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"He carries a kingdom in his blood, and a graveyard on his wrist in the world of Wonder-Real. Not only that, but victory isn't only just won in the clouds alone. It's also claimed in the dirt and the deep." - Narrator In 2043, Oberon Draconia-D'Elise brings a new kind of war to Night Raven College. While other mages study ancient incantations, Oberon studies logistics, terrain, and the cold logic of the Wonder-Real. The princes' watch is a burden. It is the Sovereign's Decree, a tether to forty years of human war. Within its gears live the spirits of men and women who never made it home-renegades from the Free Erusea uprisings and the haunted, rogue crew of the Alicorn. They aren't just machines; they are echoes of regret, whispering of a world where the sky once rained fire. In a school of selfish magic, the prince must navigate the weight of his father's legacy while silencing the ghosts of a human war. But when a new flame rises at the academy-it will be the reminiscence of his past and must confront the truth. He isn't just a student. He's the commander of the fallen, and the sky is finally calling in its debts. (Disclaimer / Note: I do not own Twisted Wonderland or Ace Combat. All characters, aircraft designs & manufacturers, and trademarks belong to their respective owners (Disney, Aniplex, f4samurai, Bandai Namco, and Project Aces).)

🥇 1st Place - Best Prologue (Whispers Beneath the Ice mini-awards, 2025) 🥇 1st Place - Fantasy (Four-Leaved Clover Awards, 2025) 🥈 2nd Place - Best Writing Style (Enchanted Grave Awards, 2025) ⸻ ✧ ⸻ The sun is gone. Its light is sold. Beneath the earth, humanity survives on Lumen - the bottled radiance of a forgotten age. The ruling elite control it. The Church sanctifies it. The poor die without it. Lucy Farrow was born in the Gloom, where people disappear without explanation and hope is a luxury nobody can afford. When a forbidden power awakens inside her, she becomes the most dangerous secret in Aurelion. The kind people kill for. The kind empires fall for. High above, Prince Cassian Soleyne discovers evidence that could unravel everything his family built. As rebellion spreads through the darkness and ancient enemies stir once more, he finds himself drawn toward the one person he should never trust. A girl who could save their world. Or burn it to the ground. ⸻ ✧ ⸻ She sat at the polished desk in the Lantern Man's office, copying names in glowing ink. "Careful with the curves, bright girl," he said. Lucy straightened her quill. "Yes, sir." He smiled. Not unkind. Just heavy. "You've got a quick hand," he murmured. "That's rare here." She tried not to smile too widely at the praise. "Say, Lucy... how is your mother?" She dipped her quill again. "She's fine, sir." "Is she now?" His cane tapped gently against the floor. Lucy nodded, focused. "Maybe I should visit her," he said. "It's been a while." That made her brighten. "Of course, mister! You're always welcome." The tapping stopped. For a moment, there was only the scratching of her quill. Then the light above her flickered before settling into a slow, steady pulse. The Lantern Man watched it carefully. "Good", he said.

Book One (originally Chapters 2-17) is now out on Amazon and Audible! --- Captain Henry Donnager expected a quiet career babysitting a dusty relic in Area 51. But when a test unlocks a portal to a world of knights and magic, he's thrust into command of Alpha Team, an elite unit tasked with exploring this new realm. They join the local Adventurers Guild, seeking to unravel the secrets of this fantastical realm and the ancient gateway's creators. As their quests reveal the potent forces of magic, they inadvertently entangle in the volatile politics between local rivalling factions. With American technology and ancient secrets in the balance, Henry's team navigates alliances and hostilities, enlisting local legends and air support in their quest. In a land where dragons loom, they discover that modern warfare's might-Hellfire missiles included-holds its own brand of magic.

