You will learn the wrong lessons from life. This is not a condemnation, it is just how things progress.
As Pathbearers, we develop delusions as to why we prevail and succeed when so many others have fallen. Many of us subconsciously kn...
A few things about Fae Skills: They're not always reliable in combat, that's because they don't function like most other skills. Most skills have a specific tier: Adept, Master, all that. It evolves, it becomes more expansive, more focused, mo...
2025-11-05 18:37:48 +0000 UTC View PostNow, the various factions, sects, governments, nations, and empires across Integration don't want you to know this, but if you're good enough at kidnapping and mental torture, you can force a fairy to bribe you to let them go. In fact, I stron...
2025-11-05 12:28:42 +0000 UTC View PostIt is folly to presume there to be wisdom in denying your own rage. To pretend that you are not outraged by the atrocities inflicted upon you. To deceive yourself and claim to be calm when your heart is wounded, when your spirit is mauled, is ...
2025-11-04 15:16:46 +0000 UTC View PostYou want to know why Martin, the Poissonnier, was thrown out, Shiv? Why him and not you? Because you both got mad, but your anger leads you places. Your anger has a direction. It has an action behind it, and that fucking matters a lot. It matt...
2025-11-03 17:31:18 +0000 UTC View PostIt is not impossible to best the Fairest, despite everything that has been said. They are not beyond you in every way. You are still a Pathbearer—a being of considerable power and skill. Just because you don’t hold narrative significance i...
2025-11-03 14:51:17 +0000 UTC View PostIt is pure folly to strike a bargain with the fairest. They are not merely beings who possess nigh infinite time, but also creatures that are bereft of consequence. They cannot be slain normally, merely banished, and even when they are cut up,...
2025-11-02 18:53:14 +0000 UTC View Post...and the final daughter of summer, though not radiant like her elder sister, not graceful and fleet like middle sister wind, not stalwart and unbending like brother iron, is beloved of the family as she is life unburdened; the incarnation of...
2025-11-02 12:25:51 +0000 UTC View PostSee title. The pain has temporarily ended. It will likely start again within 2 weeks. I must prepare.
2025-11-01 19:27:21 +0000 UTC View PostAs written above, I am suffering. Pray. I’ll do what I can.
2025-10-31 16:44:41 +0000 UTC View PostSo the first thing you should do when dealing with the Fairest is leave your sanity at the door. Don't just leave it at the door, actually. Smash your sanity in the head and bury it because the fae don't make any sense, at least not any kind o...
2025-10-30 18:59:00 +0000 UTC View PostWe are “monsters.”
The world is our enemy.
We are enemies.
Everything that breathes, that moves, that can fight or feed is our enemy.
Reader. You are my enemy. But you are als...
2025-10-29 12:21:34 +0000 UTC View PostAll Pathbearers should expand their horizons, try different things every day, volunteer, and experience life in someone else's shoes. You are more than your Path, you are more than your skills. Just because you’re a Vanguard doesn't stop you...
2025-10-28 19:21:52 +0000 UTC View PostTo all aspiring Pathbearers, reading my words, I beg one thing of you and one thing of you alone: if you seek to embark on the quest of revenge, kill your enemies. Kill them. Kill every single one of them, without hesitation, without mercy, an...
2025-10-27 16:06:37 +0000 UTC View PostThat which doesn't kill you might leave you crippled mentally, ruined behaviorally, and permanently scarred physically. Any path bearer stupid enough to think that surviving is strengthening has not been adequately traumatized.
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2025-10-27 07:42:01 +0000 UTC View PostI once assumed that strength was characterized by the things I could break, the lives I could take, structures and nations I could collapse.
This was a mistake. Strength is not such a simple thing. Power is not a single facet. 2025-10-26 10:25:10 +0000 UTC View Post
Good evening, Hero Ranger Clarissa.
Tonight I'd like to play a game. You spent your life stealthily making plagues and biophages, assassinating those that most deem untouchable, indestructible. I applaud you for that, and your m...
2025-10-25 19:33:36 +0000 UTC View PostEveryone should take Medic-301. It's not because the instructors are kind and generous, they are not. They are harried, they are frustrated, and they will snap at you more than once. It's not that it's an easy course. No, most students will fl...
2025-10-25 17:42:04 +0000 UTC View PostDear parents, masters of the city, and beloved members of the committee:
You are all idiots.
No, calm down. You will do nothing. I will remain headmaster. You can complain or threaten me all you want, but none of ...
2025-10-24 19:09:38 +0000 UTC View PostWelcome to GEN-101. I see some of you rolling your eyes already, discounting the importance of this class. I know some of you are martial Pathbearers and you think your path in life is set. You will be the hammer of the Republic. You will be i...
2025-10-23 18:09:03 +0000 UTC View PostPeople lie to themselves. For the sake of their broken hearts; hence religion comes to be. We lie to ourselves, and we call it a story. We imagine ourselves to be champions and heroes. We reduce our enemies and challenges down to caricatures a...
2025-10-23 15:35:14 +0000 UTC View PostThere are two words you must never say to someone who is deep in the throes of rage. Those two words are "calm down." "Calm down" to an angry person is like saying that their mother deserved to die in that demonic raid. "Calm down" is telling ...
2025-10-22 18:05:12 +0000 UTC View PostThe best cover identities allow you to be adaptable, for there will be unforeseen circumstances in your future that you will have to adjust your backstory to overcome.
The most common pitfall some little birds make is when they ...
2025-10-22 14:37:33 +0000 UTC View PostBe mindful of who you tether yourself to, son. I say this not to encourage paranoia, but for you to understand that despite your good intentions and noble heart, there will be those who see you only as an instrument. And worse yet, there will ...
2025-10-21 16:44:55 +0000 UTC View PostYour father is gone, Samir. Your father is gone, and he will remain the wound inside you. Perhaps in time, the wound will scar, or perhaps it will remain open, but that still does not change the fact that your father is gone.
I ...
2025-10-20 17:31:54 +0000 UTC View Post—UUUUUUCCKKKKKK!
VULTEGS! L-LISTEN THE FUCK UP! WE’RE… WE’RE GOING TO DO SOMETHING VERY SPECIAL.
I’M CALLING THE LORDS OF CUNTING LAW! V-VULTEGS GET YOURSELVES BACK TO VULKETH! FROM WHEREVER YOU ARE. WE...
2025-10-20 15:51:11 +0000 UTC View PostSympathy is a weapon. Sympathy is opportunity. Sympathy is a drug, because everyone has been wronged in some way by the world, by their own nation, their own people, by an enemy. Sympathy will make you betray yourself.
I ask of ...
2025-10-20 09:11:30 +0000 UTC View PostThere are three basic things you should know about the fairies. The first is that their tiers and levels are constantly in flux. The second, Necromancy doesn't work on them, since they don't really die. And the third, don't bother keeping them...
2025-10-19 15:34:33 +0000 UTC View Post“Pull that crossbow away from your neck. You’re not going to shoot yourself. Stop pretending.”
"Leave me alone. You won. You fucking won. Let me have what's left of my honor."
"What's left of your honor? Don...
2025-10-18 19:35:14 +0000 UTC View PostListen, the first thing you should do if you end up getting the Foreshadowing Skill is killing yourself. I’m serious. Kill yourself. It–it’s the only way out. The system is a fuck. It wants you to suffer. It wants you to be miserable. It...
2025-10-17 18:41:32 +0000 UTC View Post