Location: Nektar's CauldronTimeline: Summer 47 to Winter 48 My mind, as I have so often told you, was my greatest weapon. It was a labyrinth of forgotten knowledge, a fortress of cunning, and a dungeon of unspeakable cruelty. My recent failures, while momentarily humbling, had only served to prove its resilience. A mere botched experiment,... Continue Reading →
7.2 The Secret
Location: Nektar’s Cauldron, KraTimeline: Sixth Age, 47th Year, Spring My body was mended, but my mind was still in pieces. The explosion of my Aetheric experiment had been a spectacular failure, a humiliating testament to the unpredictable nature of the universe. Yet, even as my form knit itself back together, a new, far more insidious... Continue Reading →
7.1 A Concoction of Failure
Location: Nektar's CauldronTimeline: Spring, 47 The trouble with you mortals is their focus on all the wrong things. Like the characters in my tales, you obsess over petty quests for power or vengeance as you weave elaborate stories about love, loss, and the so-called "will of the gods" to explain your failures in life. It's... Continue Reading →
5.6 The Seduction of Kaoz
Location: South of Big Water LakeTimeline: Sixth Age, 47th Year, Late Spring I happily watched Kaoz successfully navigate through the trials of the Uxix Bog and the evil Stax. Since the rest of the way to Akka was through tamer conditions, I figured the myz's challenges were over. As a result I stopped paying attention... Continue Reading →
6.10 The Serpent’s Delight
Location: Fubar in the Orkney RegionTimeline: Sixth Age, Summer to Fall, 51 Ah, the little human mind. Such a fragile, intricate, and utterly predictable thing. I watch them, these tiny specks of dust, and I can't help but feel a flicker of what you mortals might call... amusement. They chase after power, after love, after... Continue Reading →
6.9 Down and Out in Fubar
Location: Fubar in the Orkney RegionTimeline: Sixth Age, Summer, 51 My, my, how quickly things can change. One moment, Ramssee was the undisputed master of his tiny kingdom, a puppet king pulling the strings with a practiced hand. The next, his carefully constructed world was on the brink of collapse and oh, how he paddled... Continue Reading →
6.8 Charade of the Champion
Location: Fubar in the Orkney RegionTimeline: Sixth Age, Summer, 51 The sands of time, which had flowed so languidly in Ramssee’s favor, were now caught in a mad, furious whirl - but he wasn't about to let the sands flow without action. For Ramssee was a man with a single, horrifying problem: a king he’d... Continue Reading →
6.7 The Taste of Fear
Location: Fubar in the Orkney RegionTimeline: Sixth Age, Winter, 50 to Spring, 51 And I was so sure I would have enjoyed that particular glass of brandy! Ramssee ruefully remembered my surprise visit, recalling himself whiling away another night in the King’s Den. The room, a study in quiet, indulgent luxury, was a stark contrast to... Continue Reading →
6.6 The Hunger
Location: Fubar in the Orkney RegionTimeline: Sixth Age, Spring, 51 Ah, the fleeting nature of mortal comfort. It's a delectable little tragedy, isn't it? One moment, they are basking in the warmth of their stolen triumphs, the next, the chilling winds of reality come howling in through the window. It is during these moments of... Continue Reading →
6.5 Fluidity
Location: Akka Mountains & FubarTime: Sixth Age, Winter 49 to Spring 50 So it was that Ramssee faced his first true setback. The Akka mines were not so easy to open. The Fubar Forty-Niners, for all their valiant effort, had run into a wall of stone they couldn't possibly move. Arwin's seal [placed there when... Continue Reading →
The Apocrypha of Azazel 