A Moment of Solitude
As a natural consequence of possessing the rare talent to travel between worlds, it is common for Planeswalkers to lead lives of relative solitude compared to ordinary people. Even the most well-meaning and open-minded people still have to cross the cultural barrier before they can...
The Martial Mediator
Among planeswalkers and those in the know, there's a truism: No matter the plane, there will always, always be dragons. Crossroads is no exception to this rule. Along with all the other people and creatures who were brought there hundreds of years ago, dragons were...
The Man He Had Become
"Eighty-one… Eighty-two… Eighty-three…" With reach count, the fox-titan gradually lowered himself, feeling the increasing load on his arm as he remained perfectly vertical, raising his body back up to a one-handed handstand before repeating the process. Where the chill of cold mountain air, combined with the...
Tools of the Trade
In the life of a detective, one often finds themselves intersecting with the wealthy and powerful, and there's no better place for that than at a lavish, ostentatious party. Nothing looses lips like a chance to brag about business successes, acquisitions, and the like. Well,...
A Time of Reflection
With the Final Days averted, and the Scions of the Seventh Dawn disbanded, Rabrandt found that he was aflush with free time. Given recent events in Garlemald, he was no longer a wanted man, his defection from the army having been expunged. No more a...
The Forest King
As a soldier and a guardsman, Azurium had been given basic survival training. If the situation was dire, and he was left to fend for himself and his regiment far away in the less settled regions of Crossroads, he had every confidence that he and...
Traversing the Blind Eternities
In the space between planes, known poetically as The Blind Eternities, lies a vast ocean of energy, from which all souls are born and to which they return. At yet, some are born with an excess of this energy, aether. Experts call this excess the...
The In-Between Adventure
It might be hard to believe, but even between teaching, adventuring, and detective work, there are moments where Enigma takes time for himself to relax and just enjoy himself in the present. Sure, he could choose to sojourn at a warmer clime in a faraway...
Grim Resolve
The Final Days are upon us. The star and its people fated to sink onto oblivion, lost amidst untold carnage: Blood and despair as far as the eye can see. And yet, surrounded by utter hopelessness… …there were those who stood with the light of hope,...
Volpes, of Steady Hand
In the months and years following his recruitment to the cause, Captain Azurium brought his experience as a guardsman and soldier to bear, training all those in Volpes's fold in the arts of combat and self-defense. The fox himself, blueprint for all that would one...