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LAST LIGHT OF A DARK AGE "When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things. For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as I am known."...

Exemplar. It's one of those capital-letter words that has different meanings based on geography and context. In one kingdom of mortals, it might be a title granted to a great champion; in a text from another, it's a lower-case sort of word, simply denoting great skill. But in Planar scholarship...

Chapter 1: Beautiful Things The time had finally come for Liselotte to be thrown out. They found her stowed away in the attic whilst clearing out the mansion ahead of winter. Her wooden frame had been scratched and dented in several places and the pale lacquer that served as her skin had begun...

The following story was meant to be a three part set of novels to be published under TOPPS (current owners of the IP) and adheres to previously established lore, timelines, and other BattleTech / Mechwarrior cannon. The story takes place shortly before the Clan Invasion of the systems...

Fast Drive! Seva felt the world. Her rider, Dragnacht, sent vibrations running up from the base of her spine on the driver's seat, from the soles of her feet resting on the floor, and up from her hands that were gripping the steering wheel for dear life. Dragnacht hummed with anticipation and...

The Su family pill furnace was a grand vision of gleaming bronze, two stories tall and festooned with the faces of angry deities and the flowing bodies of regal dragons. Even when cold it wafted out a bracing air, each breeze carrying a hint of a millennium's worth of accumulated medicinal...

The Boot on Zaun's Neck Vi promised us it would be a quick and easy job. Just sneak into some rich Piltie’s place, rob him blind, and sneak back to Zaun before he even realized what’d happened. She’d gotten the tip from Ekko, so we knew it was legit. Get in, get the loot, and get out. Easy...

In the distance of the horizon, vast and dark storm clouds could be seen rising in the sky, gradually approaching as they threatened to engulf a city that, in the past, had been a prosperous metropolis full of life. Long before the curse of the world… the genesis… reached it to devour everything...

✦ THE SEVENTH SURYA ✦ Chapter One: Natural Born Tyrant _____________ Completely original story aside from Tanya just to let y'all know. ______________________ You know, when it comes to religions that preach the dogma of reincarnation, they rarely tell you just how waiting feels. In that space...

You have failed, again. You couldn't defeat the Witch, there you lie broken and buried under the remains of a building. The world's cruelty knows no bounds, the one light in your life, the only thing you haven't cut away, is about to sacrifice herself, again. The incessant laughter that echoed...

As Elusive as Air The garden had a proper name, of course — most everything on the Station had one, always lavish, usually assigned to honor the memory of some big-name revered figure — but Ylenne did not bother to use it. She had never heard anyone, not even the most diligent of zealots...

CONTENT WARNING Sex, Violence, and toxic yuri Also Sister/Sister incest. If that's not your jam or you shouldn't be reading it, don't Alice From the day I was rescued, I remember almost everything. The thick smell of the autumn leaves. The sound of rain on the roof. The cold feeling of damp...

The moment you woke up, you knew. You felt the weight of a mission that needed no explanation; the Honkai had embedded it deep within your being. Exterminate humanity. That was the only thing that mattered, the only thing you had to remember. The sole reason for your existence was to erase every...

Working at a maid cafe turned out to be a much more complicated and demanding job than you had originally thought. Paying attention to and serving customers wasn't the only thing you had to worry about, you also had to keep a radiant smile on your face for so long that your cheeks even started...

For the first time in a long time you had managed to sleep peacefully after a rather exhausting day, it was so peaceful and quiet, far away from all the problems that life constantly threw at you, that it was truly annoying the fact that your pleasant sleep was interrupted when the roar of a...

From Beyond the Starlit Sky “...and we’ve recently had some disturbing signs coming from the north-eastern district of Region 3, though it’s still unclear what exactly...” Arzhela Ar Garreg paid little attention to her virtual assistant’s monotone voice. There were a great many things to do...

The pain was waiting for her. The nurses had given her a small remote, a flat cylinder of smooth, beige metal. Originally they simply handed it to her, but it tended to fall from her nerveless fingers when she needed it most, so eventually they taped it to her hand. The remote had a button...

Tis' a lonely scene, that day was... The script had played out atop a grand stage: the storm had finally finished boiling by the Witch's Night and 'twas ready to be shoved down the throats of the masses -plebeians and aristocracy alike- without regard for taste nor ability to swallow in the...

In Flames, Our Salvation: A Sisters of Battle Quest It was a day like any other when Morvenn Vahl, Abbess of the Adepta Sororitas, arrived at your Cloister. Perhaps it was a quiet day of contemplation of the God-Emperor's glory, perhaps it was day full of hymns extolling the death of the...

Ugh… your head. Do you have it on your shoulders? []What? []No, it's in the toilet. []I've lost my head. []Does anyone have a head, really? [x]Of course! Ah, yes, you have your head on your shoulders. What a very normal thought. Nothing abnormal about not having a head on your shou— you do...

Crack Bullets land in her back, tearing the life from her body. She falls forward, eyes already turning sightless as they gaze past the men who ruined her life and into the world beyond death. But this is not the moment her soul moves on from the land of the living. A pact was made, and the...

Magia Remnant - Prologue https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRLVoSk8UuE I hate funerals. I hate saying good-bye, but that doesn't mean anything. Who likes to mourn their loved ones? Who wants to lose the people they love? It's not like people make a habit of swimming through their tears to the...

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...

https://youtu.be/AUSZjrFXLBc edit: The [dice rolls] may appear out of place, though it helps me visualize the 'latency' of fleet response times... to battle, then. ***

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...