The Book Of Chronicles

Tales of the Red Fork Empire

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Admiral Missing, Temporal Skyfleet In Ruins

Admiral Missing, Temporal Skyfleet In Ruins

Article from the Imperial Gazette by Reginald Young.

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The Journal of Raphael Ozman

+++++Excerpt from the Journal of Raphael Ozman+++++ +++++Dated one month after the Nubari Incursion+++++   +++++Journal Begins+++++

The docs say I should be back to operational status within a few weeks, but even still, I’m not sure I want to be. This new…

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The Heart of the Empire

Upon landing, I decided to deviate from my normal routine of running directly to the Archives as fast as physically possible, and instead found myself wandering through the numerous streets of New Byzantium. Almost inexorably, as though an occult hand had…

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The Lord and the Lighthouse

Once, very long ago, there lived a sailor. Young, recently discharged from the Royal Navy and searching for meaning, he found himself with a great deal of time on his hands. Taking his Navy pension, he invested into a ship of his own, with the hopes of…

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Missing Ships and Mortal Men

I awoke with a start, still sitting in the same position I had started, the Blade balanced across my knees with my hands resting on it. Picking it up, I studied my reflection in its polished blade, my face cloaked in shadow staring back at me from its…

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From Fear to Fury

My stateroom on the Orichalcum was quiet, with naught but the hum of the air processors and the rumble of the shift drive to disturb me. While normally this would make it easy for me to fall asleep, I had not slept in several days, jumping at even these…

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A Fallen Obelisk

My eyes flicked open as pain rushed through me, blinded by the bright white light that flooded my vision. I blinked hard, squinting at it as I tried to look around me, body aching as my head slowly turned. I don’t know what Tyro had done to me, but my…

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The Fight Within

I found myself in a familiar place, the vast desert wastes stretching out around me in all directions as the brutal sun beat down upon the dunes. I was tired, oh so tired, and felt like I had been running for miles. Out of breath and struggling through…

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Fists From On High

Even with the disappearance of their commander, the Dull soldiers left in the city around us were very much a threat. Hardigan’s troopers had just begun to regain their feet when the first shots whisked through the air around them. Taking what cover we…

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The Gray Commander

I left a pair of snipers on the cliff edge above, to provide cover for us should things go south, and equipped them with long distance rangefinders so they could guide the Orichalcum in to bombard the site from orbit, should it be required. The rest…

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Monument City

O’Brien pulled me up to my feet, and the rest of my team rose with me, wary of the newcomers. I made to continue on to the rendezvous point, in the hopes of finding our missing men there, but she waved me away.

“You’re not going to want to head that way,”…

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An Adventure in The Nubarian Expanse

The fleet shifted into the Expanse in good order, explosions of light filling the void in the outer system as the ships reentered normal space and powered inwards with all speed. The Admiral, deciding that a change was necessary, swept her forces forward…

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All Hands On Deck!

After briefing the Admiral as to our progress and the new information we had uncovered, we began to try and find any and all information about the Nubarian Expanse. Plans were already being drawn up for one of the largest fleet mobilizations ever seen…

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Welcome!

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Hello and welcome to this digital repository of my travels and tales of adventure! Within these pages you will find amazing battles, fantastic feats of magic, terrible intrigues and much more!

If this is your first time here, please feel free to read a…

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The Red Nexus

I snapped awake, fists clenched tightly, lashing out at someone in the room with me. Thankfully in my exhaustion, my blow did not strike him hard glancing off his shoulder as I struggled back to wakefulness. My head pounded with an angry, piercing pain…

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The Twisting of a Mind

I had taken a brief break from our investigation, passing out for a few hours in Mulholland’s office to try and catch up on some sleep. My dreams were filled with strange visions, of fire and the Armor, with the Helm’s eyes boring into me. Suddenly I…

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The Book of Lords

I must be brief, as time is short and there is much to do, but there have been few developments since our assault on Bortran. I have been in close counsel with Colonel Mulholland in attempting to review everything that was recoverable from our failure…

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