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Shadowborn
Shadowborn
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Descendant Demi-human Races

Descendant Races: Races that are descended from mythical creatures. They have predominantly human features with traits inherited from their ancestors. Their features can diverge from the standard the more diluted their bloodline becomes.

Celestial:

  • Arelim - Skin tones ranging from whites to light grays, hair often with metallic sheens, eyes within normal ranges usually with an extra angelic coloring in the iris. Similar in size to humans erring on the smaller side.
  • Seraphim - Fair skin tones and normal hair colors, often with metallic sheens. Standard eye colors, often on the lighter side. Lighter bone structure and feathery wings ranging from pure white to darker grays and sometimes browns. Typically smaller in stature than humans.
  • Nephilim - Skin tones ranging from dark grays to lighter grays, usually grayscale hair colors from jet black to snow white, typically vibrant colors of eyes. Typically much larger stature than humans, ranging from six to nine feet depending on purity of ancestry.

Infernal:

  • Tiefling - Skin tones ranging from red to blue and every shade in between, curved horns that are usually similar to skin color most often protruding from the temple or forehead and curving towards the back of the skull, prehensile tails with flared heads that are sensitive enough to be erogenous zones. Eye color is usually shades of red, blue or violet, but rarely matches skin tone. Hair color is usually darker, but can be any shade humans have. Stature is similar to humans.
  • Erinyes - Standard skin tones, usually on the fairer side but not always. Standard skin tones, eye colors usually shades of red, violet, or sometimes simply black. Standard hair colors, usually browns and blacks. Lighter bone structure, leathery wings and a thin prehensile tail almost always of a matching color, usually blacks, grays, or dark browns. Stature usually smaller than humans.
  • Oni - Skin tones regular, but usually with red, black, or brown tints. Eye colors usually reds or blacks, hair colors are usually on the darker side. Either one or two horns protruding from the forehead and curving straight up. Stature is larger than humans, often between six and nine feet.

Draconic:

  • Dragonling - Standard skin tones, but usually with smatterings of scales along the body. Scales can be any color of the rainbow, sometimes solid colored, sometimes multicolored dependent on ancestry. Most common placement for scales is forearms, the back of the neck, over the ribs, the front and sides of the thigh, and calves. Thick scaled tails that match their scales in color. Eyes any of the chromatic colors with vertical slit pupils. Males often have horns of varying shapes and sizes, usually corresponding to the color of their scales. Stature is similar to humans, erring on the larger side.
  • Drakken - Standard skin tones often with patches of scales on the arms, legs, and back. Leathery wings and thin scaled tails usually matching in color to the scales. Standard hair colors, usually with metallic sheens. Chromatic colored eyes with vertical slit pupils. Stature is similar to humans, erring on the smaller side.
  • Half-dragon - Standard skin tones often with patches of scales across the body that come in all colors. Horns of varying shades and shapes, chromatic eye colors with vertical slit pupils, thick scaled tails. Stature is larger than humans, ranging from six to nine feet.

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  • Malachai - Only known instance has dark gray skin, crimson eyes with a vertical slit, crimson hair, black feathered wings, light bone structure, and small stature.
  • ??? - Only rumored instance has gray skin and four arms.
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Nonhuman Demi-human Races

Nonhuman Races: Races that are less numerous than humankind but have walked Kasidiel just as long. They are humanoid in appearance, sometimes with traits that are inhuman in nature.

Elf:

  • Dark - Gray skin tones ranging from nearly black to light, darker eye colors, pointed ears, grayscale hair colors often with metallic sheens, standard heights but lithe builds.
  • Wood - Standard human skin tones typically on the darker end of the spectrum, eye colors usually blues, greens, or lighter browns, pointed ears, hair colors usually browns or dark blondes, standard heights but lithe builds.
  • High - Standard human skin tones typically on the lighter end of the spectrum, pointed ears, eye colors usually silvers and golds, hair colors usually fair, standard heights but lithe builds.

Dwarf:

  • Mountain - Standard human skin tones typically on the lighter end of the spectrum, eye colors usually grays or browns on the darker end, standard hair colors, short but broad in stature.
  • Hill - Standard human skin tones typically on the darker end of the spectrum, eye colors usually grays or browns on the lighter end, standard hair colors, short and stout in stature but not as broad as Mountain Dwarves tend to be.
  • Deep - Grayscale skin tones ranging from light to dark, eyes like gemstones but usually very dark, hair colors usually blacks or grays, short and broad in stature. 

