fantasy

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...

Prelude 1 - The Barbarians Defeat For the most part, the world moved in predictable cycles. Every day, the sun would rise and set. Every month, the moon would wax and wane. Every winter had a spring following it. And every few decades, the northern wastelands would have a Khan emerge and...

Flames. Cursed flames were everywhere. The smoke blotted out the night sky, and the ash fell like rain. It was a scene straight out of the apocalypse, as if the very mouth of hell had opened and unleashed its misery upon the Earth. Through it all stumbled a young red-haired boy, his golden eyes...

7th Day, Fourth Moon, 131AC | The Dungeons of The Red Keep - King's Landing CORLYS VELARYON He woke up from his dream, nay, his nightmare, gasping, with beads of cold sweat trickling down his brow and staining his weathered tunic. He sat up gingerly, the pain in his hip reminding him that he...

The world was unraveling. The people had once tilled the land, had once known the rhythms of seed and harvest. There had been a time when their valley was rich, when crops swayed golden in the breeze, when the rivers ran full and clear. But that time had long passed, and the memory of it was...

Rule 1: You can make up 5 facts about the setting per post, once you do that you must wait for somebody else to post their facts to continue. You can only post up to 15 facts a day. Rule 2: You cannot contradict any previously established facts (At least not completely. If you think you're...

A Fine Sediment by Chairtastic Summary: Everyone told me you shouldn't build on sand. Your foundation needs to be strong and sturdy or everything will come crashing down. But being strong, sturdy, and hard means you're unable to change easily. As it turns out, sand is just fine to build on –...

https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/lets-make-a-fantasy-setting.134017/ ((Make sure to read the thread. The setting info is above and it will help you to make a character.) In the world of Zalaz, the people are beset by the evil forces of The Archdemons, The Goblin (King, though he's...

Chapter 1 Night. Vast fields, forest, and river. The ferocious storm was raging in the sky. In ordinary times would look like a beautiful landscape before the gaze of the beholder, was now hidden behind a huge accumulation of black dots, slowly, heavily, and surely moving forward. They...

Somewhere, across the vast ocean of possibilities, a poor soul awoke to find himself in a strange predicament. "Hmm," I groaned, "where the fuck am I?" I said as I slowly regained consciousness. My head was hurting like hell. I tried to touch my forehead but found myself unable to. The pain...

I jolted awake, my mind racing wildly. The flood of memories and knowledge, overwhelming me all at once, had been beyond my wildest imaginings. In one moment, I was a college student, wrongfully accused of something and brutally attacked. In the next, I was a being beyond human form—an original...

It's cold. That's because it's raining. I hate when it rains. That's when people stay inside. Then I don't get money begging. It's cold. I don't have a blanket. Someone bigger took mine. I hope he drowns in the Rivière Elise. It's raining harder now. Even under the eaves I am getting wet. I...

Being involved in a bike accident along with his girlfriend, Spencer was barely able to regain consciousness after going through an emergency procedure in a hospital. What greeted the orphan wasn’t an empty ward but a black robed woman. Informed that he had awakened a talent, he was selected...

Tai nimbly flipped over the school's barbed-wire fence with his friends' help. Not even a second later he sprinted across the open field, making a beeline towards Block C and dove into the thick foliage by a windowsill. He shifted, careful not to make any noise, and made himself comfortable as...

And in those days the empire of the Cyrodiils was dead, save in memory only, for through war and slug famine and iniquitous rulers, the west split from the east and Colovia's estrangement lasted some four hundreds of years. And the earth was sick with this sundering. Once-worthy western kings...

Went Noel walked out of the bullhead he couldn't be more relieved. That said he was still a bit dizzy from the trip he had. Ren patted his back while recovering, and Nora pranced around excitedly. Noel hoped this wasn't a precedent of how the day would eventually get “Ugg I hate trips like...

Anno Domini 8993 Pater, I write these words with fear in my heart and sweat on my brow. Soon, a great terror will sweep across the land. Soon, our great king shall lay his head to rest for the final time. In the absence of the Great Father, First King of the Anglo-Saxons, will the Kingdom...

Chapter 1 - the Witch The nobility had a solemn duty to take care of the lands and people they ruled over. That was what Venza Greyfield's father always said, and what his father said, and what his father's father said. It was something she'd taken to heart. It was why she waited patiently in...

Amethyst colored eyes opened in obvious glee before the petite girl with four horns jumped out of her bed with uncharacteristic joyous face. "Panpakapan!~♪ Hero Aris has rested well!~♪ HP has fully recovered!~♪" So said the one who was in the body of the Head Prefect. Sorasaki Hina... no...

The Lands of Westeros have never been what one could describe as ‘peaceful’, indeed since its earliest days the realms of Men, Giant and Child have warred incessantly for whatever they could strive to grab. When the First Men crossed the arm of Dorne, war followed. When the Andals sailed in from...

The lighthouse shines through misty streets as the new year passes, the light of ships fill the harbor, the church bells ring, men and women from Everwall to Grim-Row toast in hidden cellars and speakeasies as fireworks light up the night in a lackluster imitation of the strange auroras which...

You are Fahner Garen, assigned to the 33rd Jager Squadron of the Army of the Salbatnig, fighting in service to the New Empire of Gotha - to the Goth Armies. You have lived as a reaver, and lived among reavers - as a brute among brutes - as a fascist among fascists. Tomorrow, you will be a...

I am Urano Hibiki, age 16. I'm a female high school student who loves anime and games. I would lie and say I have average grades, but the truth is that I have below average scores on my studies. I don't have a good track record on our P.E. because of my lazy lifestyle. Most of my free time is...

Chapter 1: I Am The God of Hellfire, Part 1 When Sam blew out the candles on his second eighteenth birthday cake, the room burst into flames. He staggered backward, away from the table. He knew it couldn't have something to do with the fire when it hadn't started there, but he didn't want to...

Introduction: Death is one of the cosmic forces, it is an unavoidable threat that breeds despair in mortal hearts and pushes everything towards a state of entropic decay and eventual oblivion and it is coming for Azeroth in full force. Yet, something in this timeline has changed. Resources left...