“The magic has been available since before most species ever make it to space, but cloning is still considered anathema in most cultures. Some, in desperation, turn to it as a means of procuring organs for the injured or sick, but for the most part, it has been almost entirely unexplored as a result of various cultural taboos. Yet as with ...
2025-08-22 16:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post“If you’ve never travelled the stars, you’ve never lived. It sounds like a pilot’s bragging, but it speaks to a more fundamental truth of planetary civilization. There is a plateau that any sentient species eventually reaches when they run out of resources on their home planet or living space for their population. At that point, cris...
2025-08-20 16:00:12 +0000 UTC View Post“Do you like scantily clad members of the same and/or opposite genders of the same and/or other species? Do you like games of chance with a greater than 1 in 97560 odds? Do you enjoy drinking and/or consuming various narcotic substances until your judgment is impaired and you believe that you are having fun? Then come on down to the greate...
2025-08-18 16:00:11 +0000 UTC View Post“In so signing this contract, no sovereignty is ceded, nor rights abraded. Let it be known to all that any arrangement established by legal means can also be dissolved by such means if it is found that both parties are failing to maintain the agreement in good faith. In this matter, such good faith shall include treating the other party as...
2025-08-15 16:00:16 +0000 UTC View Post“A man who owes nothing to anybody is not free. For in his pursuit of freedom, he has instead found ascetism. Detachment is not freedom, it is simply the absence of all. It is only on the bridge of a ship that true freedom is found, when all of reality stretches out before you, not as an enemy to be faced but a frontier to be explored, tha...
2025-08-13 16:00:18 +0000 UTC View Post“At various times throughout the development of the Empyrean, there have been crisis points when the entire enterprise could have crumbled. Times when internal disagreements or external pressures might have resulted in the dissolution of the system of government or the destruction of the political or trading power of the collective. Yet at...
2025-08-11 16:00:15 +0000 UTC View Post“When there is a failure of the Ardent crest to preserve the lives of our operative, their death is automatically reported. From there, visual confirmation by a ranking officer is required to certify the accuracy of the crest’s reading, and then it will be entered into official records. Friends and family of the deceased are con...
2025-08-08 16:00:11 +0000 UTC View Post“When captured by any enemy, your first duty is to escape. If the opportunity presents itself to do the enemy material harm during that escape, it is advantageous, but no opportunity should be considered if it poses any degree of risk to that first duty. The second duty, when in the possession of the enemy, is to maintain silence. To give ...
2025-08-08 16:00:11 +0000 UTC View Post“Quake thee with thy tyrant’s gift.
Soulless flesh bars paths you seek.
Blossom wide the heart of stone.
Starbreaker awaken what lies beneath.”
—Prophecy of Aion Origin
“It is a fact universally acknowledged that there is an upper limit to what mages can ach...
2025-08-08 16:00:11 +0000 UTC View Post“As one knows, the elves were the first of all people after the Aions vanished, ruling empires that stretched from one end of the galaxy to the other. Empires that were not born out of weakness, nor that were held onto through kindness. No, they were both forged and kept chained by the Varaelfin, the mage-warped caste of heartless warriors...
2025-08-08 16:00:11 +0000 UTC View Post“How does one describe the indescribable? How does one learn the limits of the limitless? These are not idle fancies to the mage, and they are not philosophical conundrums to be pondered. They are the reality in which those who master their magic must face.”
—Arcanum Volitarus Precimiens, Haeshmalifrae Juniperwo...
2025-08-08 16:00:10 +0000 UTC View Post“The resulting century of war as the Varaelfin shook off their chains was apocalyptic. Billions were slain. Planets were cracked. Even the stars themselves were sundered. But despite the price, the Varaelfin, now barely more than a legion in strength, eventually reached their victory and shattered the last Ponadar upon the mountains of Alv...
2025-08-08 16:00:10 +0000 UTC View Post“There are some things in our past that invoke true horror. Some things that we are truly, and I mean truly, not meant to preserve. Things that by just knowing about makes us…somehow worse than we were before. One of these things is the sealed histories of the Ponadar and the elves of the Empyrean Alliance. Yes, references to them exist ...
2025-08-08 16:00:10 +0000 UTC View Post“Some posit that this limitation of manifestation is simple survival instinct; they are reliant upon a common affinity with the mana of a region to maintain their physical form while on this plane of existence, but I believe that we are looking upon them as creatures when they are fundamentally not. An eidolon is not a creature. It is, so ...
