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    “I’ve committed treason against the Bright Queen,” Essek says quietly, “it’s not a matter of if someone wants me dead, it’s whom.”

    On the brink of war between the Empire and the Dynasty, Essek is visited by a Scourger tasked with assassinating him once his use runs out.

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    25 Dec 2025

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    Philza struggled to keep standing straight, dizzy from blood loss, a white-knuckle grip on his sword.

    “I have heard much of you, emperor Philza, and I have respect for you. Therefore, I’ll offer you a deal. You will surrender. You will kneel before me, right here, right now, and beg for mercy. Then I’ll take you to the Nether with me, and you’ll become my prisoner, slave, and personal servant. Or-

    The Blood God raised his netherite blade, pointing the tip straight at Philza’s heart.

    “-I will allow you to die with a sword in your hand, and once you’re dead, I will slaughter your children.”

    Philza fell to his knees without hesitation.

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    Philza had been prepared for a lot of things when he was taken as a war prize: the loss of his basic freedom, the heartbreak of being separated from his sons, the indignity of being reduced into the piglin king’s “pet”.

    What he hadn’t been expecting was for the man behind the blood-stained mask to be soft-spoken, or good-natured, or tired from the weight of his crown.

    Or lonely.

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    23 Dec 2025

  3. Public Bookmark 64

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    When reports of strange, magical occurrences trickle out of Nicodranas, the Cobalt Soul sends in one of their own to investigate. Beauregard is an Expositor, the hands and fists of the Soul, and she finds herself sent to the coast to uncover the truth behind these phenomena.

    Meanwhile a Volstrucker, the eyes and knives of the Dwendalian Empire, arrives in the same city for a different purpose. But this knife has begun to worry his blade has dulled. What is a knife to do when it cannot fulfill the very purpose for which it was made?

    In the city of Nicodranas, nine lives are about to converge, and none of them will ever be the same again.

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    23 Dec 2025

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    Viktor and Jayce are roommates, old friends, and lab partners. They both have just one little secret from the other, which would be fine, if it weren't the same secret.

    Only on different sides of an incredibly deep divide between two cities.

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    07 Nov 2025

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    Being a prototype is supposed to give him an advantage. VP-006 has been designed to exceed the standards set by human detectives in interrogations, data collection, and scene analysisー with a steely personality to match.

    But human adaptation programs fail in the face of Lieutenant El Amari.

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    22 Aug 2025