Balmung - FFXIV

XIV Write 2026 - Summary and Index I skipped Sundays this year. Favorite stories are highlighted in bold. - A lonely woman takes a chance by walking down a road in the snow. - A young man grapples...

30. Vestige What's left of her isn't much. There are things in her home she left behind. They come in to take a look, quietly, with reverence. The owner isn't here and it's easy to feel like an intru...

29. Layer Part 3 of the Little Gods Adventure. Continued from It was arguably in poor taste to make oneself an audience to a killing, but then, nothing I'd done since stepping foot in the town was ...

Alt: Jet Li in Zhang Yimou's Hero, illuminated fro the left against a gold background, shot from the shoulders up. He says "Beautiful calligraphy."

Day 28: On Thin Ice Few things on the steppe earned credit as much as generosity. This held true wherever one went, whichever tribe one hailed from. It was kingly to give. A wife who fed all her gues...

28. On Thin Ice Part 2 of The Little Gods Adventure, cont’d from: Lonely roads and bridges. These were the places travelers should avoid at night. That's where you'd find bandits. Not up in the hil...

26. Sussurus Nothing good can come of a samurai walking into an inn. If the bakufu enacted a law banning us from entering any establishment where drinks are served, we would enter a new age of peace....

25. Cynosure Seven Views of Mt. Daitenzan, by the Old Mad Painter 1. The Great Wave The rains haven't come yet, but the ocean knows. I'm leaning over the deck of the ship with the wind whipping th...

Day 24: Drift (This is a continuation from Day 23: Egress) In days long gone, when Nhaama's throne still stood tall, the steppe had split in two great nations. Each was led by a general of Chaghahan...