dark fantasy

I invite you to falling Empire In this Quest you will be a young officer of the Dragon Empire who is trying to achieve his own goals. (Probably get promoted as high as possible and gain as much power as possible). The imperial army is based on infantry armed with long spears and shields, they...

-A Kingdom Ablaze- [07.13.1623] Bycrest. The clamour of bloodied beasts, the thunderous rasp of iron upon iron, the roar of cannons and the barbarous shouts of war echoed throughout the capital. Inhuman discord filled the air. All around was nothing but a whirlwind of violence, confusion and...

The tales of powerful beings known as "Robs" on sufficient velocity and "ASBs" in the alternate history community are one that are like fables of old age Europa, brings described with powers of gods if not even above them interfereing with the human world out of either sheer curiosity or maybe...

Chapter 1: The Shadow over Nevesk Our last horse froze to death the night before we reached Nevesk. In hindsight, I should have taken it as the ill omen it was. At the time, it seemed another reminder that this world seemed to harbor a special hatred for mankind. I and my two companions...

Chapter One - To the Bosom of Mother Irizah The barge heaved like a living thing, sides gleaming like the shell of an obscure sea-creature, the stacks like primordial pillars at the bottom of the ocean. In one direction, the two-yet-one city. In the other, a city where gods ride men like...

Chapter One The Court of Ivory was as sealed as a bank vault, as quiet as the grave, and as dusty as a desert. If it was abandoned, most people wouldn't even notice that something had changed. The same gates would remain closed, because all the scholars went by other passages - their eyes...

--Synopsis-- "Know thy self, know thy enemy" - Sun Tzu Marcus Graham has been handed a raw deal. As a student of military history, he wants nothing more than to help the world learn from human conflict. But his increasingly hostile college is blocking his lectures and threatening to cancel...

The night was dark and stormy. Thunder crackled and lightning illuminated the vast reaches of the farmland outside the beautiful castle walls of Highgarden. The village streets were empty, and the market had a shallow stream flowing through its muddy streets. No soul had dared tread out in the...

You are dreaming, yet not alone. Nothing lies before you except for the inky void of absence. No sound reaches your ears, if it could be said that one could have ears in such an alien space. Memories of your waking life are distant at best, almost as if your identity is undefined or in flux...

I am reposting here the story I entered into the Underdogs Freeform Fest. The title of the thread is different because, just maybe, I will be motivated to write more of the larger story at play. The primary reason I wrote this is because, as many may not know, Elric of Melniboné is one of the...

It's a bright, beautiful day. High above shines the sun, its rays invigorating the green grass of a valley that could enchant the day of any man or woman that observes it. The clouds form airy shapes that eerily resemble watching figures, glaring across the soon-to-be ruined beauty. Horses...

Prologue * * * Spider. Hungry. Octopus. Stinger. Beast. Chained. A person in a long, church-like robe sat on the knees right in the middle of a circular cell crypt. Hidden deep underground in the rock mass, as far away from any emanations or magical vibrations as possible. The face was...

Rhaenyra I Rhaenyra walked alongside Harwin, footsteps echoing through the halls that had become an increasingly familiar sight since Jacaerys's birth. It was a path she had traversed with quickened steps. As they walked, Rhaenyra found her gaze lingering a bit too long on Harwin's face, as...

Prologue In this quest, you will play as a rookie, low level adventurer in an original fantasy setting. Setting:[] High Fantasy: Magic and non-human races (e.g. elves, dwarves, dark elves, orcs) are commonplace. [] Medium Fantasy: Magic is commonplace, but non-human races are rare. [] Low...

In an ephemeral realm, a mortal spirit was chained within a visceral sea of entrails and seeping purple ooze that glowed with malice. Their spirit continues to writhe in agony as the environment around them desecrated their essence, yet it continued to shine brightly as it never yielded...

I first caught wind of Berserk by way of a friend I made in college. When there was a light lull in classes, we just talked about a few random things, and the topic of conversation came to what stuff we were watching. I don't quite remember what I recommended he watched, but he immediately told...

A rainy night with roaring thunder, a short young woman with brandy-colored short hair and yellow eyes sleeps on a metal operating table. Her name is Jenette. Her crimes are blasphemy and treason. Her punishment is up to a necromancer to decide. Her sleep is disturbed by needles injected into...

Prologue It is the year 1887 and path of the world is decided under the thick fog of London. Distinguished gentlemen decide in fancy parlours the fate of people a world away and the stroke of a banker's pen wields more might in these days than the armies of kings did in centuries past...

Once, there were Giants on this Isle of Prettanik. Mighty men who built cities of brick and roads of stone, who crafted intricate machines and potent elixirs, who forged an empire the like of which was never seen before, and will never be known hereafter. All gone now. The Giants are dead, the...

Know O Prince, that between the years when the Oceans drank Atlantis and the gleaming cities , and the years of the rise of the sons of Aryas, there was an age undreamed of, when might and magic ruled the day with the flames of eternal life fire- fueled by the laughter of stern and thirsting...

Tales of Darkwood You can hardly believe what's appending, you Arturo Garonni, a blue blood, a true noble are being banished by your land, and what is worse is that the order come from your own grandfather. Yes he said it was for your own protection but who cares, you are being sent away...

There is something deeply ironic about killing the man who created you. Given he trained me from birth to be a warrior you could call it a success and failure on his part all rolled into one. He was an excellent teacher but an equally terrible father. Which is why I had both the inclination and...

A decade ago, the world shattered. Dreams of hegemony over mortals and rule in the eternal night were ended in a cacophony of clashing steel, roaring black powder guns and churning alchemical flame. Poenari Citadel burst, and with it, the dream of rulership. Grand Voivode Mihnea sent himself at...

The North The North is the largest region in all of Westeros, but has a relatively small population despite its size. The landscape is made up of tundra, large lakes and forests and many castles and keeps are made of timber as opposed to stone. Northerners mostly hold to the old gods...

The year is 1500 after the death of our Lord Jesus Christ. The previous century is a darkened, terrible dream in the eyes of many, holding nothing but fear and misery for most. Yet for others, it represented a new chance, an era of opportunity reserved only for those who would dare to push...