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328 - Theurgy - Vol. 3 FINAL [Cherno]

A/N: I decided to just make this longer rather than have the vol3 final be a minichapter______________________________________________________In mentally placing herself before the sword and staring into its mirror-like surface, she could witness any of her eidolons, or even “step through” into ...

327 - The Lesser Heterodox Cycle Pt. FINAL - The Sword of the Self [Cherno]

The King of Many Colours continued chiseling until, simultaneously, his finger-chisel wore away and his antler-hammer crumbled to dust. It was a few minutes, a few centuries, and an instant, but by the time it was over, the timespan only registered as “long enough to embed one’s entire identity ...

326 - Lesser Heterodox Cycle Pt. 3 [Cherno]

“Behold, the stele upon which your cycle shall be inscribed, and let us hope that it is merely the first of many; this is your own Binding Obelisk, and from this day forth it shall be the anchor-stone of your theurgy, granted weight and solidity by the history inscribed upon it.”The King beckone...

325 - The Lesser Heterodox Cycle Pt. 2 [Cherno]

A/N: At least one more today. Maybe two more._____________________________________________________________________Krahe felt her life flash before her eyes. This path, which she had painstakingly and far-too-often walked in the near past, simply zipped by her now. There was neither doubt, nor confus...

324 - The Lesser Heterodox Cycle Pt. 1 [Cherno]

“So it was no fluke after all,” the King uttered, his spirits visibly lifted as unworldly hues and five or six different outfits pulsed over his form.“For hollow vessels to be this vivid… You must admit, dear, the snake-mouthed sorcerer was right once again,” the Queen said. Irritation twi...

323 - A High Priest Creates the Deity [Cherno]

At this point, Krahe had completely surpassed any form of surprise or disbelief, finding it both easiest and safest to simply move with the flow of events unless something unprecedented or obviously dangerous presented itself. So, she simply nodded in agreement.“Now, then,” the Queen said, trail...

322 - Black Spire Communion Pt.9 [Cherno]

No verbal response came; not for quite some time. The King of Many Colours, his high brow furrowed, stared at the vessel. His gaze shifted to Krahe, then back to the vessel, and he rose up from his throne. An enormous weight smashed down upon Krahe’s shoulders, as though a waterfall striking her a...

321 - Black Spire Communion Pt.8 - Y'Alha'Zor of the Crucifixion [Cherno]

It was here that she diverged from the pure path of changing the name to change the vessel. As she saw it, there was no need. If the name of something informed its manifestation, and if looking upon something instantly conferred an idea of its nature, then it stood to reason that remaking the vessel...

320 - Black Spire Communion Pt. 7 - Y'golonac and Fthaggua [Cherno]

The two royals observed Barzai with a bearing best reserved for the aftermath of head-on train collision. Somehow, for reasons that evaded Krahe, the faux-eidolon's manifestation seemed to be utterly repellant to the two; perhaps it was a sort of uncanny valley effect.“That's enough. Put.....

319 - Black Spire Communion Pt. 6 [Cherno]

“Is it not dangerous to allow my thoughts to roam too freely in Zor’Aguhastra?” Krahe questioned, expecting this to be a catch of some sort.“Under normal circumstances, yes. You can sense the solidity of this place, no? Your thoughts, weighty though they may be, shan’t distort the fabric o...

318 - Black Spire Communion Pt.5 [Cherno]

In accordance with the ritual secrets, she raised the guidestone fragment, reaching with it forward, while performing the Gesture of the Hollow Spire - known also as the Sign of Closing - with her right hand, keeping it close to her chest. In this manner she approached, with the guidestone’s scraw...

317 - Black Spire Communion Pt.4 [Cherno]

As she approached, more and more detail emerged. Zor’Aguhastra’s upper half consisted of countless spires, all of whom were at once black and iridescent, just as the Wizard’s notes had said they would be. She spied among them the shapes of skyscrapers and megabuildings, of the towers of Neo Ba...

316 - Black Spire Communion Pt. 3 [Cherno]

The two titans’ struggle continued on for what felt like at once seconds and hours. Before long, the wheel on Talos’ back had come to revolve so wildly as to appear as a static circle of light, stirring up an immense maelstrom within the astral gulf. Similarly, Rahu had somehow grown a hundred t...

