SLL: Verr, the
You know who I hate? The godless verrik. The godly verrik, them as you can trust to keep to their own, they’re not so bad. They just hang back and pray for our souls or the panhandle or they raise … Continue reading →
SLL: Untime
“‘Every point in time has its alternative.’ You’ve looked into alternative time?” “Nothing so vulgar. You say ‘every point in time,’ but your understanding is so limited. Time is infinite. Time before the Landing and the founding of Ka-Rone. Time … Continue reading →
SLL: United Imperial Peace
In the South they do things differently. The Island of Word, across the Sea of Blood — who named these places? Why “word?” Bizarre! — the Isle of Word is of course the largest single landmass in the Mother Countries. … Continue reading →
SLL: Unified Front Navy
FACT: The so-called Unifed Front is nothing more than an extension of the Diamond Isle’s domestic borders. The many outlying islands and island groupings alleged to be independent and autonomous partners are little more than slave states with no say … Continue reading →
SLL: the Tower of Tongues
IMH: Once upon a time. Stop me if you’ve heard this. Once upon a time, not – not! – once before the giants came in a forest far away – once upon a time in the middle of the world … Continue reading →
SLL: Tarreb Geography
Let no man be ignorant of geography. Danarref who purports to know the difference between good and evil, she has recited a series of words which are a new thing and have never before been recited. With ink congealed from … Continue reading →
SLL: Tacentry
In this modern age, the outmoded concept of the tacent likely requires some explanation. As a full understanding of Zoeticism is impossible lacking comprehension of this basic tenet of their beliefs, it seems time must be set aside for its … Continue reading →
SLL: Sibeccai
–Shut up. I’ve been thinking about the Lamplighters. –Lamplighters? –They made sibeccai. –Right, right. Lamplighters. –Uh-huh. –Why? –Why was I thinking about them? –No. No. I know why you were thinking about them. Why did the Lamplighters make sibeccai? –You … Continue reading →
SLL: Spice Wars
Notes from a Commonplace Book Truism: every conflict fought w/ diff weapons and diff (flawed) tactics. Spice Wars greatest conflict of the past generation indication wars of next “terrible beyond imagining.” (1300-1306) Named for source in territorial dispute between two … Continue reading →
SLL: Stilling
There’s a story that a certain class of professional sailor tells. By “certain class” I mean a romanticized, highly fictionalized, but still ultimately extant type; by that I mean those who, after a tour of duty within the Unified Front … Continue reading →