Set in the world of Kevin Crawford's tabletop RPG Godbound, and a year after the events of Conquest of the Eternal Samurai in The Thaumaturge chronology. Fikre Soro had just turned 18. His home kingdom, Ancalia, is the most prosperous state in Arcem. Everything changes for him, however, when ancient...

At the end of a life spent meaninglessly there is a brief moment of respite in the thought that it will all soon be over, and yet with the quick tightening of a finger the world does not fade. When Henry awakens in another world he is not met with purpose, but rather an all-consuming hunger for a li...

Saviour or destroyer? Warrior or liberator? The inevitable… or the possible? When a mysterious disaster causes amnesiac war hero Lieutenant Zelen Athelstan to lose his ability to pilot an Eidolon, Corporal Asena Shiranui is tasked with healing his mind and bringing him back to fighting shape. Asena ...

In the afternoon - at the very last rows of an asphalt staircase - I met them. Twins, everchanging between a perverse grin and a gorgeous smile.Then, a week later, I couldn't ever live without them....

The fourth entry in The Thaumaturge series. Jackie, a 17 year-old girl in Nevada, 2023, finds that she suddenly develops pyrokinesis. Kineses are potent superpowers that an extremely small amount of people around the world have developed. Her friend, Paul, who she meets in a government protection pr...

Nineteen-year-old Ava finds herself in a strange fog place where immortals exist and meets an anorexic blood drinker named Ezzie. Together the two journey the fog lands in search of a shimmering archway that leads back to the mortal world....

This book is the second on the series. Please read Book 1 for better context of the events.https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/64052/into-the-hedge-knights-of-the-autumn-crown-bookThank you and enjoy...

In a forsaken church, an elderly priest faces haunting confessions and encounters Ikovmel, a mysterious entity. As their clash unfolds, reality intertwines with the supernatural, unraveling eerie transformations and unsettling truths. Amidst a battle of faith and otherworldly forces, the priest grap...

The Underwasteland is at the edge of the universe... and it's hell. In the house in the center of the ash desert, N inherits the title of Empress of the Underwasteland from her father.Her tasks are as important as they are monotonous: judging the deceased and taking care of the immense dungeon in wh...

After 12 years of being in foster care, Diana Watson has had enough of the failing system. She is moved into her 23rd family: the Fields, with two parents and four sons. While the parents are kind to her, providing her with a beautiful home and her own room, the sons seem to see her as some sort of ...

Sometimes all it takes to break the ice is a change of perspective....

We all have wishes, and sometimes, these get granted in mysterious ways. When it happens, reality seems to become a dream. But what happens when the dream turns into a nightmare? A story told trough different horror tales, all connected by the shadows that follow them. You can get the full volume on...

Soon after a suicide in a small town, an elementary school is sieged by an unseeable threat....

A short-story about the mental consequences of overthinking, procrastination and writer's block....

Some day she’ll be free from her...

An ordinary family, an ordinary life, happy parents and their children. Who doesn't dream of this? A deadly disease, slowly stealing the life of a young girl. Who isn't afraid of that? Her brother, desperate to do everything in his power to help his sister, treading a very fragile and dangerous path...

Immortality. It is granted only to those who are ready to kill, dissect, and literally walk over the corpses of their enemies. Cast away pity, discard compassion, and burn all forgiveness. Here, your kindness is a weakness. So show this world that you can be more terrifying than anything it has know...

A woman wakes up in the middle of a dark tunnel of flesh. With no memory of how she got there, her only choice is to move forwards and discover what this place is. This is a (very) short story made as an assignment for a university writing course...

In this literary-fantasy short story, an aging man visits his undead former lover to learn if life is worth living after death. As a content warning, this story includes gore, scenes of animal consumption, and mild sexual elements.  I'm quite new to Royal Road (this is my first story!) so I gladly ...

As Naruto struggles with the temptations of the Nine-Tailed Fox within him, his first ninja mission proves to be a turbulent trial for his morality. His hopes of impressing others enough to become Hokage and ascend the shinobi hierarchy are dampened when he somewhat chooses to work for Gato, the wor...