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Knight of the Shaded Spire by chakonery
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Just a knight...yeah, that's it, just a normal human in a town who became a knight in a High-Fantasy, High-magic, Mid-Tech, normal fantasy stuff, with dark magic not really being and issue since there was a Deal Made by the Fell Plane(aka Purgatory), City of Fire (aka Hell) The Material Plane (aka just the place where most things live), Wild Lands (where Elementals live and most magic leaks out from), and Ethereal Plane (aka Heaven), to not interfere with one another and only to be broken to benefits the common inhabitants of the plane Which Lead to the Creation of Casters of Magic and 4 Main Classes of Magic Sorceries for Wizards and Sorcerers Incantations for messengers/preachers and commonly by Clerics Smites for the Oathsworn and Blessed Paladins and rarely Cleric Dedicated to their Faith And Alchemy for Artificers and for the common man (like our Halberdier) Here are the differences Sorceries need a wand or staff or the caster itself as a catalyst Incantations need a seal blessed by a Preacher or Saint and Dipped in holy Water and dried near an active congregation of faith Smites need a Paladin Or Rarely a cleric to be Close and or Tied to their chosen god and Let their Divine Power Run through them and through their weapon as a catalyst and then there is Alchemy aka Fake Magic where Alchemists, Artificers, and sometimes guards or knights will use compounds to imbue their armaments with certain properties like flame damage, poison, or just imbuing random stuff on the ground with Blast Powder to made small throwable bombs
{ lonelyworlds } by Caieidoscope
Caieidoscope
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In a city too big and a world too loud, four souls are drifting. Ery has wings, antennae, and a heart that feels every shift in the wind. Jules has a clinical mind that tries to fix emotions. Minty is a figure from a distant island who is terrified of taking up too much space. And Koa is a man hiding utter exhaustion behind a cheerful facade. { lonelyworlds } is a collection of interconnected moments exploring the quiet ache of existing. It is a collection of stories about the messy, beautiful process of falling apart.
The Fall of Fantasy by Cookiecrap980
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Years after the legendary adventures in the Kingdom of Fantasy, Geronimo Stilton has passed away, leaving behind a daughter, Amelia Springs Stilton, who grew up listening to his stories and believing them to be nothing more than fiction. But everything changes when, on her eighteenth birthday, she receives a final letter from him-one that leads her to the mysterious winged ring and a crystal music box that should not exist. When Amelia is suddenly transported into the real Kingdom of Fantasy, she discovers a world far darker than the stories she once loved. The kingdoms have fallen under the rule of a mysterious entity known as the Unkindness, and the remaining resistance-the Blue Rose-lives in hiding, led by the hardened Empress Winglet of Flowers. Winglet once believed Geronimo abandoned the kingdom in its darkest hour. His disappearance shattered hope, turning allies into survivors and hope into resentment. Now, seeing his daughter appear in their world, carrying his final letters, forces buried pain to resurface across all sides. As Amelia struggles to survive in a broken magical world, she must confront her father's legacy, deliver his final messages to those he once knew, and uncover the truth behind why the Kingdom of Fantasy truly fell silent. But in the shadows, the Unkindness watches-and it is already preparing its next move.