My mentor sent me out marching out here with a waterskin, a strange shape on a scrap of paper, and an admonition not to return until I opened the way. Open the way? There’s nothing here but crumbling ruins and dust!\n\nI suppose I did learn one thing. I should be more specific when I ask for advanced lessons.

Found before a gateway at Hermopolis

A Small Test

My water has run dry. The sun beats down overhead.   \n\nThe only respite to be found is in the shadow of these ruined gateways. From here, I can see the rooftops of New Corsica. Maybe I should just return to town, before my strength gives out.   \n\nNo, no, I won’t give my mentor the satisfaction of another self-righteous lecture. There must be something about this scribbled shape, like a fishhook. Open the way. \n\nOpen the way…

The Last Resort

It’s so obvious. A child could’ve reasoned their way past this, but I nearly missed it.   \n\nThe meaning is not in the glyph itself, nor the word attributed to it. The meaning is in the experience. By undertaking my journey to this place, I had already begun opening the way. I was just too exasperated and stubborn to see it.\n\nNow the gates reveal their secrets to me, and I can finally return to my mentor. <i>After</i> I cleanse myself of all this wretched dust.

Gnosis

A Small Test #1

The Last Resort #2

Gnosis #3

The sandswept and sunscorched desert in the West, and the last known home of the Ancients

A Debate on Ethical Warfare, Part One #1

A Debate on Ethical Warfare, Part Two #2

An End to the Debate #3

Pompey's Letter #1

Antony's Letter #2

Brimstone Sulfur Experiments #1

Nostalgia #2

Against the Sages #3

A New Path #4

Drusilla's Letter #1

A Dream of Riches #1

Mind the Gap #2

Awakening #3

The Problem of Suffering #1

The Natural Order #2

On the Evolution of the Roman Centuries #1

Local Superstitions #2

Firsthand Observations of Roman Pila #3

The Passage of Time #1

Bitter Truths #2

Crassus's Oath #3

Materials #1

Methods #2

Blasphemous Musings #1

The Narrowing Road #2

Abandonment #3

Mysterious Riddle #1

DINGTA #1

JIIBA #2

KEYYA YIB' #3

TEYII #4

WETZUU #5

CRUUJ #6

AMBA #7

PIMBII #8

D'UN-YICH #9

HIMDE #10

AABER #11

ITKA #12

DZUU #13

J'IJ #14

TSADZUI #15

HID #16

RIIGA #18

EYBUE #19

CRUUJ'II #20

D'UN-GA #21

TAB' #22

B'ENGYING #23

TSANGMIIJ #24

JICH #25

DUBUU #26

Malatesta's Letter #1

Gateway to the Gods #1

The Secrets of Akhet #2

The Will of the Gods #3

Crassus's Letter #1

The wisdom of the word is #1

A Mysterious Threat #1

The Malevolence Grows #2

Day 1 #1

Day 2 #2

What Day? #3

The Cradle #4

Arikh, Part 1 #1

Arikh, Part 2 #2

Shukri #3

The Child #1

The Huntress #1

Devourer, Part 1 #1

Devourer, Part 2 #2

Devourer, Part 3 #3

To My Love #1

Yvette #2

A Satisfying Home #3

The Amazing Trades of Giovanni #4

Ogdan's Journal #1

Goat-sick #2

A Quiet Corner #3

Favorites #1

Hymn to Absent Gods #1

Testament of the First Peoples #2

The Doom of Eternity #3

Brimstone Nursery Rhyme #4

Pharaoh’s Decree vol. I #1

Pharaoh’s Decree vol. 2 #2

Witness of the Faithful vol. 1 #3

Witness of the Faithful vol. 2 #4

A Legionnaire’s Lament #1

Behold our queen’s salvation! #2

The Journal of Publius Canidius Crassus #3

Scouting Report #4

Tales of Brimstone Sands

Opening the Way

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