Lorvan walked beside him back to his dorm, determined not to give Fabrisse the satisfaction of blaming time for his stress. They passed the Hall of Copper Stars, two empty fountains, and the statue of Pelrian the Arbitrary, who had once banned foo...
2025-07-18 18:36:27 +0000 UTC View Post“I’m going to show you this spell. Let’s see how good your intuitive understanding of Thaumaturgy Spellcasting is,” Rolen said as he extended one hand, palm open, the other resting lightly behind his back.
Fabrisse stared, tryi...
2025-07-18 08:26:42 +0000 UTC View PostShe stood just inside the gate, silent enough that her presence hadn’t even registered on the perimeter alarm thread.
He flinched slightly. “How long have you been standing there?”
She tilted her head a fraction. “Mentor Lorvan...
2025-07-17 08:57:29 +0000 UTC View Post“You will not get to know who’s been protecting you,” Inside his room again, Rolen said as he walked past a perfectly good set of chairs and instead perched sideways on the edge of a bookshelf like a contemplative cat.
“B-but w...
2025-07-17 07:49:24 +0000 UTC View Post“What you saw was Subduction Glyph,” Lorvan said. “Advanced Darkness Thaumaturgy. It displaces the space beneath a target’s feet and pulls them through a shadow fold. Shields don’t always stop it unless they’re specifically tu...
2025-07-16 07:19:25 +0000 UTC View PostThe Moonbear Room wasn’t marked by a placard, nor did it bear any wards at the entrance that a normal student could see. It simply existed, tucked behind the western observatory dome where dusklight pooled like slow-spilling ink across the marbl...
2025-07-15 20:13:25 +0000 UTC View PostThe date had been set for his Synaptic Resonance practical retake: two weeks from now, on Tuesday. And Fabrisse had become increasingly confident he’d be able to fully recognize the basic synaptic thread in time.
[Basic Synaptic Th...
2025-07-15 16:25:50 +0000 UTC View Post“This,” Lorvan said as he adjusted his stance. His coat fluttered in the breeze, lined with glowing wards that darkened at the seams.
“is Synaptic Threading, Rank I. Mastering this is the first step towards casting under...
2025-07-14 16:29:11 +0000 UTC View PostHe still needed to practice his Stupenstone Fling, but with Liene gone, there were no more moving targets. He wasn’t about to start flinging rocks at the frogs loitering near the North Pond either. That would just be rude and karma-inducing. He ...
2025-07-14 01:06:09 +0000 UTC View PostThe swirling gale around Cuman deepened to a furious howl. The magic condensed into a tight spiral behind him, sharp and glowing with a coral-tinted red. He was pissed off.
He chanted, a long and impractical mnemonic,
“By fracture of...
2025-07-13 10:55:13 +0000 UTC View Post“And then she said, ‘have him be under my tutelage’,” Fabrisse spread his palms, trying to physically recreate the scene and failing to do so.
Liene, dressed like a normal student, sprawled sideways on the bench across from him with ...
2025-07-11 22:12:08 +0000 UTC View PostThe entrance to Headmaster Draeth’s office wasn’t a door so much as a threshold in space that refused to be observed directly. One moment, Fabrisse was walking down a plain stone hallway lined with student achievement plaques and buzzing sconc...
2025-07-11 14:45:53 +0000 UTC View PostFabrisse had clicked on ‘Request More Information’ on his way home, and he had spent his entire journey thinking about what he’d read.
[Comparative Tuning Methodologies – Summary Overview]
No...
Fabrisse had once wished his fellow students would no longer call him The Chosen One or Wet Goblin behind his back. Today, his wish had been granted.
Unfortunately, they had simply come up with something worse.
“Oh look. It’s the p...
2025-07-10 20:10:20 +0000 UTC View PostFabrisse’s heartbeat surged. He didn’t know if they were ahead. He didn’t care.
He just wanted to reach it.
Liene gasped. Fabrisse immediately felt a hitch in the current. A stumble in the spell’s momentum. The petal wobbled on...