315 - Black Spire Communion Pt. 2 [Cherno]

Krahe opened an array of mouths down the length of her left arm and on every other surface of charred skin, even including her neck the side of her face, and with them she invoked the names of ancient deities and kings, those who had reigned over the world in times when great men rose and fell by th...

314 - Black Spire Communion Pt.1 [Cherno]

The Sorcerer’s Hand effectively played the role of a substitute in a “rehearsal” of the ritual proper. After imprinting her thauma upon it, she placed it where she would begin, and spurred it into motion by pouring thauma into it. The corpse hand twitched to life, barely managing to stand up o...

313 - A Chimp With a Gun [Cherno]

Once the Sorcerer’s Hand was done smoking, the hand needed to be left to rest until it stiffened to a stone-like hardness. Krahe took this opportunity to take a break, moving to the bedroom on the upper floor, as it had the nicest sunlight at this time of day and overlooked a nothing-street withou...

312 - Sorcerer's Hand [Cherno]

"I hope, for your sake, that you didn’t eat all of Calvus’ souldregs,” Krahe thought as she walked, directing it towards Barzai. If the eidolon had indeed devoured them, she would need to source another hand and souldreg pair. Not difficult, but an irritating detour.“I had a taste. Bland...

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311 - Bitter Decoction Pt.2 [Cherno]

Krahe stared into the middle-distance for a moment, steeling herself for the great struggle to come. A few minutes later, with only some grimacing, she had choked down the rest of the decoction and returned to Firminus with the glassware. She immediately rinsed and refilled the glass in the sink, em...

310 - Bitter Decoction [Cherno]

A/N: I got stuck on what to do with Barzai's evolution ability-wise. I had the design worked out months in advance but I hadn't settled on the ability changes so I went in circles working up multiple different versions of his evolved powerset before I eventually settled on the current versio...

309 - Eidolon Evolution Pt.Final - Executioner's Assistant [Cherno]

A/N: Edited to expand body formation sequence on 26th Aug. 2025_________________________________________________________The diminutive figure of a humanoid raven stood stone-still at the center of the angle-web, meeting its contractor’s gaze with a single eye. To the world, it seemed as if the rit...

308 - Eidolon Evolution Pt.3 - Murderer of Murderers [Cherno]

Yazata’s bindings came undone, and from within fell a formless mass of smoke and tar, and upon its fall it instantly began coalescing, moving along the angle-web in the only direction permitted to it by the ritual — into the Gate of Metamorphosis, along the Initial Angle, towards the dreg-gem of...

307 - Eidolon Evolution Pt.2 [Cherno]

A/N: This one is a bit shorter. Next one is a significant bit longer._______________________________________________________________Krahe’s anger didn’t abate; that she understood why Barzai had done what he had done didn’t change anything. She resolved to punish the demonic bird by refusing h...

306 - Eidolon Evolution Pt.1 [Cherno]

A sudden churning and writhing came over her. It was no pain — pain would’ve been easy, a momentary disruption that she could fight head-on with sheer force of will, but this was different. This discomfort was altogether more insidious than mere pain. It was a churning and shuddering comparable ...

305 - Execution Day Pt.3 [Cherno]

“Oh, Black Trapezohedron, sound forth from the spires of Zor’Aguhastra…” Yazata invoked.Slowly, the sense of the sublime that already filled the chamber began to grow. The sound of machinery intensified, and one after the next, seven pillars rose up from the floor, each depicting a different...

304 - Execution Day Pt.2 [Cherno]

Yazata paused for a moment, waiting for something. That something was the arrival of three further individuals, through a heretofore concealed side door — two of which the four men recognized. The first was none other than the madwoman who had assaulted and captured them. The second was their vict...

303 - Execution Day [Cherno]

The ground shuddered with the whirring and thumping of distant machinery.Two kinds of incense hung heavy in the air; a bluish haze just above head-height, and a greyish one at the floor.Four prisoners waited in their cells. Even these cells were suffused with incense, piped in through the vents, les...

302 - Henshin; Metamorphosis Pt.2 [Cherno]

Krahe wasn’t sure what to say to that. On one hand, the statement itself, “Weakness is a sin,” sounded idiotic to the utmost extent, it was the sort of thing she expected to hear as a non-justification from some dehumanized psycho before turning them into a greasy stain. But the sentiment behi...