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December 13, 2024 After winning the challenge for Wolfbron Bluffs and becoming the fourth Dieudonné to hold the crown, Lazare releases all the members and ends the longest standing pride's reign over the island. After seven years of the Bluffs being held by the same family, it now sits empty, waiting for the next chapter of it's leadership.

December 6, 2024 Death came to a witch hunter after she called for the death of Karsa, with Kvare answering it causing Miaran to fall. Lazare Dieudonné challenges Louve Dieudonné for Wolfbron Bluffs. Snow seems to be falling in the middle of the summer as strange animals show up and offer a tempting meal for those brave enough to jump in.

November 8, 2024 Scorpius has gone missing and in his place Zaahir steps up to take the throne of Andal Oasis. How this change of leadership will shake things up in the lands, only time will tell.

October 11, 2024 Something is happening in the Scorched Wilds. There is a battle raging between a familiar force and an unfamiliar one. What will you do? Help or hinder?

October 1, 2024 Spooky things are happening as the afterlife start walking among the living once again.

September 30, 2024 Louve Dieudonné manages to keep Wolfbron Bluffs in the family. What will happen between the Bluffs and the otherwise peaceful pride of Lorien Plains?

September 20, 2024 Ilarion Rurik challenges for Wolfbron, will the Dieudonné lead pride fall?

September 8, 2024War broke out once again in the Lagoon when a wedding had some uninvited guest arrive. The war results in the most death matches the island has seen at once. The Summit was challenged by Brighid with Talisa answering the call. After many years of the Summit have the same two leaders, the Summit changes hands. What will this mean for the balance of Amaryllis? A witch hunt has started by Luther and Miaran which seems to be turning things on an island that is full of magic.

August 25, 2024 War broke out in the challenge for the Lagoon after Cassius tries to take the Lagoon from Isla. The Cove remains with Miaran. The leadership of the Mire switches from Sigrún hold to Rike when Luther comes back to take his birthland back. Elephants push into the Rainforest and push out the lions there. Soon after Lucifer lays claim to his birthland and takes over the Rainforest.

June 27, 2024 Conflict and tensions rise as prides come head-to-head with one another across Amaryllis - just as Pyrrha and Cassius take the leap to try and claim (or reclaim) their own thrones.

May 24, 2024 Rulers continue to shift, family strife ensues, and, per usual, tensions seems taunt and always lingering on the horizon.

April 24, 2024 Things are rocky within Amaryllis as the Dieudonne clash result in three deaths and forces a shift in the rulership of Firnen Rainforest. With Caladan Cove freshly overturned as well, what will the consequenecss of these events be?

March 30, 2024 The lull has ended as a long standing family, the Dieudonné, launch death matches against their own. The Plains sees a challenge from a new comer, Aphrodite, and the quite pride is pushed into the spotlight.

March 19, 2024 A momentary lull has overtaken the lands of Amaryllis as its inhabitants attempt to find their footing and rebuild after a string of challenges. How long it will last, however, nobody can be quite sure.

February 11, 2024 The Mire has fallen from the Stärke family and is now held by Luther Rike. The change has stirred but the fighting nature of those on the island. The Brook finds a new leader with Icefang and Isla takes over the Lagoon after a storm pushes out the old leader. Reti finds himself the leader of the Hollows after Alexander is hurt. The Oasis finds a new leader in Léonie who is soon tested by Harou.

January 8, 2024 The snow has finally begun to melt anew, which means that the world is slowly returning to the much-anticipated summer season. With the various holiday activities and the other jests put on by Nafasi also coming to a close, it is safe to say that winter is finally over.

December 5th, 2023 Nafasi had pulled a cruel trick and has sent Amaryllis back into a renewed winter season! But it's not all bad, because the lands will also see a handful of holiday-themed events popping up as a result. To make things more interesting, a wayward trio of travlers have also arrived and are facilitating a mass competition between the prides, bands, and rogues -- formally dubbed the Amaryllis Winter Games.

December 2nd, 2023 The spring air brings forth a number of pride challenges. A familiar challenger for the Cove and the Oasis arrive to try to earn what they want. The new leader of the Lagoon is tested in battle as well. What changes will come from the challenges? Who will remain standing and who will find their world turned upside down?

November 27th, 2023 In a challenge between mother and daughter, the leadership of Wolfbron Bluff changes for the first time in 5 IC years.

November 22nd, 2023 Two death matches, one resurrection, and an almost-war later, the lands find themselves in a constant state of turmoil and calamity. Families have been torn apart and endless blood has been spilt; but how is it all going to end?

