Traverse the Way
"Hmm." The mage gazed upon the map silently. Despite his initial skepticism, the merchant appeared to be telling the truth about the map they sold. At the very least, his locator spell is able to forge a clear path using it as a reference; The illusory...
Hail to the Emperor
Every day was a good day to be the Emperor of New Oplentis. The wolfkin once known as Enigma the Great Detective was truly at the top of the hierarchy. And though he knew that fact was ironclad, he also knew it was no excuse to...
The Light of a Dark City
His time on this plane hasn't been easy. As one might expect of a detective, Enigma has been involved in numerous cases both big and small. It's a curious profession for it often involves seeing people at their worst, lowest moments. Even outside of that...
Pride of the Professor
You did well on the last test. It's clear that you've been putting in the work, studying hard, attending practice, and the results speak for themselves. Perhaps you aren't quite an expert yet. Perhaps other students pick it up faster than you do. But what matters...
Wait Out the Storm
In the weeks after return from their investigation of Oplentis, after the shocking truth had been revealed, Edmund was in a difficult head space. And like many young men, he attempted to channel this raw emotion into his training. Unfortunately, that often let the mage's practice...
Tactics of the Mind Mage
It's probably no coincidence that an artist named RamzaWolf accepts commissions to depict characters as if they were units in Final Fantasy Tactics: The War of the Lions. I happen to believe that the story of the game is one of the greatest ever told...
Welcome Home
I had been itching to get some writing done in September of 2024, and the young couple deserved a capstone to close out their beach vacation and bring it back into the wide meta-narrative of the world of Crossroads. So I commissioned LittleBadWolf to make a...
The Terror of Grazefield
In July of 2024, it had been quite some time since I had visited The Emperor, and even longer since I gave him a proper story. I felt the itch, and I had gotten a YCH from Marsel-Defender that was perfect for him, so I...
The Sleuth’s Highway
Coming from a plane where cities and other large settlements make an effort to comfortably exists within the natural world, many of his planeswalking peers from more urbanized planes assumed that he would have difficulty adapting to their world where artifice and technological sciences eclipse...
Mind Mages on Motorbikes
While exploring this new, unfamiliar plane, Enigma's local planeswalker contact, realizes his peer would need his own transportation if he was going to independently explore the place. Fortunately, they had recently built a new motorcycle and were happy to lend the mind mage their older...