Really cool how you’ve developed an assassin syndicate in your world.
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The cooler more edgy assassins syndicate
Daily Fact #6
Daily facts are in fact, not daily.
Commander Iri Blossom of the Royal Guard can be best described as a prodigy. Nobody really knows how she did it, but by the age of 11 she was a member of the Royal Guard, by the age of 13 she was a Lieutenant, 14 she was a Captain, and 15 she was a Commander (after a close scrape with death whilst protecting the Prince’s life.) I know there are some lax child labour laws (Dulzura is a Judge and Rune is a bounty hunter at 17) but wow did someone mess up the paperwork this time.
The young strategical genius befriended Akos during the war, and I know that’s technically against Royal Guard policy, but they were both lonely introverted teenage idiots.
Can’t think of much else to say that I won’t write later, so that’s it with todays fact.
Oh I’d thought I mentioned that Iri did possibly like Akos (Once again, very much against Royal Guard policy) but I’m killing her off before anything happens because Akos needs more emotional trauma or something.
Royal Guard of the Impexis Regnum
Rules (Updated 1015)
- No befriending Prince Akos Frost
- No falling in love with Prince Akos Frost
- Stylish dog based jewellery is strictly forbidden.
- No killing Prince Akos Frost
- No giving Prince Akos Frost serious emotional trauma
- Bloodshed is outlawed for all Royal Guard members on Prince Akos Frost’s birthday for 1 minute at 1:30 pm.
- No members of the Royal Guard below the age of 16.
- No combatant members of the Royal Guard below the age of 18
(Iri got that any% world record)
Daily Fact # 7
Military System of the Impexis Regnum.
There are four primary groups of the Impexis Millitary
- Soldiers of Impexis
- Impexis Navy
- Royal Guard
- Stamstani Guard
Each group is lead by a collective of Generals who each control soldiers beneath them.
A group of 6 veteran soldiers appointed by King Ledus Frost will vote for one General from each group as the leader, these soldiers are known as the “Marshalling Council”
The rank for the leaders of the groups are as follows:
- Soldiers of Impexis: Marshall of Soldiers
- Impexis Navy: Grand Admiral of Impexis
- Royal Guard: Royal Marshall
- Stamstani Guard: Grand Commander
The leader has permission to demote or promote any soldier from any rank, as long as they have permission from the Marshalling Council and there is no objection from the direct line of succession and Royal Consort.
This means that technically the chain of command is as follows
- King Ledus Frost
- Queen Carina Frost and Prince Akos Frost (Similar in rank to King)
- Marshalling Council
- Marshall of that group
- Generals of that group (Can be stripped of military power, as Akos did to Damascus)
- High officer ranks in order directed by Marshall/G.Admiral/G.Commander
- Low officer ranks in order directed by Marshall/G.A/G.C
- Combatant ranks in order directed by Marshall/G.A/G.C
Oops I killed off a character
Iri Blossom’s death
After a fight with Icarus Fallenfire, professional side character murderer.
Because Akos doesn’t have enough emotional issues in his life
“Akos, are you alright? I shouldn’t have been late, Fallenfire was too far north for us to be lax on security.”
The Prince still struggled to breathe, but let Dulzura help him stand. “Ir… Iri!” He choked, sprinting towards the limp body a distance away. He knelt down next to her, held her arm tightly, tears unrestricted.
“Iri… don’t die… please…”
Desperation clung to his heart, clawing at his mind.
The girl opened her eyes gently.
“Akos,” she smiled weakly, “I suppose my only regret is not telling you sooner. Close, please…” Akos leant in, face close to hers as she coughed. “Farewell, Akos… I… I…”
Akos heard nothing but a slight breath of air from her lips, as they brushed close to his face. Iri Blossom closed her eyes for the last time, dead in the arms of the one she cared for most.
Well done Akos
You were a romantic failure before
And now the love interest is dead
not making another character for that purpose
this isn’t a romance story
Small extract I’ve written
Grandia, character development and Akos being depressed
Grandia rose like a pillar out of the ground. A spiral of rock sprung up, circling around to a summit far above. Large clumps of earth floated above the ground, islands suspended by the phenomena of the Rifts. The sun shone throughout the whole city, illuminating the waterfalls which endlessly cascaded through the sky, water forming from seemingly nothingness. High up in the city, large silver buildings were merged with these floating miracles, the Grand Courts in physical form, demanding peace and purity from those below. Other buildings also were formed on the city, and near one such building, elegant and grand - stood Akos Frost with blank eyes.
He looked over the city from the edge of the island where he stood, watching people move about their daily lives far below.
