The Old Realms Saga starts where Touch O' Luck ends.
It is a direct sequel and follows the story of Glen, the thief from Shroudcoast, now impersonating the grandson of the elderly Lord of Altarin and his colorfull companions.
It tells of Lord Storm Nattas struggles, as he tries desperately to prevent the realm from falling into the pits of war, or failing that, make certain he escapes it unscathed.
It will sing of gallant Sir Lucius Alden, 'Bloody tiger of the South' and his journey to the distant lands of Fetya, and the faraway 'true' North. A journey of hardships, danger, a desperate search for redemption and the road back to his beloved Regia.... more>> /> It will whisper of a Princess woes and triumphs, in the exotic continent of Eplas.
It will speak of a 'demi-goddess' wanting what was promised and Dar Eherdir, the father of all assassins.

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The Old Realms series:

Prologue,
Touch O' Luck (Finished)

Act I,
Hint O' Magic (Finished)

Act II,
Lure O' War (Finished)

Act III-V
Wings O' Fate 1-3 (Ongoing)

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2 chapters per week.
drops Fridays and Saturdays/Sundays around 12:00 UK time
also a chapter Wednesday in the afternoon.

II) multi-part chapters come usually within 48 hours for continuity (and because they are written as one chapter for the novel's original form), without being limited from the above schedule.

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Cover artwork by @IntheBlackveil
(here the cover of Lure O' War, or Act II is used)

Maps of the Old Realms are available here
I) chapter specific maps of the Realms
https://theoldrealms.blogspot.com/p/maps-of-realms.html
II) Character portraits
https://theoldrealms.blogspot.com/p/old-realms-characters.html

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I) All tags are relevant but most chapters are not too extreme. Fair warning dear reader, this is an 'unfiltered' story, sometimes sweet, others bitter, touching some heavy subjects or problems, like crime, war, betrayal, pride, politics, revenge etc set in a Epic Fantasy backdrop with shades of Grimdark. In its heart of hearts though, it is an adventure.

II) The Old Realms saga is only published on Scribble Hub and RR for free. It is in the author's plans to publish it on Amazon and other platforms at some point. If you see it offered anywhere else, or someone tries to charge you for it, please report him. It is illegal to sell, or take advantage of intellectual work  without the author's permission. <<less

A young boy with a strange demeanor suddenly finds himself contending with a beautiful emerald-haired girl stuck inside of his mind. She doesn’t remember much of anything, and loves to sleep, however, it’s clear that there is a deep connection between the two of them.... more>>

The son of a mercenary, all he has known is constant travel and bloodshed. Now tied into a greater fate than anyone realizes, how will they survive being thrust onto the world stage full of powerfully gifted nobility, an ever-dominant central church, and a mysterious hidden force lurking in the shadows?

Follow Byleth as he grows up in a world of magic and mystery, grappling with powers he doesn’t entirely understand and forced to combat those who would seek the mysterious girl for their own purposes.
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You do not need knowledge about Fire Emblem to read this. The story can also be dark at points, but that is by no means the focus of the novel.

If you're interested I have a Patreon for advanced chapters - https://www.patreon.com/Kizaru_Etrus
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Marie McCloud is a woman stuck in a galaxy coming apart under an interstellar war. So used to being pushed around by forces beyond her control, she finds herself caught off-guard when she is put in the pilot seat of an unfamiliar Battlemech and fielded alongside new companions. Is this an opportunity to turn her life around, or is this the first step down the wrong path?... more>>

Battletech and Mechwarrior are not mine, they are the property of Catalyst Game Labs.

Rachel McCloud and the Bristol are creations of James Long.

I am also hosting this series on YouTube, where you get to hear me read it to you alongside some sound effects and music I found on the Internet. So if audio is more your thing, you can find the full playlist at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KokyPoimpGU&list=PLBPKALVoB6iB_cUJhqAzqjdNzva-6R9iu

Or you can go download the audio as a podcast, though you'll be missing out on the music and artwork: https://lucendacier.podbean.com/ <<less

Depressed and lost throughout much of his life, Hasegawa Satou finds himself no longer seeking anything more than a painless death—or so he thought, until the day finally comes and he realizes what he had always wanted was a better lease of life. This fruits, to his surprise, and now he must prove his mettle by living it to its fullest.... more>>

Author's Note: genderbent Gallivant bi-MC, no-Harem, romance-Subplot w/Smut, much Slice-of-Life, Knights-&-Mages, Guns & Airships, esoteric-Occult, melancholic-Horror, multiple-Realms, neo-Victorian-esk high-Fantasy.

Scheduled for Once a Week / Month, KoFi Keeps me Going. Available on SH, RR, WordPress (TBA). Thank You.

