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Chapter XXXI: Veritas "They are watching me. My claws tremble as I write this. I had begun suspecting as much years ago—now, I am certain of it. I was just clearing the bureaucratic clutter off my desk when I made the most shocking discovery: a magical eye, smaller than my own claw. It...

Chapter XXX: Prelude Once, Our Kaiser looked fatefully at the ceiling of the underground chamber we stood in. The concrete rumbled with the reverberation of steel ravens outside. "We have journeyed so far, and they are still searching." I said wistfully. "How much longer may we run, I wonder...

Chapter XXIX: Interim Our people are accustomed to pain. We lost our homes, our land, our future. Legions of our dead cry out for vengeance against the dark Presence that looms over this world. But even as their steel ravens torched our cradle, we did not lose hope: for we knew by divine...

Chapter XXVIII: Iacta "Our Benefactors make fundamentally contradictory demands of my Court. On the one hand they wish for the general populace to know of their existence, to be revered as new gods; yet simultaneously they choose to hide amongst those islands, acting only via proxies and...

Chapter XXVII: Defiance IX October, 545 AUC "Another great victory for our brave legionaries! At the sound of war horns, cleverly-hidden elements of the IX Legion rushed headfirst against the Scum forces besieging Aesernia. The barbarians were caught wholly unprepared. Fighting was...

Chapter XXVI: Telos "... As of 05:13 today, Leodis has ceased to exist. The portal storm that has swallowed it ranks as one of the largest ever recorded in history. Reports from nearby Civil Protection teams suggest that nearly 80% of the city has become a spatial anomaly, and is no longer...

Chapter XXV: Tantalus It's happened; His Majesty has finally lost his mind. Perhaps staying cooped up in that palace is what did it. Frankly, I couldn't care less. Two months of bloody battle, Ioannes. Do you know how many of my legionaries I ordered to their deaths to capture this ridge...

Chapter XXIV: Semper Aurina Valley—Tartarus Mountains The mystery dungeon stood like a spear piercing the sky itself, towering far, far, above the valley and the puny convoy that walked its cragged passes. Flame could not tear his eyes away from the colossal mountain whose summit was...

Chapter XXIII: Audere "Prepare Down Target: Icarus. Final coordinates received. Priority supersedes all previous instructions." — Encrypted radio transmission sent from Vulcano Isle to Supreme General Sycorax. Imperial Palace – Urbe Adrian should have felt wonderful. Sunlight streamed...

Chapter XXII: Memento Neuhoffnung Flame was roused out of his sleep by the sound of a door creaking open. He grumbled something incoherent, and reflexively brought a paw up to ward away the sudden light bleeding through his eyelids. "Herr Flame?" a feminine voice spoke up. Propping himself...

Chapter XXI: Princeps Neuhoffnung – Northern Edessa Province Of all the places to be, sitting around a campfire crowded with Scum was not exactly where Flame had imagined he'd end up. Yet there he was, sitting cross-legged near the front of the pack with a beer jug in his claws and...

Chapter XX: Stasis "All Points: Down target Icarus. Priority One. Await final coordinates." — Encrypted radio transmission sent from Vulcano Isle to Supreme General Sycorax. In her mind, it was all so simple. She would see him just as danger set in. The lumbering Hydreigon would sweep down...

Chapter XIX: Animus 15th September, 745 AUC Primary objective failed. Target Icarus was intercepted by enemy troops while en route to our location. Escorting agents confirm presence of enemy leadership at abduction site. Secondary objective is safe and in good health. Awaiting further...

Chapter XVIII: Gloria "After all, no one is stupid enough to prefer war to peace; in peace sons bury their fathers, and in war fathers bury their sons." —Herodotus Camp Tempest Flame's eyes flew open and his body jerked awake with a gasp, as a sudden, screeching blare exploded into his...

Chapter XVII: Sperantia "While searching through the Imperial Archives, I have made a ghastly discovery. It would appear that for the last one hundred and forty years, approximately 30% of the Empire's grain produce, as well as approximately 20% of our wartime slaves have disappeared from...

Late reply, but thank you so much for your kind words! I'm glad you're able to enjoy yourself, especially with all the rough writing that comes with the early parts of the story. I do apologise for taking a while to get to the main plot, but it does reassure me that I did a good job the world-...

Chapter XVI: Prospect "... In their complacency, the Primeval Lords allowed themselves to become inert; in their inertia, they allowed us mortals to grow decadent. Even as the plague of ignorance spread unabated, even as pokémon reverted to their primal states to fight pointless squabbles...

Chapter XV: Severance GENERAL VALENTINIAN ARRESTED IN TREASON PLOT This morning of 15th October, 745 AUC, Praetorian Guard units stationed in Hadrianopolis arrested the provincial commander Valentinian Garchomp, as well as his military entourage. Reports distributed from Supreme Commander...

Chapter XIV: Apex Boreal Chasm – B2F "So, I just … throw it?" "Yes. Unless you want to make out with that thing first." "Okay, okay! I was just … making sure." For the third time since they'd crawled out of their hiding spot, Flame sent the sphere a careful look, as though glancing at it...

Chapter XIII: Disarray "… While generally satisfied with His Imperial Majesty's servitude, Our Benefactors have expressed their displeasure at the unfortunate fact that the general populace continues to worship the Primeval Lords, especially after those very heresies have been proven redundant...