Clutched in the hands of the Prince, close to his heart, he held a small notebook. He hadn’t seen all of its contents, only read the first page.
This book belongs to Commander Iri Blossom, Royal Guard and shall not be opened by any other persons. If it does occur that I die on the line of duty, I entrust this to Prince Akos Frost, my fair Liege and trusted friend.
He hadn’t the courage to read the rest of it, yet Iri did wish for him to have it.
He opened the book to a random page, and to his surprise, saw an incomplete sketch of Iri, smiling. Akos wasn’t fully aware of her artistic talent, but the self portrait he saw before him was stunning.
He looked further through the papers, reading some pages, in both sorrow and embarrassment for some, seeing the personal thoughts of an acquaintance. There were more sketches, some finished, some incomplete like a frozen snapshot of time. Akos couldn’t tell if some of her art was expressionism or venting at the horrific states of the war, many of these pieces showed gruesome memories that he’d rather forget.
Another factor of interest to Akos were the amount of sketches of himself, sometimes with Commander Zion or Blossom herself in frame, other times alone. Akos turned the page once more and froze; a page was dedicated to a picture of himself and Iri, lying in the snow and smiling.
He closed the book.
A hand touched his shoulder, “Akos, all will be fine.”
Dulzura sat down next to him.
“Iri’s soul still will be near you, as commanded by Desiderium Reunionis.”
Akos waited for him to continue speaking but to no avail.
“Desiderium is just a myth. A story they tell children to comfort them. Her soul will be lost to the Rifts and you know it. It’s my fault she’s tormented to that eternal void.”
“It is not your fault, it is only Fallenfire’s”
“Shut up Dulzura. It’s all my fault. She didn’t have to die, yet she did.”
Dulzura was taken aback by the anger in his voice, he stared into the eyes of the Prince. “Sleep Akos, Iri will watch over your dreams. I shall be with Rune.”
Akos looked at the image of him and Iri in the snow, and looked at every detail. The snow in his hair, the perfect shape of their bodies, the tilt of Iri’s eyes towards his. The smile which pierced the cold, the slight blush hidden by trailed hair, their touching fingertips.
He once again slammed the book closed, the emotions shattering into his mind like a waterfall of broken pain.
Tormented by the memory which was nothing more than Blossom’s fantasy, he lay back and closed his eyes in the soft grass.
Dulzura watched through the glass
whilst Rune sat above him on the windowsill, legs crossed and leaning back.
“He needs time to think.” The Judge said finally.
“He will move on, or he will find himself lost.”
“He is already lost.”
Rune slipped down onto the floor, standing straight, only just shorter than Dulzura.
“I shall head back home.”
Dulzura smiled, “Oh, but don’t you want to stay the evening, or perhaps the night seeing as you are here already, there’s room for as many guests as we want.”
Rune laughed sarcastically, “You really know your targets don’t you? I’ll stay over as long
as you want, it’s dull alone anyway.”
“Nothing like last time you stayed over. It may have been an… interesting evening but we don’t want Akos traumatised by your actions.”
Laughing, the pair turned around together.
Iri was so close, only an arm’s reach in front of him. She was absolutely pure, resting in the air, hovering above the ground. Her body was surrounded by wisps of mist, moving slowly.
Akos hung in the air with the woman, in the same clouds himself. And then they were in the snow. The Prince felt his bare skin touch the ice, but felt no cold. The mist was diverging, moving away as the memory faded, leaving his heart vulnerable.
No, it wasn’t a memory, it never happened.
It was similar to what he saw in Iri’s sketch - the position, the smile, the blush - yet it was more pure, with only the clouds to surround and comfort him.
His purity exposed his tormented state.
Their fingers were close to touching, yet his hand slipped through hers.
The mist faded and he awoke.
I’ve got a lot of information in a quite short amount of time, all of it very important for the world.
The Bridge Reaction, and the Scientific Institute of the Bridge, The Star, and the Holy Rifts.
Another cult for us to enjoy!!!
Now, the Bridge reaction simply is the release of energy from a God’s blessing.
The basics are
- Get Primary/Secondary Rift energy from a god blessing you.
- Store that energy in an object
- Use a quick release of Secondary rift energy, such as from the death of a conscious mortal to activate the reaction
- Energy is released from the store
- Boom
This is the exact same reaction that occurs in the God Weapon, but the results are slightly different.
When Elita Impexis, Aaron Frost’s special forces began research into this reaction, labelling it as the God Reaction. They found that they could create an item called a Formless Core, which has so little energy, if it is exposed to any amount of Rift energy, Primary or Secondary, it will absorb it.
They found a way to make a formless core, then forge it into a weapon without it absorbing any Rift energy, they could control the activation of the reaction.
