In a dark Benedictine Abbey, high in the cold mountains of Helvetia, where stone and earth remember older laws than kings, a legendary weapon rests in silence. It lies within the Kloster Einsiedeln, a mountain abbey sworn to the Cantors of the region of Oath Fellowship, its fresco painted walls with tales of a history that is much different than the truth it conceals. For generations, the weapon has slept beneath legend, its purpose misremembered, its history softened into a heroic myth. But weapons do not forget. When the lies that bound it begins to unravel, and the abbey's sealed records stir, old borders awaken. Wolves who once feared only the glint of steel begin to fear something else as the weapon reveals what it was never meant to be. Not an instrument of slaughter, but a measure of law. What rises in its wake is neither hunter nor monster, but something the world has not known for centuries. The Wardens of the Limes. Some weapons are forged to kill. Others are forged to decide. This weapon requires HEIRS. And Miteinander; working together. Or it won't work at all... The surprising heirs of the weapon, rivals since childhood, staunch upholders of the lies believed throughout family generations, must now overcome, to step into their chosen destiny. "They stand at the Threshold." ✠ ✠ ✠ ONC26 Prompt # 1. Two rivals discover they're the chosen heirs to a legendary weapon that will only activate if they work together. Some Historical references: The Kloster Einsiedeln Abbey was first founded as a Benedictine monastery in 934 CE on the site of a former hermitage. Its origins, however, date back to approximately 835 CE, when the hermit monk Saint Meinrad first established a small cell in the "Dark Forest" of the region. LIMES definition: Latin. Originally meaning a path or boundary line. A limes (plural: limites) was a fortified border or frontier system of the Roman Empire.

THE RISE OF THE BLOOD DRAGON Amid the slow burning of war and love, a historical romantasy ♡♡ "When the Steppe chooses its sovereign, even kings must kneel." On the far reaches of the Western Steppes, where kingdoms rise on sand and fall to silence, a young woman with unbound hair and fire in her veins is about to shake the world. Elspeth, daughter of a debt-ridden tradesman, has lived quietly behind her shop of flowers - until the day she is taken by a man who claims to be the true heir to the throne she has always feared. Ceyzaar, the hidden son of a harsh ruler, forged in exile and sharpened by betrayal, has waited a lifetime to reclaim the crown that was stolen from him. But the key to his triumph lies in the woman he stole from them and in the power she has carried all her life without knowing it. As war storms gather and old empires tremble, Elspeth's first cry of defiance on the battlefield awakens something ancient beneath the Steppe - a force that has not stirred in generations. A force that recognizes her. Now, with lightning cracking over Morrhal, traitors rising from within, and the Kaiser unleashing horrors long buried, Elspeth and Ceyzaar must forge a bond strong enough to survive both destiny and desire. For the Steppe has chosen its Rose. The Blood Dragon has risen. And the world will burn or be reborn by their united hand. The Rise of the Blood Dragon Where oaths are forged in fire. Where roses bloom in war. Where a girl becomes the weapon that reshapes the world. ═════════════ The Steppe Dynasty Books ©WendyyWolfe Ⓜ️🄼🄰🅃🅄🅁🄴 [ᵀʰⁱˢ ᵇᵒᵒᵏ ᶜᵒⁿᵗᵃⁱⁿˢ ᵐᵃᵗᵘʳᵉ ᵗʰᵉᵐᵉˢ ᶜᵒᵉˣⁱˢᵗᵉⁿᵗ ʷⁱᵗʰ ᵗʰᵉ ᵍᵉⁿʳᵉ ᵒᶠ ʰⁱˢᵗᵒʳⁱᶜᵃˡ ʳᵒᵐᵃⁿᶜᵉ]

Action Adventure Series • Book 2 Deep in the shifting sands of Zagora Morocco. Where the tents of the Sultans hide their secrets. The Sunbound are thrust forward into mystery and intruige. "...The desert remembers." The words rose from the cushions of crimson and gold, low and velvet, yet heavy enough to silence the very lanterns above. The Sultan leaned forward, his ring catching the lamp's living glow, and the Sunbound felt the air tighten. "It remembers every secret, every oath, every betrayal buried beneath its sands. And you-" his eyes lingered, one heartbeat too long, on Atlas, before sliding back into shadow, "-you are here because the sands have decided it is time to remember again." Atlas's Ordeal ━━━━━━━━━━━ At last, Atlas steps forward, jaw set, muttering curses under his breath. "Bloody circus," he growls, but still kneels. He thrusts his hand into the sand with defiance. The lamp erupts. The flame roars tall and wild, shadows streaking across the tent. For a breathless instant, the gazelle's silhouette leaps across the canvas - and then turns its head, staring only at him. Atlas freezes. The sand burns into his palm, leaving the mark of a single gazelle's hoofprint. He jerks back, swearing, clutching his hand. The Sultan's voice drops to a whisper heavy with meaning: "The Hand of the Hunt. Marked by the Gazelle herself. The hunter who is chosen... becomes the prey." The lamp flickers low, then steadies, its judgment complete.

