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The Year is 1950 in The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland more specifically its magical community is on the path of change as in 10 years one Lord Voldermort will rise into power infamy and plunge magical Britain into a war. Will your organization survive or be another page in...

The gentle sea breeze from my balcony helped blow the green tea cold. I took a sip and fought back the cringe as I swallowed. Harusame's Jinchuriki herbal remedy was the most bitter thing I have tasted in a month, but only for a second. It settled in my stomach and a nigh orgasmic wave of relief...

The year is 1992. The past fifteen years or so have seen some massive political changes sweep across the world, setting the stage for a new epoch in capitalist history. The great period of change arguably started back in the 1970s, when a long period of ‘stagflation’ brought an end to the...

King's Landing-298 AC: Dissonance is a novel concept. It means each component individually makes sense, but the combination does not. Right now, I feel dissonance with everything around me. I can understand small pieces like the walls covered by red carpets, the spacious room, and some lady...

You step out of the Asagi trim '88 Shebi Frigate, closing the door carefully as the 32-year-old limited edition sports car settles, the skirt resting gently on the ground. It's a 32-year old classic with a rarely-seen indigo scaling pattern and bright orange skirt designed to mimic a rare and...

So, huzzah, my meds are kicking in for the good stuff and I'm finally able to write again. Cross posting here because while co-author and I are both on AO3, only I'm on these forums. Seriously, read the prologue first. Somehow I finally have the spellslots to crosspost. No, I don't know why...

"I have son. He Will Be Mine. ALL WILL BE MINE!" -Darth Vader, shortly after being informed by Boba Fett of the existence of Luke Skywalker Your son had fought much better than you had expected; indeed having been instructed in the ways of the Force only so recently, and by a weakling and...

"So, they finally have a pick then?" Cyril asked, looking up from his book - Rykall couldn't read the title, the lettering and the language were nothing like Tamildan. Knowing the archmage, it could be an old book from some ancient time before modernity, or it could be some tome from a distant...

The All-Crushing Storm-Emperor or Argall the Father Of Omni-man In ASOIAF Lord Bryce Buckler. Lord of Bronzegate and Stormlord. As the old Maester read the letter to me for the third time, I could only listen and feel a great deal of concern about what I was hearing. Hearing it again didn't...

How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love the Auswählen Prologue: Are We The Baddies? I never could get used to how cold and foreboding this place was. Up until last night, I was a Soldat, a mere foot soldier serving under His Majesty's Sternritters. Fortunately I was under someone more...

Hi folks, welcome or welcome back! It's so nice to digitally see all of your smiling faces, and if you're new here, glad to have you! My name is Nik, and I wrote the Alternate History series Proxima: A Human Exploration of Mars from 2021-2023. It was a delightful ride that I really enjoyed...

Welcome. This is a short series intended as a sort of counter-point to works like And Our Flag Was Not There. To begin your WikiWalk, start with AmericanNationalCongress. You may also find this series at Sealion Press.

"Author's" Notes: Welcome to The Roc's Nest, my science-fiction narrative timeline. This is a self-contained work taking place five hundred years after my last timeline, Good Drones Obey, but this story is its own thing and you don't need to read that timeline to get this one. If you want to...

Jasper Whitlock I May 10th, 2052 As the bombs dropped, the world was thrust into chaos. News broadcasts echoed through the airwaves, spreading the grim reality of the devastation that had befallen the world. Panic and confusion ruling the streets, extending even to the once serene and...

STAR WARS GALAXY IN SHAMBLES It is a time of great strife in the Galaxy. After the declaration of Empire by former Senator PALPATINE, he fought and died at the hands of Grandmaster YODA. While this act did expel a great evil from the Galaxy, it also plunged it into turmoil, as the GALACTIC...

The kingdom of light- Luminaire. Was not quite the largest nation upon the continent, at least by landmass, that particular honour belonged to the Nomad tribes of the great savannahs of the southlands. Luminaire was however the most prestigious, and among the most long lasting. The only...

When the great Satans died, all of Devilkind could breathe a sigh of relief. Lucifer had charged his armies at heaven in increasingly desperate attacks, cursing his creator and the inadequacy of his subordinates. Was it really surprising that many of them balked at the idea of sacrificing their...

Ahh, Belles, the proudest land in all the world! Your armies have marched from shore to shore, your colonies stretch the world over! Not a rival stands as your equal! Holy Mother Church glorifies you in splendor, the necromancer-kings of the farcical Second Elven Empire tremble before your...

They had been kind enough to scrounge up some worn records -he wasn't comfortable calling them old yet- for the player by his desk. That alone proved a little thought exercise in how much things had changed since the crash, seeing which artists' vinyls had been easier for SHIELD to find for him...

This quest comes from way too much Stellaris. I will alternate posting on this quest and on Try to survive the Winter Welcome to space, the final frontier. In this quest, you will play as the newly promoted head of the main research, development and exploration institution of the human...

"How could we have possibly predicted at the beginning of the 21st Century in such a time of optimism, at the peak of the American Empire's uncontested power, that in a mere 20 years the global order made by the fall of the Soviet Union would be bleeding from a thousand cuts across the Middle...

One. Two. One. Two. A female People’s Liberation Army of Titan (PLAT) Tomb Guard counts the steps she has taken in her mind as she patrols the Tomb of Unknown Sailors. She stops on the 23rd step, about turns, then marches again. She has been marching from noon to evening, back and forth, for...

The year is 1875. Fifteen long years ago, a simple raid on Harper’s Ferry took place. Armed with advanced weapons and unnatural coordination, John Brown and his countless comrades seized the arsenal, the nearby town, and the surrounding plantations. What had been planned as the beginning of a...

Author Note: I bumped up the ages of various characters to avoid dealing with minors. This will affect essentially nothing. Some other changes to the continuity have been made, but events will largely follow those of the anime to start with. As we get going, they will diverge. The story is...

I had a late night. All my nights were late these days, it seemed, but this one was for a reason more satisfying than usual. I was working on my book, my magnum opus, a grand work designed to explain the ways of the world in an easy-to-understand and entertaining manner, with a novel-worthy...