SheWolfSymphony Progress Report
“Listen to them, the children of the night. What music they make!”
Grand Surveyorate of the Crown
“A land unnamed is a land unguarded. A people unmeasured are a people imperiled.” — Grand Surveyor Konstantin Arkhotsev, 629 ZR
Veliky Serebrinsk
“Veliky Serebrinsk does not sleep; it waits. Its lights glitter on the river like promises, and beneath them the water remembers every stone that was forced into place.”
Anya Aleksandrovna Serebryakova
“They think I drink because I am empty. They never consider I drink because I feel everything.” - Anya
Winter Palace
“The Winter Palace does not rule the empire. It reminds the empire that it is ruled.” — anonymous court chronicler, 612 ZR
Inquisitor-General of the Crown
“Mercy is a luxury of stability. I exist to ensure stability.” — Inquisitor-General Morozov, sealed testimony, 671 ZR
Serebryan Pallor
“The patient speaks clearly, performs his duties, and obeys without hesitation... yet when asked what brings him joy, he is silent.” — Physician Drovnin, On the Pallor of Modern Service, 579 ZR
Velikozoryanski | High Zoryan
High Zoryan (Velikozoryanski) — the ceremonial language of empire, law, and record, where power is spoken softly and made permanent.
Imperial Portraitist
“They do not ask me to paint what is there. They ask me to paint what must remain.” — Prince N. S. Lanskoy, private correspondence, 679 ZR
The Silverwinter Revolt
“The river erased our maps. The Crown erased us.” — graffiti recorded and removed, Low Banks district, 683 ZR
Serebraya Zorya
“The empire does not ask whether it should endure. It only asks how much it must measure to do so.”
High Zoryan | Velikozoryanski Narod
“To be High Zoryan is not to ask who you are, but to know where you stand.”
Aleksandr IV Serebryakov
“The empire does not endure because it is loved. It endures because it is necessary. History has never forgiven what collapses.”
Elizaveta Petrovna Vyazemskaya
“If you listen long enough, people will tell you what frightens them. If you remember it, they will never forgive you.”
Innokenty Beloyar
“There are sins that demand repentance, and sins that demand silence. I am trusted with both, and absolved by neither.” — Archimandrite Innokenty Beloyar, private confession notes
Katerina Aleksandrovna Serebryakova
“They tell me the Crown is heavier than it looks. What they do not tell me is how many hands have already been crushed beneath it.”
Lev Arkadyevich Volkov
“I do not heal. I stay. And sometimes, staying is enough.” — attributed to Lev Arkadyevich Volkov
Mikhail Aleksandrovich Serebryakov
“They asked me to lie so the empire could endure. I refused—and learned that endurance is the lie.”
Nikolai Sergeyevich Lanskoy
“Power wants to be remembered as inevitable. I prefer to remember it as tired.”
Pavel Nikolayevich Radin
“The state does not fail when it starves its people. It fails when it teaches them that starvation is natural.”
Pyotr Vasilievich Karsin
“Mercy is not the absence of punishment. It is the certainty that punishment will be remembered.” — Pyotr Vasilievich Karsin, inaugural address to the Crown Inquisition
Sergei Ivanovich Krestovnik
“You speak of suffering as though it were a failure. I assure you, it has been calculated.”
Yelena Mikhailovna Serebryakova
“I have learned that one can do great harm by doing nothing at all and still be praised for it.”
Konstantin Arkhotsev
“What cannot be measured cannot be governed. What cannot be governed will eventually govern us.” — Konstantin Arkhotsev, marginal note on a revised provincial survey
Sergei Arkhotsev I
“The empire does not conquer what it cannot describe. Therefore, description must come first.”
Argent Basilica
“The Basilica teaches that the world endures not because it is just, but because it is borne.”
Black Archive
“The Archive does not accuse. It remembers. And memory, properly arranged, requires no verdict.”
River Serebra
“The river does not obey the empire. The empire merely survives its patience.”
Upper Zorya Highlands
“All that flows from the empire begins here, where the empire is weakest.”
Chancery of External Territories
“The territory is not yet the empire. It is merely useful.” — Chancery memorandum, late period
Argent Orthodox Faith
“Argentum suffered not to end suffering, but to teach us how to endure it.”
Aleksandr I Serebryakov
“A ruler may be loved or feared. The Crown must be neither. It must simply remain.”
The Winter Statement
“I did not misunderstand the requirements placed before me. I met them where I could, and where I could not, I was told this was not a fault but a fact. I accept facts. I do not accept their consequences.”
Ilya Andreyevich Morenin
“I am not misunderstood. I understand perfectly. I have complied where I could, adjusted where I was permitted, and waited where waiting was prescribed. What remains is not defiance, but accuracy.”
