To Old Friends

"Our enemies never relent. Neither will you." —Lord Shaxx —————— Despite the sharp breeze in the Tower, the air in Shaxx's outpost is uncomfortably still and weighted with tension. There is work to do: personal feeling must not interfere when certain doom…

Eris, tenacious Eris. Crota's Bane, Oryx's Sorrow. Ruin of Xivu Arath. To see you reduced once again to a minion of the Awoken queen. Examining a locked gate for signs of weakness. Rattling the bars to the afterlife, when you might have kicked the door in!…

"Not much sense memorializing anybody during the Dark Age. Anyone worth remembering, you'd hang onto them without trying." Drifter crouches down in front of the Ironwood tree, mindful of the offerings littering the ground. The amulet's nothing fancy—not…

Lord Shaxx? Oh, he's quite a craftsman. But then of course, he's a survivor—like us. He loves rewarding his pupils. With praise and, at times, with something more material. He invests great care in his designs. Still, sometimes a weapon has an unexpected…

By Ember Hadad, Senior Editor at the City Herald Readers might be forgiven for imagining that, after having been captured by Shadow Legion forces, EDZ residents might consider relocating to the Last City. I took a trip out to the famed settlement known…

"Death is the great mystery to us all." —Master Rahool —————— The question of Eliksni mortality is often discussed amongst members of the Cryptarchy. Stories of Eliksni arising in full health from a death or near-death state—as Mithrax did, some…

By Emmanuil Utkin, Staff Writer for the City Herald Several lifetimes have passed since the Vanguard suffered a blow from which many felt it might never recover. For the Lightless among us, the Great Disaster has become a fable: a story of monsters and…

"They're some of the Tower's best assets. There is always the risk, of course, of… overenthusiasm." —Ikora Rey —————— TYPE: AGENT FEED PARTIES: Two [2]. One [1] agent Aunor Mahal [M]; One [1] field agent, redacted [R] under Cormorant encryption //AUDIO…

By Emmanuil Utkin, Staff Writer at the City Herald Confirmation of a Human settlement on Neptune was only one of several shocking revelations over the course of recent years. Its discovery marks a sea change in our collective access to Golden Age…

By Ember Hadad, Senior Editor at the City Herald My new friend is an unassuming young man in a torn flight jacket, still coated in a fine layer of dust. His Ghost, Rivet, is looking impressively smug for a small metal being. "They told me I'd never find…

By Leia Terazzas, Political Correspondent at the City Herald Chibuike Otieno, Perica Kosar, Argus McKowen—if there is anything the current slate of Consensus hopefuls have in common, it's that they offer a very different kind of representation for the…

"We have found the Great Machine." —Mithrax, after Chelchis —————— Known on Earth for centuries as the Fallen, the Eliksni are four-armed beings from the planet Riis. They fled their home after the Traveler's departure caused a planet-wide calamity called…

"We eat the mountains. We drink the seas." —————— The former emperor, Calus, lived for joy, rejecting his empire's long military tradition. His sole heir, and a member of the coup that overthrew him, the Empress Caiatl makes for a different leader. A…

By Leia Terazzas, Political Correspondent at the City Herald Recent strategic summits between Queen Mara Sov of the Awoken and the Vanguard have provided our citizens with that rarest of honors: a glimpse of our Awoken neighbors. The City has hosted a…