An anomaly was discovered in the form of a rift that transports a person to another realm. Mobile Task Force Nu-7 is tasked by the 05 Council with containing this anomaly. Stepping through, they find a realm straight out of fantasy books, but they soon discover there are other, darker forces at play. Author's Note: This probably won't be long, as it's sort of serving as a way for me to knock the rust off from not writing for 7+ years. I have the overall story and the direction I want to take it in, it's just gonna be putting it all down the way I want and dealing with any writer's block I run into. I'll try to keep this updated as regular as I can, and keep y'all updated when I run into issues.

After the nuclear end of World War III, humanity clawed its way out of ash, radiation, and collapse to forge six brutal new powers across the ruins of the Americas: the neutral but feared Twisted Hairs, the iron-fisted Enclave, the techno-militant Brotherhood of Steel, the humanitarian Followers of Doss, the hard-blooded Texan Republic, and the ocean-dominating United Pacific Commonwealth. Together, they survived war, rebuilt nations, tamed Deathclaws, purified poisoned waters, and carved order out of a dead world.

A tough special forces soldier named Smile works with Task Force Blackshore. People fear her because she is very precise and has an attitude. Her past has made her distant and explosive, which makes her both a great asset and a worry to her team. During a high-risk mission something happens. Smile starts to struggle with forces she doesn't fully understand. Her team has to deal with the growing gap between who she used to be and who she is becoming. A new soldier joins the unit bringing supervision and raising questions about trust and control. At the time unknown forces start to take an interest in Smile watching her from beyond the battlefield. She fights to stay in control in perilous situations guided by her instincts and haunted by something inside her. Her teammates must decide how far they are willing to go to stand by her as the stakes get higher. Between duty, loyalty and fear the line between ally and threat starts to blur.

The Scolian Empire is crumbling under the relentless assault of Ner'Khaloth's demonic horde, and the fate of humanity hangs in the balance. Amidst the chaos, Grand Legate Quintis Agrippina, commander of the elite legion of the wolf, stands as humanity's last hope. Known for his cold strategic brilliance and unwavering discipline, Farseer's forces are few, but their strength lies in their mastery of unconventional warfare. As the demons spread terror across the land, the legion of the wolf strike with precision, launching hit-and-run tactics, scorched earth campaigns, and guerrilla ambushes that sow fear in the enemy's ranks. But even the Demon Dogs are not immune to the dark tide rising around them. With his telepathic command over his troops, Quintis must navigate the shifting tides of war, managing his legion's dwindling resources while facing enemies both inside and outside his ranks. As the demonic forces grow stronger, Farseer's resolve is tested, forcing him to make sacrifices that could either lead to victory or doom the last remnants of humanity to annihilation.

The traditional woman's sport of panzercraft, once a staple sport among the youth of the Old World, has taken on a very different face and form on the continent of Berg. Long-retired Generalfeldmarschall and half-Dragon Keres Graf Nishizumi has been called upon by the government of Berghermon to command a platoon of Panzer IV tanks in the Longblood Alliance's 75th Anniversary Panzer Games. With Berghermon's national honor at stake, geopolitical relations threatening to boil over in the arena, and cutthroat opponents who won't hesitate to shoot an ally in the back in the Ring of Fire, Hauptmann Graf Nishizumi has her work cut out for her. Will her combat-honed discipline, Prussian bearing, Dragon instincts, and love for her craft be enough to win the week... or will the skeletons in her 274-year-old closet that rise to the occasion with everything else prove to be her final undoing? The first edition of a fantasy/slasher/thriller original story. "Girls und Panzer" meets "The Witcher" meets "Hunger Games" meets "John Wick"!

From a war hero turned convict comes the Crown's deadliest weapon. From a healer who lives by not having attachments. When Mira Voss starts to see her patients' problems, it changes when a captive Greylan Ashvorne is delivered to her, his body being torn apart by a power destroying him from within. He is officially a convicted traitor, but the truth lies beneath his injuries. The more she has to fight to keep him alive, the more she finds distance to be more perilous. The Crown sees what is happening, but she and he live in a system made for them, and both have to make sacrifices to preserve their humanity.