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Alice Blodeuwodd Duke Fenix is the phoenix of the generation. Her mother, Angela Del Dharia Fenix, had left her so abruptly in the world without being able to teach her heir. Being the Grand duchess of the Oslaris Galaxy, Alice tries her best to be the phoenix that everyone expects. One day, her sister Vanessa made Alice play a game of Yggdrasil to make her rest and have an enjoyable time. But somehow, she got hooked!?... more>>

Disclaimer
This is a work of fiction. Any names or characters, businesses or places, events or incidents, are fictitious. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental. <<less

In the not too distant future, an encounter with some other inhabitants of the universe catapults the human race in to a more technologically advanced and expanding state in a short space of time. Although that doesn't mean that humans have evolved mentally for the better. ... more>>

Join the crew of the Osiris. A team of misfit mercenaries who do whatever they can to survive on a podunk, backward planet in a bizarre galaxy where money, status and connections mean everything. Where a new crew member who only ever wanted to be a chef finds that A.I's are our friends, cybernetic enhancements are not always a good idea and shoes can most certainly be effective weapons. Read on as the Osiris crew become embroiled in seedy corporate business and a ruthless terrorist plot. <<less

When a 22 year old man gets murdered in his world he awakes as a baby in a world of magic, chaos, wonder, and death.... more>> Reborn with 0 magic potential as the child of a wealthy noble family in an oppressive society he must use his previous experience and knowledge of combat and weapon development to survive and bring justice to a corrupt kingdom. <<less

After a grave mistake, a group of young adults must learn to survive in a world where they're supposed to be exterminated. With a long... more>> journey ahead of them, they set out to find where they belong and who is truly an enemy and who is truly a friend.
(A lot of graphic violence and mass murder themes including genocide adjacent concepts and active war zone violence. Reader discretion advised.)
Cover art by TheSundaesundae <<less

Ever since the beginning of time, the great veil has existed to separate the Enchanted Races and Humanity, ensuring neither would know the other existed.... more>>

However, for unknown reasons, this bulwark that had protected both sides from the other, has lifted.

War almost immediately erupted, and with it, each side fighting to not be extinguished from the annals of history.

As such, the former general and princess turned sellsword Thalia Nichole Marsona continues to seek a solution to end the war, even if she her nation no longer recognizes her. With her, a artificer of magical proportions turned black market arms dealer running from the lands of the Enchanted Races, named Mahal Alka, must find his place in a new world, hoping his new found protector doesn't end up killing him for a hefty bounty.

Updates every Saturday Afternoon! <<less

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[Naruto Self-Insert]
There is little else more agonising than seeing your parents massacred by the very beast sealed within your stomach. Throw in the... more>> knowledge that you'll have to coexist with that same beast -- fully aware that its decision to kill your parents was wholly its own -- and you'll understand how I feel. It doesn't help that the only person I can talk to about it refuses to tell me anything at all.
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DISCLAIMER:
Barring my own OCs (Original Characters), I do not own any of the characters in this story nor do I own the rights to the ‘Naruto’ franchise. I am but a lowly fan, expressing his love for the stories that he grew up with. <<less

The Empress brandishes a wicked grin as the human before her takes her slender and black-scaled hand.... more>>

Ark Light.

Slave.

Hero.

Dragon slayer.

Defeater of Irelix the Empress of Dragons.

And now, a dead man.

Betrayed and hacked to pieces by those he called friends, Ark is offered a second chance as he teeters at the crossroads of life and death, one given to him by the nemesis he gave everything to slay.

The offer is simple.

Become her vessel and gain dominance as a dragon. Returning to the land of the living.

Or, fade away into obscurity as those who betrayed him mold the world in their image.

Ark chooses the former, but not all promises and offers are what they seem as Dragon and Human merge to become the ultimate warrior unseen in a hundred years since the Six Heroes came together to slay the Empress of All.

[Content Warning!]

Gore, Violence, Torture, Profanity, and Death ahead. Features cultivation mixed with statless LITRPG Mechanic

Don't update on Sundays n Mondays :3 <<less

A battle-hardened mercenary captain, allying with a princess and a goddess incarnate, falls in the throes of war, only to awaken 80 years later in... more>> the body of a child. Believing his allies had triumphed, he is stunned to find their history veiled in shadows and deceit. Embark on an epic quest with our hero as he unravels the twisted webs of lies and reclaims the truth that imprisoned his world. <<less

This is a story of a new beginning and a new adventure. Join Elysian on his quest, where his humorous antics and utter shamelessness propel him towards reshaping his past and crafting a new destiny.... more>>

From a baron's son to a slave in a foreign land, he rose to prominence to become a merchant and a master. Even though he now had the power to reclaim what was lost, all was gone. Even his revenge was taken from him. Now, he had everything but also nothing.