Bestial:

  • Nekomata - Standard human skin tones, standard eye colors with the additions of yellows and bright greens, cat-like ears and tail coated in fur that usually matches the hair color around it, fur/hair can be any color a cat could be, slightly smaller stature and lithe builds.
  • Kitsune - Standard human skin tones, standard eye colors with the additions of golds and silvers, fox-like ears and tail coated in fur that usually matches the hair color around it, fur/hair can be any color a fox could be as well as some more rare pigments, slightly smaller stature than humans.
  • Lycanine - Standard human skin tones, standard eye colors, dog-like or wolf-like ears and tail coated in fur that usually matches the hair color around it, fur/hair can be any color a dog could be, often similar in stature to humans.

Fae:

  • Nymph - Skin tones usually in shades of green or brown, hair colors in a similar range usually in multiple colors, eye colors usually shades of greens, browns, or lighter blues and violets. Pointed ears and narrow features. Similar in stature to humans.
  • Nereid - Skin tones usually in shades of blue or violet, hair colors in a similar range usually in multiple colors, eye colors usually shades of blues, greens, or violets, usually darker in color. Pointed ears and narrow features. Similar in stature to humans.
  • Seelie - Skin tones usually in very light shades of pink, blue, or silver, hair colors usually one or more chromatic color with a metallic color threaded in, eye colors usually bright blues, violets, greens, golds, and silvers. Pointed ears and narrow features. Similar in stature to humans.

Siphon:

  • Succubus/Incubus - Skin tones and hairs colors similar to humans, eyes similar to humans but often with an ethereal tint or glow, thin tail with tapered tip. Similar in stature to humans, but often with more sexualized characteristics. Requires sexual energy in addition to standard nutrition after maturity.
  • Vampire - Skin tones and hairs colors similar to humans, eyes similar to humans but often with an ethereal tint or glow, long fangs for drawing blood. Similar in stature to humans, but often lithe. Requires blood in addition to standard nutrition after maturity.
  • Siren - Skin tones and hairs colors similar to humans, eyes similar to humans but often with an ethereal tint or glow. Similar in stature to humans. Requires soul energy in addition to standard nutrition after maturity.
Characters
Character Images

Images are generated using img2go ai art generator since my talent does NOT lie in art of the visual variety. It struggles with non-human characteristics, and armor isn't exactly what I was looking for in every instance, but it is as close as I could get the generator.

Zaren:

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Zaren

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Rhallani: (The generator does not like the white-gray skintone, nor is it able to add the golden circle in the iris or the threads of gold in her hair)

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Rhallani

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Serena:

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Serena with Shadow Armor

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Noelle:

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Noelle

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Tiana:

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Tiana

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Jack:

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Jack

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Ryoko and Tsuki:

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Tsuki and Ryoko

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Allisandre:

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Allisandre

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Zaren and Harem (Spoilers)

Zaren Nocht

  • Class: Shadowborn/Soul Smith
  • Race: Human
  • Age: 21/51 (It's complicated)
  • Appearance: 6'2", black hair, muscular but not bulky, covered in scars, dark blue eyes

Rhallani Venetia

  • Class: Scholar/Summoner
  • Race: Arelim (Celestial)
  • Age: 19
  • Appearance: 5'6", light gray skin, silver hair with threads of gold, cobalt blue eyes with golden ring around the iris, slim yet curvy build

Serena Ravin

  • Class: Lancer/Priestess
  • Race: Human
  • Age: 18
  • Appearance: 5'9", long blond hair, emerald eyes, athletic build

Noelle (Formerly Scarlet)

  • Class: Spirit Guardian/Sacrier
  • Race: Malachai (???)
  • Age: 22
  • Appearance: 5'3", short crimson hair, crimson eyes with vertical pupil, lengthened incisors, dark gray skin with bluish tint, petite build (partially due to malnourishment), black feathered wings (regrowing).

Tiana Yavis

  • Class: Arcanist/Salacious Sorceress
  • Race: Human
  • Age: 20
  • Appearance: 6'0", long dark auburn hair, turquoise eyes, tanned skin, curvaceous build.
Zaren's Household (Spoilers)

Cynthia Hawkes

  • Role: Bookkeeper/Assistant
  • Race: Human
  • Age: 22
  • Appearance: 5'7", Dark blond hair, steel gray eyes

Elisa Thornes

  • Role: Tinkerer
  • Race: Human
  • Age: 18
  • Appearance: 5'6", chin length brown hair, light brown eyes

Ryoko

  • Role: Alchemist
  • Race: Kitsune (Beastkin)
  • Age: 18
  • Appearance: 5'5", white furred fox ears and tail, golden eyes, curvy build, identical to Tsuki outside of color of fur.

