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Chaos and Order are two sides to the same coin. The uncontrolled discord of the former are guided by unseen systems of the latter, and the latter's overt systems are shaken off balance by interupptions of the former. The cosmos itself was a machine built on these two foundations, two systems...

"Five sons had Mother Hö'elün, and one she raised on human flesh." -An ancient Mongol proverb Mongolia, 1159 AD The cart is bad. It trembles and bounces as it moves, rattling your teeth. The thin black tarp draped over the roof of the cart holds out light, but little else. The air is heavy with...

A girl clad in something akin to a military coat, the lower part of her face covered by a scarf with a grinning teeth as it's art design, is currently walking on this place filled with the brownish dust floating around the air. The ground sounded crisps each time she takes her steps, as if...

101010101010101000101010101010... ...Access granted. Welcome cadet to the BETSA database. Since you are here you have been granted a privilege by your country to access sensitive and classified data. We encourage you not to treat this privilege lightly. We here at the Bureau of Extraterrestrial...

The year is 1500 after the death of our Lord Jesus Christ. The previous century is a darkened, terrible dream in the eyes of many, holding nothing but fear and misery for most. Yet for others, it represented a new chance, an era of opportunity reserved only for those who would dare to push...

Back in the year 2011, now known as the Year of Chaos, something called the Awakening took place. Babies started to be born of completely ordinary human couples with the traits of elves and dwarfs of folklore. People Awakened to strange abilities and a capacity to witness a different plane of...

Welcome to the world of Pokémon. A rich and fantastic place with unique creatures that live alongside humans. Some are cute and cuddly, while others are powerful and terrifying, with many in between. Pokémon have become integral to the daily lives of the people who live in this world. From...

Sundas, 17th of Last Seed. 4E201 Early Morning Ulfric Stormcloak I am Ulfric Stormcloak. Jarl of Windhelm. Student of the Greybeards of High Hrothgar. Leader of the Revolution of the Sons of Skyrim. And this is the day of my death. Today, I leave the mortal plane behind, to join my brothers...

Spoilers for Lobotomy Corporation, Library of Ruina, and Puella Magi Madoka Magica. Most of them not right now, but they will come up. No dedicated knowledge of either setting necessary to participate. A colossal building shook under the agony of one man. Like all others, the Magical Girl of...

It is a bitter cold autumn when the Shepherds call their first conclave in sixty-five years. You tell yourself that you are honored to attend, even as the mountain winds cut through your coat and skin and deep into the bones beneath, where it festers and spreads. The fathers and mothers...

He was trying to save his world from the Reapers, AI that are stuck in the cycles of destruction, but got sidetracked by the Multiverse and the endless possibilities. That's how he ended up in the vicinity of Supergirl, falling from the orbit right along with the intricate escape pod. Now he had...

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(??? Pov) In the year 2060 it happened no man on earth would have known that judgement had come quickly, humanity was driven to the brink of extinction as ten years past after the day of judgement everything could be summed up as disastrous, humanity even when they were faced with the...

Princess of Frozen Flowers Book 1: Mountaineer Rebellion Prologue Dea's arms were shaking. Her sword was ruined: chipped all along the bloodied blade, warped by the abuse it was put through and, above all else, heavy in her tired arms. The taste of smoke and death lapped her mouth with each...

The Red Theatre was a gladiatorial arena built on an island just off the coast of Norland, purchasing slaves in droves to fight to the death, all for the sake of the crowd’s amusement. Their patrons wore masks for anonymity, though all held signs of wealth. Despite its pretentious names and...

The moment of awakening is always strange to you. As your alarm clock blares, you don’t quite get jerked out of bed the way you did back in school. Instead, you linger, half-asleep, the faded remnants of dreams blurring into reality for a long instant. Lately, they have been getting stranger...

Description: Ashara Blackmoth is the daughter of a bastard knight and a commoner, born with nothing to her name except a small village and a burning ambition to burn her name into the annals of history. Ten years before the Tourney of Harrenhal, she finds a mysterious glowing blue cube… All hail...

A few notes about this quest: - I will typically be incorporating any commands and open discussion. If you give a command that's highly wild or just doesn't make sense, the character will explain why they don't want to do it. I'll also include ideas at the end of updates. I'll only use a poll...

A/N: Somewhere in between a Kill Six Billion Demons binge and playing The New War in Warframe, the ideas for this took hold. This is not exactly either of those, but the inspirations remain relevant. It began, as all things do, with blood. Blood was not an unusual sight in the...

THE TJAO CHRONICLES: CHAPTER ONE Bitter Introductions Hate. That was all Tim felt for the men before him. The soldiers fired at him fruitlessly, his incantation turned their bullets to water and a single wave of his hand caused spikes of ice to erupt from the floor and tear through their...

The classroom was filled up with students, waiting for the period to begin. Mr. Henderson, my history teacher spoke to the class, once we all settled in, "Today is the 25th of May. That means it's presentation time for your chosen towns." He took a moment for it to settle in and for us to...

Winter at the east coast is obviously cold. It is expected for snow to come and cover the ground all over. Christmas is coming soon and many people are walking around with smiles on their faces, most of them wearing clothes that are a bit flashier or colorful than their usual ones. It is not as...

The Island of Agryae A new dawn breaks on a horrified nation, once in a sunless, timeless realm. The Atlantic Ocean's waves now broke upon their shores, so different than their own sea. The island nation did not yet know it, but they were now on Earth, in the year 1840. Navigate your nation...

The Fool (I) Cold. Wet. Dark. Around you, everything is shrouded by the depths. You're sinking... sinking... Red dissolves into blue in front of you. Blood... your blood... Your thoughts turn to your last moments on land. You were travelling along roads you thought were safe... then...

1. Blights to Birth It dripped... Roaring in your mind was the commands of the Dragon, the Old One. CORRUPT! DEFILE! CONQUEST! The only words you could recognize, the ichor in your body pumped and your eyes could only do so much as to look up into the eyes of the sneering Grey Warden...