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The Storm Winds of Glazglubin


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"There's a monster in every man, boy. Within me, there is a host, and one day, it'll be yours to command." Too often these days, Kenji's mind turns to the words of his accursed father. When he fled the Old Country, he thought he had left the monsters behind, but now he sees them every day in the eyes of his friend and mentor. His world is about to crumble in a spasm of eldritch magic, and though he can see the face of his undoing so clearly in his nightmares, deep down, he knows that the first blow has already been struck.
As the tendrils of a soul plague lay claim on Aqualon's oldest and most powerful magocracy, the Lord of Wind, Kenji Sokolow, is cast down from his high tower, pressed to rally whatever forces he can find. But first, he has to survive...

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The Black Priest of Rastrowel


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A gripping short story from the life of Lyn, a young girl in the care of two HJT Ferries, ships mages for hire, which operate from their office on the island of Rastrowel, the highly religious birth place of the Church of Pure Souls.

Faced with prejudice against mages every day, Lyn's winning personality and innocence keep her well within the good graces of her peers, until a Black Priest, an inquisitor of the Church takes notice of her...

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A Synopsis of the World

Seventeen centuries of peace have allowed the people of Aqualon to flourish. Since the Great War, now known as the Age of Heroes, when the Old Gods rose up once more in vain, the world has become prosperous: powerful magocracies in the Middle Lands are going through a magical industrial revolution and rich tapestries of cultures flourish in the Yamato Mountain Range and the Seventeen Yonder Islands. These lie in the Corsic Ocean of the Ocean Belt beyond the 150 kilometer band of iron, the Iron Belt, which rings the planet around its equator.

And isolated from the rest: two technocracies so far beyond them that they could be thought to live in a world of their own. They are divided by their opposing views on integrating magic and technology, yet united in their quest for knowledge.

But who would have thought that none of these would start the next great war?
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The Den of Momiji

In the year 1687 GE, the kannushi1
A kannushi is a priest at an Ur-soulism shrine.
Arai Kokurei saw a brown fox in the morning fog around the path to the Nishi-Kaga-Mori, which is the small forest shrine that precedes the newer Nishi-Kaga-Honden (main shrine building) of the Tsushigami Forest.
The Fox in Yamato Culture
Species | Dec 26, 2018

The Yamato people can be quite superstitious, and seeing a fox can have very different implications for them, depending on the color of its coat. (737 Words)

Arai reportedly got lost after trying to return home from this den, but the fox appeared again and helped him find the road. His story became popular among the kannushi and miko2
A miko is a priestess or, more commonly, "shrine maiden" at an Ur-soulism shrine.
of the shrine and later travelers from the surrounding villages.   They named the fox Momiji 紅葉, and soon people would leave offerings for the fox and its family at the Nishi-Kaga-Mori, from where the shrine maidens would carry it on to the mouth of the den.   Since then, the Momiji family is in its eight generation, and the current elder fox, Momiji no Hachimori 紅葉の八守, is 2 years old, has two brothers and one sister as well as three pups.   The foxes are accustomed to humans and generally well-fed and cared for. It is considered a good omen when they attend the yearly Daichi Gogyôsai 大地五行祭 (The Ur-soul Festival of the Land and Soil), which takes place in autumn when the leaves begin to fall. There, they enjoy great attention and many treats brought by the inhabitants of the shrine and villagers from around the Western Yamato Valley.
Momiji no Mimori (Momiji the 3
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— This den belongs to Amy Winters-Voss for her support of Aqualon, thank you so much!

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