Tsuki

  • Role: Caretaker
  • Race: Kitsune (Beastkin)
  • Age: 18
  • Appearance: 5'5", black furred fox ears and tail, golden eyes, curvy build, identical to Ryoko outside of color of fur.

Nariko

  • Role: Scout/spy/thief
  • Race: Nekomata (Beastkin)
  • Age: 19
  • Appearance: 5'6", rust colored hair and fur around cat ears and tail, gray eyes, slim build
Allisandre's Party

Allisandre (Allie) Luce

  • Class: Elemental Swordsman/Night's Blade
  • Race: Human
  • Age: 20
  • Appearance: 5'8", long black hair, violet eyes, pale skin, toned build

Nora Valkis

  • Class: Berserker
  • Race: Human
  • Age: 20
  • Appearance: 6'4", shoulder length red hair, tanned skin, scarred arms, deep blue eyes, muscular but feminine build

Therese Genchar

  • Class: Crystalline Caster/[unknown]
  • Race: Human
  • Age: 23
  • Appearance: 5'10", waist length platinum blond hair, eyes a light enough blue they're nearly white, very pale skin, very thin build

Rose

  • Class: Nature's Ally
  • Race: Nymph (Fae)
  • Age: 19
  • Appearance: 5'4", soft green skin, brown/gray flowing hair the color of tree bark, vibrant green eyes, soft and curvy build
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    Derisat
    Status: c33

    The perspective jumps from memories to hallucinations to what's happening right now, and given with no warning, usually at the start of a chapter. So you stop reading one thing and then you start in the middle of an alien thought in an alien situation in a different time with different people with entirely different names, that have not been introduced to you yet. When it hasn't even resolved what happened in reality.

    Characters have been introduced rapidly and it's hard enough just remembering their BS fantasy names, they haven't stuck with us enough to form a memory, an identity with the reader. And then you slingshot it off into some hallucination of the past with literally an entirely different set of actors and even the main characters called different. Jarring and unpleasant and right now I do not give a f**k that they're stuck down with the bugs, we spent just as much time locked in his lunatic head and a flashback with people that are already dead that have no bearing on the future or the movement of the plot.

    Very early on the writing becomes bogged down with unimportant things to the reader. They may be important to the psychology of the main character but you don't need to tell their life story. Show his actions now, have them reveal his path slowly to the people around him as he talks about what made him. Massive amounts of words and chapter space dumped into flashbacks and hallucinations suddenly. With an entirely new cast of DEAD npc's, this early in the novel, to rememorize. 

    I no longer care about the dark sewer, I've been brought out of that, I don't care that they're surrounded by spiders, I've been brought out of that three times so far. There's no more tension, there's no more danger, there's no more risk of loss. The author has effectively neutered the tension of his whole story and bogged down the resolution to the problem that actually matters, surviving their current situation.

    Now it is boring

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    aihikari
    Status: c40

    Now, how do I go about this? Short then.

    Enjoyable main plot. Sensible MC.

    Sub-par s*x scenes. Too much yuri in the harem, to the point MC is not even in the picture anymore.

    Plus 2, minus 2, which keeps my rating at 3 for average.

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    AonDuine
    Status: c42

    ***EDIT***: Changes have recently been made that roll back the ntr-ness of the original description for the harem. Everything else holds true below, but after reviewing the changed part of the story, those concerned about ntr can rest more easy if deciding to read/continue reading this story.

    Solid story. The girls are all fun and the setting is pretty interesting thus far even if the mysteries feel a bit more like unplanned holes in the logic of the world rather than actual mysteries at the moment. The action scenes are pretty awesome and the MC has a cool backstory and is generally a fun MC even if he starts feeling a bit generic and cookie-cutter as the story goes on (particularly with regards to his relationships with the various girls). Taken purely from the main-story's value, a 4.8 rating seems fair. However, I'm giving it a 4 due to the other aspect of the story.

    Honestly, the erotica and everything connected to it is the weakest part of this story and detracts from it heavily as the story goes on. The author's skills in writing a solid semi-dark fantasy are much better than their erotica writing skills. I find myself often skipping over the pervy parts of the work after the first 10ish chapters because it quickly becomes the same-old same-old both in the s*xual acts performed and the words used to describe the s*xual acts taking place. They also take place rather frequently and in great length so big chunks of the story are often interrupted by acceptable but comparably sub-par erotica. The romantic aspects of the work that were pretty well-written near the beginning quickly became overshadowed by the erotica and now, any "romance" pretty much takes place in a s*xual way (the girls are ALWAYS horny) which makes the feelings of these otherwise well-written characters seem shallow. 

