Empress Consort Haneul, the most powerful woman in the 'Illunite Empire." The second wife of Emperor Jiu, she was born a member of Goje's Intelligentsia, becoming an accredited professor at the tender age of twenty-nine at Jaehyun Imperial University, located in the capital of

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If y’all already like the regular Knights, you’ll really like the Orbital Knights when we get around to them. Not as skilled or fancy as Artam’s Kataphrakts or the IGC (they’re a unique category unto themselves), but they’re about as elite as you can get before you really start

The driving inspiration for the Artam's Kataphrakts' white armor!

To a citizen of Cordhei, there is no more base an expectation to serve in the military. Even without a formal conscription system, the vast majority of youth end up enlisting for the minimum contract to become a Squire (three years of service). A smaller, albeit similar amount

Will try and get chapter 5 up on Substack soon. For now I’m just waiting on a bit more feedback before I post the draft.

Chapter six progresses smoothly.

We love our knights here.

The driving inspiration for the Artam's Kataphrakts' white armor!

This... trend, let's call it, is part of the reason why Bian Ly is so important to the narrative of Records. To be frank, there are questionable elements to Laurence, which I will not elaborate on here, that do place him more into the grey-morality camp. Ly, on the other hand, is

And that's chapter 4 up on the Stack!

While matters of succession don't concern Records as a whole (Though, in the case of Goje and its story, it will), that idea of a "world of greys" is something very intrinsic to it. The Guild are very bad people, absolutely, so in that sense, there does exist an anchor for

Our poor boys in the IGC. Always caught up in political squabbles. Chivalry is truly dead, smh.

Empress Consort Haneul, the most powerful woman in the 'Illunite Empire." The second wife of Emperor Jiu, she was born a member of Goje's Intelligentsia, becoming an accredited professor at the tender age of twenty-nine at Jaehyun Imperial University, located in the capital of

I swear to God this man will live 'til the heat death of the Universe. And I'm all fucking here for it

Something I’d like to add is that for most purposes, a writer doesn’t have to give a specific number. Obviously, you can’t just dodge the quantification of everything. There needs to be some specificity for understanding. However, in a lot of cases, you only need to establish a

An animated series of some kind. I’d certainly love to see factions like Samudrii and Goje get their armors adapted for live action, but as a storytelling medium animation lines up far better with Records.

Our poor boys in the IGC. Always caught up in political squabbles. Chivalry is truly dead, smh.

The only people who really get the bandwidth to violate writing conventions are already accomplished writers who are adept at said conventions. Something something, you need to learn the rules to learn how to break them.

There may, perhaps, be a minuscule set of writers that actually don’t write for an audience. In that case, since you’re writing for yourself and don’t care if anyone else reads it, go ahead! Violate every writing and formatting norm you want. If you want people to read your work,

Alongside the marginalization of the IGC, what also stands out is the National Government's silence. For the generations following Emperor Jaehyun, the National Government made no effort to constrain the actions of the Palace, an ability well within the power granted to them by