To play the game of politics, one must be brave or foolish, but better to appear both and be neither. Countess Julia Augstadt lost her mother in childbirth, her father to an accident ten years ago, living in the shadow of the Royal Palace by a betrothal to the Crown Prince, only for that to be annul...

One chapter will be released every three days. Evelyn "Teddy" Claire is a street kid just trying to make ends meet. That's hard to do when you live in the undercity, a near slum found underneath the foundations of the megacity of Calgary. Usually, her only concerns are finding a good meal, and avo...

Dying is not what I expected. Its really boring! Meeting a God and being offered a deal on a new life as a Dungeon keeper was too good to refuse. The job was to build a dungeon and save the world by helping to clean up a problem created by a rogue accident. Something felt off about all of it. Call m...

She tried to kill him. He's taken her prisoner. The fate of the realm rests in her hands. Valerie Crescent once had a promising future. In the land of Maskamere, blessed by the magic of the silvertrees, she was ready to begin her training as a priestess. Then the Drakonian Empire invaded, and Valer...

The true story of life, the universe and everything, but with Dwarves. Humanity doesn't know that almost every novel, movie, and series, are all true.  They were once lived and experienced.  These accounts are the backstory to the universe....

Natsuko has a couple problems. One, Heroes like her only get paid based on how many people summon them. Two, because she was one of the first Heroes created, the power creep has left her a has-been that no one wants to summon. All she has now is her crippling alcohol addiction and a wine bottle with...

Ivil Antagonist has everything a woman could want. Power enough to blanket out suns and turn worlds into molten hells, a fleet of warships at her command, and the fear of an entire space-faring nation.But she's silently growing tired of being at the top. There is no place more lonely for someone who...

With swords sticking out from his chest, Zyrus took his last breaths atop a broken throne. In the year 3675, humanity was summoned to the sanctuary. In that world governed by the 'System' he had carved out a safe haven for them to survive. He was the Void Monarch who had slain the Eternals, The Immo...

When the end came, it did so without any particular sort of fanfare or warning.  Great quakes siezed the Earth all at once, rending the continents to pieces and swallowing whole cities within the cracks. That alone might have been sufficient to bring humanity's chapter to a close. But then things ca...

In a fractured world, where magic stains the soul and war is an eternal tide of blood and steel, the ruins of an imperial dream rise. The Eiyu Empire, once envisioned as the foundation of eternity by Taiko Hideyoshi, has fallen prey to decay. From the ashes of the second Eiyu-Cataya war, a conflict ...

In a world where the entire country is secretly run and controlled by mega corporations, an underground tournament of death is held every 4 years in order to determine who becomes "God" and which company controls the country.  This 200-person tournament is fought with superhuman abilities that have ...

We all dream of second chances. After a series of incidents blows up in my face, I reincarnate as Aang the porter with a new lease on life. I'm young again, my back doesn't hurt, I have no idea where I am, but I know what I must do. To level up, I must start a riot. What to expect: - A story of a m...

[Participant in the Royal Road Writathon challenge] Completed the Writathon In a world teeming with war, where power reigns supreme, a sick and starving boy finds himself at death's door. Just as he's about to succumb to his fate, a malevolent demon offers him a twisted opportunity for a new life. R...

A man is reincarnated in the Mass Effect Universe. At first, he was kinda scared about the possibility of dying to the Reapers, or other dangers across the huge galaxy. But, he persevered and, after making friends with Shepard and the crew, won the final battle. He was happy and thrilled about the p...

Polishing antiques in the basement was supposed to be a punishment. When monsters arrived, it saved Emma's life. Now sealed inside a suit of armor old when the world was young, Emma Knight will have to master newfound powers she'd long regarded as merely myth; all whilst navigating the breakdown of ...

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Siobhan Naught has Gilbratha in an uproar. She’s been spotted in the Mires casting dark magics in the company of the crime boss, Lord Stag.  When the August Agency is hired to contact the infamous thief, the broken sorcerer Frank Poe and his protege Marie brave the streets of Gilbratha to find the t...

Eydis, once the feared Queen of Shadows, has crash-landed into the worst nightmare imaginable: high school. Reborn as a magic-less teen, she’s now stuck with a body that whines more than a banshee on Halloween night. And her familiar spirits? Vanished. Now she's left with a bank account that reads "...

There is a normal man who goes to work every day, where he goes to work is called The Enterprise. Those who work there are called "Associates" and they keep all the paranormal threats from other dimensions out of Earth. The building has no origin, no "face", no personality yet it draws in someone ev...

~A Royal Road Original~Participant in the Royal Road Writathon Challenge My name is Yoki. I have faced death in ways others can’t fathom. Endured Stonegate, the prison where time itself is lost. I bear the Painkiller, a curse few dare to imagine, and walk among Tearings—the powerful, the feared—at ...