Fate had truly been cruel to him. But blaming her for his misfortune was a waste of time. She’s neither right nor fair—she’s blind. She could not see whose thread she was weaving. However, there was also a mystery to her. As she cuts a thread of life, she sometimes attaches it to a past long lost but not forgotten.

(Schedule: Saturday and Tuesday (UTC+8))
* I'll be releasing extra chapters on other days as well. <<less

After being a wilfully unwilling subject of magical testing our cloaked protagonist, who refrains from revealing his own name, is diving into the dirt underbelly of the slums he once lived in. ... more>>

Partnered with a dagger for hire who's bound by the promise of financial stability. Together the two bound by the promise of riches advance into the conspiracies plaguing their country.

Along the way, they gain acquaintances, enemies, and undead slaves who differ from the usual word-slurring walking bag of bones.

In this world of fantasy magic is a drug, a bare-knuckle fight can be more destructive than wizardry, and the lost art of the arcane can shape the structured outcome of any given battle.

"How far will I be willing to go? I don't know... I ain't got anything else to live for, so the rabbit hole decides." <<less

On a ringworld with an artificial sun at its center, where the first men woke up long ago without memories or history, the Holy Church... more>> of the Cipher reveres and maintains the divine machine that is the ring.
In this world, the story follows Harek and Agnes, who after surviving their teen-age years together lead a mercenary band on their newest job to assist in the siege of a lord, who in return would gift Agnes his prohibited Book of Runes scribed by the monks of the church, which contains advanced knowledge of the symbols and language that can shape reality itself, which Agnes has only scratched the surface of on her own. <<less

Peasant, king, or emperor, it matters not when there is a boot to their neck and a sword in their gut. They all bleed the same. Well, most of them do, but occasionally you get a surprise necromancer resurrection or a guy that regresses in time when they die, or a reincarnator with broken magic. It doesn’t matter though; I got broken magic of my own, and I can keep the dead well dead.... more>>

The Goddess Death and the God Reincarnation are in the middle of their cosmic spout, and whose job is it to clean it up? Death is tired of all these mortals playing fast and loose with the rules. It's time to put some of those escapees back in the dirt where they belong. The hounds of the underworld have come to claim the souls she lost. While they are at it, might as well take a few more people that the world would be better without.

Garmr, Cerberus, Anubis, and Tiangou, the former guardians of the underworld, were sent by Death to claim escaped souls released by her older brother, the God Reincarnation. However, when they arrived, they were betrayed and killed by Tiangou, one of their own. Ironic that the very divine assassins sent to kill the ones that cheat death were reincarnated by that very power. Derrick, the former Garmr, must gain the power to complete his divine mission and find the traitor that killed him.

*This story has no release schedule! It will be updated whenever I get to it between other books.*
Take place in the same “universe” as “Chronicles of a Scalebound Sage: Reincarnated as a Hydra”. <<less

In 2017, two worlds, Earth and Lumina, seemingly merged. Entire countries were wiped off the face of the planet, tsunamis the size of mountains crashed into deserts, and monsters immune to gunfire rampaged through the survivors. This was known as the Great Merge. As millions were displaced across the new world, the kings from Lumina herded the survivors into enormous cities.... more>>

This story begins 40 years after the Great Merge, following a mercenary team in New London tasked with intel gathering on a recruiter for a supposed terrorist organisation. However, all is not what it seems. Secrets are being withheld and a certain team member has a complex history.

Join them as they butt heads with the Children of Discordia, a group hell-bent on creating chaos while unravelling a puzzling mystery. <<less

Struck with visions of a future he can not explain, Leonard must unravel its secrets through any means necessary. Even if that means creating an organization to go against the very nation he means to protect.... more>>

patreon.com/NoobHobby0 <<less

An accident transports Riley from the insides of her car to a strange spaceship with six other people who had also coincidentally died at the same time. The seven of them get to know one another and spend a good amount of time in the spaceship which once seemed like hell but had become a Utopia. ... more>>

Suddenly a message appears in the spaceship from a being who calls themselves the AXIS. The being demands that they all be sent to a planet called Aquilora Prime so that they could tame it and stabilize the place and subsequently, rule it. They all agree to the task and are sent down to the planet.

There's just one problem, when Riley is sent down, she is reborn as the daughter of an infamous minor Lord of an isolated Archipelago. The great war that almost tore the planet was won due to the seven great heroes. It was ten thousand years ago. Her friends in the spaceship now rule as gods over the Planet. One rules as emperor over all. One is missing and One is dead.

