(10-28-2024, 01:26 AM)Norgarth Wrote: Beware of Chicken
https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/...-106073159
https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/39408/...are-part-1
Also on the OEX front, Tales of Destiny gives us Honden of earthly Fire 2.
Yrsillar Wrote:He the Glorious had been obeyed because he was mighty. Together with his descendants, he had been exalted, the Lu had grown to such towering wealth, because they built. They built, they created, they made beauty and prosperity. Their flames forged the rough farming tribes of the plains and the wild hunters of the scrublands into glorious cities lining the glittering riverbanks. And from that wealth, had come power, fuel for an inferno fit to stand just beneath the sun itself in its light.
Gu Yanmei considered the crack in the earth, beyond which her little sister had gone to meditate on the meaning of fire. She did not think Gu Xiulan would find her conclusions compelling even if she shared them in exacting detail. Her insights were not those one could truly internalize, without coming upon them herself.
…And Gu Xiulan was not any kind of artist. She was deeply fond of her little sister, but she could see under all of Mothers lessons, that Gu Xiulan was a warrior, not a builder of things. They were simply not alike. Her fires burned with violence and ambition, the desire to flaunt power and be praised for it.
https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/26470/...hly-fire-2
And last but by no means least, in a world borne On the shoulders of Titans (all kaiju are true), it's time to explore some Overgrowth!
Mr_Crocodile Wrote:"The future of agriculture lies in the hands of those who understand and respect the natural processes." -Trofim Denisovich Lysenko.
The Sahara has been a desolate wasteland for the last six thousand years, and mankind will regret daring to attempt to change that...
https://archiveofourown.org/works/60101725