November 3rd, 2023 The lands stir violently as a death match rages on between Aeistrios Saxe and Morrigan Greyflood. Observers spill into the pit in droves to witness what will no doubt be a historic battle -- and it is clear that this familial fued is far from over, no matter who wins and who dies.

October 12th, 2023 With winter comes the surge of more pride challenges; Ludivine challenges Ryker for Firnen Rainforest and is victorious in her endeavors, meanwhile an outcropping of maims breaks out on the sidelines. In a shocking turn of events Luther returns to challenge Bruno for Ecrosia Mire, will the former heir prove victorious or has Bruno got what it takes to keep his brother's ambitions at bay? This has undoubtedly shaken things up as Bruno declares war against Andal Oasis and Allies in the process!

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Serpent's Kiss
Trigger Warning: Toxic Relationship, Domestic Abuse
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(This post was last modified: 08-11-2024, 12:47 AM by Rainer.)
A logical person might suggest that it would be natural for the Rike Jarl to carry a distaste for heights such as these, after all he and his kin have suffered. A logical person might suggest that he should have an aversion to places such as these, that he should give up on pressing his luck after having already evaded death once from gravity's unyielding clutches.
 
Fortunately, Rainer didn't bother to acquaint himself with many logical people! Aha!

If anything, his brush with death so many seasons ago had only made Rainer more addicted to the dizzying heights. And why shouldn't he be? Was the view not simply to die for?

The light of dusk cast an amber glow across pale fur, the inky strands of the beast's enviable mane fluttering in the too-soft caress of the summer breeze as he boldly stood at the outlook's edge, his still-functioning eye sweeping appraisingly over the lands below. Hmph. It seemed the landscape of Amaryllis had not changed much during his season's reprieve from the wretched island. The Jarl would be disappointed - if only he didn't know that this place was always nearly guaranteed to hold more than met the eye.

When he strains his senses hard enough, he believes he can just about smell the approaching bloodshed even in this thin air.

Soon he will taste it.

Scarred lips twitch into a toothy grin, and then part to allow a roaring summons to echo off the mountain peaks and roll across the land. As exhilarating as the view might be, there was always room for improvement. And the sight of his beloved @Astarte would make for an excellent start indeed. More importantly, if he is to learn of all that has shifted unseen within Amaryllis's political sphere, than she would tell him. Or at least, she should, if she was clever.

He'd like to think he kept her around for more than just her curves, after all. Wonderful though they certainly were.

Besides, it is not as if he has returned from the outer lands without gifts. He would turn away from the dizzying edge to settle himself expectantly amidst the 'charming little picnic' he'd dragged up along with him. Featuring such extravagant treats as a half-eaten zebra haunch (Oh yes, he was quite full, thank you for asking), and furnished with a soft, thick blanket crafted carefully from a disturbingly...feline hide.

What a romantic he was.
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Honestly she had lost track of how long her dear husband had been gone, loneliness ate at her, a woman who was used to the attention of man, she focused mostly on preparing for battle. She had won the tourney last year, against all odds, and she wasn't about to become lazy now, she was resting after a light exercise.

The crimson lioness is mid stretch when she hears the roar, her ears prick up and she tenses, anger flares through her at the summons, how dare he disappear and then summon her as if he had any right..

She heads to him, even if she were pissed, she still knew what her wifely duties were. It takes her sometimes but she appears, eyes glaring at him like hellfire, lip lifted in a sneer as she stopped feet away.

"Look what the cat dragged back." She snarled, fur bristled, muscles tensed, he had left her with four cubs, left her to decide how his family should be run, and she was not happy he decided to come home like nothing.
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(This post was last modified: 06-28-2024, 04:33 AM by Rainer.)
Oh, but of course he dares.

What is there that the Jarl of the Rike would not dare to do?

Who would dare to tell him he couldn't?

@Astarte? Oh dear, oh dear. He would like to think that they've moved past such...unpleasant lessons. But the spark within his fiery life was oh-so-terribly difficult to dampen. And if Rainer was to be entirely honest - that was precisely what he so adored about her.

May their dance of love and hate never come to an end.

Fiery indeed is the way Astarte presents herself before him, hackles raised and fangs bared. What a mess. Had she had the luck to marry someone of less loft ambitions and a softer surname, perhaps she may have cowed her husband with the display. Instead, Rainer merely grins at her, sharp and sweet. "Yes, schatz, take a goo't long look. If you keep zat attitude up, I dare say zat 'lookink' is all I vill be incline't to allow."

