SLL: Fire in Water Land
The biggest secrets are the ones people don’t go looking for. I reckon that if any young rememberer from the Plaza of Memory were to try, he’d be able to haul up from the deep end of Living Memory a … Continue reading →
SLL: Blue Roses Blooming Squadron
Aleph: I don’t respect them, is all. Ipso: No one respects them. Aleph: I try to respect them, but I can’t. Ipso: You’re not being asked to respect them. Aleph: I should respect them. Ipso: They wouldn’t be dressed like … Continue reading →
SLL: Five Men War
In your Timeline of the Mother Countries, O uneducated and semiliterate students, you should have already read (but, I expect, did not) that the Five Men War took place in the 388th year of the Eternal City Ka-Rone. This is … Continue reading →
SLL: Borr Mortock’s Day
“I think this world is a terrible place. We’re born in poverty, we live in misery, we die too young, and unless you’re lucky enough to have your memories encoded in an eiodolon stone, that’s it. Maybe one-tenth of one … Continue reading →
SLL: Elder Brother Campaigns
Notes from a Commonplace Book dated 08/07/1351 Subset of Last War, entirely island-hopping in the Northwest Theater from 1105 to 1108, initiated by “Old Eyes See Clearly/Elder Brother Also Speaks/Time Flows in a Circular Fashion” aka Bug-Eye aka the R’t … Continue reading →
SLL: Empire of Perfection
Fact: Popular rhetoric spread by enemies of the state declares the Perfected Empire the largest (by geography) or second-largest (by population) nation in the Mother Countries. In truth its population dwarfs that of the Diamond Isle, and more significantly our … Continue reading →
SLL: Esther Red-Hands
“Saw Esther last night in the woods I told her what they’d done She raised her axe, she howled in rage Said boys let’s have some fun “In Esther’s name we’ll take them on We’ll never let them win As … Continue reading →
SLL: Doctor Sawdust’s Parade of Wonder
Come one! Come all! Lords, ladies, yeomen, children of all ages. come under the Yellow Tent and see! See! See the death-defying acrobatics of the Nine Eggshells! See the enigmatic Miss Appellation and her cadre of trained flying tigers! See … Continue reading →
SLL: Drydeath
Every war has been fought with different technology, tactics, and effect. After the razing of Habadad, most of the Diamond Isle chose to believe that their military superiority had been proven, and for all time their might (in the form … Continue reading →
SLL: “Dead are Dead”
Dead Are Dead It seems difficult to imagine at this late age, as we stand in the twilight of history, informed of fifteen hundred years of progress, how primitively our ancestors and antecedents lived in the days before the Dark … Continue reading →