    The author also has slowly been introducing more and more yuri into the work in ways that aren't related to anything the MC is taking part of; in the last 5chs or so especially. I really don't care about other relationships to begin with, and the random yuri for no discernible reason just feels like a shoehorned-in fetish for the fetish's sake that detracts from the story at large.

    In that same vein, the MC also just announced he was down for his harem to have open relationships with other people as long as they were woman. The hell? Women or not, the MC is Will Smith all of a sudden? Personally, the idea of the MC's girls just having other s*xual relationships independent of the MC with others, woman or man, is just unpleasant, feels like ntr, and again makes it feel like the relationship is built on nothing but s*x rather than any deeper love or emotion; despite the story outside the erotica indicating that this should not be the case.

    Overall, the main story is well written, but the erotica ends up being a letdown that negatively impacts the story's flow and my perception of the character's relationships. I'm continuing to read for now, but frankly I am very close to dropping it despite the enjoyable main plot.

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    3hyv
    Status: chapter 11

    Wow a diamond in a sea of sh*t. Great writing, great worldbuilding, believable characters, gritty action, tough hero, romance and tasteful lemons, on point litrpg elements, interesting plot. Only need to hope that author sticks through this and doesn't hiatus.

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    tatekim
    Status: chapter twenty one – hard conversations

    It's pretty good. You can tell the author's really putting effort into it.

    The MC has been through some tough times, but he gets this chance at a better life by striking a deal with a god to bring back his deceased friends. As we keep reading, we uncover more and more about his past. Now, that's both a good and a not-so-good thing. On one hand, it keeps you hooked, dying to know what's next. But on the other hand, sometimes the MC's actions feel a bit too passive because we don't have the full picture of what he's been through. The tag "Weak to Strong" doesn't currently apply to the MC; he's nerfed but still much stronger than anyone around him. They have just reached a larger city (chap 20), and I hope to see some powerful people and how he will deal with them.

    We've got some interesting characters in general, mostly ladies. The followers, you could consider them as "strays"; they have some personality and simple goals. They are discriminated against or abused, and now the MC is here to protect and love them. There's not much romance, but there is some smut.

    The world seems to be heavily impacted by gods, but I don't remember any religion being mentioned. There's a lot of discrimination against demi-humans, and there are laws to support this so the MC wants to change that.

    The system is good; it's there to give a sense of growth and direction. Not those 30 lines of status every chapter, just a simple "Level UP" and "HP/MP", apply status where needed, and select skills. The action/fights are well done with a sense of struggle and tactics; I could easily imagine those scenes.

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    Neigh
    Status: chapter twenty: anford

    One of the few Novels, that are really, REALLY! Good! It is well written, no Inconsistencies, with no Plotholes, not even minior ones (At leasts for me), and has many Details, that makes up the Taste/Color of the Novel! And that while not feeling stuffed, with the Details, while reading it! The only bad (Or better said not near Perfect thing is) it does get confusing when we get another PointOfView after these *****, with no knowledge of who or where it continues.

    I really hope the Author continues to write this Novel, the pacing of Updates is very good too, with 3 Chapters per Week with quite a lenght of said Chapters. 

    5 Stars from me For this Novel!

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    zigzag12321
    Status: chapter twenty-eight: royally screwed

    Truly a diamond in the rough, a needle in a haystack, probably top 2 best stories I’ve read on this site

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    Runner
    Status: c0

    So far, great story and a lot of potential.

    If you think you might enjoy the details in the summary, you should enjoy the story.  Here's what I liked -

    Besides the good story telling -  Characters, world, and the plot line all make sense and seem to be developed.  These can change as the characters grow and effect the environment around them.  Example is the growth of the MC.  How he has gone from being a affection starved loner who's scared of getting close to people and is seeking death to having someone he cares for.  While the gods/goddess seem to influence the world by nudging the scales one way or the other but have limited ability for active interaction with the world. 

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    NingTheDragon
    Status: chapter thirty-four: bluffing with the...

    Really well done, bit dark at times but still one of the best stories in this site. 

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    CookieB
    Status: prologue: a deal you can’...

    Its great! It's the type of story that demands you pay attention to appreciate it so it's not for everyone and it's something to binge rather than follow.

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