2025-07-10 18:16:04 +0000 UTC View PostAs the second vessel was sealed and cleared away, the final bowl was brought forward on a raised stone pedestal etched in newer, less-worn runes. The third vessel had no visible latch or lining. Its crystal was pale, almost translucent, with an od...
2025-07-10 18:12:56 +0000 UTC View PostSevera’s staff struck once more, signaling the closing of the first round and the beginning of the next.
“All recipients clear the sanctum,” she called, her voice echoing with trained ritual precision. “Second verse initiates in ten ...
2025-07-10 15:56:38 +0000 UTC View PostThe first verse ended. The petal throwers bowed in solemn unison like synchronized swans. Fabrisse, off-beat by half a second, nearly tripped on his own robe.
Severa raised her staff. “As is tradition,” she intoned, “we begin the rite ...
2025-07-10 13:50:56 +0000 UTC View PostFabrisse spotted the scullery maid just as she emerged from the east gatehouse kitchen, balancing a cloth-covered tray in one hand and muttering under her breath about ‘those noodle-limbed faculty boys and their fire rites.’ The smell hit him ...
2025-07-10 06:04:32 +0000 UTC View PostThe curtains of Fabrisse’s dorm room was drawn tight. The desk had been cleared, and the scrolls had been stacked into a neat tower beside a jar of glyph quills. In the center lay three smooth pebbles, washed, dried, roughly uniform. He’d spen...
2025-07-09 21:09:31 +0000 UTC View PostLangley guided him off the field, to a slope beneath the old silverthorn tree at the eastern edge. The grass was cooler here, away from the scorch, and the breeze still held some evening light.
Fabrisse had braced himself for a lecture. Some...
2025-07-09 17:37:08 +0000 UTC View PostFabrisse was relieved the first person of authority to reach the scene was Professor Langley.
Of all the professors at the Synod, Langley was the one most students actually liked. Calm, clever, dry-witted when he wanted to be. More important...
2025-07-09 14:34:10 +0000 UTC View PostFabrisse dove.
He hurled himself sideways into the thick of the whispergrass, hit the earth with a jolt of impact, and rolled beneath the moss curtain in one scrambling breath.
[Skill Activated: Liminal Presence Drift (Rank III...
2025-07-09 03:49:18 +0000 UTC View PostThe first skill Fabrisse activated was Spectral Appraisal.
[Spectral Appraisal — Active]
Target: Voidtouched Skitterwhit
— Status: Completely Healthy, Reasonably Angered
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The puffball didn’t even squeak as the Stupenstone hit it. It simply sparked, stiffened, and dropped like a feather.
[Skitterwhit Slain — Clean Kill]
[Sidequest Progress: “Whittle the Whits!”]<...
2025-07-08 15:50:35 +0000 UTC View Post[Skitterwhit Slain — Clean Kill]
[Sidequest Progress: “Whittle the Whits!”]
✦ Skitterwhits Slain: 4 / 10
✦ Bonus Objective (Single Spell): 4 / 10
Fabrisse crept along a patch of w...
2025-07-07 21:48:22 +0000 UTC View PostThe Eastern Target Fields were technically outside the bounds of campus, which meant no faculty supervision, no spell range limiters, and plenty of dried leaves that looked extremely flammable. Tommaso had assured Liene and Fabrisse that this was ...
2025-07-07 20:25:15 +0000 UTC View Post“This is nowhere near one meter,” Fabrisse muttered to himself as he closed his palm, extinguishing the fire inside. He’d been able to sustain the spell for more than three seconds now after some practice, and he was no longer burned by his ...
2025-07-07 15:50:37 +0000 UTC View Post“We’re learning emotional sustainment today,” Ganvar Ciemnosc folded her sleeves like she was about to perform a dissection. “Today, you’ll ignite and sustain your spark for more than a minute.”
Fabrisse sat on the grass and held...
2025-07-07 10:47:27 +0000 UTC View Post