Prologue
Tirol Fortress
Old Maloria
In the age following the waltz of lions
It was the beginning of spring; the border lands hummed with newborn vitality as the world shrugged off the winter like a snake abandoning dead skin. The air was heavy with moisture, the echo of months of rain that...
Prandium et spectaculum
Palace of the Imperator
Suadivicium
The palace of the imperator loomed over the world below like some garish leviathan formed from marble and gold. Great statues towered over the ancient avenues and processional ways, the hill that the ancient complex jutted from...
Museum of South Ethian History
New Bergum
The tour group was led into a large square hall, a line of floodlights illuminating the exhibits in bright yellow, at the Centre of the hall stood the museum’s great showpiece. The great wheels glittered in the artificial light, and the body of the...
ERAS TRUTH WATCH
“They can’t silence all of us!”
1 hr ago
SEVERYN MEETING IS SECRET ABBADONIAN PLOT
Severyn’s are meeting in Maloria for what they call a “family re-union” I call bull, this is nothing more than a veiled plot by the Addadonian’s to set the agenda for the continued economic...
Prologue: Prep Work
Bergum
Capital of Maloria
The Severyn-Tirols had been in Bergum for little over two days, the royal family of South-Ethia graciously accepting their cousins invitation to a family re-union, for Luther it was the first time he had been back in the old country in many...
37 Years later: Remembering the Polar War
The early years
The Northern Erasian poles are a vast and treacherous expanse of frozen land, home to ferocious predators and deadly terrain that can lay low even the most seasoned of expeditions. Despite the hostility of this region there has been...
11th year of the reign of the most beneficent Chenghua Emperor
Pearl Casino
Downtown Hongwon
The night was alive with the golden dance of neon and the booming sounds of opening night; the Pearl Casino was thronged by an uncounted mass of guests. Foreigners in expensive silks rubbed shoulders...
Reddite Fratri
Graffenberg Imperial Palace
Empire of South Ethia
The emperor of South Ethia glared at the television screen, his teeth were gritted in a snarl incandescent rage. Luther, I had always been considered a calm and analytical soul who was no given over to displays of...
Puellae tantum oblectari volunt
"If my daughters put half as much effort into marrying and bearing children as this did in deciding where to have brunch this Dynasties future would be assured!"
-Katerina Severyn
2024
Konkorde Zwei
Above the sea of Constantine
We were supposed to be in...
FRISIAN POEM FROM THE PROVOCATION WAR
"The Lot of a Tenant is no joke
To my land lord I am forced to Yield
“Earn your keep!” he roars and so I till his field
The soil to hack and make wreck of my back
And the ground is hard as Gotic smiles and warm as Gottian Love
Seasons pass my boys...
Aboard the Hǎi shā
Off the coast of South Ethia
June 16th, 1942
Li Ren watched the turgid flow of the waves with a disinterested eye, the young lieutenant was a man of action, and such dull moments of respite had always been a silent agony he had to force himself to bear. Through the...
Sketches
2018
Bad Kessel
Province of Vossland
South Ethia
The rain pitter pattered on the estate roof as though a thousand tiny fingers were trying to get the attention of the dwellers within. Normally Luther found the June weather relaxing, a welcome companion to his late-night works...