Shoreside Snuggles
In the summer months, when students are away visiting their loved ones back in their home cities, the professors and staff of Magistrum City can begin to enjoy their time off. Their workloads, without the need to guide, teach, or protect the student body, are...
Custom MTG Cards (Savor the Moment, Azure Lightning, & Enigma on the Open Road)
Despite my lack of uploads, I do still have a number of Custom MTG Card designs I've been keeping under my hat. For the most part, the reason is simply that I have been lazy in uploaded them, but that ends today. You may also notice...
Azurium’s Solstice Slam
Not every celebration of the Winter Solstice and the new year it heralds in has to be a city-spanning festival. All across Magistrum City, families and close friend groups have smaller, more personal celebrations. It is this type of celebration that Volpes finds more comfortable, never...
Warm Affection on a Cold Autumnal Night
Both Bartholomew and Volpes would struggle to put the exact nature of their relationship, and their marriage, into words if asked. So deeply entwined are their identities and histories that it is unlikely anyone could understand them the way they understand each other. Theirs is a...
The Ranger-Machinist
I've had this conception of Azurium moonlighting as a mechanic/engineer in my head for a long time now. It made sense that he would have some working knowledge of machines since disabling and dismantling them was a part of his old job. And with this YCH...
The Rotten Foundation of House Azurium
I wrote this story in the same weekend I wrote Family Trouble in the Ninth in Tenth. I can't explain why, but Azurium and his family became subjects of great interest, and I simply followed the muse where it wanted to go. And since the story...
The Ranger’s Good Side
The students in Creative Arts are always looking for more subjects to depict in their work, and the newest Captain of the Magistrum's Ranger Corp proved to be an ample muse. This time, it was the sculpting class who requested a model. While Azurium was initially...
Family Trouble in the Ninth and Tenth
This one has been a long time coming. I've had this commission from Marsel-Defender in my files since May 2024, but I had been dragging my feet with regards to writing a story that fit with it. I had some ideas floating, but didn't know...
The Gift of Surprise
When I won this YCH from Marsel-Defender, I had initially intended to tell a lower stakes, more romantic little bit with Azurium and Clara. I wanted to show them in a moment that depicts the strength of their relationship. But as I kept looking at this...
The Season of Giving
Back when he was still working as a guard captain in Oplentis, one of Azurium's favorite times of the year was the Winter Solstice. Every year for the decade he worked as Volpes's second-in-command, he would dress up in the same red costume. Using the...