A Shattered Realms story
Mathias reclined back into his wooden armchair, sighing as cold relief washed over his weary knees. A dreadfully untidy writing desk lay before him, defaced by mounds of scattered parchment. Mathias viewed his work space with a tense scowl. He had toiled for hours over the burden of sorting, archiving, and scribing, all to merely dent the inexhaustible workload assigned to him. Running his fingers through his thick, coal-black hair, Mathias achingly gazed out of his office's open window. His leaden eyes stared out into a stretch of clear-blue skies. His ears perked to the gentle lapping of waves foaming on the be
A Life For A Life (naga tf) by manymasksmanyfaces, literature
Literature
A Life For A Life (naga tf)
In the Kingdom of Daque, there were many problems. The kingdom rested on the frontier of the canyons and valleys that were not hospitable to the farmers of Daque. The river Vanus ran between the fertile and the arid lands on the other side known as the Devil's Cradle. However, the humans who settled in found out why no one inhabited the land.
Large ferocious naga lived there, the snake people. A full-grown adult could reach eleven feet long because of their tail, and they were nigh pure muscle according to autopsies of captured dead ones. They were hairless beasts covered in varying brown scales covering the length of their body except for t
Blue Hound ch. 1 (remastered) by icelucario, literature
Literature
Blue Hound ch. 1 (remastered)
Ch. 1: Deceive
In the world known as Gaia, the year 6850, the human population has gone extinct. Those who now inhabit it are the animals that have thrived ever since the human extinction. Most animals had evolved to a humanoid shape; large animals shrunk in size finding it advantageous to take up less space needed for housing, smaller animals grew to adapt and create a balanced ecosystem. At first, food was a problem… but for some reason, some of the animals didn’t evolve, so they were served as a food source for the carnivores. Many creatures disregarding that they had come from similar roots.
The tale begins at a kingdom by