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    Patch notes are a normal part of any game. You find something odd, you fix it, and you move on. But the dwarves don't know that. They think they exist, and their world wobbles each time someone fixes a bug.

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    This series was born when I read every tag on the Vice & Fen Exchange and decided to incorporate both works.

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    The day repeats itself, but she knows three things will remain constant: First, Getou will leave. Second, Gojou will not kill him. And third, Shoko will not cry.

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    18 Jun 2024

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    Nahida squeezes his hand.

    “I sense a great loneliness in you,” she murmurs. “You have recently lost someone important—someone you are not yet sure you can learn to live without.”

    Al-Haitham doesn’t reply.

    “I understand loneliness,” Nahida says softly. “I understand the pain of having no one but yourself to keep you company.

    “In return for my power, I will take your loneliness. You will no longer have to worry about whether you can live without her. You will already know you can.”

    (What is a peaceful life if not one without pain?)

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    27 May 2024

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    Kaveh meets Al-Haitham again in Lambad’s Tavern—homeless, moraless, jobless with a dendro vision cinched to his waist to prove it.

    For lack of better words, Al-Haitham is shorter than he remembers.

    “Archons,” he breathes, looking him up and down. “What happened to you?”

    “I should be asking you that question,” Al-Haitham says, dry.

    “No. No, you really shouldn’t,” Kaveh says, shaking his head.

    Al-Haitham snorts.

    Al-Haitham gives Kaveh an ultimatum he is desperate to change.

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    26 May 2024

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    “While you’re gone,” Kaveh continues, “I’ll return to the Akademiya, to Kshahrewar, and be an architect like my mother was. I’m going to build a palace, Al-Haitham. I’m going to make Sumeru beautiful. And you’ll come see it when you’re back. I’ll take you there, and you’ll see it,” he tells Al-Haitham boldly, as if it’s fact. Kaveh glows with confidence, raising his chin and setting back his shoulders as best he can from where he is sprawled over the railing. Al-Haitham only hums.


    After ten years of traveling together to save the world, immortal elf mage Al-Haitham and human hero Kaveh part ways. Upon his return, Al-Haitham is confronted with the ephemerality of human life and left to find his own dreams and adventure, the memory of Kaveh at his side all the while.

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    25 May 2024

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    "Kids, what you're talking about is called generational trauma," Welt says.
    "So… me suffering for Dan Feng's actions is just an ordinary part of life?" Dan Heng feels relieved. So many things about his life can be explained. "My nightmares about Ren are because of Dan Feng."
    Welt blinks. "Well-"
    "Technically it's true, Mr. Yang," March says.
    Dan Heng nods resolutely. "And so my crush on Jing Yuan is also because of Dan Feng."
    "No," Welt says. "That's not how it works."

    Dan Heng's existential crisis and existential crush on the General of the Xianzhou Luofu

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    23 Apr 2024

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