Antiquity Stories

Hilda has given herself the responsibility of avenging her Family's honor in this thrilling short story. Set in ancient Rome, the Vampiric Ostrogothic warrior doesn't let anything get in her way. From legionnaires to even her own kin.

🔞 MATURE CONTENT WARNING. It's a Roman story... And we already know just how promiscuous they were. 🏆 SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2025 WATTYS AND THE OPEN NOVELLA CONTEST (SPANISH EDITION). Rome, 410 AD. The Eternal City stands as a mere symbol of an empire crumbling under the weight of betrayal and decay. Within this landscape of promiscuity and peril, Justa-cousin to the legitimate Emperor Honorius-survives in a palace ruled by usurpation. Her only refuge is Seleukos, her lifelong companion and eternal platonic love... until destiny crosses her path in the Circus Maximus with Walia, a barbarian whose presence ignites a blind passion within her. While sex and desire make them forget that the outside world burns, enemies stalk from the shadows: a former lover consumed by jealousy and a Senate that turned treason into its only code of conduct. Yet, what terrifies the young woman most is not the fall of Rome's walls, but the exposure of the mystery guarding her lineage. As the last guardian of the vestals' secret, Justa must choose between blind obedience to a millennia-old tradition or rebellion for her own freedom.

A story stylized as an ancient myth/oral tale about a man who went from a simple craftsman to a powerful sorcerer, losing everything he cared about along the way. If You prefer to listen to, here is the audio version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCdlph835qc

When David Brandon, a British archeologist, finds himself trapped alone in an ancient basement, separated from the rest of his team during their research in a small town in Lebanon, he finds a pile of dilapidated, yellow manuscripts. Later on, when his colleagues get him out, he doesn't tell anybody about his discovery. A wrong move? According to him, not really. After having cautiously studied the documents, he discovers that those papers are Phoenician parchments that relate important events no one ever heard of. Reading them and understanding the gravity of those files, he decides not to show them to the world and keep them to himself, for leaking dangerous content like that could create a worldwide tumult. Because, after all, history repeats itself, right? And what the archeologist wanted to avoid at all costs was the narrated events to happen again. 90 years later, his methods prove ineffective. 2020, in general, proves him wrong. No one could stop the course of history. The materials you're about to read, ladies and gentlemen, are exclusively brought to us by his grandson, a guy who figures that hiding the truth any longer would not help, but on the contrary, harm even more. By now, you should know the significance and magnitude of the following words, so read at your own risk.

This story is told by a friend very close to this somewhat particular family, it is about a love so deep that not even a new life, wife or death itself could separate it.

A long time before Buffy, there was Dictynna... This is a short story about the life of a Cretan girl who becomes a vampire slayer and fights demons. This story was exclusively written for the "Slayer Chronicles: Prehistoric Slayers" contest.

This epic styled poem is one that deals with a subject matter that few writers, fictional or non-fictional, ever deal with. While the subject matter is seldom addressed in the Western world, it is well known in the far east. In the intellectual lounge scene of the Orient the subject is frequently debated, as the author learned first hand during his stay in Hong Kong. This somewhat taboo subject in western culture is the redemption of mankind by the original genetic superlative. This work contains the authors own artistic embellishment, naturally, but the original theme remains the same.

It's time to set sail to find new horizons! Your hometown on the greek motherland is overcrowded, recources are getting scarce. The leaders of your polis have chosen you to find new land and build a colony. Set sail and discover what lies beyond known borders, found a settlement and develop it into a bustling city, establish new trade routes and defend them against competitors. Because you are not the only one with a mission to bring wealth to your hometown. So be on your way! May Poseidon guide you on your journey!

Perhaps you someday walked through a park and there you passed by a statue. Perhaps you asked yourself about the man on the pedestal, you asked yourself why he was honored and when he had died. Perhaps you even met a local who could explain everything you - but sometimes, nothing is like it seems. A short horror story, influenced by the works of Edgar Allan Poe and H.P. Lovecraft.

