The Timeline of the Pivot Child:
In the First Age~
Shades of Necessity - A Sidereal veteran of the Primordial War meets a young girl who will have a striking effect on her next incarnation.
-755 (Year of the Snake, Mercury Era of the 1st Epoch):
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Shades of Necessity - A young Chosen of Secrets named Navia discovers the Pivot Child Prophecy and commits her life to its fulfillment.
0 - The Great Contagion~
Shades of Necessity - The Chosen of Secrets, Navia, weathers the Great Contagion in service to the Bureau of Fate but finds life in Heaven doesn't make the suffering of Creation any easier.
167~
Amilar E'lial - In the century after the Great Contagion, an angry, bitter Chosen of Battles meets a Destiny he never expected. Contains major spoilers of Righteous Steel and especially the Pivot Child books.
337:
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A Casteless Moon - A smuggler named Elated Fury survives the House of Bells and Exalts as a Lunar.
A Casteless Moon - Exaltation425:
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A Casteless Moon - Elated Fury and the Scripture of Crimson Silver defeat the Wyld Hunt, stage his death, and coopt a criminal empire in Arujuf in one stroke.
602:
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Shades of Necessity - Iselsi Navia, Chosen of Secrets, learns more of the Pivot Child Prophecy but pays a greater price for it than she ever imagined.
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An Abyssal's Dissent - Young Mnemon Matthias meets a mysterious woman, is almost murdered, and Exalts as an Earth-Aspect due to the intervention of an equally mysterious artifact.
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A Casteless Moon - Elated Fury is hunted by two Sidereal assassins...who find their quarry far more than they bargained for.
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Minxia Rising - A mysterious gunslinger and his lover spend Calibration in the village of a young girl named Chen Minxia...only to find horror they never imagined.
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Shades of Necessity - An angry young Hardened Killer finds consequence, and Exaltation, aren't what he thought they'd be.
722:
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Heart-Wrought Silver - Cynis Sari, a young girl, visits Heaven during the Carnival of Meeting and Exalts as a Lunar named Heart-Wrought Silver.
742:
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Shades of Fury - Scarlet Snow, a Fire Aspect Realm Courtesan, finds her Anathema father is being hunted and sets out to save him.
748:
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Heaven Sent Hawk. - Kestrel Sesus, a former Realm Special Forces Legionnaire, avenges her homestead against Icewalkers, almost dies, and Exalts as a Lunar.
750:~
Shades of Necessity - Iselsi Navia, Chosen of Secrets, finds the last key to the Pivot Child Prophecy. The Pivot Child, Iselsi Yezenjen, is born.
~ Mnemon Matthias, Immaculate Monk, is discovered to have stolen his Exaltation. He flees justice.
762:
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An Abyssal's Dissent - Mnemon Matthias is caught, his Dragon-Blooded Exaltation stripped from him, and sent to die in the South. Instead, he Exalts as an Abyssal.
763:
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Heaven Sent Hawk. - Kestrel Sesus is captured by the Lover Clad in the Raiment of Tears and discovers the horrifying truth of what happened to her Solar Mate.
764:
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An Abyssal's Dissent - Mnemon Matthias, Abyssal, murders his former Sifu and learns his purpose as the Fulcrum Hammer in opposition to the Pivot Child. He meets his Neverborn Master and is renamed the Fervent Dissent of the Grave's Embrace.
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The Mask of Pain - An Agent of Thorns in the Realm discovers the fate of his homeland and Exalts as an Eclipse.
766:
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The Bitterness of Love - Sad Ivory, Chosen of Endings, almost dies fighting the Lunar Lilith...but is saved by a mysterious man named Iveren. Their love is as powerful as it is tragic.
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Xilanada - A woman with amnesia wakes in Nexus, hoping to start a new life for herself. When she begins working at the Six Poses of Lightning magic school, however, she winds up in the middle of one of the gravest threats the city has ever faced.
767:
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Righteous Steel - A faerie-touched Dawn Caste joins with an adventerous Changing Moon on a tour of the Northeast, leading to romantic complications, acts of heroism, a wedding and the War for Springhome that changes the face of Northern politics for years to come.
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The Locust Crusade - E'lial from Righteous Steel and Solitary Coil from Xilanada join forces with a Chosen of Endings and a Starmetal Alchemical to stop an invasion from Autochthonia.
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An Abyssal's Dissent - Fervent Dissent, the Fulcrum Hammer, fights for the First and Forsaken Lion and meets his Lunar Mate Heart-Wrought Silver.
768:
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An Abyssal's Dissent - Fervent Dissent, the Fulcrum Hammer, journeys to the Realm, fights his Lunar Mate, and advances toward his agenda.
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Shades of Necessity - Iselsi Navia attempts to instruct a new Chosen of Battles in what it really means to be a Sidereal...and what the consequences are if the Bureau's agents fail.
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Tear Streaked Surrender - Sad Ivory, Chosen of Endings, meets a new Abyssal named Tear Streaked Surrender. They struggle to stop a Deathlord and their own feelings for each other.
~ The events of the Pivot Child book take place.
The Pivot Child~
Shades of Necessity -
- A Sidereal struggles to cope with the aftermath of the Pivot Child and finds herself more human than she imagined.
Shades of an Oricalcum Epiphany P. 1 of 2
Shades of an Oricalcum Epiphany P. 2 of 2~
Shades of Necessity -
- When forgiveness and consequence intersect...and when people make the wrong choices for the right reasons.
Warning: Don't read until you've read at least Righteous Steel and ideally Pivot Child.
Shades of Forgiveness~ After the Locust Crusade comes a search for the Eye of Autochthon...but as two parties converge and conflict in their quest, could someone have beaten them all to it?
The Eye of Autochthon~ Vanished: Graceful Flame - A young woman escapes the prison of the Imperial Manse only to find she's traded one nightmare for another. Part of the Freedom Stone's collaborative Vanished project.
Vanished: Graceful Flame~ Shades of the Crescent Lord - A mortal Harrier of the Wyld Hunt takes a ship to Lookshy to kill an Anathema...but when the boat is taken over by demons, her life becomes vastly more complicated than the secretive woman can imagine.
Vanished: Graceful Flame769~ The events of Righteous Sword take place.
Righteous Sword~ The events of my Liminality of the Age play-by-post game take place.
770~ My Convention of Fire Sidereal's game takes place.
~ Epiphany, a loud-mouthed unconventional Chosen of Endings goes demon-hunting in the Realm.
So an Epiphany walks into a Bar.