fantasy

Fire. He was on fire. The ground below his feet had crumbled to dust. The creature before him dwarfed even Serpi, and treated the humans under it like so much kindling. Bali, Tatayra, Novo, Novosi... Corintha. Varya's very skin seemed to burn as he tore himself upright. No, no, no. How could a...

Prologue Rydberg woke with a jolt, his head sinking into a pillow that felt simultaneously soft yet unnaturally cold. A chill slithered down his spine, not the familiar coolness of his dorm room's air conditioning, but something sharper, more invasive. His groggy mind tried to brush it off as...

King's Landing Seventh Moon (98 AC) Viserra I The Red Keep's stench struck Viserra first—faint rot beneath stone, laced with echoes of lost ease. Its corridors still thrummed, not yet hollowed, though her kin had thinned—some bound to duty, others flung to distant keeps. Her son of Sunglass...

Hello SV, Been a while since I have posted around here but I wanted to try re-engaging with my old stomping grounds. Recently I've jumped into the world of long form fanfic with my first work A Song of The Stars and so far its been doing decently well on FF.net, Ao3 and SB so I figured why not...

Academy City, the utopia of science and progress, stands as a shining beacon of human potential. Decades ahead of the outside world in technological advancements, it is the epicenter of a singular ambition: the systematic development of superhuman abilities. Espers—humans with scientifically...

Albus looked into the sky, shooting stars surprisingly visible despite the city’s light pollution. He was taking a nighttime walk away from his apartment, avoiding the stoners always smoking on the porch. It was good to collect his thoughts and get away from the doom scrolling of the horrible...

CH-1 Prelude Ashara I The evening sun cast long shadows through the windows of the Palestone Sword, and Ashara could not tear her eyes from the approaching rider. His grey cloak billowed in the wind that swept up from the Summer Sea, and even from this distance, she knew him. Eddard Stark. The...

In the twenty-five centuries Sigmar's Empire has existed in some shape or form, practitioners of magic have not been treated kindly for most of it. Open practitioners were burned, hedge mages were executed or exiled, and even children displaying magical potential faced the pyre, the noose, or...

Prologue So, I died. I know, I'm shocked as well… heh. Okay, by the tenth time I repeated the joke, it had lost much of its luster. By the hundredth, such a thing stopped giving me a sardonic grin and a nervous chuckle, and I was even able to figure out exactly what was happening… I was...

THE SECOND STORMCROWN INTERREGNUM An Elder Scrolls Fourth Era GSRP "When misrule takes its place at the eight corners of the world. When the Brass Tower walks and Time is reshaped When the thrice-blessed fail and the Red Tower trembles When the Dragonborn ruler loses his throne, and the White...

It has Been Only a scant few years , barley half a decade, sense the portal to the land of Azeroth had opened. You were working to finish the expedition to Kuresh to put down a rising champion of Chaos. While it had won you the favor of the phoenix king you had missed what great feat had earned...

It's one thing to be pulled into another world to fight an evil queen, but what do you do when the spell that transports you there also gives you a woman's body? And what if it feels... right? This is the story of a trans woman who finds herself in a body she isn't yet willing to accept and a...

Okay, so a common story theme is that fantasy/mana-infused creatures invade modern day Earth & modern weapons & tech no longer work, if it still works it's ineffective. I might be wrong about that, but it's still a very common theme that system-empowered fantasy beings are more powerful than...

An insistent knocking on her door roused Elizabeth from a dream she was having. Not exactly pleasant or unpleasant, but real in a way beyond the most vivid of regular dreams. She'd been in her neighbor's house, ghosting around, invisible to Mr. Sampson or the rest of the occupants. When she...

The popularity of the Isekai story has made many people desire they could have that amazing experience. Many people have longed for themselves to reincarnate into a different world with abilities so advantageous that it can be viewed as a cheat. Rio is one of them. Rio, a salarywoman who works...

AN: There's alternate history here, but what's important right now is that the US includes Canada and uses metric, multiple wars were fought with France, the geopolitical situation is pretty different, and LotR is actual history. - The Eagle and Child, Oxford, England, 1935 Ten men sat around...

Prologue It is the 42nd Millenium. For more than a hundred centuries, the Emperor of Mankind has sat immobile on the Golden Throne of Earth. He is the master of mankind by the will of the gods and master of a million worlds by the might of His inexhaustible armies. He is a rotting carcass...

ONE WE FOUND HIM BY THE SHORE There were three muddy villagers at the bottom of the hill waiting to greet the Inquisitor's gilded carriage. They had been standing there in the rain for so long that they had sank knee-deep into the mud below them. Their clothing was a tattered combination of...

I A hazy mist drifted over the ocean's surface. Dark clouds were above, gusting across the sky. It drizzled faintly. For the moment, the weather held, but there would be a storm soon. Land wasn't far away though—a sheer cliff-face of darkly-wetted rock rose where the waves broke, churning into...

"Happy Birthday to You..." Zaydas heard voices in the background. They were voices he was familiar with; however, they grew increasingly quieter until there was complete silence. In Zaydas's mind, memories of an entire lifetime flashed before his eyes. Eighteen long years in the blink of an...

This is a story of a teenage girl. A teenage girl whose right were stolen, who was furious with the world and with her mother in particular... and who now is coming back on the largest, oldest, strongest dragon of the world. An embittered teenage girl riding a weapon of mass destruction, to set...

Nekket is a world both like, and unlike many others. It is a young world, and, as with many young worlds, it is rich in magic and wonder. And monsters. You can't forget the monsters. Which is why Esme was here, guarding the entrance to the Reyliar Dungeon, in early spring, in pouring rain...

The night is finally here where you will break away from your home and seek out the calling in your soul that you have been trying to ignore for some years now. You had wrapped yourself in the chains of your connections with your people, and you have found that trying to deny what you are is...

[In Another World for Glory and Profit] This will be a Plan Quest where you manage a colony established by a fantasy nation on a new world. We will choose a sponsor, design our target world, choose a character, choose a location on the world, and then get into the feel-good stuff of numbers...

"The United Empire is a dream no longer- it is now a reality, with all that entails. For better or worst." - The Second Stellarch The Age of Expansion When humanity discovered and deployed FTL beacons from their cradle upon Terra, they took to the stars with much gusto of a people bound no...