianthropes * * * AN: The first Family Matters sidestory storyline will be focused on the Silva family, as well as certain people close to them. In the meantime... * * * Classification: metamorphous aberrants (ability to change into the shape of animals or aberrants,...

Sidestory: Coldest of Wars, part 2 * * * The reptilian stood up, Warscale colourless as it rose in the middle of a bare room. Ridge's starscraper floor was more spartan than those of most, and he had always rolled its eyes at those who claimed it was a hidebound old miser. As it strode forward, it f...

Sidestory: Coldest of Wars, part 1 * * * AN: A longer hiatus than I'd have liked (but then, I'd update all my stories daily if I could), but here is the next sidestory concerning the aliens, this one dealing with the past of the reptilians as relived by a former general of the Zhayvin Technarchy. I ...

Book III, Chapter 10 * * * Mharra was laughing, and Ib loathed that. Usually, there was nothing wrong with its captain's laughter. If anything, its absence heralded, or highlighted, a problem. There was nothing usual about this. The breadth of its knowledge stretched beyond Midworld and into the Las...

Sidestory: God's Mouth: Hell * * * AN: Hopefully, I'll resume the longer sidestories fairly soon, since my schedule is relatively light at the moment. The first will likely by Coldest of Wars, followed by a series of sidestories, similar to Aftermath, called Family Matters. It will be, as the name i...

Sidestory: God's Mouth: Heaven * * * "It is not a place - as such. And yet, brother, would it not be so easy to forget it is a state, of mind and spirituality alike, when you hear so many speak of "travelling to" it? Such wanderers bend and fold creation through will alone, so of cour...

Sidestory: The Zhayvin Files: Ghouls * * * Classification: carnivorous anthropomorphic aberrant. Colloquial name: ghouls. Origins: the first ghouls appeared in the Arabian Peninsula, before the rise of Islam. Much like therianthropes, ghouls can turn humans (baseline, magical, psychic) into more of ...

Sidestory: The Zayvhin Files: Zombies * * * Note: the Collective is aware of the differences between semi-autonomous necromorphs animated and directed by thanatophiliac aetherkines ("necromancers") and certain theophiles with thanatophiliac leanings ("faithcrafters"). This file, ...

Book III, Chapter 9 * * * AN: This chapter, like multiple previous ones, contains references to my original urban fantasy series, Strigoi Soul, the link to which you can see in my signature. As can be guessed from the chapter sections detailing the structure of creation, the stories take place in th...