The Soft Breath of Seasons

• Year 0 in the Eye of Hiparkes
  • A School For All
  • The First Generation: The First of the Amalgams.
  • Spring Market
  • The Trials of Righteous Judgement
• Chronicles of the Daybringers: Stories from the 5 brave amalgams sent into the east.
  • Chapter 1: We are the Daybringers!
  • Chapter 2: Wing's Three Gifts.
  • Chapter 3: There is only one Yao Ye.
    • Gaiden 3.5: Shai Mei's roots run deep.
  • Chapter 4: Showmanship and Selara.
  • Chapter 5: Sagacious Shu Zhuang.
    • Gaiden 5.5: Lu Fei, Seraph of the Burning Bastion.
    • Gaiden 5.6: Marta's many tools
  • Chapter 6: Where has the sun gone?
    • Gaiden 6.5: Unlikely Sifu, Unlikely Student
  • Chapter 7: Still More Day to Bring
    • Gaiden 7.5: What might have been.
  • Appendix 1: The Southern Expedition: Excerpts from the lives and journals of those who work in the most dangerous direction.
  • Appendix 2: Reckoning of Heroes Unsung: List and locations of three remaining directional teams.
• The Methods of the Minister of War
  • Battle of the Glass Canyon
  • Battle of Breaking Iron
  • Special Training for the Marukan First Legion
  • War Games
  • Gossip in the Barracks
• Distant Thunder: Stories from the time immediately following Lytek's Admonition
  • Four Farewells: Nameless Ravine begins a season of wandering.
  • Hope in Varsi: A nameless monk. A stern abbot. A selfless act.
  • Sha Yan Shi and the Wayward Eye of Ma-Ha-Suchi: In love, as in war, timing is everything.
  • Something to Break: The twins make a discovery.
  • Thirsty Soku and the Righteous Man: Thirsty Soku wins another battle... and loses another war.
  • The Prison of Oaken Rebuke: Nameless Ravine sets a trap for his alter-ego.
  • Sha Yan Shi and the Monkey-Picked Messenger: It's not about whether you win or lose. It's how you play the game.
• While the cat's away: Stories of the Scavenger Lands in the days of the greater circle's meditation.
  • Putting Out Fires: Rivers and Skies struggle to keep the the Marukan running without their powerful leaders.
  • The Crow and Cloud Formation: Choshu Ishi learns what it means to be a hero and leader of men.
    • Strategies For Mountains and Valleys: Choshu Ishi's second encounter with his foe.
  • Falling Bridges: Rivers and Mite Xu discuss bridges in the Southern Marukan.
  • Responsibility and Authority: The ruination of a good breakfast.
• On Distant Seas and Shores: While the circle rides the Scavenger Lands in the wake of their new power, their allies are busy elsewhere.
  • The Second Southern Expedition: Nameless Ravine and his allies fight a shadow war in the no-man's-land between Marukan and Thorns
    • Not One Tiger Warrior: Cathak Nekuto loses his temper.
    • A Conspiracy of Virtue: The makings of a deadly mistake.
    • Gaiden 7.5, No Man's Land: Shai Mei reflects on Doing Good and Being Awesome.
    • Sha Yan Shi and the Mandate of Heaven: Soho delivers an improbably homily to an even less probable audience.
    • Powder Kegs (and other delicate matters): The Mask's servants learn, yet again, that the Nameless Ravine does not negotiate with the dead.
    • Sha Yan Shi and the Law of the Pack: Sha Yan Shi has a fateful encounter with an old enemy
    • Divine Intervention: After Nameless Ravine confronts yet another of the Mask's abominations, Soho makes a terrible mistake.
  • Voices Prophesying War: a message from the solars to the Roseblack
  • Swords of the South: The Nameless Ravine has an unexpected conversation with Choshu Ishi concerning the nature of swords

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Heaven's Mandate