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Hyperion – 3 –
Ife-Osu oradains its Kazi at birth; if a person is able to wield the incredible magics of a Kazi, they exhibit extraordinary ability from a young age. Practitioners of Ife-Osu can learn some skills of the Kazi with intense practice and focus, but this usually takes so long that the practitioner barely has any life…
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Hyperion – 2 –
Samaya Brown was in the dark. The woods that surrounded her were dark and the only light seemed to exist to cast eerie shadows. The crickets were loud, owls cooed loudly and there were distant sounds of twigs snapping as though heavy beasts creeped the dark. Samaya wasn’t afraid. She was hunting something. Her clothes…
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Hyperion – 1 –
The Shrell District is a large city on the planet Eel. It is located on a continent that dominates much of the northern hemisphere. Shrell District is located in the southern region of the continent and enjoys temperate weather that isn’t prone to the extremes of the north and equatorial regions, and many natives of…
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The True Start of Everything (16) – Eeling Origin Myth
The Kazi know that the Ife created everything in existence. The Ife was nothing, was darkness, and then it realized that there could be more, and so came the light, the Osu, who the Ife made in the image of everything that it was not. The Ife and the Osu were two sides of a…
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The True Start of Everything (15) – Ointite Origin Myth
When the heavens were nothing, they were discontented. So they collected their sentience, their awareness of the emptiness, into a singularity, and a new being was born. The Center is all knowing because it has awareness of everything that came before it, and as the parent of everything in the universe, everything that has existed…
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The True Start of Everything (14) – Krognian Origin Myth
North Mother was first born. She breached the darkness like she always does, boldly, bringing light on her heels. She made the stars. South Mother was second. She followed after her sister and made the planets that her nieces and nephews would shine down upon. Then East Mother, who moved everything around and gave the…
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The True Start of Everything (13) – Theogony continued
The universe is not a static thing. At the start, the universe was smaller, more compact as it was just starting it’s expansion out, and everything was so hot that Space itself was white hot. As it cooled, Space became more transparent, but in the early universe, the lights were always on; a bright white…
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Silas in Hell – Issue 15 – The Father at a Distance
Good and bad are relative terms. That is easy to wrap one’s brain around. But real evil, pure evil, is identifiable by those who value life or an existence unencumbered by pain and tragedy. Evil is associated with a desire to end life for reasons that cannot be justified, or for a justification that is…
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Alia – Issue 24 – A to Z Blues
“We should know one another better before you head off into the stars,” Alia says to Maria. She has been awake for about a day and the two sit outside of the IBF on a bench next to a lake. The back of the IBF is like an enclosed park and the lake has a…
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Alt-Adam (2019 Annual) – Issue 1 –
Adam knows that things will change very soon for him and his partner Manuel. Either he would force the change or it would be thrust upon them, and neither of them want to face what Dr. Worthington had referred to as a scrambling of their minds. But before they get out, brains scrambled or not,…