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Crown of the Perpetual Dusk

The sun is gone. No blaze, no warmth, only a world stuck in a bruised, dying twilight. Humanity survives in fragments, hiding in the skeletons of old cities while the Mawed roam outside. They were once people, now hollowed out by the dark and reshaped into predators that shouldn’t exist. But even they aren’t the worst thing out there. Hanging over reality like a cracked mirror is the Twilight Veil, a tear that can swallow you without warning. Inside it, time bends, rules dissolve, and something ancient gnaws at your soul. Survive that place and you don’t come back normal. You return with Authority, a mark burned into your essence, a small, terrifying power that lets you impose a single idea onto the chaos. Most people don’t come back at all. Lucian Ravenshade never asked for any of this. He grew up in the gutters, learned to live by keeping his head down, learned to survive by being invisible. But the Veil didn’t care about his plans. It dragged him in, chewed through his sanity, and spat him back out changed. Something now lives inside him, a quiet, resonant power that feels like a rule written into his bones, waiting to be spoken. But the Veil isn’t finished with him. It keeps dragging him back. Every return throws him into new nightmares, shifting landscapes, impossible logic, things with too many eyes and voices full of hunger. And every time he survives, that strange authority inside him sharpens, strengthens, and grows harder to control. To outlast the Mawed in the streets, Lucian must master what the Veil carved into him. To survive the Veil, he’ll have to become something the streets would run from. Two collapsing fronts. One dying world. And the faint, dangerous pulse of a power inside him, the only thing sharp enough to cut a path through a reality designed to erase all paths.
VoidSpectator · 2.2k Views

The Fury Of Yagurah

In the ancient world of Nophilis, where kingdoms rise on steel and fall in fire, strength is the only law that holds meaning. Clans rule the continents like living empires—each with their own martial traditions, sacred blades, and brutal codes of honor. Among them, none were feared or respected more than the Yagurah, the shadow-forged swordsmen whose discipline shaped centuries of warfare. But in one night of treachery and bloodshed, the Yagurah are wiped from existence. At just seven years old, Aldrich Yagurah watches the rival clans Varkonn and Saelari slaughter his entire family—his father, mother, and older sister—leaving him alive only to break him. Instead, their cruelty forges something far more dangerous. In the ashes of his home, clinging to the legendary sword his father created, Aldrich swears an oath of vengeance so fierce it shakes the night itself. Saved only by Eldran “Iron Spine” Yagurah, the clan’s last surviving elder—an aging warrior who lost his right arm protecting the gate—Aldrich is taken deep into Hollowdene Forest, a lawless, monstrous territory where dragons, ogres, griffins, crocotta packs, and other medieval beasts roam freely. There, in the heart of danger, a new legacy begins. Eldran builds a home in the center of the wilds and begins to forge Aldrich the same way Yagurah blades were forged for generations: through pressure, pain, and relentless discipline. With no magic and no divine gifts—only swordsmanship, martial arts, raw will, and human strength—Aldrich endures brutal training, hunts beasts that could crush kingdoms, and grows stronger with each scar. But vengeance is not simply killing his clan’s enemies. To uphold his oath, Aldrich must rise above them— outthink the Saelari, outlast the Varkonn, and surpass even the ancient warriors whose blood he carries. From the ashes of the fallen Yagurah, a new storm is coming. A storm that kneels before no king. A storm born from grief, raised by fire, and sharpened by monsters. His name is Aldrich Yagurah— and the world of Nophilis will soon know the fury he carries.
TajayReid · 17.3k Views

Heir Of Godfall

One hundred and twenty years ago, the world ended. Not with fire or war, but with the arrival of a unknown god. No one knows where it came from, nor why it descended upon Earth. Only that its presence twisted reality, birthing countless abominations that poured across the planet and wiped out nearly half of humanity in a matter of years. Entire continents fell silent. Cities became graveyards. Civilization stagnated as survival became the only law. Then, just as suddenly as it appeared, the god vanished. What it left behind was a broken world. Sixty percent of Earth is now a forbidden land– infested with monsters, warped ecosystems, and ruins filled with relics far more dangerous than any beast. Humanity has survived through bloodshed and evolution all while relying on a new hope: awakened individuals who manifest supernatural abilities and grow stronger by facing the horrors beyond the walls. Everyone has their own path to power. Some train. Some inherit bloodlines. Some Through Trial and error. Eli is no different. After a near-fatal encounter, the protagonist discovers his own Legacy– his very own Power. As he studies his own power throughout the story, he finds fragments scattered throughout the ruins. Objects that resonate with his very existence. By absorbing them, his Body, Mind and Soul mutates to something... forbidden. His strength grows unnaturally, defying established limits and knowledge. Yet with every fragment he claims, the world seems to react. Nightmares intensify. Monsters grow restless. Ancient ruins awaken. Unbeknownst to him, these fragments are not relics of the old world, nor remnants of lost technology. They're something far worse, holding the power to end what the Unknown God had started. And the more fragments he gathers, the closer he comes to completing something that should never exist again. In the end, Eli walks a dangerous path– one that blurs the line between savior and harbinger of ruin. For in a world built upon the wrath of a unknown god, the greatest threat may not be the monsters lurking in the dark… …but the heir unknowingly destined to bring godfall to its end.
Counselor_Z7 · 5.4k Views