Telling small stories in big worlds
C/W: violence, death
“The instructors taught us this trick. When a remnants influence begins to cause things to slip, build constants. Mark the world, use them to observe and comprehend. That’s the purpose of this record.
This is waking 11 or 12.”
– Oken nim Sharif
C/W: trypophobia, discussion of butchery and preservation, violence and horror
“Scur, 1502. Relict: leaching of time from surrounding territories
Lead agents: Oken nim Shalif, expunged”
– Index of Assignments, Tenders of the Dawn’s Embers
C/W: Trypophobia, discussion of death
“Eolith whispers slow. Setting sun, rays lie thick. Cool, harden, coat the tongue. Long, dry exhale, salt-heavy funeral sigh. Atrophy creeping. Old crystalline veins, crumble dust-like, flake and fall. Decay extends, searches.
Hide the heart. Calm the pulse, slower, slower. Extend the reach. Split the chrysalis. Wake the hive. Grasp the roots outside the edges – unheeded time, more use here. Others waste, redirect. Bind the wound.
Brace.”
C/W: horror, gore, dead bodies, possession
“Vilte fell into a deep sleep. By the time she had awakened Corpus was already growing under Carn Veskl. Her dark prophecy would be coming true.”
– Avyn Fiir Vorunt
C/W: Death, trauma
“Realise this. Realise that despite your training, killing a remnant will not be easy.
They are living gods. Even if your sword strikes true their wounds will heal, their hearts mend. You must do things right.
These are the steps, commit them to memory.”
– Crooner Cassis
C/W: death, dead body
“Every settlement here has its own ways of celebrating our remnants arrival, because we know that with it comes Spring. That in its tred wildflowers grow like footprints, birds settle to nest and the land begins to warm, ready for the sewing of the year’s first crops.Spring spreads through the land in a great circle. The Sharrow’s passing is a signal for life to wake. I have spent half a life trying to trace the Sharrow, to give detail to its movements. This is what I know.”
– Cast
“But, Vilte’s greatest strength was her gift for understanding people. She was able to bring others to her cause, to build a following and inspire them into action. She showed a faith in them and, in return, they would show a faith in her.”
– Avyn Fiir Vorunt
C/W: Horror
“High above, split from the knowing, the body walked in circles around the world thread, and from its being and its witnessing the world was born. Everywhere it passed, the thought of things solidified, and wound another thread around the world’s string.”
– Belka
C/W: Horror
“Even the world itself can catch a sickness, once the wound has festered, hidden, for too long. I wonder now how I didn’t feel the fever burning in its caverns. How I could not see the threads of fate there, cut and twisted out of shape.”
– Belka