What’s the story behind your nickname? The crash of copper pots hitting the stone floor echoed through the Gilded Griffin’s kitchen like thunder announcing an approaching storm. Gareth Ironwood—all six and a half feet of him—stood frozen among the wreckage, his massive frame somehow appearing even larger in the sudden silence that followed. Flour dusted Continue reading

What strategies do you use to maintain your health and well-being? The morning light filtered through layers of canopy that had grown for three thousand years, each leaf a deliberate placement in the vast cathedral of consciousness that was Verdania the Ever-Growing. Her awareness stretched through root networks that spanned continents, through bark that remembered Continue reading

What are your future travel plans? The wind-ship *Wandering Echo* creaked with the comfortable rhythm of well-seasoned timber as Keiran Ironwatch—though he rarely used his family name anymore—spread the collection of maps across the navigation table. Two years of constant travel had weathered his hands until they resembled the charts themselves: marked with scars that Continue reading

What would you change about modern society? The bio-mechanical heart that pulsed within Ambassador Lyrian Cogwright’s chest quickened its rhythm as she stood before the Council of Integration, her enhanced neural pathways processing the weight of the question they had posed. The chamber around them breathed with the subtle intelligence of living architecture—walls that adjusted Continue reading