Before going into any progression related news, updates, I must make the announcement of a slight delay. The next story, will be coming out of Early Access on the 1st of August, as I’ll be away on vacation the next week.

                                                                        Writing Progression:

Welcome dear readers of this post. Still not wholly sure on the format of these posts, but here we go, starting with my progression on writing.

This month was a bit slow. I always slack a little after breaks, after weeks spent on outlining. Though this time around, started doing some preliminary writing. But as of writing now, got mostly finished with the first tale of September.

A Bound Diaries story, as of now titled Practice Makes Perfect 2. It is not exactly an epilogue, but I personally view it as one for the August story. In terms of timeline, it will take place way after the events of the Invasion of the Forsaken, but will contain some callbacks, as it will focus on Lyanrei and Astrydril. The two will have a few too many drinks, and thanks to that, shenanigans will unfold. As with all Bound Diaries, it is more smut focused story, with Astrydril going a little goblin mode on Lyanrei.

It also a sort of prologue to the next main Cabal storyline, but more on that a bit later.

The second tale shall also be a Bound Diaries one. This one will take place where the previous main Academy story took place, but in this iteration. It is titled as of now The Exchange Student. The tale itself will follow a half-naurdian (Nordic), half-moonkynd student scaling the Honored-Guest Tower of the academy with noble intents of losing her virginity. 

It was a kind of random idea that came up whilst editing the revision story and doing some worldbuilding for next year’s stuff (more on that in the lore/worldbuilding section below). Also, a bit based on some Hentai where an all-female school/academy/university gets a male and all hell breaks loose, and a deluge of semen paints the blankets, walls and whatnot. And some lewd art involving bound men being dominated by females. And I also like captives escape and captors end up as captives’ scenarios.

As of writing this, I am a quarter down, as it has three characters. Loa, the above-mentioned half-blood; Oivindaer the effeminate male elf exchange student from the Snow-Scaled Circle’s Academy in the capital; and Naemi, a rival of Loa, a sraudornian witch. This one will have some awkward femdom stuff, a bit of NTR (kinda, but not really, just not sure what this kink is called if it has a name at all), and of course GID and DID.

Originally also planned two more stories, but one got moved to either November or December. The third will focus on a dark elven Seeker, on a mission to eliminate a bandit group nestled in the woodlands near the border of Wyruthrin and Schiaventiurm. This one will have some smut planned, but not as prominently as the first two. Outlining is mostly done for this, so once I am finished with the second, I’ll move onto this, but that will be in August’s first week.

The moved story will be a War Tales one, featuring the Snow-Scaled during the Uprising of the City-States of Central Eoran. But more on this later, just so I won’t repeat myself too much in the future.

Now for the Vicious Cycles. There have been some changes that I decided on these past few weeks. The August story took up more time than I expected, and though there are still plenty of time, I rather be slow and steady with these main stories. There are some points that I am unsure on, story beats, but I have a general idea on characters, the setting that changed with this decision, and the plot itself.

I think I mentioned it somewhat, but the first idea I had was a sort of hostage situation, on a research station beneath the sea. I did not wholly discard this idea, but this one will be a short story in either the War Tales or Shadow Archives group. With a heavy POV focus on the main antagonist, the Wrathful Ronin (I shall call him that for the time being). That short story I did outlining on, and probably be the last story for this year, whilst the Vicious Cycles will probably move to next year, with no concrete date set, but could be January. Will see how things progress.

Speaking of next year, let’s move on to the next section:

                                                            Worldbuilding Progress:

Beyond writing and outlining, I had also been doing some worldbuilding, on a broader scale than the looks of races, the uniforms of the Eminent Circles and Covens. Namely, been working on what shall be known as the Grand Draunneath Covenant of Thulyandiv.

The current Draunneath Circle is an alliance of Eminent Circles and Covens, kept together by their shared disdain of the Grand Guilds Union. But certain figures know that once the Union is gone, they may go back to fight amongst themselves, without the presence and guidance of the Great Divinities. So, they draft up plans that take a little while, partly because they thread with caution, partly because it takes time to convince and adjust plans for its structure.

So, this alliance evolves, and becomes a singular entity, a singular Grand Covenant (parts of the name are still up for change, adjustments on my part), that will also affect the world, will lead to the elimination of Nations, and the birth of Protectorates. Plus, some other changes. 

Structure-wise, my current focus for next year, fell on the Military and the Law branches. In terms of names, the military overall will be called the Thaumaturgical Hosts of the Covenant, whilst the Law branch is a bit broader, so went with Thaumaturgic Ministry of Worldly Order and Harmony. And for now, I won’t ramble much further. Will just add that these branch too, with both having a Prime-Branch, and the Prime-Branches have their own branches, divisions, and so on so forth.

And the Prime-Branches in the case of military are just: One is just Eminent Covens, but named XYZ Host/Legion/Armies. In the case of the Thaumaturgic Ministries, one is a more typical law enforcement wing, and the Umbral Court being the other wing of it, that includes Hidden Sects like the Raven Eyes, the Umbral Archons that turn from assassins to KGB type secret police, and one focused on surveillance and support of the other two called the Blacklight Court.

