A low-ranking orc overseer in Mordor attempts to rise through the ranks and deal with outer as well as inner enemies.
Violence, betrayal and most kinds of bad manners abound. The orcs are a brutal lot. Upper Mordor management is worse.
Echidna, always had a handful of desires. The desire of Knowledge to learn and understand, To save and the desire to find more unknown to her, these desires were a ways ahead of her desire to live again though it seemed she would get all these desires met in the most unexpected of ways. A way most pleasant to her curiosities.
Roman emperor Lucius Domitius Aurelianus finds himself betrayed and murdered on his way to invade the Persian Empire. But after a series of events that challenge reality as he knows it, he finds himself sitting at the bank of the Blue Fork watching the stars with nothing but a sword to his name. How will the man who earned the moniker "Restorer of the world" fare on this new land?