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Index: On Worldbuilding: VALEAN DEFENSE FORCE SWORN TESTIMONY
VALEAN DEFENSE FORCE
SWORN TESTIMONY
Operation: LAST LIGHT – Final Evacuation of Mount Glenn
Submitted by:Captain Elias Reynolds
57th Valean Infantry Regiment, 5th Battalion, Ebony Company
Date: 22nd Day After Collapse
Location: Forward Operating Base Echo, Glennwald Valley
Classification...
Index: On Worldbuilding: DECLASSIFIED EXCERPT FORENSIC ANALYSIS OF RECOVERED LABORATORY RECORDS MOUNT GLENN SUBTERRANEAN FACILITIES
DECLASSIFIED EXCERPT
FORENSIC ANALYSIS OF RECOVERED LABORATORY RECORDS
MOUNT GLENN SUBTERRANEAN FACILITIES
Prepared by Valean Defense Force Military Intelligence Department Q
In Cooperation with Beacon Academy and the Office of the Head of Huntsmen
Year of The Broken Table 1987
Classification...
Index: On Worldbuilding: REPORT OF THE SELECT COMMITTEE OF THE HIGH COUNCIL APPOINTED TO INQUIRE INTO THE CIRCUMSTANCES ATTENDING THE FALL OF MOUNT GLENN AND THE LOSS OF LIFE AND PROPERTY RESULTING THEREFROM
REPORT OF THE SELECT COMMITTEE OF THE HIGH COUNCIL
APPOINTED TO INQUIRE INTO
THE CIRCUMSTANCES ATTENDING THE FALL OF MOUNT GLENN
AND THE LOSS OF LIFE AND PROPERTY RESULTING THEREFROM
HIGH COUNCIL OF THE UNITED NATIONS OF VALE
Session of the 47th Legislature
Printed by Order of the High Council...
The Beacon teachers' lounge smelled of fresh coffee, old books, and the faint ozone tang of Dust experiments. Late morning sunlight slanted through the high windows, catching motes of dust like tiny stars. It was supposed to be a quiet hour—grading, gossip, the occasional grumble about Port's...
The Beacon library was a sanctuary of hushed whispers and rustling pages that afternoon—sunlight slanting through tall windows, casting golden pools across polished oak tables. Students hunched over scrolls and textbooks, the faint scent of old paper and ink hanging in the air like a comforting...
Index: Original Character, Do Steal: Sister Lucy Hart
Name: Sister Lucy Hart
Allusion: Chūjō-hime from Japanese folklore (the devout princess who became a nun and wove a miraculous lotus-thread tapestry through divine intervention), Sister Eda from Black Lagoon (a profane, chain-smoking, gun-toting "nun" with a hidden heart of gold and zero...
Index: On Worldbuilding: Remnant Culture: Saint Reepicheep's Second Epistle to the Temujns
Saint Reepicheep's Second Epistle to the Temujns
Chapter 1
1 Reepicheep, a mouse knighted by the Table Breaker's own grace, once quick to draw sword in wrathful pride yet redeemed by his mercy, to the fierce Temujns of the endless deserts, whose blood runs hot as the midday sun and whose...
Threadmarks: Jaune Arc, Single Father 11 (Revised)
Jaune pushed open the door to the JNPR dorm with Mia riding high on his shoulders, her little hands tangled in his hair like she was steering a very blond airship.
"So, sweetie," he asked, grinning up at her, "what was the best part of daycare today?"
Mia leaned forward, ears perked, eyes...
Taiyang faces his greatest challenge after Summer left and he got his head back on straight... His girls growing up. Fortunately he has a friend to help him out.
One-Shot, No Romance, Family.
Work Text:
Taiyang Xiao-Long faced the greatest challenge he'd ever been confronted with. Fighting the...
Jaune holds a town hall for the Vytal Festival.
It does about as well as you might expect.
Chapter Text
The backstage of Vale's Government Tower town hall was filled with nervous energy, as the faint buzz from the packed theater drifted through the curtains. The air was thick with the scent of...
Index: Glimpses into Another Time: Blake: The Party
Beacon, Vale
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The unused dorm at Beacon had been hijacked into a full-blown underground rager—string lights pilfered from festival decorations twinkled overhead like mischievous fireflies, mismatched furniture formed the makeshift dance floors, and the bass from the borrowed speakers...
Threadmarks: On Worldbuilding: The Hellenic League
The Hellenic League (also called the Argive League or Western Anima Confederation) is a loose confederation of independent city-states (poleis) clustered along the western coast of Anima, in what is now nominally part of Mistral but functions as a de facto autonomous region. Geographically, it...
Next chapter is almost done, January was just such a shit show I couldn't get it out in time. But, we get an update with Blake and the world has caught up with our heroes in Radian.
Threadmarks: Whitley Schnee and the Dragon's Betrayal
Altas, Solitas
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The Schnee manor's sub-basement archive was a tomb of secrets—rows of locked filing cabinets, holographic projectors flickering with decades of ledgers, the air cold, dry and stale. The kind of air that sucked any warmth from your body, from your soul.
Whitley...
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Isabel was back at work at the computer, looking over the findings and data with her practiced eye. The Beacon Infirmary was quite cutting edge-Not quite up to her standards, but close enough.
"How's it going, sweetie?"
Isabel looked up and smiled as Nick walked in.
"All right. Still...
You know, flying monkeys are pretty freaky. And the flying Beringels are... Kind of scary.
But you know what would be really scary? Grimm based on the Wheelers.
https://youtu.be/WM0RFE3QGAU?si=H8XckmDGR8dwM1Wl
Index: On Worldbuilding: Structure of the Vacuoan Government
Vacuo Government Structure: The Sultanate of Vacuo
The Sultanate of Vacuo (officially the United Sultanate of Vacuo) is a highly decentralized federal monarchy that exists more on paper than in practice. Founded roughly 800 years ago by Malik the Sunderer, who united the fractured post-Xolotl...
Fair enough. I had wanted to do something a little different, but honestly? You're right, lifetime appointments are better for judicial independence.
And Mistral's government is a HILARIOUS shit show.
Index: On Worldbuilding: Structure of the Mistralian Government
The Mistralian Confederation (formally the Confederated Provinces of Mistral, or simply Mistral) is a loose confederation of semi-autonomous provinces/sub-kingdoms in Anima, structured as a nominal republic with heavy warlord-era Chinese influences (1916–1928 Beiyang/Nanjing period). It features...