Drayce Thorn, 10, lives in Javon-coastal nation between warring Uvara & Israne. Village hugs barley fields, crashing waves. Life: flatbread steam, ribbon stalls, sister Lia Varak's river stones in perfect circles.Eastern mountains explode.Oblivion Protocol detonates. Blast wave slams village. Dust chokes sky. Refugees flood roads: 8 cities vaporized. 3M souls ash before fire lands. Radiation twists survivors. Skies burned white-silhouettes fused to walls.Javon shatters. Government hunts "traitors." Guards drag citizens to black-site cells. Public executions. Refugee camps starve under occupation. Shadow nation manipulates war.Two power systems, born from suffering:Authorities: Near-death training + pain forges elemental powers by mindset. Berserker=firestorms. Survivor=stone flesh. Tactician=lightning. 10x human limits-leap chasms, outrun horses, shatter boulders. Bend nature (gales, earthquakes) but don't control elements. Die=respawn: Power rebirths in similar mind after 1 year.Ascensions: Mortals reach Authority power through brutal training + constant pain. Flame-cloaks burn caster. Shadow-form eats sanity. Titan strength breaks their bones. Unstable. Governments' apocalypse weapons.Commoners think myths. Burden root power sleeps in bloodlines, wakes through trauma.Drayce survives. Orphan to avenger through irradiated wastes, betrayal. Weak-to-strong progression-powers grow via wounds, trauma, moral scars.Mercy weaponizes. Spares repentant soldiers. Psychopaths burn. No exceptions.

"Reborn as the forgotten son of a fading house, Abel must endure scorn, survive the storms, and uncover the truth of a broken world." Announcement: This is the official rewritten release of my earlier draft. I will be posting this story on RoyalRoad under the same username rubbersocket(Nengev) I wasn't satisfied with the old version, so I've rebuilt the foundation, expanded the worldbuilding, and fixed the plot holes. This edition is the one I'll be continuing. Description: Betrayed in his first life, he awakens in another reborn as Abel von Échestel, the eighth son of a declining noble family in the Kaishi Kingdom. Unwanted and cast aside, Abel struggles to survive in a land where nations prepare for war, and ancient weapons, the Colossi hold the balance of power. His only advantage is a mysterious Search Engine, a strange ability that reveals fragments of knowledge long forgotten. But knowledge alone does not guarantee survival. Between family scorn, whispers of invasion, and storms that guard a cursed island, Abel's new life begins in a world where every choice carries weight.

Left for dead after a brutal last stand, Special Forces Operator Captain Damien Cole - callsign Reaper wakes in a world ruled by knights, mages, and monsters. With no mission, no command, and a strange new power that lets him summon his arsenal from the past, he becomes a ghost in a world of steel and magic - silent, lethal, and ready to bring modern warfare to an age of blades. They thought him a myth. They'll learn he's war incarnate.

I really don't know if I should take on this story I'm writing as a serious project or not, and I don't know if anyone will respond to this. Oh well 🤷♀️

Somewhere deep in the universe, there is an alien earth, whose people made of sound the very essence of their life. After millennia of history, a conflict out of the ordinary is on the verge of exploding: the evil Elizabeth Estro, princess of Luthelmark, desires more than anything to extend her dictatorial dominion beyond her territory's borders. The isles of the north too, agitated by their divine guide, have come to their final showdown. However, these are only the manifestations of an ancient curse that has been threatening to annihilate the lands of Hertzia for more than five thousand years. When a desperate scream, its voice unknown, echoes from the mountains, the people interpret it as a call to arms. Two past rival forces unite to contrast the impending apocalypse, that could end with the irreparable fracturing of the very source of existence: the Hertz. The War of Spring is a personal interpretation of Stravinsky's Rite of Spring, my favorite orchestral piece, envisioned as an epic fantasy where instruments become living beings, and music itself becomes breaths, words, steps, action. If you enjoy a story with a deep lore, this is for you! I illustrated the cover myself, along many other artworks that will be added to the chapters!