Riley makes it her mission to find out what happened in all that time she was gone. <<less

In 2129, a soldier died. Her world, ravaged by global warming and war, forgot her sacrifice. But from the dark beyond, Eve Haversham crawled on skinless fingers toward a life of synthetic glory. Rising to become the first of the Deathless, she must struggle with her new life and manage the forces that threaten to overwhelm her. The city of Nova Roma awaits her, tempting her with delights and dangers both. Unsure whether the woman who paid for her resurrection is lover or manipulator, surrounded by callous scientists and bloodthirsty mercenaries, Eve must find a place in the new world.... more>>

(I'm unsure whether I want to continue this project so I'm posting it here for feedback :D Also, although I recognize religious themes are present through most of my work but this one's BIIIIG on the imagery. Discretion advised!) <<less

After that event... The world was never the same again. Economies weakened, countries tried to expand and lock themselves in like dying stars; the progress... more>> we were so proud of became only a fleeting remembrance in the memory of some grandparents. Of all the nations that managed to expand and prosper, Taured was always the quintessential hermetic country. In this place, three young friends will have to make a tough decision, after reuniting with a childhood friend who they thought had died. The towering plateau and its gods of yesteryear eagerly watch the times of change. <<less

Game Synopsis:... more>>

In The Chaos Knight, players control Ragnar, the Captain of the Royal Knights charged with protecting the crown. As the story progresses, Ragnar found himself in a dire situation as he failed to protect the princess. In a series of deciept and conspiracy, he was sentenced to death by hanging. But in a stroke of blessing or curse, Ragnar rose from the dead and became the Chaos Knight. Vowing to erase injustice wherever he went.

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Story Synopsis:

After obtaining a mysterious VR game, I was transported to a different world and became the game's character named Ragnar. WITHOUT a UI, an awesome ability or skill and a clear goal, I roam the land of Aethrona as a mercenary, relying on the inherent skills of Ragnar, the failed knight.

This life isn't so bad, as long as I can enjoy and have fun. But things make a sharp turn when I met the child Iris in my travels.

Author's note:

Hi! I'm sixbladefan and I'm new to writing. Thank you for visiting my page and reading my work. Any advice and suggestions are welcome. Enjoy!

I'll be posting once or twice a week. The exact time and day TBA. <<less

Jianghu is where the rivers flow free and seekers of their own destinies roam. A minor celebrity of Jianghu, Swordsman Yan finds himself down on his luck two years after his name-making feat at the Trial of Swords. Turns out fame doesn't always lead to fortune. So when he discovers that the petty scoundrel he's been commissioned to find has a string of bounties on his head and a long line of powerful people waiting to collect on their debts of vengeance, Yan is determined to be the one to bring the man to justice. ... more>>

Of course, his target isn't going to give up so easily.

["boyfailure" swordsman x beautiful phantom thief, switch pairing]
[Disclaimer: This is a fictional setting. The author claims no historical accuracy.] <<less

"In the far reaches of space, the Unified Clans face an impending threat to their unity. James Rorik, a seasoned warrior, but rookie captain, and... more>> his eclectic crew are tasked with a crucial mission—to locate the elusive leader of the Unified Clans. As they navigate the vast cosmos, Rorik and his crew plunge into a perilous journey fraught with danger, political intrigue, ancient enigmas, and interstellar conflicts. The fate of their unified destinies hangs in the balance, as they unravel the mysteries of a plot that will redefine the future of their people. 'Moon Claw is an enthralling space fantasy, where werewolves, ancient horrors from Old Earth, must confront their own destinies in our very distant future." <<less

Mirk has lost everything: his noble family, his home, and nearly his life. All he has left is his grandfather’s staff and the K’maneda, the strange band of foreign mercenaries who saved him. He decides to build a new life among them in their wandering City of Glass, dedicating himself to healing the outcast and forgotten men who did everything to protect him. Providence makes no mistakes. And to live is to serve.... more>>

Genesis is an expert at three things: binding magic, assassination, and cleaning potions. Everything else is a mystery to him, especially people. Which is a crucial shortcoming, considering his ambition is to launch an insurrection against the corrupt mages who have warped the K’maneda into a machine designed to grind up the poor for the benefit of the wealthy. He will never be free; his nature is destruction. Since he can’t escape it, he will use it to liberate those who aren’t bound to obey.

They’re an unexpected team: the unrelenting and inhumanly powerful Destroyer and the kindly healer with the right lineage and a knack for putting the right people in the right places. But will it be enough to ensure the revolution prevails? And is there more to their relationship beyond a mutually beneficial alliance?

Featuring: Slowest of slow-burns, grumpy x sunshine, size difference to the max, perpetual hurt/comfort, and a whole lotta bed sharing. HEA guaranteed...eventually. <<less