The Shrine of a Thousand Kings is a dark fantasy novel with a steampunk and low magic setting. It follows the adventures of Carlos, a vagrant with a mysterious past who finds himself in the industrial/mining city of Godsprings. Armed with a job offer and free room and board at the Blitz inn, his luc...

When a new dungeon is born, it wants nothing more than to have the most vicious monsters, the most cunning traps and the most shiny of loot. There is only one problem, but it's a rather big one; it finished its first floor years ago, but it still hasn't been visited by any adventurers! In order to f...

Volume Two of the Ontogeny series.  A time of unprecedented crisis has come. During a mission to the edge of the known world, Brigadier Weyland James discovered that humanity faces a threat so terrible that the sane mind can barely conceive it. Failure to meet this threat would mean the end of human...

The world is all about injustice when it comes to personal benefits. Many people were slaughtered, burned, but for what purpose? Greed - the most disgusting trait that humans could ever have. After the death of his loved ones, Zack completely lost his will to live.There was no other way but to get s...

Abandoned as soon as it was born, this newly hatched snakeling was left in a hostile forest, can this little snakeling survive the great Underforest? [participant in the Royal Road Writathon challenge] *The cover art is not mine, I found on Pinterest and tried in vain to the find the artist. If you ...

Ronny McKitty is a lazy, uninspired man coming up on his 30th birthday. He’s never had a job, a lover, not even a passion. This state of things upsets the narrator, a god responsible for creating his bloodline, who decides to shake things up by hiring a hitman to kill the guy. Soon afterwards, Ronny...

" So-called leaders prostituted their people to wars and abuse. They destroyed families, culture and economies; their hands dyed red by the blood of the children, the families trampled by their lecherous motivations and diabolical war machines. Trained and taught by the Revenants or rather “young bl...

[Participant in the 2020 Royal Road Writathon Challenge] Having just graduated to adulthood, Xyn is salty about how his lackluster Awakening has resulted in his current derided status within his clan and tribe, particularly when compared to the successes of his litter-siblings. The revelation of the...

“... Over one’s environment, is to manifest the essence of the heavens in oneself.” Cassiel is a student in the Valley of the Crystal Sun, doomed to obscurity and neglect because of her failure to fully integrate the vaunted Sunlight Crystals. Iyojin is a studious Weaver in the Paperhall, working to...

These are short stories written for a monthly competition I participate in. Each is between 300 and 750 words and inspired by a picture provided at the beginning of each month. Figured I may as well share them here each month as well, even if I can't include the pictures....

Feral lycans. Blind horses. Drunken doves. Deadly duels. Blood feuds. Assassinations. Mad gods. Foul magics. Mythic places.   These terrible things I see, These things I must navigate, And I have but one power, That is more curse than blessing: That of the Servant, Beholden and below, Sworn to someo...

Non-RR tags: Overpowered Main Character - Losing power and "starting over" - Medieval world - "Adventurers" Guild Release rate: 3 chapters per week for a couple weeks (as of 02/10/2021), then 4~5 per week. Aaron hadn't had a good fight in ages. No one in the known universe could give him one, he wa...

John was given a new life and nams after dying from an earthquake. Now he lives in a new world where the concept of magic exists. John, who is now named Julius, decided to use his magical gift. Which grants him the ability to cuts through anything, to create a better life for himself...

The Morrin Empire has separated itself from the rest of the world. Scorned for their lack of heritage they created their own route to power through tattoos that bound power to themselves. The rituals create a binding of Anima giving power beyond what any of the Purebloods have naturally. But when th...

Rewrite -> https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/55140/stranger-than-fiction  150k words of rewritten and new content, updating 3 times a day. Faith is like ice-cream. It comes in all flavors. Greek, Norse, Sumerian, Christian— just name it and it's there. Adventures, on the other hand, are like credit...

DROPPED A month and a half after landing in a world where magic exists and humans are oddities, the strain of all the changes has led to breaking up the gaming group turned Travelers. Follow Jason and Rob as this pair of former-Army buddies tours Rhofhir's Grand Tapestry. There are sassy gorgons to ...

A Fantasy/Xianxia fusion, inspired by Avatar The Last Airbender.  Liam is one of the few forgotten in a world where almost everybody can control spiritual forces to perform supernatural feats. This is the tale of how he finally found his calling.  Authors Note:Hey guys, this is the first piece of c...

Two years after a brutal war changed the lives of two sisters, a fight for magic and power will leave no one unscathed....

At an instant there was void,then time started.At the beginning of time there was the Creator,It said "Let there be light".From that sentance everything began,the stories of Titan's,God's,Constallation's,Gaurdian's, Mankind's. Then the Ruler was born,the consciousness of the void.It created Felonies...

Athshin, the Western Continent, is often called a dying land. it is a wasteland of rocks, dust, and ruins. The people there cling to the past as they tell stories of the old empire and fantasize of how it could be revived. But not all who seek to restore Athshin have the purest methods in mind. It i...