On one last note of this: I also thinking of giving them three lingua franca, with the primary being Nairenthian, secondary being possibly an ‘elvenized’ latin, the tertiary either an ‘elvenized’ Japanese or Arabic. Or maybe they’ll have four languages used. 

Will also start working on the Grand Guilds and their legions. Next year’s stories will all take place in the first year of the Second Great War.

Now for this month’s story. This I’ll keep short.

Three factions will feature to varying degrees in the story. The two primary and opposing forces, are the Coven of the Dusk Weaver’s, the Eminent Coven of Wyruthrin, a magocratic kingdom led by the Grand Princess of Night, the supreme sorceress of the coven. Similarly, they have their own elixir, or I should say elixirs. Unlike most other circles and covens, they have two. 

The Elixir of Lunar Grace and the Elixir of Night’s Grace. And even these have three different types. One that turns non-elves into half-elves, non-dracoriths into half-dracoriths, and non-dwarves into half-dwarves.

The second major faction is the ‘antagonistic’ one, the Erudychin (known also as the Orange Movement of Workers), a revolutionary movement aiming to overthrow the Grand-Princess’s family, establish a communist regime, and has been responsible for a minor revolution that led to the events of the story.

The third faction, are the Wondrous Coven of the Silvern Stag, who feature in only one chapter, and just included them after deciding to have one, three-chapter long story instead of two. They only have one Elixir, that I am still fine tuning in what visible effects it gives. It is ‘elvenizing’ like the Black Rose’s and the Dusk Weaver’s, but has some additional changes, like introducing a natural platinum silver highlight in hair at the ends of each tress, their pupils turn pale silvern and their irises dark blue of a perfect circle’s shape. But I am also entertaining the idea of introducing some draconic changes too, as the Elixir’s origins lie with the Silvern Stag herself, their draconic divinity.

They also got the honor of being the owners of the setting, a small resort island south of their shores, north-west of Wyruthrin. An island with a history of swapping hands, up until the First Great War, where they seized Holdirpi Island [though I may got the name wrong, as I changed around the name a few times]. But instead of turning it into a maritime checkpoint, turned it once more into a resort.

In the Second-Era of Mending, the island itself housed a resort commissioned by the Imperial Family, who ran it for centuries as a summer resort, where they often met with the Nauheimian Royalties and Nobility for business. After Eoran rose up and broke away, they did convert it into an island housing a small regiment of legionaries, but it fell quite quick during the Great War.

During the events of the story, the Twilight-Princess of Wyruthrin visits the island, a gift to herself after the brutal campaign she ran to stifle the revolution. Of course, she did not succeed in the complete eradication of the rebels, some survived and plots her assassination. For this purpose, they sent one of their best assassin, a changeling [Fae-Touched human] to infiltrate the island, and eliminate the Twilight-Princess of Wyruthrin, Arletevehr.

There is still some stuff, minor like the fabrics used, the vogue of the constable and common sorceress/witch castes of each coven, but those will get plenty of description within the chapters themselves. Though the Dusk Weaver’s probably got mentioned this year, being one of the few who buy and use dragonidh-leather. Or at least a variant of it.

Anyhow, time to close this monthly update. Thank you all for reading these ramblings, take care folks!

Worldbuilding regarding The Way Down; Crammed Rose and The Taste of Her lips:

Progress:
So this was something I wanted to do for months now, but I got lazy, got late with edits so by the time I could bring news on progress and such, it was time for uploads. Though in all honesty, most of the times, it was me being lazy and internet shy if that makes sense. But I digress.

This section will be a bit slower, in fear of spoiling stuff. So the plans, stories for August as of now.

The first story will involve Tawheeda, a new character who is a callback to two who I wanted to feature more, but shit happened to not ramble on. It will be a two-chapter story, which First Draft is finished, and even done some edits where I wasn't happy. 

The second story is under works. It is a Void Between Worlds story, a small one set on a colony of the Nairenthians and Grauburgians, inspired by Kamino. 
And the third, I haven't yet decided. But it will be a Bound Diaries, that much is sure. Maybe it will be a chronicles, not sure yet.

And a bit more into the far future, beyond this year. My last two weekends were spent with editing, and outlining. With this year, I kinda plan to reach halfway point of the Cabal Storyline, but for variety's sake, from next year, I may make alter things a bit. Originally, planned to continue, similarly in a two multi chaptered stories, but started working on some initial storylines.

One that is less likely I make a story for is a grander storyline for years to come, involving another war between the Federation and Heleion. Though there may be bits and pieces manifesting in short stories. Will see how it goes, but I am don't plan to start it off mostly because I want to have a firmer picture on the Federation.

The second storyline is somewhat connected to Tawheeda's story next month. One that is set after the conclusion of the Cabal Storyline (as of now), involving the Sakhrath-Ib-Anath (far-southern Black Roses technically, but more on them soonTM) and their rebirth as part of a theocracy that starts expanding, contending with a technically neighboring new empire.

And a third storyline, involving Selindrae who I also want to feature a bit more. A storyline involving her working with the Black Roses, helping in hunting down criminals. 

Anyhow, I rambled on enough. the three stories for July are in Early Access till the 29th of July. Then they will be up on Deviantart, Pixiv and Scribblehub.