ONC2025 Round 2 Ambassador Pick 𝐖𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐏𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐎𝐬𝐤𝐚𝐫 𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐛𝐞𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐨𝐲𝐚𝐥 𝐩𝐚𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞, 𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐮𝐦𝐛𝐥𝐞𝐬 𝐮𝐩𝐨𝐧 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐤𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞-𝐚 𝐔𝐧𝐢𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐧'𝐬 𝐡𝐨𝐫𝐧, 𝐬𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐤 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐟𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐡 𝐛𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐝. Unicorns are sacred in the kingdom of Unara, their magic a gift only bestowed upon the worthy-or stolen through death. Someone is hunting them, and if the killings continue, their magic will fall into the wrong hands. Determined to uncover the truth, Oskar sets out to find the culprit. But the deeper he digs, the darker the secrets he unearths--secrets that could shake the very foundation of the kingdom. A standalone fantasy adventure, The Unicorn's Blessing follows Prince Oskar before the events of The Girl with Scars, revealing the choices that shaped the man he would become. Entered into the Open Novella Contest 2025 | @OpenNovellaContest - Rules & Guidelines: https://www.wattpad.com/story/387452246 **Main Prompt** 12. While hiking through a forest, you stumble upon a unicorn's horn. **Secondary Prompt** 130. Protect this with your life. ©2025 E. S. Elias All Rights Reserved. Book Created & Published to Wattpad: 02.01.2025 Book Marked as Completed: 04.08.2025 Cover: Me @DesignsbyEH I used Canva.com | Cover is temporary and subject to several changes. Word Count: 26,234 / 20,000 Goals: Round 1 ✔ | 2,000 words ✔ | Round 1 Winner ✔ Round 2 ✔ | 8,000 words ✔ Round 3 _ | 20,000 words ✔ LONGLIST _ | SHORTLIST _ Honorable Mention? _ | Ambassadors' Pick ✔ Mentioned in Ambassador Newsletter ✔ Rankings: #ONC2025: #21 on 02.02.2025 | #15 on 02.03.2025 | #12 on 03.24.2025 #opennovellacontest2025: #15 on

Round 3 Ambassador Pick Finalist: Top 4 Once, you were a character in a story, your life crafted by an unseen hand, your destiny inked into pages. But that story was deleted, erased from existence. Now, you wake up in the Hidden Library, a place where discarded characters and abandoned tales linger. You have no name, no memory, only the weight of an existence that no longer belongs anywhere. But the Library is in turmoil. Books are unraveling, their worlds colliding in chaos-romance heroes stranded in dystopian landscapes, fairy-tale villains haunting contemporary settings, cookbooks whispering eerie prophecies. The ink that binds these stories is breaking. A voice calls out to you from the pages: "Tell me your story, and perhaps I'll grant you the love others failed to find." Guided by an ancient entity known as "The Archivist", you must restore order to the Library by weaving these fragmented stories into one cohesive masterpiece. But as you travel through the wreckage of broken narratives, something stirs in the ink. A truth long buried within the Library's depths a secret about who you really were before your story was erased. Can you rewrite your fate? Or will the Library consume you, turning you into just another forgotten page? #ONC2025 Main Prompt: #40 Sub Prompts: #100 & #59

Lewis Grant was never the ambitious sort. He enjoyed an average education, a menial job, and a supportive friend group. What more did he need? He never expected the janitorial position at a small independent art museum to amount to anything. He never expected that the exclusive assignment to the new exhibit wing would turn into a discovery of a lifetime. He never expected that the fantasy art exhibits he was only assigned to clean would in fact be living creatures imprisoned by a cruel and power-hungry artist. What's a lackluster fellow to do when the fate of another world hangs in the balance? Does he even have what it might take to free the fairies under glass?

THE SUNDOWNERS Book 6 Callahan and The Breath of the Serpent ❝𝑾𝒉𝒆𝒏 𝒕𝒊𝒎𝒆 𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒈𝒆𝒕𝒔 𝒊𝒕'𝒔 𝒎𝒂𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒍𝒅 𝒃𝒆𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒔 𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒚...❞ Long before the SunDisk was forged, before dynasties rose and fell, there was only the Serpent. Not a beast. Not a god. A process. The Serpent was Time coiling in on itself to protect what it could not bear to lose. The sigil ⛎ was carved onto the first scroll by an ancient order known only as The Holders of Breath. It appears in early papyri, temple walls, pottery shards- Two mirrored crescents, back-to-back. One for the motion of time. One for its stillness. A hinge. A lock. A warning. When the sigil appears unbidden, drawn by a trembling hand or revealed in the sand... ...it means the Serpent has inhaled. And once the Serpent exhales? Nothing forgotten stays dead.

Levon Datevar never wanted to be a legend. He only wanted to survive. When tragedy tears his life apart, Lev is thrust into a world forged from stone, storm, and ancient law. A people who distrust him. Trials that test him. Secrets in the mountains older than memory. But he can't outrun the prophecy that clings to his name. Some whisper he's chosen. Others insist he's a threat. Most wish he'd never arrived. Now Lev faces an action-packed fight for survival-one that challenges everything he believes about courage, belonging, and justice. In a land where destiny is dangerous, Lev must decide who he is... before the world decides for him.

Action Adventure Series Book 5 When the light forgets its own name, who will remember it for the world? In a land where echoes keep their own histories, five wanderers carry a relic born of sacrifice-the Chalice that drinks memory and returns miracles at a terrible cost. Among them walks Valli, the quiet knight whose courage is measured not in battle but in the mercy she refuses to lose. Beside her stands Callahan, the weary vessel of the Chalice's past, sworn to guard the Sunbound flame. Together the Sunbound will cross the Glass Sea, hear the Hymn of Returning, and face Verrin Karthos-the mirror that hungers for every song ever sung. Each act of light will demand forgetting. Each miracle will rewrite their souls. But if one remembers for another, perhaps even the oldest silence can be forgiven. Part myth, part elegy, and all heart, The Sundowners and the Knight of the Chalice is a tale of sacrifice, song, and the fierce hope that memory itself is sacred. ━━━━━━━━━━━