One thing to note is that the destruction and power of a Bridge reaction depends on both the intent of the device the formless core is designed in, and whether Primary or Secondary Rift Energy is stored in the Core.
For example, the God Weapon used a Bridge reaction with an intent to kill, and it was used with the blessing of Auctoritas (a Deity, so their blessing was of Primary Rift energy). Due to this, it released a very uncontrolled yet directed explosion, evaporating most of Stamstani in the biggest mass genocide committed on the Host Planet. (Aaron Frost was a screwed up King)
However, although all of Elita Impexis either sacrificed themselves with Aaron Frost, or committed suicide, another organisation was aware of the reaction.
A Divinity created not that long ago, about year 80, Era 5001F, began to theorise on how to open the Rifts up. You see, the Rifts are mostly theoretical masses of almost infinite energy, but deep within the Rift Caverns, the location where the Rifts are closest to the surface of the Host Planet, there is a point where they become more physical and there
This event horizon of the Rifts became the divinities main focus in life. They aspired to break it open and release the energy and consciousnesses in there. It began an organisation called the
Scientific Institute of the Bridge, the Stars and the Holy Rifts
like the narcissist it was. The Institute (Other than being an actual cult) had a strict ranking system which I had a nice diagram for but I lost it, it went sort of like this:
- The Divinity of Bridge. x1
- The Master of Control x1
- The Bridge Inquisitors x3
- The Star Lords x9
- Rift Cutters (Captains) x 27
- Disciples
And they designed a nuclear sort of reactor which used the Secondary Rift energy from the Divinity of the Bridge, and a murder or two of an unsuspecting innocent person to create a controlled and directed blast of Rift energy. It’s also used as a carbon free method of generating heat!!!
The Scientific Institute of the Bridge, The Stars and the Holy Rift supports climate awareness
I’ve got a diagram of the reactor but I can’t get it here, sad days 
The main energy of the reaction acts as a cannon, which although could be really good for militaries around the world (Minus the needed murder), The Institute use it for tunnelling huge tunnels underground towards the Rifts, so they don’t have to go near them and experience the natural insanity and chaos caused by that.
Then they simply just get like 10 of the cannons and blast through the event horizon and then… release infinite energy… into the world…
Not the best plan.
This Akos is different from normal… wait… where am I?
And why is the story so dark all of a sudden?
WiP chapter.
Part 1 Chapter 5
The End of the Beginning
The room echoed in emptiness, however the mass of people standing around the stone cut table, which stretched from one side of the room to the other, was obviously solemn.
“Welcome everyone.” A voice spoke.
A wave of silence rippled through the room.
Akos shuddered. He felt out of place among the commanders and agents of the organisation he feared for such a large part of his life.
Another voice spoke.
“We are here today to respect the former General of our organisation and vote on a new leader to bring Aspua to safety.”
“I believe that we should focus on eliminating dangers for the future of society.”
“Before we start, we should show our considerations to the Anomalies Akos Frost and Riku Takatoki within our presence.”
Akos nodded as the cacophony broke out once more.
“Captain Watson!”
“Commander Waters, could you pass the tea…”
“Silence.” Roared a tall man wearing a grey suit. His eyes were the colour of pearls however his hair was dark, darker then the void above at night, unmoving and still.
“We understand now that there are Anomalies far stronger than we previously thought. Without improving our technology at all costs and targeting these anomalies one by one until all danger is eliminated we have no hope. As the Captain of Division 6 I propose that I, East Verräter, will become the new General of I.C.E, and the more than capable Commander Spirio Frost will rise to the rank of Captain.”
Akos stirred uneasily but stayed silent.
“Unless there are objections of course. Watson?”
The moustached man shuffled. “I believe you are wrong, Captain Verräter.”
The tall man scoffed, “Do you have a reason for that, or is it just our… interesting past causing bias.”
“You say that our biggest weakness is technology, I say that it’s our lack of communication. We’ve spent years having our divisions distant, and especially Division 6 only communicates with the rest of the organisation when absolutely necessary. We now have evidence that the anomalies, as strong as Estimate, who we have identified as 243213, exist, are a risk and more importantly, are working together. Unless we fight as one, with all the divisions and Anomalies such as Riku and Akos, we have no hope.”
The atmosphere grew silent as the last word came to a close, a shuddering tension building in the background.
East Verräter spoke. “I refuse to work with subhuman creatures such as them. We deserve our own lives away from those monsters trying to take them over.”
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Ignore the fact that East is basically a Nazi and we’re doing fine here.
add the sandal curse and give it to the super cool and powerful eeevviiill villain dubioustyp0
responsible for being too based 
Uhh. No. That’s not how this universe works.
