In The Beginning there was nothing. There was The Creator, Origin. Floating in the vast nothingness there came a Thought. A Story was to be told. All the forces of Heaven were born around a whale fall of perpetual life, churning void into material like a loom spinning thread from air. Heaven was first. Heaven was built by a thousand thousand craftsmen, ange...
I lied in my bed, flipping through one of those gay "dating" apps on my phone while feeling my morning wood under the covers. It was 10 in the AM on a bright summer day and my mind was relaxed knowing that I didn't have to worry about any more school stress. On top of that, this was my first summer with my own car, so while I wasn't on a campus full of horny...
My name is Cleopatra. The original one, not an imitation. I am the first woman in history to bear that name. A name which by now should require little to no introduction. That is if you've ever picked up a history book or know Jack about Pop Culture. I am the former Queen of Imperial Egypt. Descended from the Kush Dynasty, the legendary Nubian Pharaohs which...
Z'mbutu's World: A Brief Primer of the world of Etlaus My interest in the Sword and Sorcery genre began in college, back before people started calling it Fantasy, or even worse, Magical Realism. But, I digress. It began with Robert E. Howard, that flaming racist and ultimately tragic mama's boy, from East Texas. Although a frightened and small-minded man i...
Light shone off the gleaming black skin of the ship. Over three miles long, it had been one of a new race of living A.I. ships engineered to guard the vast Imperial boundary territory. For eight hundred years the small fleet of fast, sleek ships protected the empire. Many enemies had perished attempting to enter and take the empire. Though the fleet slowly d...
Chapter III - Fall of the Akharu A wraith of black rags and wrinkled, diseased flesh, the akharu rose up and floated over to them. It did not walk, but literally floated, and those that had been watching Rachab, envious of the affection she showed the strangers, fled at once from the inn, while a few remained frozen in dread. The sisters and brothers did n...
Rebecca looked like most normal girls on the brink of her third decade. She was average height, with wavy light brown hair, almond eyes, a slight build, fair skin, and delicate hands. Her skin had not yet cleared from adolescent acne, but her hands were not terribly calloused. The sixth of seven daughters, she was allowed to learn reading and writing, given...
_The air was filled with smoke and blood. It was the dawn of 5th day of the siege when they finally broke through the gates, the city defenders stood no chance as the hordes of Beast and Man tore into them. I looked to the sky as i stood there on the balcony and i behold a red comet that streaked across the sky like an arrow let loose from its bow. On that d...
For one hundred or so years, the Sidus Galaxy has been explored by its human empires during their Golden Age of Space Travel. To begin, this led to an age of exploration and discovery, but that all ended upon the discovery of Aurum Planets. These uninhabitable planets contain vast amounts of resources that have made fortunes for those brave enough to mine th...
Author Note: This is an experimental Quest story I have wanted to try for a while. Unlike Adventures in Syrada this quest will have strategy elements: Gathering resources, creating an army (or multiple armies), gaining control over territories, etc. Though the strategy elements won't come up until after the first few chapters. The world of Karladia is one o...