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September 14 - December 18, 2022
mereswine
Dolphins
The Nameless One and his followers were said to have come from the Womb of Fire in the core of the world.
The meteor shower. The one that had ended the Grief of Ages, weakened the wyrms, and granted strength to the Eastern dragons.
olyphant in a teahouse.
Booo
Ampiki, the fire that had taken her parents, and her years of training in the South House. Nayimathun had listened patiently.
“Our ancestors came from the comet you call Kwiriki’s Lantern, before there were any children of the flesh. It rained light into the water, and from that water, dragonkind came forth.”
Too obvious
“The comet ended the Great Sorrow, but it has come to this world many times before,” Nayimathun said. “Once, many moons ago, it left behind two celestial jewels, each infused with its power. Solid fragments of itself. With them, our ancestors could control the waves. Their presence allowed us to hold on to our strength for longer than we could before. But they have been lost for almost a thousand years.”
“Almost a thousand years ago, a human used them to fold the sea over the Nameless One,” she said. “That was how he was defeated. After that, the two jewels passed out of history, as if they never were.”
Snow-Walking Maiden
Snow white?
As she dressed, she concealed her blades.
Forshadowing
bodmin
An english moor?
Sabran the Ninth.
The ninth? I thought it had been a thousand years... 9 generations is more like 300 years?
swords
Villagers have guns and guards swords??
basilisk.
Central american
Salt Flower Castle
Aleidine, his widow, had given it to Truyde, who had mourned for her grandfather by fixating on his possessions. The child had kept the fragment in a locket for a year.
but if I do not return to burned that note,
Typo
Rauca,
Mounds of rainbow spices, flower gardens that perfumed the streets, tall windcatchers accented with blueglass—all of it was unlike anything he knew.
Phrasing. Phrases should be reversed
Ivory Palace,
House of Taumargam,
Her face was hidden by a bronze mask. She wore belled trousers, tucked into boots with open toes, and a thigh-length brocade coat. Unnerved by her gaze, Loth turned away and went back into the inn.
How does he know its a woman?
bolsters and corncockle silk,
Uhg. Words
Sidupi.
The Fleet of the Tiger Eye
Fleet of the Tiger Eye?”
Tharian Lintley
White River Castle
Forest of the Wounded Bird,
Mount Tego.
A year before their Choosing Day, all apprentices had been challenged to climb to the top of that peak, where the spirit of the great Kwiriki was said to descend to bless the worthy. Of all the apprentices from the South House, Tané alone had made it to the summit. Half-frozen, beset with mountain sickness, she had crawled up the last slope, retching blood on to the snow. She had not been human in that final hour. Just a paper lantern, thin and wind-torn, clinging to the flickering remnants of a soul. Yet when there was no more to climb, and she had looked up and seen nothing but the terrible
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sorrower
Too ez...'she is sad lets call this bird sorrow'
knurled
Thats not a WORD!!
underground
How does he know?
“Aralaq
“You know the story of the Damsel and the Saint. You know how a knight rescued a princess from a dragon and took her away to a kingdom across the sea. You know that they founded a great city and lived happily ever after.” He smiled. “Everything you know is false.”
Yikala,”
“High Ruler Selinu
attempted to placate him by organizing a lo...
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Princess Cl...
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the Saint
The Six Virtues had been the code all Inysh knights had lived by at that time.
Galian
To him, Lasia was a field from which to reap a bride of royal blood and adoring devotees of a religion he had founded, all for his own gain. He would make himself a god and unite Inysca under his crown.”
Is this meant to be christianity? Doesnt make sense if so.
Lasian Basin,
Basin??? A basin is a lake between mountains or rivers that slope into a lake....not a forest? Certainly not with a big grassy plain?
sand eagle
They
Not this again! Starting with pronouns. Fake suspense
Brygstad Palace,
High ...
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Old Quarter,