I can’t be based??!/1 worst univarse evar!!1!!!1 I’m report fpr being CRING!11
Daily Fact #WhoCares
Yes there is a multiverse with two universes that I write about.
The main one which I write for the sake of worldbuilding is the Rift universe, however i write another universe dubbed the Anomaly universe for fun and to make people think I’m a political novelist. Both universes share some characters although there is no guarantee they are similar in look, personality or name.
Akos Frost - Akos Frost
Akiro Zephyr - Riku Tamatoki
Rune Phoenix - Forgotten
Lumi Zephyr - Estimate/Lumi Arvio
I’ll… let Akos explain the rest , who cares about context anyway.
Context? Never heard of it.
I am Akos Frost. Born to Spirio and Nina Frost approximately fifteen years ago, I have always been called an Anomaly. Most people don’t differentiate between types of Anomalies, but I.C.E does. They call me a ‘Glitch’, A classification given to Anomalies with specific types of abilities.
I may as well begin with my childhood. I grew up isolated, never going to school, yet still learning quickly from the world around me. My parents were always busy, doing this, doing that, and never having time to do more than feed me. I looked after myself mainly; one of the many things about Anomalies is their extended mental capabilities and quick learning, and as a higher class of Anomaly, I found knowledge in all sorts of places.
It might help if I explain the classes of Anomalies anyway, the person reading this most likely doesn’t know about them. If I remember correctly I.C.E Classifies them into four types - Differ, Divergence, Glitch and Error - and even then Differ is split into 3 categories. Differ-1s are the most common type, approximately half of Anomalies are that type. You are classified as Differ-1 if you are noticeably stronger than humans. Differ-2 is the second most common class, stronger than Differ-1s and with a few physical changes such as glowing eyes.
Differ-3s are where Anomalies get dangerous. They have noticeable physical features, examples off the top of my head include scales and horns. They also can manipulate the world in ways that can be described as none other than magic, their powers are not extreme, but they can still be deadly.
And Divergences. Indeed the idea of a Divergence scares me the most, as they have the ability to manipulate the physical world.
A good way of visualising this is as a triangle, one corner represents the physical world, home to humans. Another corner represents energy, home to what can only be assumed to be whatever cruel gods or inter-worldly celestial forces created this world. And the last corner represents darkness, home to Anomalies. Divergences may be part of the darkness, but their powers lie in the physical world, ripping it apart, putting it back together, moving, transferring, being, doing, having. All of those concepts under their command, at their fingertips.
Glitches are part of the darkness, but their powers instead lie in the energy, I’ll let the reader of this journal guess what that means, but I would rather not leave my greatest secrets lying about on a bit of paper.
It is guessed that somewhere between zero point three per cent and two per cent of Anomalies are Glitches, still far from the rarest.
Errors. They are the rarest and strongest type of Anomaly, as their power lies in the darkness. I know little about them. Most people assume they are inherently evil, which is incorrect, a fact that I know from experience.
It is probably best if I do not give any more information away, the risk of an enemy discovering this journal is too high.
As I was saying, I Akos Frost, found most of my information from libraries, at least before the Purge when there were still libraries around. I first discovered my true abilities when I found a book titled ‘Anomalies - The largest danger on earth’ which lay out some inaccurate yet simple enough information for me to start investigating the things I could do.
My best friend is Riku Takatoki, an Error and one of the most good-hearted people I know. I met them nine years ago today, and since then they have become a sibling that I never had to me. Sometimes annoying but mostly just a confusingly abstract ball of joy.
They once said to me that perfection is just a lie made by those seeking refuge from their guilt and regret, and instead, we should seek the small happy moments in life, the ones that truly have meaning. I think that is a good moral to live by.
Twelfth Day of the Third Month of Autumn
Nine years ago today I met Riku Takatoki. They have since become a sibling that I never had to me.
We have a hideout in the Silent Wall, at the border between the Seventh and Fifth Districts. I think it was some sort of old storage room but we have since converted it into our own place, nobody could get in, it’s too hidden and you would need a key anyway. Inside we have a view over both of our Districts, as well as access to passageways throughout the abandoned wall. There are a few large desks and boxes that we keep things in, books, paper, pens, etc. There is a working electrical light in there which could suggest the wall isn’t as ancient as we originally thought, but we never paid it much attention. Both Riku’s and my own house cannot compare to this place, it’s somewhere that only we know about.
Since the Purge the only real reason we went there was to read the books we hid away, although they aren’t technically illegal to own, some of them are quite rare and we would rather nobody knew about their existence, but today Riku came up with the idea of writing journals, an idea which I liked a lot, so here we are.
