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Weekly Roundup 8/17

Hello all! Worldcon is in town, so this week I've been listening to panels about SFF and craft from a lot of wise authors. Hopefully, the advice and tricks they've been talking about find their way into my writing to make it better. Doing that in ...

Chapter 239 - Ramifications

One by one, the souls in the underground winked out, until those that remained were running for the surface through the entrance north of town. There, they seemed to realize the rest of the Akanan army wasn’t there anymore, and joined the retrea...

Chapter 238 - More Steps on the Long Path

Mirian refined her early route, practicing both her efficient conversion of soul energy into mana and efficiency in binding myrvite souls for use. With greater efficiencies, she could speed up her accelerated levitation, cutting hours off...

Weekly roundup 8/10

Thanks for all the wonderful responses to last week's question! It's helpful to see how audience expectations are matching up to the story. Also at this point, there's a lot to keep track of... who's idea was it to make this story this complicated...

Chapter 237 - Horrors of the Depths

When Mirian reached the surface, the world seemed too bright at first, and too calm. Down in the Labyrinth, a moment’s hesitation could be death. She’d needed to stay perfectly alert, or an ambush like the one she’d just survived would be le...

Chapter 236 - Return to the Labyrinth

When Xecatl next saw her, she froze. “I sensed your communion with Ceiba Yan… but I almost didn’t believe it. Your fourth soul ascension?”

Mirian nodded.

“Congratulations are in order, then. Some days, I envy you, able to ste...

Weekly roundup 8/3

I sent out Chapter 235 with a title that said it was 236, but it's not 236 because 236 isn't done and I will be madly pounding away at the keyboard to change that later today.

Several old chapters seem to have had a chunk of text at the star...

Chapter 235 - Whispers of Dead Gods and Old Spirits

The descent down the stairs started as a solemn one, the drama of it only slightly ruined by Jherica’s heavy breathing.

“Teaching and research never involved much exercise, I’m afraid,” they said apologetically. “My knees are killi...

Chapter 234 - Reliquary

Eventually, a bulky carduk turtle arrived pulling an ornate carriage. The carriage was nothing like the steel-framed spellcarts of Baracuel or Akana. Instead, it had a nest of living vines on the roof. They had draped themselves over the sides, fo...

Weekly roundup 7/27

Here's the chapters that got released this week:

Extra-Advanced Tier
Chapter 232
2025-07-27 16:16:30 +0000 UTC View Post

Chapter 233 - A Strangeness in the South

Liuan disembarked with her usual retinue: several Church priests, who Mirian recognized, but didn’t know the names of, and several RID agents. Each ship had a full crew of Akanan army personnel. They spent around ten minutes doing a formal dance...

Chapter 232 - More Paths on the Fields

They progressed to more advanced spirits quickly. It didn’t take long before Mirian’s head was spinning with the complexity of it. When she finally was having trouble keeping it all in her head, that was when Xecatl introduced her to weaving d...

Weekly Roundup 7/20

Hi all! I'm visiting family, so am away from my home computer. My old writing laptop is old enough that I can write on it (the words must flow!), but can't use Patreon, so this post is being lovingly crafted from a phone just as they've introduced...

Chapter 231 - Spirits

The next few days were a whirlwind of planning and talking. Mirian mapped out a curriculum on glyph magic. “Xipuatl might be able to assist, given he’s seen both the Baracueli and Tlaxhuacan schools of magic,” she mentioned.

Within the...

Chapter 230 - An Exchange

Mirian contemplated her first question for Xecatl. She had a feeling she knew what the other woman would ask her, and she wanted to get a good sense of what she already knew. She looked up and down Ceiba Yan. There were strange flows in the soul. ...

Weekly roundup 7/13

Here's the chapters that were published this week:

Extra-Advanced Tier
Chapter 228
2025-07-13 18:27:26 +0000 UTC View Post

Chapter 229 - Uxalak

As Mirian ascended the steps towards the Tlaxhuacan Prophet, she felt the thousands of eyes staring at her. It wasn’t just the battalion watching, nor the nagual. A huge crowd had gathered. They watched in silence; there was only the sound of th...

Chapter 228 - To Tlaxhuaco

It was on the fifth island that Xipuatl caught on to what Mirian was doing. He looked around as she prepared to levitate again and noticed a skypiper bird fall from the sky, then seemed to realize most of the creatures in the tidepools were dead t...

Weekly roundup 7/6

Emails going out to the wrong tiers should be fixed. If it isn't let me know.

I've updated the Glossary. There's spoilers for chapter 195 and lat...

Chapter 227 - Beasts of the Deep

As soon as the leviathan surfaced, the crew started moving into action.

“Leviathan off the port bow!” one of the lookouts shouted.

Baracueli cutters were designed for speed, but the archipelago was full of barely-submerged rocks an...

Chapter 226 - New Seas to Sail

Mirian arrived in Alkazaria and gathered the high priests. This time, the High Priest of Carkavakom accepted her claim as easily as the others. He didn’t smile so much. It was like he was a different person.

Her best guess was an El...

Weekly roundup 6/29

There's a new issue I've found this week (though it might have started earlier and I didn't catch it) where readers in the second tier aren't getting email updates on a chapter as I unlock it for them. Previously, I would uncheck the 1st tier, che...

Chapter 225 - An Old Friend

The High Priest of Carkavakom was waiting for Mirian by the altar. The rest of the main area of the Great Temple was empty. Gaius turned and watched the entrance of the temple, ready to renew the fight at any moment.

“Ask,” the pr...

Chapter 224 - Retribution

Mirian’s levitation spell was countered as soon as she began to cast it. She was badly outnumbered, facing down at least two full squads of Praetorians, which meant they could dedicate specialists to countering any of her common ...

Weekly roundup 6/22

I tried to get Eyeball and Conductor to let me post things at different points in the timeline, but they refused. Such sticklers for rules.

So, really, I'm going to be away from my computer for a few days. While I can schedule posts ahead of...

Chapter 223 - Frustration

It was easy enough, with a delegation of high priests at her back, to convince the Council of Five to recognize her as a new Prophet. It was only three days later that they retroactively clarified that they had ‘tentatively’ recognized ...

Chapter 222 - Return to Alkazaria

Mirian opened the Mahatan Gate, sent a zephyr falcon to Gabriel, stole Prince Rehiz’s jeweled lotuses, then headed down to Urubandar.

A few days later, she found Gabriel in one of the palaces he liked to buy, surrounded by prostitutes and ...

Weekly roundup 6/15

Here's the chapters that got posted this week. Hope everyone is doing well!

Extra-Advanced Tier
Chapter 220
2025-06-15 18:29:05 +0000 UTC View Post