Posts by ironrealms
A Holiday Puzzle!
Happy Holidays! I truly hope everyone has a joyous and abundant holiday this season. This little puzzle contains a message! The first person to post the message in the comments below (don’t forget to sign in) wins 50 credits! Time yourself and see how well you do. Start the clock to time yourself:
Read MoreSecond Puzzle for the Solstice!
This artwork for this puzzle placed in the artisanal contest some time ago. The first person to post the artist’s name in the comments below (don’t forget to sign in) wins 10 credits! Time yourself and see how well you do. Start the clock to time yourself:
Read MorePuzzle Day!
Try your hand at solving this Lusternian jigsaw puzzle! Post below how long it takes you to complete. It took me almost an hour! Is this something you’d like to see more of? Start the clock to time yourself:
Read MoreBirth of the Giving Tree
For many days, druids felt the pain and suffering that suddenly afflicted the trees of the forests while the Moonhart Mother Tree and Master Ravenwood Tree began to sicken. Both Serenwilde and Glomdoring were alarmed at this development and eventually made their way to the Tree of Trees to beseech the help of this ancient…
Read MoreA Song (or two or three) for the Basin
Toward the end of Roarkian, a visitor was spotted wandering throughout the Basin, seeking fresh inspiration. Tired of the same old songs to be found within the dated material given them, the wandering bards of the Basin elected to send Adalgiso Batyun forward as supreme advocate, who took up the mantle determined to bring new…
Read MoreLady Clarramore, Her Sister and a Fancy Dress Ball
In Dioni, a scant few months after Clarramore Manor secured manufacturing and distribution of a new perfume, a cart was seen loading materials and workers into the manor’s upper level, much to the consternation of Lady Hyacinth. The first to inquire into these goings-on was Eritheyl Skyplume, Execumatrix Magnificus, though soon many others, mostly from…
Read MoreLady Clarramore and the New Help
The exasperated shouts of Lady Clarramore were carried down into the Basin on the cold winter winds one afternoon in Estar. Soon after, her trill servants took to the skies to search for what it was that vexed the Lady. However, it seemed that they were unsuccessful in their search. The servants soon returning back…
Read MoreVanquishing the Miasma
Apparently created by the mysterious beings known as the Forsaken, the dread miasma continued its progression towards the crystal sphere that was created by another group of mysterious beings known as the Guardians of the Icewynd, apparently as part of an ancient conflict between the two groups. One of the Guardians had come to the…
Read MoreRevenge of the Miasma
The miasma that has been spread across the Basin of Life began a renewed and more vigorous onslought to reach the crystal sphere atop the ancient glacier, which was constructed by the Guardians of the Icewynd to stop the complete destruction of the weather which ultimately led to the Era of the Wounded Sky. One…
Read MoreThe Mystery of Mount Wend
In early spring of Kiani, as the snow ought to be melting, Agitho Merule came to New Celest, riddled with fever. It was not so quick to thaw on perilous Mount Wend, and the Saint Gathlyn’s orphanage was suffering for it. Sir Raikogen Tanestra and Faragan Diluculo answered the call to serve the Light. Finding…
Read MoreThe Rocksuckers of Shallach
Late in the month of Shanthin, groups of orcs were found wandering the highways of the Basin of Life, who were literally “stoned” from licking strange rocks covered with crystals. The wandering orcs were first found by Shedrin Shevat, Morbo Gordian, Tulemrah Shevat, Ushaara La’Saet, Morshoth Skyplume and Eritheyl Skyplume, all of Hallifax, who promptly…
Read MoreA Small Homecoming in Zoaka
Bodha, a humble crafter of ceremonial pipes who had decided to spend years in far off realms, researching and seeing creatures as well as sights unseen by many, is now once again a resident of the Zoaka, where he was born and raised. When his former location suddenly and mysteriously shifted to a much more…
Read MoreBreaking the Miasma
For nearly a month, the Basin of Life anguished beneath the arrival of the strange, murmuring silver miasma that appeared in the Oleanvir Valley and spread quickly through New Celest and the Inner Sea, inexplicably reaching eastward. Relief was had at last when a figure appeared over the Snow Valley, alighting near the spherical crystal…
Read MoreThe Coming of the Miasma
A terrifying event occurred that some claimed were foreshadowed by the strange dreams that were plaguing the people of the Basin of Life for several months. The temperature suddenly dropped and a cold wind turned the sickly yellow clouds of the wounded sky into swirling maelstrom. Within the putrid storm, glowing red eyes appeared, surrounding…
Read MoreThe Genesis of the Wounded Sky
As the end of 299 CE quickly approached, unbeknownst to many in the Basin of Life, powerful forces worked to secure the means to shape the fate of the First World. Following the kidnapping of Jeremiah and raids of the previous month, the ice devils — enemies of the Basin apparently under the command of…
Read MoreA Verse, Ice Skulls and a Kidnapping
Early last month, Hoopah Hopekeep of Tolborolla was disturbed by the dreams of the Great Spirit known as the Daughter of the Rivers. When a ritual was performed to seek counsel from the River Daughter, her prophesy led to one of the infamous Verses of Magnora. The meaning of the quatrain was unclear to those…
Read MoreSecrets of the Czigany Past
A messenger got waylaid off while traveling through the mountains by the gaseous cloier which had broken through the aetherways in an experiment gone awry. Once the cloeir was vanquished, a strange cask was found that was meant for Jeremiah Gryphta, a Czyigany wanderer who has settled in the Basin of Life. Once Jeremiah received…
Read MoreTale of the Lone Lyrebird
A dark day it was in late Urlachmar, though the brilliant radiance emanating from Avechna’s Teeth did little to underscore the fact. Marani Veloske, White Priestess of the Shallamurine Cathedral, declared that the Basin of Life had too long been subject to the filth and debauchery of life, and with her fellow priestesses and countless…
Read MoreA Tale of a Vortex Valve
Late in Estar, strange keenings from a valve on the Plane of Vortex drew the attention of the Illuminati. To the disgust of Arian L’Aumes, who had recently traveled through the valve, it became apparent that the opening was sickened and afflicted by parasitic fleshlings. Rot and gangrene spread through the fleshy lips, turning from…
Read MoreThe Return of the Scarlet Goddess
As the beacon on Avechna’s Peak flared to life and the ground began to shake, the Even-Bladed sensed a Divine presence returning to the First World. However, as Terentia, the Sidereal Prince, and the Exalted took flight from the Resurgence of the Light, it became clear that the presence emerging above the Peak was no…
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