Inquisitor's Seal
A weighted signet of the Crown Inquisition whose single impression is sufficient to remove a matter from the civil realm entirely.
Argent Steel
“Wood rots. Ink runs. Stone fractures. Argent steel remembers.” — Anonymous metallurgical marginalia, Crown Archive
Crown Mint of Veliky Serebrinsk
“The Crown may decree value, but it is the Mint that makes it endure.” — Unattributed engraving hall maxim
Viktor Semyonovich Kalyagin
“Value does not arise from belief. Belief arises from value being enforced.”
Memories of Silverwinter
"A quiet chronicle of flood, order, and the moment a city realizes it has been perfectly managed into something unrecognizable."
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Welcome to the symphony of shadows and stories. I'm a passionate writer and worldbuilder who thrives on crafting dark, gritty, and serious tales that delve into the depths of human nature, supernatural intrigue, and the complexities of life. Wolves hold a special place in my heart, and you’ll often find their fierce spirit and primal beauty reflected in my work—werewolves, especially, are my jam.When I’m not weaving intricate worlds, I’m diving into anime, soaking up the power of music, or losing myself in the storytelling of my favorite movies. My creations are my way of exploring the raw edges of reality while reveling in the fantastical. If you’re into intense narratives, layered characters, and a touch of the wild, you’re in the right place.
Interests & Hobbies
- Learning Linguistics & Languages
- Writing
- Gaming
- Fur-Baby Mama
- World-Building
- Web Design
Favorite Movies
Anime Movies
- Howl's Moving Castle
- Spirited Away
- Princess Mononoke
- Jin-Roh
- Samurai X (Trust/Betrayal)
- GW: Endless Waltz
- Vampire Hunter D & VHD: Bloodlust
- FF7: Last Order
- Blood: the Last Vampire
Live Action
- Ninja Terminator
- Snatch
- No Country for Old Men
- Predator (1+2)
- Aliens franchise
- Howling
Favorite TV Series
Anime Series
- Mirage of Blaze
- Sailor Moon
- Revolutionary Girl Utena
- Wolf's Rain
- Neon Genesis Evangelion
- Cowboy Bebop
- Pokemon (Indigo League)
- DBZ
- Bleach
- Inuyasha
- Rurouni Kenshin
- Berserk
- Bubblegum Crisis: 2040
- X
- Hellsing (orig & ultimate)
- Fate Stay/Night
Live Action Series
- Star Trek:TNG
- Star Trek: DS9
- Picard
- Ultraman
- I Love Lucy
- GoT
- Kitchen Nightmares (US & UK)
- Saved by the Bell
- Picard
- The Elephant Show (Sharon, Lois, Bram)
- Eureka's Castle
Western Cartoons
- Babaar
- David the Gnome
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
- Transformers (G1/Prime)
- Jem & the Holograms
- The Little Bits
- Maya the Bee
- The Little Koala
- Rupert
- Rin Tin Tin
- The Simpsons
- 90s Nickelodeon Nostalgia
- Batman: the animated series
- Batman Beyond
Favorite Books
- The Gnostics - Brakke
- Gospel of Judas - Brakke (transl.)
- Tokyo Vice - Adelstein
- LotR - Tolkien
- Romeo & Juliet - Shakespeare
Non-Fiction
Fiction
Favorite Writers
Academic
- Prof. Bentley Layton
- Prof. David Brakke
- Prof. Bart D. Ehrman
- Prof. James Tabor
- Prof. Lawrence Schiffman
- Rb. David Wolpe
- Jake Adelstein
Non-Fiction
Fiction
- Terry Brooks
- William Shakespeare
- J.R.R. Tolkien
Favorite Games
Video Games
- Frostpunk
- The Order 1886
- Populous (snes)
- Final Fantasy 6/7/8
- Elder Scrolls/Fallout series
- Sims 3&4
- Zelda
- Legend of Dragoon
- VtM: Bloodlines&Redemption(pc)/Swansong&Coteries of New York&Shadows of New York (ps4)
- Werewolf the Apocalypse:Earthblood&Heart of the Forest (ps4)
- Hunter the Reckoning (xbox) & HtR:Wayward (ps2)
- Resident Evil saga
- Silent Hill (1/2/3)
- Nightmare Creatures (1/2)
Various CCGs
- Magic the Gathering
- L5R
- VtM:Jyhad/Gehenna & the newer 5e style
- Overpower (marvel, dc, image)
- WtA:Rage
- Wyvern
- Barbarians
- Star Wars
- Star Trek:TNG
TTRPGs
- D&D/AD&D (3, 3.5, 4, 5E)
- Old World of Darkness
- New World of Darkness
- Vampire 5E (modiphius)
- Rifts
- Shadowrun 4E
- L5R
- Conan: adventures
- Star Trek: adventures
- Nibiru
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