As probably many writers, I have a large concept pile with a lot of concepts and ideas waiting for an opportunity to be used in stories.

More than half a year ago I wrote "Realmcore" as an experiment to combine two of the main concepts from that pile: (spirit/core) and (empire/realm building), together with some other ideas - and it didn't work as intended.

I would need to rewrite a few key scenes of "Realmcore" and change the internal way of how the mechanics work to get this story out of a few plotholes I've written myself into, and I never found the time and interest to do this in all that time since the last written chapter here.

Changes in real life also resulted in me having less time, and the hobbies were the first casualty of that. I slowly find time to write again, but I simply can't write too many stories - something has to go.

And now my muse has me working on a different story that will need to incorporate several of my plans for "empire building" that were originally part of the plans for this story. So I'm now officially abandoning the "Realmcore".

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For those who came here from the "General Core" - that story will continue. I have half of the desert-floor mapped, but I need at least two more "gimmicks/surprises" on that floor before I can write that story - I plan to go all-out there like I did with the first four floors, and the next floors after the "desert" are already planned out. Unfortunately I don't know when I will find the required ideas for that floor.

My other main-story plans also changed a bit and I will need to rewrite part of the existing chapters for "the guild beyond" before I can publish them. And while I'm not abandoning "Shaleen the Wanderer" like I do with this story, it is very unlikely that I continue there earlier than in one or two years.

What you can expect from me shortly is another experimental story to see where that leads - no schedule given however.

"The Broken Earth" will be a mixture of a System Apocalypse with Empire Building thrown in, and a few other minor ideas as well. The [System] of the broken earth will not be an enemy, and there will be a lot of differences as to what the [dungeons] and their functions will be, so expect a few surprises compared to the usual system apocalypses around here.

I have most of the characters and the basics of the system already defined/written down and plan to begin writing the first chapter in the next week or so - follow me as an author here if you want to be informed when that story comes online. Plans and timeline are for the first arc to be eleven chapters, plus a few ideas for the second and third arc. There might or might not be time skips between arcs.