Two commanders stand on opposite sides of a frozen battlefield. One commands lightning. The other commands the storm of winter. The war between them will not be won by strength alone-but by who understands the other first. The war should have ended years ago. Instead, it has become a quiet contest between two men who have not spoken face to face in a very long time. Captain Erakiel, known as the Heir of the Storm, leads the western armies with lightning in his wake. His battles are sudden, overwhelming, and precise. Across the battlefield stands Captain Quilo, the White Quill of the North-whose calm strategies move armies like pieces on a board as snow bends around him, Every decision he makes ripples through the war. When their forces finally meet along the frozen ridges between their kingdoms, neither seeks a reckless victory. Instead, they begin studying each other. As scouts become observers and battles become tests. Every move hides another beneath it. Through the eyes of lieutenants, strategists, and soldiers caught between them, the war slowly transforms into something more: A battle of patience, deception, and understanding. Because on this battlefield, the greatest weapon is not lightning or snow-It is knowing what your enemy will do next.

Two former childhood friends and sparring partners, Roselyn Arkwyn a knight of the Divine Flame and Leonce Velarys a Commander of the Emperor in Drellmoor have met again after years of separation, but there are still some more characters to reveal, villains maybe? new heroes? who knows? In a world full of black mages, mages, elves, demons, will their teamwork stop upcoming wars, and catastrophes? or will they fail?

Cole Rexford isn't a hero-he's a cigar-smoking, sharp-tongued ex-soldier with scars deeper than the one across his eye. Content to drink, gamble, and hunt monsters for coin, his quiet life is shattered when a sealed letter from an old war buddy drags him into a deadly mystery. Villages are burning. Monsters are uniting. And ancient enemies thought long vanished are walking in daylight. Reluctantly stepping back into the fray, Cole assembles a mismatched crew of mercenaries, misfits, and one overly polite military strategist with a knack for war games and no clue how to survive a brothel. What begins as a favor quickly unravels into a war against a hidden force threatening to consume the kingdom from within. The deeper they dig, the darker it gets. Loyalties will be tested. Legends will awaken. And Cole-whether he likes it or not-might be the last line of defense between civilization and the monsters clawing through the cracks. Gritty action, snarky humor, a bit of vice, and a whole lot of mystery.

A British officer who has fallen through the cracks of the system investigates a most curious unit in the army during the Third Battle of Ypres.

At War With The Gods: Among the Ancients is a dramatized retelling of events unfolding in the Travian Kingdoms browser game, based on the ongoing COM5 server that began on March 10, 2026. Each chapter will be written and updated in real-time, following the war as it happens-or rather, as it might have happened through the eyes of an imaginative author. The pacing is unpredictable, much like war itself. Some updates may come quickly, driven by daily skirmishes and shifting alliances. Others may take weeks or even months, waiting for the right moment when tension builds, drama escalates, and a story worth telling emerges from the ashes of battle. This is not a guide, a strategy manual, or a direct chronicle of game mechanics. It is a story born from imagination-a mythic lens placed over pixels and timers, turning farms into kingdoms, players into gods, and a browser game into an epic of forgotten constellations and risen ancients. What you hold is history as it should have been written. Through the eyes of Eriu, witness the war.

In the frozen North, legends are forged in blood. Malek was never meant to lead. A war orphan raised among outcasts, he bears no crest, no noble blood-only scars and silence. But when the Empire marches on Highrest and the kingdom's generals falter, the North turns to the one warrior who has never known surrender. With nothing but fractured forces and fading hope, Malek must outwit a ruthless enemy, unite a divided realm, and hold the walls against annihilation. In the shadows of betrayal and prophecy, whispers grow: a lion walks among men. As blades clash and drums thunder, the question remains-not if the North can survive, but whether a forgotten boy can rise to become the legend they call Lionborn.