I don’t have much to say, apart from I hope whoever is reading this understands our language.
Thirteenth Day of the Third Month of Autumn
Today is Friday the Thirteenth, some in the Fifth District say it is an unlucky day, but Riku tells me that’s nonsense and that I should be looking out for Tuesday the First instead, do I believe them? No, of course not! Why should I believe that any one combination of day and date is unlucky?
Anyway today I went on a walk through a nearby park, it’s getting noticeably colder now winter is coming. No snow yet, even for such a desolate country as Aspua it would be concerningly early. There was an unusual lack of wind though.
Riku was telling me bad jokes about cats, so I don’t really remember what else we did today although I had a nice sandwich from our favourite place down the road.
Fifteenth Day of the Third Month of Autumn.
A storm hit today, and the clouds obscured even the relatively nearby Silent Wall. I hope Riku is alright, their house isn’t built to withstand this weather and I doubt they could have gotten to the wall. I think I.C.E has almost tracked me down, I was an idiot yesterday and accidentally walked into the path of their soldiers, they might have suspected something from my overly panicked reaction.
I try to cover my tracks as effectively as possible, most evidence linking both myself and Riku to Anomalies being in our Journals, which we have agreed to keep on ourselves, or in my house at all times - where nobody could get their hands on them.
Hopefully, that means that if your reading this you are from some sort of distant future civilisation, possibly Anomalies still exist in your time, and possibly I.C.E has fallen.
Just maybe we can one day be free from this agony.
Seventeenth Day of the Third Month of Autumn.
The clouds began to clear today, so I went to the wall and found Riku there, they said they couldn’t stand being in their house anymore so took the secret underground tunnel that we had found a few months back. I’m surprised that the tunnel wasn’t flooded and glad Riku didn’t get lost in the catacombs. They managed to get to the wall and into our hideout and had been sleeping in the dry these last two days.
We spent the day exploring part of the wall near the Fourth District and found a good supply of paper we moved back to our spot. I promised Riku that we could take some to their place next week, but unfortunately, I would be busy for the next few days. My father has been acting strangely, he hasn’t spoken to me for the last eight years yet all of a sudden is asking for me to go on a trip with him for ‘work purposes,’ I don’t even know what his job is!
Riku and I are meeting on the twenty-fourth sometime mid-morning.
Twenty Third Day of the Third Month of Autumn
Spirio is concerning me, we are at a hotel in the Third District and he has been acting unusually nicely for someone who has completely neglected my existence seemingly since I could breathe. I’ve been asking him why he needs me for this work trip when all I do every day is explore the district, and he refuses to answer. What’s more annoying is that he claims he needs me for another few days, meaning I’ll have to run away sometime this evening if I’m going to meet Riku.
The Third District is quite spectacular, I wouldn’t have thought I could find anything better than the Fifth but clearly I was wrong. There are many large parks and houses, as well as giant streets made just for the sake of art.
Riku should really see this place one day
24/3/3/2096
I am in a rush, currently, it is about mid-afternoon but it is getting dark quickly and I am at the wall.
Riku was nowhere to be found here or at their house, and I am concerned by their disappearance. There was noticeable evidence of a fight on the rooftops near their house, not too unusual by the Seventh Districts’ standards but still concerning. I.C.E cannot have found them, there is no way I let evidence slip past my grip and into their hands. I am planning on returning to the Fifth District and trying to look for them before returning back home and confronting Spirio. If only I wasn’t dragged out on a work trip, I could have kept them safe.
Twenty Fifth Day of the Third Month of Autumn
I.C.E Finally found me. Luckily they had also captured Riku at the exact same time, which in my opinion is a mistake on their part. We could have fought through their whole army with little more than a scratch, or at least that’s what Riku said afterwards.
We met a woman called Commander Iridia Stone who seems nice, but I can sense some other intentions from her, we also saw a man who I can only assume is Captain Alfred, no idea what part he plays in all this but it seems to be important
Spirio didn’t believe me when I told him that I’d been at the I.C.E headquarters these last few days, why is he caring so much all of a sudden?
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Opinions on posting this story in Writing?
Why do I want to read more of Akos’s journal now?
Quite an entertaining read.
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Unfortunately I’ve not written anymore of Akos’ journal, as the journals are every couple chapters and I’m planning for at least 3 journals to be interweaved within the story.
I wanna know more about what happens to akos while he’s captured by I.C.E.
Did they give him the stranded clothes like in actual AO while he’s captured or not? In my mind I pictured him in his normal black clothes, bandanna and all.