With all the air of someone entirely unbothered by their circumstances, Rainer would indulge himself in an exaggerated stretch, muscles shifting beneath his thick fur as he casually kneaded at his grisly 'blanket,' icy eyes shifting towards that hunk of striped zebra flesh. "And here I zought you vere patient enough to be deservink of a gift or two. Silly me."

Long claws slip slowly slip free from their sheaths as the Rike tilts his broad skull, his toothy smile still set unwaveringly in place. "Tell me - however should I correct ze mistake?"

Tread carefully, my sweet.
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Her husband's reaction, or better yet, his no reaction to her bristling entrance has her fur rising even more, eyes narrowed as she watches him leisurely stretch, telling her to take a good look, and she would be lying if she said she hadn't but that was not the point. His grin has her hissing, if she'd had her tail it would be lashing.

"I should be awarded much more than a piece of meat." She growls softly, circling him slowly, moving closer but staying just out of reach, "After all, having to do your job for you is hard enough when raising four children." She snaps, this time a little more angrily, fangs bared with black lips pulled over ivory canines.


His smugness has her carefully reading his body language, eyes flicking to his unsheathed claws, then back up to his face, she pauses for a moment, warily watching him, fiery eyes still ablaze.
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It delights him to no end to see just how easily he can get beneath his darling's skin. She bristles beneath his gaze, the sound of vexation hissing through her snarling teeth prompting the mirthful curve of own dark lips to stretch even wider - ivory fangs extending steadily further as @Astarte continued with her petulant display, until the glimmer of sunset dancing across dangerously sharp curves all but took over the Rike's expression.

"Oh? Is zat so?" He prompts rhetorically in a growling drawl, a single dark eyebrow arching pointedly as the Jarl slowly rose to his feet, idly swatting the generously-titled 'gift' that she'd been so quick to turn her nose up at. "Because I seem to recall entrustink only one of zose tasks into your lovely paws." His tone drops more and more into displeased depths with every word that he speaks, amusement and false warmth both dropping away from his face, his toothy smile exuding only the coldness of an unsheathed blade.

"Or do you mean to tell me zat you've forgotten your role in all of zis? Do you zink you can do my own 'job' better zan me?" His white-splotched tail flicked back and forth behind him as he stalked towards his fiery wife with a weighted slowness, the lightness of his steps underlined by a patient tension. A predator preparing to pounce upon his prey. "Or vould you like to tell me I am mistaken...schatz?"

Last chance.

"Vhat have you been doing zat is so terribly 'hard', Astarte?"
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She wants to smack him upside his dumb head, she wants to tear into him like he deserves, his grin only fuels that fire, at least Adalwolf didn't act like everything was a joke, when he commanded things, he meant it. But she was smart enough not to say anything about her late husband, Atleast for the time being.

Astarte knows when she's put her paw in her mouth, she internally kicks herself but stays still, stays stoic, not giving anything away, his amused smugness falls, the mask has dropped and she shivers a bit, warily eyeing him, her muscles tense as she angles her body away from him just in case he charges.

"I betrothed Lorelei." She sees no reason to hide it, he would find out soon enough, she watches as his paws carry him closer, his words are like a dagger pressed under her jawline, she growls softly, a warning, "I never said that Rainer. But I am not the one who disappears when the family needs a leader to rebuild us." She backed up a bit, ears flat against her skull, head still held high, her brother had filled her head, no, he had given her the knowledge of her mother. How strong she was.

Maybe her own brother would be her downfall.

"I betrothed her to the grandson of the Vermeda Queen. I've allied the Rike with Vermeda."
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(This post was last modified: 07-13-2024, 04:39 PM by Rainer.)
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Oh, but life is a grand joke, entirely meaningless beyond whatever ambitions one decided to put into it. Why should he not have his fun? Whether she fully realizes it or not, @Astarte plays by the rules of his game even now. The same game of demanding whims that his dear cousin had gambled and lost everything in. Rainer would like to imagine that she knows how to play a little more cleverly.

'Cleverness,' however does not change the fact that she has bent the rules.

Lorelei is a pretty little bargaining chip indeed, and that was precisely what she was always destined to become. But she was his to give away.

"You can say as little as you like, my sweet - but actions speak louder zan vords." For all her boldness, it does not escape the Rike's notice that she backs away from him as he steps closer, though it does nothing to halt his approach. He cares little if she finds herself caught against an unyielding wall of stone or the sheer drop below - his wife would find no escape from him here. Not until he allowed her to go. "I have my reasons for doink vhat I do. And I must say, it hurts terribly to zink zat you have so little trust in me. Zat you zink everythink we've built so far could fall apart so easily." A wide paw raises to theatrically clutch at his own chest briefly. Though the curve of unsheathed claws that then reach out to caress a crimson cheek suggest an emotion more ominous than the 'sadness' he claimed to feel. "Ensurink our sons grow strong is all you need do."

