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The Wings of Wanderlust
What countries do you want to visit? Korven Stonewatch stretched his granite wings against the pre-dawn shadows, feeling the satisfying crack of joints that had remained motionless for the better part of a decade. One hundred years, three months, and seventeen days he had crouched upon the northwestern spire of Lumenvale’s Grand Archive, his stone Continue reading
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The Canvas of Contradictions
What’s your favorite thing about yourself? Grimjaw Ironthews folded his massive frame into the delicate wooden chair, its joints protesting with soft creaks beneath his three-hundred-pound bulk. The piece of furniture—crafted for beings half his size—threatened to collapse under the weight of muscle and bone that had earned him a fearsome reputation across the borderlands Continue reading
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The Grain of Dreams
How do you want to retire? Master Jorik Ironhand set down his measuring compass with deliberate care, the brass instrument catching the amber light that filtered through the tall windows of the Artisan’s Guild workshop. Around him, the organized chaos of thirty years’ labor spread across oak tables scarred by countless projects—architectural drawings for Lumenvale’s Continue reading
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The Steadfast Companion
What’s the oldest thing you own that you still use daily? The pre-dawn mist clung to the furrows of Gareth Millbrook’s fields like the breath of sleeping earth, and through its silver veil, the familiar silhouette of Ember stood patient as carved stone beside the weathered gate. Thirty-seven years they had shared these mornings—man and Continue reading
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The Amber Thread of Memory
Describe one of your favorite moments. Magistrix Caelwyn Starweaver pressed her palm against the obsidian surface of the Temporal Scrying Pool, feeling the cool stone pulse beneath her fingers like a heartbeat carved from eternity itself. The workshop around her—lined with crystalline chronometers and shelves bearing artifacts from ages both past and future—faded into insignificance Continue reading
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