fantasy

A Pumpkaboo's Autumn Trick or Treat Party [Pokemon Halloween] One Jaunty Pot's Field I .~{ ` }~. As the sun sank, turning orange and red below the horizon, Mosz began to wake. First she seeped up the roots, filtering herself in from the soil. Filling out and saturating the vines...

Always Forward, Never Backwards! A White Fang Quest Kuo Kuana during the monsoon season is a miserable place to be. Great waves smash into the network of stilt houses, shantytowns and pre-Independence palatial manors that make up the capital of Mengarie, crushing the poorly constructed to...

Ch 0.5 Character Creation Part 1 Welcome to my first quest. I've been inspired mostly by "A Dynasty of Dynamic Alcoholism," one of the best pieces of fiction I've ever read, but I also draw from "A Tattered Eagle" over on Spacebattles. This quest will be about a citizen of the empire working...

In the depths of eternal darkness, the protagonist found themselves trapped. "How long has it been dark?" they mumbled to no one in particular. Desperation gripped them, urging them to remember something, anything. Gradually, fragmented memories started to piece together. "All I can recall is...

Welcome to the Scavenger Quest. You were born in the End Times. If this is a story, you would have been mentioned only in a throwaway sentence within the very bleak epilogue. Still, you know you wanted something MORE. Your first memory was pulling yourself out of a strangely fleshy bathtub...

“Papa? I’m cold.” “Just a little bit longer, my little apricot. We’ll be back home before you know it.” You were cutting it close to curfew. The sun was already starting to dip below the tallest mountains in the west. You knew better than to stay outside of Lacunosa’s walls when the light went...

The history and mythos of humanity begin with a single emotion. Fear. Fear of nature, fear of darkness, the wild, and the endless pains that life brings over time. Maybe, fear drove humans to create shelter, sharpen sticks and stones, and bring about civilization. But what if endless fears...

How in the world did you get here? While, yes, you were a genius, one with a charisma that would make lesser men green with envy, you never would have thought that you would be the new leader of Krat. Now that you thought about it, you absolutely did not want the responsibility of leadership...

A\N. This is a scary dream I had after watching one and a half episode of Madoka Magica, after which i can not make myself watch the rest or anything linked to it. It was an ordinary summer morning. I was on my way to work, dozing in the train carriage. It looks like we've reached the next...

The starship Gilded Caravan cut through the heart of deep space, it's exterior a sleek silver masterpiece, a testament to the company's commitment to appearances. However, the interior of the ship told a different story. The corridors were dimly lit, with panels that flickered intermittently and...

Who wouldn't love effortless rewards? Forget the whole "enjoy the journey" spiel — how about scoring the "Alchemy of Atlas" through sheer luck, or landing Excalibur just for being on good terms with a top-tier waifu? Sounds like the perfect life, right? Well, almost. The only thing standing...

POV: *Steve* In real life, I sat comfortably at my desk, headphones snug over my ears, fingers lightly tapping on the keyboard. It was just another evening on the server with friends, roleplaying like we always did. We'd been doing this for months now—acting as if we were the default skins from...

Enter ARASHI and FURUTA, stage right. Each wears a school uniform of dark blue with white ties. On their breasts is a black mountain tipped in pink. ARASHI All the lands have their story of the birth of magic! In beautiful Japan, it is said that when Ninigi descended to the earth from heaven...

Blessed Baelor – a SI When news came of Daeron's death in Dorne under the banner of truce, I was stuck inside a chamber near the Starry Sept, working on plagiarizing the Proverbs of Solomon, which I wished to present to the Most Devout as inspiration from the Crone. It was sometimes...

You wake up slowly, piece by piece as feeling comes back into your body in waves. A pained groan escapes you as you try to move. It feels like needles pricking your skin as you press your hands into the sand and try to sit up. Your vision swims, a sense of vertigo nearly bringing you back down...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4xsfkhcw-A January, 2004 -- Fuyuki, Japan A monster stirs, slowly reemerging from its years-long hibernation. Its last feast interrupted, tendrils of corruption reach to consume the innocent far ahead of schedule. The wise converge not to slay the beast or...

The Villain's Ascent : A Prologue "I want you to retrieve an artifact for me." You lean backwards in your padded leather chair, steeple your fingers and study the man before you. You are currently seated in a well appointed office, which is much nicer than the rest of the unassuming warehouse...

Dear Journal 4 Entry 1 I had to get yet another new journal today. It's been... hard, the last few weeks. House got blown out by 'a stray missile from the warfront'. Yeah. Sure. After all, the city's only a few thousand miles out of the way, and there's only seven different settlements between...

Sadly the last adventure was a tragedy, Gertrude's fatal flaw of her lack of self love ended with her unable to solve the challenge of the Moon Princes so she had to sacrafice herself in the final battle to save her beloveds life, who now spends the rest of their life learning to live with that...

You are the last of your race, the mythical elves who once guided the other races to the light of civilization before being outgrown themselves. In this realm, you and your fellows were constructed from the Currents to act as guides and mentors. On one hand, this granted elves a significant...

As inspired by: Omicron's Asphodel in Mourning, Tempera's In A World We Must Defend, ArvisPresley's Trails of Tera Steel and Soussouni's I Will Touch The Skies as well as taking not-so-few inspirations by Korean Otome Isekai and Villainess Webtoons (I will not name them all there are too many)...

Love forbidden is twice as sweet. Everyone knows you love the princess, but the son of a minor duke is not destined for such a marriage. The princess was trained far better than you in the courts arts. Which is why only you knows that she loves you back. Stolen glances and smiles in secret...

So ASOIAF has some interesting magic systems, as does Avatar, and arguably Star Wars, but I'm curious, what are your favorites? Why or why not? Willow's magic system is interesting, from the movie "Willow". It is mostly done with enchantments, curses and elemental magic. Mind control is...

To the south of Tilea and Estalia and the west of the Dead Lands lies the realm of Araby. An ancient land ruled by semi-independent city-states ruled by sultans or caliphs in the west and nomadic peoples who traverse the rest of the country's inhospitable deserts. You are one of the many people...

Around 5000 years ago, hundreds of years before the Archon War, “Egeria! Egeria! Look at what I found!” Egeria smiles at the spirited voice coming towards her. Scenes like that make her feel that every effort she has put to protect this beautiful nation is worth it if it makes her smile like...