Tachibana Raika, 橘來禍

Agastopia

Inspired by the obscure and esoteric rituals of rural Koshū, Agastopia takes apart the body piece by piece as an act of artistic veneration, brutal and beautiful in its unflinching truth. This avant-garde collection aims to show the breadth of being—as both altar and offering, devourer and devoured—expressed through the use of experimental materials both organic and chemical.Come and see the exhibit!
on display this season at Mugito West Event Space
(Dynamis|Cuchulainn|Goblet|W23|P11, Lower Level)

Nonfiction; Art, Artist's Statement, Exhibit Guide

Wilaux Torsefers

An Introspection to Existence - Mind, Matter, and Aether

A detailed account on the recordings, feelings, of existing as a Duskwight amongst the norms of present day Gridania, and Eorzea. Including hand sketched images of passing life and scenery witnessed on the road with ties to history, aether, and the underlying ever present definition of what it means to exist despite your everyday struggles. Equally including deep dives into existentialism, with experiences both wondrous and sour. Long blurbs of history included from appropriately cited sources.

Nonfiction; Memoir, Philosophy, History

Belladonna Quill

Give Me a Scion

A shamelessly romantic and entirely unlicensed first volume of overheated tales concerning suspiciously familiar heroes, scholars, knights, archons, admirals, and other public figures whose names have been altered just enough to satisfy the author's confidence, if not necessarily their publisher's counsel. Written with breathless sincerity and questionable restraint, Give Me a Scion follows a rotating cast of beloved adventuring companions through impossible confessions, dramatic rescues, locked doors, shared tents, poorly-timed interruptions, and private encounters that are insistently described as "tasteful" by the author and no one else.Readers may encounter such figures as G'rawha Tia, Whorchefaunt, Estallien, Y’shole Arule, Uridanger, Merlwyb Blowynsome, and other not-at-all-actionable personalities. Though the book insists upon its status as fiction, several passages are annotated with suspiciously specific architectural details, travel dates, and emotional grievances. Readers are further invited to anticipate the author’s forthcoming shocking prequel, "Scioned, Sealed, Delivered", which promises to reveal where several of these passions first became "historically inevitable."

Fiction; Romance / Parody

Stray Avarest

The Realm in the Margins

The Realm in the Margins is a deliberate travel memoir about Eorzea’s overlooked places: narrow alleys, worn roads, hidden rooms, half-buried paths, and the quiet thresholds where ordinary life brushes against history, danger, and longing.Gathered across years of wandering, its entries linger on what grander accounts pass over: moss-softened stonework, a shop beneath a stair, a road remembered only by those with reason to avoid the main one, a shrine kept clean by no known hand. Some passages follow chance encounters that end before they can be named; others return, carefully and without confession, to the ache of someone absent. Affection appears here not as declaration, but as habit: a route taken twice, a detail remembered too clearly, a warning left where another traveler might find it.The book’s dangers are treated with the same restraint. A wrong door, a kind invitation, a quiet room, a beautiful stranger at a fountain—several entries turn only after the fact, revealing how near the author came to bloodshed, betrayal, or grief. There are no heroic claims, no grand discoveries, and no insistence that every mystery be solved. The Realm in the Margins is content to pause where others pass by, taking its measure from the places, people, and moments most travelers only notice once they have reason to turn back.

Nonfiction; Travel, Memoir, Essay

Alekir Uncia

Bounty Beauty of the World

Various reflections and experiences from an amateur botanist & adventurer traveling the land of Eorzea. Includes the author's own original illustrations, faithfully reproduced, with notes about various Plant life and Occasional Flora and how it has adapted to the world Post Calamity.

Nonfiction; Biology; Travel; Memoir; Art