The Counterfeit scandal
243 BTFOM – The Counterfeit Affair
After decades of wandering the desert, Damian grew restless.
The dunes all whispered the same stories, and he wanted a new one... so he crossed the sea.
It nearly killed him.
The voyage was meant to be calm, but the third night brought a storm that turned the sky to iron. He still remembers the sound of masts snapping, the cold that bit through his fur, and the black water that swallowed the deck. He survived clinging to the wreck for three days, adrift with nothing but lightning for company.
He reached the western coast alive but forever uneasy around open water. Even now, the smell of salt can make him shiver.
The city he found there was rich and cruel. Built on slaves, taxes, and the belief that magic belonged only to Gods and there followers. Fools...
Damian, ever the wanderer with something to prove, fell in with a group calling themselves (??), smugglers and counterfeiters who promised revolution through clever hands. They coins where forged so perfectly that even priests blessed them by mistake.
Damian supplied copper and other brittle metal, and laughed when the nobles themselves paid with false gold and called out for deception. For a time, it felt like justice.
But when the empire uncovered the scheme, the guild was hunted down.
Damian was captured in a raid and hauled before a magistrate.
He escaped execution not through power but performance, feigning confusion, humility, and the thick accent of a foreign fool.
“If words could make gold, I would be rich.” he said, smiling.
The court laughed. He was fined and released, but the city’s jails overflowed with those who weren’t as charming.
It was the first time he learned that rebellion can look a lot like theft, and that good intentions have the worst consequences.
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Birth of Damian Flow
4th of the 2nd Month of Egana, 357 BTFOM
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The Genie Vessel
9th of the 3rd Month of Zagyn, 333 BTFOM
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The Desert War
19th of the 3rd Month of Otune, 278 BTFOM to 33th of the 1st Month of Xarra, 270 BTFOM
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The Counterfeit scandal
17th of the 3rd Month of Egana, 243 BTFOM
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Immortalities Curse
38th of the 2nd Month of Otune, 211 BTFOM to 29th if the 3rd Month of Zagyn, 167 BTFOM
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Rejected Offer
25th of the 3rd Month of Zagyn, 166 BTFOM
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The child of Respite
4th of the 2nd Month of Egana 357 BTFOM to 4th of the 2nd Month of Egana 343 BTFOM
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The Host of Respite
343–333 BTFOM
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The Lamp of Flarereen
333 BTFOM
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The Fall of Respite
308 BTFOM
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The Song Beneath the Sand
286 BTFOM – 242 BTFOM
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The Devil’s Bargain
242 BTFOM
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The Education of Damian Flow
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The Birth of the Flow Trade
197 BTFOM – 162 BTFOM
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The Death of Damian Flow
58 BTFOM
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The Fire’s Curiosity
1 BTFOM
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The Fox and the Swan
4th of the 2nd Month of Egana, 357 BTFOM
9th of the 3rd Month of Zagyn, 333 BTFOM
19th of the 3rd Month of Otune, 278 BTFOM to 33th of the 1st Month of Xarra, 270 BTFOM
17th of the 3rd Month of Egana, 243 BTFOM
38th of the 2nd Month of Otune, 211 BTFOM to 29th if the 3rd Month of Zagyn, 167 BTFOM
25th of the 3rd Month of Zagyn, 166 BTFOM
4th of the 2nd Month of Egana 357 BTFOM to 4th of the 2nd Month of Egana 343 BTFOM
343–333 BTFOM
333 BTFOM
308 BTFOM
286 BTFOM – 242 BTFOM
242 BTFOM
197 BTFOM – 162 BTFOM
58 BTFOM
1 BTFOM
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