Septima is a sixteen-year-old Roman girl promised in marriage to a man she does not love. She refuses to become a submissive wife like the matrons who surround her. Rebellious, spontaneous, and often reckless, she longs to break free from the strict Roman laws that weigh heavily upon women during the reign of Emperor Augustus (1st century BC). She will brave countless dangers to confront the realities of the world beyond her sheltered life-she will suffer, encounter love in the arms of a Gaul who will protect her, and learn to live by herself and for herself. Drawing her loyal slave Sabine into this perilous adventure, she will constantly defy Rome and its ever-present authority.

Taehyung and Jungkook had a past. A bittersweet one. Having no contact over the years they suddenly bump into each other in the blinding city lights of Seoul. Practically there is no past tense for "LOVE" A Taekook past lovers AU. Top Tae 🐯 Bottom Koo 🐰 BoyxBoy Fluff ©Contains Mature Language ©Might contain smut Started: 19/10/2021 Please give this book love ❤ *Picture credit to the owner but the story cover is made by me* PLAGIARISM is considered fraud or theft. So DON'T COPY MY WORK.

Horse theft is never an honorable deed, but when a man's honor is on the line? After losing a bet with his stepmother, William O'Sullivan Mor is tasked with retrieving the belled steed of the fearsome Knight of the White Strath if he and his brothers ever wish to return home with heads held high. An easy enough request, lest you take into account that all who dare face the knight never return...

Ishtrix, the King of the Caninefates, ordered the execution of eight farmers to coverup his affair with a Greek noble woman, the wife of a legislator of the Roman administration of the Province Lower Germany. The Caninefatii people, who now are on good relations with Rome, support the conspiracy to maintain their political priviledges. Two teenagers, who live in Lugdunum Caninefatium, don't agree with the case and speak out against it.

Noble Ends follows the adventures of Skywen, a young woman who suddenly finds herself transforming into a vanished progenitor of her race. A fatal transfiguration, she is befriended by a wizard who reveals the remedy to her inexorable change -- an ancient sword named Noble Ends. At the beginning, she is a woman with her own reasons and relationships, content in her life as she has fashioned it. She even has a different name. But when she encounters a sleeping prophet, something inside her begins to inexorably manifest -- a change so deep that to resist it is to be endangered by it. Only by agreeing to the journey, inside and out, does she begin to become who she was always destined to be: Skywen At the heart of Noble Ends is the most elemental question anyone can ask: Who am I? Set in a rich, Tolkien-grade fantasy world, Noble Ends explores the depths of identity, ethnicity, and culture, comingled with the grave political and personal dangers of a sweeping desert war. Written by G. Elland Penney, Noble Ends delivers kinetic, heart-pounding action, crackling dialogue, and enough magic and mystery to charm fantasy fans of every stripe.

From the dark depths of ancient civilizations come tales of terror and horror that will chill you to the bone. Bella Darkwood's Cosmic Horrors of Antiquity is a collection of spine-tingling stories set in Greece, Rome, China, Mongolia, and America, where ancient myths come to life and haunt unsuspecting victims. In these pages, you'll encounter cosmic abominations, bloodthirsty monsters, and unspeakable horrors lurking around every corner. Prepare to be terrified as you journey through time and space, where no one is safe from the terrors that lurk in the shadows. If you're a fan of Lovecraftian horror or have a fascination with ancient mythology, then Cosmic Horrors of Antiquity is the book for you.

Five years after the edict of Milan was signed and ratified the living conditions of Christians still didn't improve. Violent persecution by city governments were still the daily practice, even though provincial laws granted them legal protection. In Britain, however, religious freedom became a practical enforcement in society. There were refugees from the Far East (China, Korea and Japan) that fled towards the Danube Provinces (Alpine regions) of the Eastern Roman Empire. One of them is Yeo-il Sin Ying, a former slave girl who fled to Noricum to avoid the political and military chaos in her home country.

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