Vermeda. The name is enough to twitch his lips into a sneer, the scars that lined his left cheek burned suddenly with a flaring memory. The scent of the forest doing nothing to soften the volatile temper of the woman who had maimed him so. A woman who had attacked him as if she had known what he was.

"I dearly hope - for your sake, schatz - zat you do not mean to tell me you've befriended someone vho shelters our enemies." Leaders rise and plummet often around here, he knows that much. The situation in the Brook may have changed since he'd last heard of it, true. But even the paltry tidbits of information Astarte offers him leave the Jarl unimpressed. "Better yet, I sincerely hope you can explain to me vhy you zink it vise to vaste our daughter on - vhat I can only assume - is an alliance vith a pride of vomen and children?" The grandson of the Vermedan Queen, hmm?

Pale, sharp eyes bore deeply into the fiery embers of his wife's eyes. Perhaps...she is not as impervious to the backwards habits half-dominating this land.

Tsk, tsk. Maybe he shouldn't have left her to her own devices after all.
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Her pulse slammed against her, she almost swore it was trying to escape its bodily bounds, the lioness pinned her ears to her head and bowed her head as she watched her husband, heartbeat slowly rising into loud war drums in her head.

She swallowed a lump in her throat, she is backed up as far as she can go and he continues coming at her, her muscles tense, memories knowing what most likely would happen soon.

Astarte does not flinch as his paw outstretched, claws coming to caress her, her eyes finally find his and she looks up at him, shaking her head softly, "I would never think those thoughts..." She wasn't technically lying, she only wanted her family to rise to their rightful spots, "I do trust in your plans Rainer...But you disappeared, I was just doing what I thought would please you, I only wanted to help you build your kingdom..." She leans into his touch, pressing his claws against her skin, her plush coat pressed down by his massive paw.

"I've betrothed her to the Xuekai... They are strong warriors. I would never betray your trust like that. I want what you want." She presses closer into his chest, "I would never give the enemy something of ours."
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@Astarte has an exceptional talent for painting such beautiful pictures with her honeyed words of flattery, an image made all the sweeter by the yielding curve of her tempting, crimson neck. Rainer understands the game well.

Yet he delights in it all the same.

"...Of course, schatz. I believe you." At first it might seem that he relents, Germanic tones purring lowly as he tilts his face closer to hers, intermingling their breaths as she leaned fearlessly into his palm. "I'm sure you tried your very best." The illusion falls apart slowly. Just as slowly as his hooked claws sink into Astarte's soft skin, his gentle caress tempting her blood to the surface, where he might feel its warmth trickle between his fingers.

Dark lips would seek to trace the path in reverse, a bitter kiss dragging through sweet copper as he leans in to speak directly into her ear. "But it seems you still have much to learn about vhat pleases me." Perhaps she would be better off sticking with pleasures of the flesh.

The X'uekai. For being such 'strong warriors' it is remarkable that Rainer has not heard of them, though the unfamiliarity indeed proves that they are not known consorts of their enemy. Maybe that is promising. Maybe not. His wife certainly makes many promises on their behalf as well as her own, drawing a low growl from the Jarl.

"I believe it is I vho vill be ze judge of zeir 'strength', my darlink Astarte, and I vho vill decide vhat it is vee vant." Oh dear. Had his fangs slipped enough to draw blood from her dark ear? What a shame that she'd chosen to work him up so much - he'd prefer it if he didn't have to mar her lovely body with extra holes. "But never fear. I vill untangle vhatever mess you've dragged me into in an instant, if I must." The coo he offers is openly patronizing, as is the lick he offers over stung flesh. "And you vill tell me everythink you know about zese 'X'uekai.' Not vhatever it is you zink about zem."

And when he finally met the family Astarte so desperately wanted to entangle with his own flesh and blood, she'd best hope that they provide him with a truly impressive display, indeed.

The severity with which Astarte would be punished for her transgressions depended upon it, after all.
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He coos to her but she is not so dumb that she falls for his silver tongue, she braces for the sharp cut, wincing slightly as she feels blood well up, he moves his lips over the wounds and she shudders gently, a loud purr emanating from her throat.

His words sting a little more than what physical pain he can give her, she feels shame, her ears flattening, not only from him, but because Gauthier would be so ashamed of her. Her mother wouldnt want her to be like this.

He continues to speak and she continues to listen, nodding gently, "Of course.. my love ." She was a fiery, untamed beast that was only obedient to him, her head dropped a bit to press into his chest, seeking his body.
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