fantasy kitchen sink

This is going to be a viking quest where your character goes around raiding and pillaging places so he can get loot and gain prestige to grow stronger. He will be something of a villain protagonist or at least morally grey because people are complex and I'm aiming for the Norse in this quest to...

The Tinpot Princess and Her Many Travels Chapter One: The War-Torn Kingdom The world is teeming with gods. There are the great gods of mountains, cities and rivers. And there are smaller gods: household gods; wild animal spirits; the lesser gods of fields, trees and hedgerow. Sometimes it...

On a certain world, continents circle the Inner Sea. At the center of this central sea, mountains rise from the water, hiding a sacred heart. This is where the Goddess of the Beginning descended to give this world the spark of life. This is where divinity lies, buried in the Holy Tomb. This is...

The car swerves. The guillotine falls. The lightning strikes. The disease spreads. The building collapses. The coffin lid slams shut. There's nowhere left to go but down. Welcome to Pandemonium. Rise from Your Grave Can You Get Out of Death Alive? The Abyss. Hades. The Spirit Realm...

How to Destroy the World in Seven Days a Carol and Offering for the sake of Christmas in the Twenty-First Century by Seijio Arakawa and Marie Gauthier Their gods are dead out of the land, Their lore subsumed by peat and sand, Their hearths and homes barren of prayer As from her throne the...

AN2: It is a kancolle xover oneshot with Centurion who starred in VC4 popping up in Kancolle Earth after her retirement as a museum ship. Centurion being a battlecruiser sized amphibious snowmobile whose purpose was to be a suicide bomb with a bang of a small nuke. There were three options I...

Reposting this here cause I realized I posted it on the wrong forum. Original: Help me brainstorm a Mythological Urban Fantasy setting. I'm working on a mythological kitchen sink world similar to that of the Dresden Files or Percy Jackson while dealing with these four problems most myth...

"Is there not one among you who values courage over life?" No one thought first contact would start with such a question. No one thought first contact would be recruitment for a multi-verse war. No one thought first contact would also be a test to see if humanity was worth saving. But it was...

Acernia is a great city, capital of a kingdom and home to all kinds of people inside its massive walls to keep the Demonic Beasts out. One of these person is you. Yes...who are you? []Noble Scion -Third child of a noble family which is in slowly decline, you will not be the one to take the...

The way the Universe works is a mystery to all, and enlightenment is a scarce occurrence. You didn't achieve it of course, you're just a regular human. But either by virtue of a system of reincarnation, or by the boredom of gods, you find yourself a sleepy soul in a void. You're memory is fuzzy...

I was a young boy of 9 years when that man came into my village. Ours was a very small village, having less than a hundred people. During those times a village of that size was at risk of being attacked by forces seeking tto profit off of its lack of abillity to defend itself from threats. We...

* The Mirror Monster (Part One) You are Elys Allardyne, daughter of Yslena and Gareth. When you were a tiny baby, you were kidnapped by Sea Ghouls, evil spirits from under the sea, who planned to steal your soul and turn you into a mindless puppet. You were rescued by your parents, former...

By choice or by misfortune, you have found yourself among the Knaves--members of a migrant mercenary and merchant class. Whether lauded as heroes or despised as thieves, Knaves (at least the wise ones) eventually band together into their own traveling parties. This is the story of your party...

The world burns. Fire reaches up to boil the clouds and paint the sky red with its heat. Ash rains down like snowflakes amidst piles of broken war machines and pulped corpses. A castle is wreathed in killing flame, its heat roasting those still within its sturdy walls and rendering much of its...

You come into existence as if awaking slowly from a dream you cannot remember. Awareness creeps in. You were not, but now you are. What are you? As soon as you think of the question, an answer arrives: [slide] [slide] [slide] You slip through the explanation, wondering idly how you...

"My dick brings more joy than yuletide, Compared to the finest horse it is a better ride, My tongue so great you could only do worse. A second verse you demand? I've raked my way across this land, Music is loud, so take my hand, I turn passion up until it is demand, One taste is not enough...

The Kingdom of Letha is one with a long and storied history, many centuries of conquests, of Kings who died in both battle and intrigue, of noble maidens and brave knights. Of the chivalric and honourable values that mark them as the True Claimants of the empire of old. Recently, the latest...

Disclaimer: This story has nothing to do with the Might and Magic franchise) I suppose it is time for a tale… A tale of an Overlord. No not that one! This is a tale of the true Overlord! Our story begins at the end of summer, as the sun was dipping beneath the horizon, a story of Minions...

Cold. Cold and pain. A chill so biting that no injury you had ever experienced could ever attempt to equal it. It was a mistake to go outside in the blizzard in search of someone who was probably dead. It was a mistake to think your thick coat that had served well in the coldest winter nights...

Post 1, Character Creation. --- There is a ringing in your ears. The last time you had a ringing like this, they had to stitch you back together in a fancy new life support suit. This time, however, is different. You don't feel wounds on your body, missing limbs, none of that. You don't smell...

I am attempting to build a science fantasy universe. I plan on using this thread to write down my ideas, get some feedback, create the creatures, post more detailed maps, etc. And once I'm done getting ready to write stories on this universe, which I'm hoping to pose here and maybe a few other...

Upwards Towards Heaven A Tower of God Quest A splash of water, as dry as air. It is all around you. The breath of creation, the substance of life, the blood and bones of the Tower. It is overwhelming and oppressive. It is strangling and suffocating. You see a light, and you see darkness emerge...

Prelude: A Wonderland's Truth For the longest time, many people have made the assumption that everything we can see is everything there is. The assumption, although presumptuous, can't really be called arrogant - what else could there be? To presume, and then to maintain the presumption, is...

The sun drowned upper Manhattan. It’s time to wake up. Eyes bleary, mouth dry. Eyes itching, teeth gritted over. It almost makes one wonder why even wake up? It’s so rarely worth it. Oh, sure, that Chinese place down by the lower city was great, and that rave the Muses held the month before...

When One Is Zero, Who Shall Be The One Above All? Louise Valliere opened her eyes, and looked upon reality gone mad. The very earth had been thrown up into the ruined heavens, streaming roads of stars going in every direction as the blackness held within itself islands of possibility, lands of...