When a child is born, the Nornir decide the exact moment of their death. There is nothing that can bring a man down if it is not his time to die and there is nothing that will save a man if it is his fated day.
Everything between now and then, however, is up to you and you alone.
So tell me, how will you shape your future?
Credit to @DeadmanwalkingXI for assisting with the logistical side of things.
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Follow the growth of people and culture through time and space, starting with a pre-agricultural village in the Neolithic.
It is the year 85 of the Imperial Century. Almost ninety-years have passed since the discovery of Architecture and the first promise of the Tapestry. Reality rewritten, a place where humans can live, evolve, thrive. And die. The Card Confederacy, a separatist smuggler state, and their allies, twisted rogue machines known only as the Catalogue, suddenly attack the Empire, causing catastrophic losses. Within four months, casualties are fifteen billion.
You are Arachne Weaver, ace pilot...
Even in a land where magic suffuses the air and the spirits of the world roam the land, someone has to collect the taxes. Where there's taxes, there's criminals attempting to commit tax evasion and other crimes. And when there's criminals attempting to dodge their dues, well, there's going to be someone who's job is to get those criminals to pay.
That's you.
But is it just cheaters dodging their obligations? Or is there something more to the case?
The People have Fallen. Their great Kingdom is shattered into pieces. Take control of one of those pieces and try to guide it through the turbulent waters of history.
The Ymaryn are a nation older than reckoning, drawing on a tradition of continuous peaceful transfer of power from before the dawn of recorded history. The Premier power of the fictional (and geographically altered) Near East, this Kingdom has recently been laid low by the ravaging of the Great Khan. As they lay bleeding, desperately trying to live, the Kingdom faces an uncertain future. Dissolution and destruction are more likely than succession and survival, if those are even possible at...
Malcolm was just an ordinary man before he found himself stranded in a fantasy world of giants and spirits and steppe raiders. It has been two years and he has unfortunately managed to impress the local leadership of the merry band of pre-Modern psychopaths, right in time to get pulled into a civil war. Now he's got to meet the expectations of the people around him in order to not die, without getting back-stabbed by those jealous of his success, and hopefully avoiding becoming a terrible...
In the east, Athenai and Sparta duel over the destiny of all Hellas. In the west, great city-states rise and fall like reeds, the ambitious vanquishing the weak. But upon the farthest shore of Greater Greece, a new and extraordinary power rises. Eretria Eskhata, a new city founded upon the ashes of the old, emerges onto the stage.
The fates watch you, o citizens of Eretria. Will you emerge victorious and enter the annals of history, or fail and be buried in the dust as a ruin and a...