ASHBORN PRIMORDIAL
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CONTENTS
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Ashborn Lore
Prologue
Arc 1
1. The End of Your World. The Beginning of Mine
2. Death of a Dream
3. The Village Life Of An Ashborn Primordial
4. Those That Hunt. Those That Hide
5. Into Darkness
6. Ekavir—Of Godshollow
7. The Four-Armed Giant
8. Rudvik—Of Brij
9. The Ghost of Godshollow
Arc II
10. New Beginnings
11. Riyan Savar
12. Man of Many ‘Talents’
13. Prana Scorned
14. The Energy of Life
15. Prana Vision
16. Rite of Passage
17. Art of the Gods
18. Kalaripayattu
19. Desert Cartographers
20. Maiya vs Vir
21. The Lost Chakram Arts
22. The Akh Nara Sends His Regards
23. Riyan’s Dome of Horrors
24. To Steal From the Reaper
25. A Tale of Ice and Wind
26. Cloaks & Daggers
27. The Northward Bound
28. A ‘Bumpy’ Ride
29. The Taste of Progress
30. The Road to Saran
31. Country Bumpkins
32. Until the End
33. The Culprit
34. A Sheen Tarnished
35. Old Man Bakura
36. Bumpy the Brave
37. Of Demons & Ashborn
38. To Play with Prana & Blood
39. Homecoming
40. A Mejai’s First Lesson
41. Beware of Gods Bearing Gifts
42. Equilibrium
43. Whiteout
44. The Prana Within
45. Leaps of Progress
46. Apex Predator?
47. Of Gods and Magic
48. Some Dreams do Come True
49. Clutch Rachna
50. Shardul the Vicious
51. The Aftermath
52. Dance of the Shadow Demon
53. Maiya Advances
54. Duel on the Dunes
55. Shifting Winds
56. Immortal
57. Breakers of the Chain
58. Riyan’s Dome of Powers
59. Talent vs Orb
60. Interdiction
Arc III
61. Regicide
62. Ekavir Goes to Daha
63. Vimana Hiranya
64. City of Blazing Wealth
65. A Bumpkin After All
66. Fateful Encounters
67. The Brotherhood of Mercenaries
68. Backstabs, Battles, and Betrayals (Maiya)
69. Of Jatu, Mahakurma, and Prana Swarms
70. Into the Sewers
71. The World Beneath
72. Executor Rising
73. Balar Rank Exam
74. Prana Rat Exterminator
75. Valaka Amara
76. Guaranteed Annihilation
77. To Wake From a Nightmare
78. Infiltration
79. A Day in the Life of Maiya (Part One)
80. A Day in the Life of Maiya (Part Two)
81. Acolyte
82. Ekavir Goes Shopping
83. Ravin – Of the Warrens
84. Murderer
85. Chala’s Knees
86. Treacherous Dealings
87. Empowered
88. Princess Assassin (Part One)
89. Princess Assassin (Part Two)
90. Princess Assassin (Part Three)
91. The Butcher and the Blight
92. To Fight Fire with Fire (Epilogue)
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PROLOGUE
The Ashen Realm. Year 3744 of the Age of Realms.
Primordial Ekanai would live again.
They called him the Reaper, but as he crossed the gate between realms, Ekanai feared his own life would be reaped in this world of volcanoes and ash. Not in the warmth of his home, surrounded by family and fellow warriors. Alone, in a rocky wasteland of jagged peaks and barren plains smothered by soot.
Crowning this blighted landscape stood a jungle of dark and sinister towers that pierced the sky, disappearing into distant lightning clouds that raged eternally.
The ruined city of the gods.
Fabled, rumored, but never seen. Because those who laid eyes on it never returned to tell the tale.
Fate had not been kind to the lost city. For millennia, it remained abandoned—a mausoleum of an era long forgotten.
Ekanai was beginning to understand why.
Prana—the energy of life—was thick in this realm, and it grew heavier the deeper he went. It corrupted his body like ink bleeding through paper, suffocating him with each step. Whatever tragedy befell the gods had also tainted the very air, rendering it toxic to life.
Even so, Ekanai had not wasted lifetimes seeking this place only to turn back now. He persisted doggedly on, edging closer and closer to death’s door.
And then there were the wolves.
Pure black, with flames of prana that burned off their hides, their minds had broken long ago. No longer capable of intelligent thought, they swarmed Ekanai, driven only by instinct and addled hatred.
Not just one or even a dozen. Hundreds. Each powerful enough to end a warrior in an instant.
To a Primordial, they were merely insects.
Ekanai silenced the pain that ravaged his body and channeled his prana to the eight-spoked tattoo on his chest. The white symbol of the Akh Nara flared to life, powering his spell.