2025-08-08 16:00:10 +0000 UTC View Post“The eidolon is magic given flesh. This state has not what we would call true sapience, but it certainly has imbued instinct and will to act into what should be mindless constructs. They are formed around their central affinity, with it providing the core of their form and habits, but the vast variety of eidolonic phenotypes observed sugge...
2025-08-08 16:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostI'm afraid that those of you who are looking for a more in depth recounting of my rescue from Xylera's lair are going to be disappointed, because it was around then that I passed out. One moment I remembered staring at the patch in front of me, then the next I was elsewhere with a small, vaguely mousey woman looking over me in a room of pure whi...
2025-07-14 23:33:50 +0000 UTC View PostI found myself completely stunned as I stared at the shifting words and shapes that was the curse, the sheer shock of seeing what was in effect an ancient programming language here, of all places, pulling me out of the moment. I probably would have stayed there too had it not been for my earlier comment, which Xylera had wasted no time in pickin...
2025-07-13 14:52:05 +0000 UTC View PostOne of the biggest things that I’ve learned in my years away from earth, is that as a general rule dragons don’t generally scare or surprise.
And truthfully, why would they?
From the moment that they are born, they are not only physically stronger and smarter than most beings, but are also magically resilient, capable of s...
2025-06-25 19:07:47 +0000 UTC View PostHey everyone!
We’re back again with another super exciting announcement – the official version of Starbreaker: Volume 3 is now available for both your reading and liste...
2025-06-24 04:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post“And here’s one cheesy, meaty, bread platter as ordered,” I said upon my return to Joshua and Sandra who had found the aforementioned bench I’d pointed out to them and were peacefully leaning into one another.
“About perfect timing Matt!” Joshua said the moment that I showed them the food. “Sandy, here was a minute or two awa...
2025-06-10 17:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostThere are generally three emotions that most people experience when seeing a dragon for the first time.
Fear, as you’d expect, is right at the top of the list, for there are simply few things more primally terrifying than seeing a gargantuan, serpentine beast appear before them, its presence all but screaming danger.
Next most comm...
2025-06-10 17:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostSo traditionally there are a few different ways a story like mine starts.
Getting hit by a truck and dying is probably the most common of them, cliche notwithstanding. Picking up a cursed item or book and getting whisked away is probably the next most popular trope, followed by magical caves, wardrobes, or freestanding circles of rocks. Af...
2025-06-10 17:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostHey everyone! I hope that you are all enjoying Starbreaker: Volume 3 as you read along! We are almost right up to the end here and I hope you enjoy the big finish next week!
As a couple housekeeping notes since I will be away next week on some desperately needed vacation, Volume 3 of Starbreaker will only be available until June 21st for y...
2025-06-10 16:50:30 +0000 UTC View PostValtoris ran his hands along the wings of the phoenix and dark fire trailed along behind his fingers, flaring off into the night sky. “There are times when I feel as though you are the only one in this vast cosmos who understands me.”
The bird was a predator, one of the fiercest in all of the cosmos, traveling between the stars, huntin...
2025-06-09 16:01:19 +0000 UTC View Post“War is not considered to be one of the elements that makes up the universe. Yet we classify eidolons under that category. The personifications of combat and destruction. Never has there been a mage with such an affinity, yet we accept the existence of eidolons because we accept in them there is the possibility of such evil.”
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2025-06-09 16:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post“Everything the Alliance has told us, made us believe, is a lie. They are not our protectors. They are our jailors, controlling all that we see and hear. They work to keep us blind and dumb, placated, and weak, while they, the masters of all, gorge on the secrets the universe has to offer. That ends today. It is time we rise to take back w...
2025-06-08 16:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post“There are many tools that one can use to further one’s goals, but none that must be used more sparingly than betrayal. When used correctly, it can allow for spectacular things, ridding oneself of rivals, plots, and conspiracies in a single fell stroke. However, should that stroke falter, should it be anything but absolute, then one risk...
2025-06-07 16:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post“Planetary Annihilators, very much fortunately, are among the least numerous of the eidolons that we encounter. It requires a massive amount of mana to not only birth but also sustain them. So more often than not their existence in any given place is limited by what is available to consume. An average worldsoul can grant them sufficient ma...
2025-06-06 16:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post“Time is not the enemy. Given time, every puzzle is solved, every problem surmounted, and every wound dressed. Triage is the difficult part, not the inevitable march of time. Which issues need to be addressed now, and which can become tomorrow’s problem. Which crisis will blossom to consume all things, and which will fade without someone...
2025-06-05 16:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post
We've got some progress to share on the cover art front!! Here is the WIP of book 3's cover!
2025-06-05 12:43:31 +0000 UTC View Post