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Thursday, August 1st, 2013 6:30 PM If this was the price of urban expansion, Seth reflected, he favored the Freedom of his day all the more. The young mage crouched on the roof of a crumbling tenement, his glowing gaze sweeping across the surrounding buildings. He took in flickering neon signs, boarded up apartments, "adult" stores, seedy bars, women of negotiable virtue, all without pausing or reflecting further, as he might have done under better circumstances. Nothing glowed in his Second Sight. Seth let out a long breath, trying to calm himself. He would find the place. They wouldn't get away with this, whoever they were. Opening a portal, he warped deeper into the Fens. It was the same story from atop the sparking XXX sign: dirt, desperation, and no sign of the shadowy, serpentine magic he was looking for. He punched the metal full-force, causing his brazen bracelet to vibrate as it absorbed a blow that would otherwise have broken his hand. Someone had finally come to Seth, giving him complete trust, and had promptly been kidnapped on his watch. Trying again to steady his breathing, Seth cast his mind back to when this debacle had begun, desperately seeking some clue he'd missed...

Gloaming, Mage of the Cosmic Dusk "Old loves, they die hard. Old lies, they die harder." -Nightwish, "Wish I had an Angel" Hearken and ye shall find herein the adventures of Gloaming, Mage of the Cosmic Dusk. The young Seth Syme, manipulated by one he loved, suffered a terrible betrayal that left him dead. But to some powerful entities death itself is not immutable, and the inscrutable Twilight Angel granted Seth not only increased power but a second chance at life. More than three hundred years after his birth, Gloaming was forced to navigate a time and place alien to him in order to right that betrayal and save his very soul. Contents >Origin Story >Timeline >Interview >Hell Q >Reputation