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People expect things A rainbow poem from me I will not dash hopes .:*~*:._.:*~*:._.:*~*:._.:*~*:._.:*~*:._.:*~*:._.:*~*:._.:*~*:. Rainbows are lovely So boring to write about This I…Look, mortal, through the Eye of Night And see just as your Mother sees Behold the empty shells you love Tools of the maternal…Lady Nifilhema, Queen of Insufferable Cruelty Lost upon Nil, wanders an aquamancer mage Any direction you may turn, any path you may take Demon…Evening Song, part two IV Darkness shrouds the desert and covers the sky with a blanket of brilliant stars. Yet small grains of sand…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…-------- |AT BIRTH| -------- Black roots anchored in the Ground. Leafless branches twisted and Gnarled. The trunk of shadows bear The heavy burden 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…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…THE PROCESSION Four, four. Who are the four that go? In black, in red, in blue. Here they stand, alone in twilight. And four…Chapter Five: The further I went west, the greener the landscape became. I had forgotten what the young grass under my bare feet felt…"Demonic Presence" The Holy Emanations of Shallamar once exhibited every quiet grace and precept that Celestia stood for. As all know, the spread of…Long and long ago, when the Serenwilde commune was in its youth, there were no moonharts growing amidst the oaks and birches and hornbeams…-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- False Summer -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- written by Lendren Starfall -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Being the true tragedy of Gloriana's brief return and tumultuous desecration, and the stalwart but…---------------------------------------- Strain I: The Voice's Prelude, "His Song" ---------------------------------------- I dreamed one night, a masked mirage, into my dreams he came, his voice swelled…------------------------------- Acknor's Shadow ------------------------------- Characters Ellory Pufftail, a furrikin maiden Avren Pufftail, the baby furrikin Delatini Pufftail, the furrikin matron Yojimbo Buntz, the apothecary…End of Chapter 1: This time I was not fast enough, and I felt one hand wrap around my throat, and squeeze. Instead of…It was deception that led to the inconceivable intertwining of threads... =-*-= Mystic waters caressed the golden sands tenderly. No footprints violated the sacredness…From the weakened Seals, the Basin’s strife, Born, he was, from the Ashes of Sacrifice, Bearing His Medallion of Life. And from that day,…An Introduction, Short and Sweet ---------------------------------------------------------- While most students of High Magic will not be taught this for various reasons, it is an inevitable…To Pursue the Sun and Moon Fables are the window to imagination. =-=-= CAST: =-=-= Grandmother Jiini Grandson Granddaughter Mother Night Father Sun Mitul,…------THE FAITHFUL------ Empty, passing, turned away- Fading, leaving, lost to time. A single face fades in the night- Red and black to gray, then…I Saaga The yelping of coyotes resounds within the darkening evening. Coyotes are the nomads and the wolves of the desert; wild animals that…As I slipped in closer to my target, I swept my finger tips over the stone floor, whispering words of encouragement to my forest.…Introduction When I started writing this, it was to be a short, fairly informal essay on the Element of Earth and its correlation to…The Act A play by Ashai Cast Lhiagh, the Knife Lhiach, the Blade Mother Night Act the First Equally Different [Setting . In the…As the past to this present, all will show The history of our Engine, for all to know An old Celestine Emperor, so eager…~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |\ /| |_\ /_| |__\ Pixie Dust /__| |__/ by Zia Talnara \__| |_/ \_| |/ \| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ A play about the usefulness…Have you seen the holly tree? Wearing the verdant greens and golds of summer Berries red as autumn's plenty Through the bleak grey white…It began with a tantalizing thought and ended with the taste of steel... =-*-= Piercing cries of agony reverberated off the murky walls of…The year was calm, the land at peace, basking in a time of ease; the woodland lived up to its name: serene and wild,…I. Walking Song Though long and difficult is the way, Still I wander the Basin practising my art, I shall dazzle the world with….-----------------------. | | : The Pariah's Mask : : by Linaeve d'Murani : | | ._______________________. A tale of legend and lore, beauty and…Chapter Three: The Engine rumbled terribly beneath my feet before I had even stepped onto the reddened soil. Sands from the Blasted Land washed…Its argent gleam glinting in golden sunset light Its edge fading into infinite nothingness, Held by a gauntleted hand, plated claws curling round the…My earliest childhood memories were of my fifth or sixth year. From what I was told I was raised in the Presidio of the…A watcher standing among the Centaur Hills one bright autumn's afternoon would have seen a strange sight: a young centaur mare dragging an even…Morgfyre had to refrain himself from tapping his foot, or showing any other signs of the impatience he was feeling. That show of indiscipline…A Bard's days and years may be numbered, Like rainwater in cupped hands We all pay and fear the Fates, Lest their icy hands…Song of the Moonhart Unnatural silence in the forest today. There's nary a rustle, no giggling of fae. Birds all departed, or have nothing…/>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<\ \ / / The Art of Integrity \ \ by Zia Talnara / / \ \____________________________/ For Shadow and Light are one. =-=-=…Moon River, flow through me! Cool the bone-deep fire burning hidden in my soul. I am your tired child, filled with flame yet riverbound,…Wavering, shadowy figures muttered strange syllables as dark tendrils of an alien power crept onto his body. Wracking, blinding pain coursed through his body,…"An angel!" "Draxlach brought an angel back to the city, still shrieking blessings!" "They have chained it beneath, in the halls above the Necromentate…The day began the same as any other, but that was about the only thing that made sense that day... Asmoth rose from the…Chapter VII: Amidst the Storm Glomdoring didn't have to wait long for the first wave to happen. It took only moments, interrupting the two…T h e U n h o l y E m a n a t i o n s o "...the Herald of Transformation…