← All Honours
December 2007
Winner 2 entries
THE PROCESSION Four, four. Who are the four that go? In black, in red, in blue. Here they stand, alone in twilight. And four go down. Do four ascend? But no, there is no fourth. But three. And a stone in the night. There…

Runner-Up 8 entries
Lady Nifilhema, Queen of Insufferable Cruelty Lost upon Nil, wanders an aquamancer mage Any direction you may turn, any path you may take Demon…The day before solstice is snowy, and the sky is slate-grey like the brooding rock of the mountains. I wake to the sound of…End of Chapter 5: The gears in the machine on the floor begin to pick up speed, and the singing of the angels rises…[The following is the annotated journal of an unknown Hartstone Druid, found and transcribed by Zia Talnara in the year 194.] Walking through the…"Demonic Presence" The Holy Emanations of Shallamar once exhibited every quiet grace and precept that Celestia stood for. As all know, the spread of…





Merit 8 entries
Look, mortal, through the Eye of Night And see just as your Mother sees Behold the empty shells you love Tools of the maternal…Evening Song, part two IV Darkness shrouds the desert and covers the sky with a blanket of brilliant stars. Yet small grains of sand…-------- |AT BIRTH| -------- Black roots anchored in the Ground. Leafless branches twisted and Gnarled. The trunk of shadows bear The heavy burden of…Most people assume that the unique form of poetry called "faeling-style poetry" (or sometimes "haiku") was first developed by the faelings, as an unprecedented…Part 3 â€" The Final Moments When the end manifested itself, its prophetic virtue altered Fate itself… =-*-= Frost chilled the iron bars and…Chapter Five: The further I went west, the greener the landscape became. I had forgotten what the young grass under my bare feet felt…



