As We Knew It
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Ongoing, First published Aug 04, 2016
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Dealing with themes of transience, subverted expectations, and far-reaching consequences, this serial follows a large and varied cast through the beginnings of a war - one years in the making but kicked off by a traumatizing massacre.

The Crying Lakes Continent has always been tense, and the technological gap between magically abundant lands like Findal and barren lands like Rendel doesn't make things any easier. Propelled forward into an industrial era, antiquated Findal is dangerously close to a fall from power, one which could be total if Rendel successfully seizes their lands. The regency wants to prevent this, the nobles want to preserve the status quo, the smallfolk want to live unbothered, and Knox South for the love of all things holy just wants to get back to his farm already.

The Crying Lakes Continent has other things in mind.
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The Winter Born [COMPLETED]

41 parts Complete

Cathellyn Anders is born in the Outlands during a night of winter- a birth that is rare in her land, doomed to be a peasant ever since she stepped into the world. Though the fate was inevitable, she fought and manage to gain knowledge of hunting from her father who she loves to death. At the age of twelve, she was a fierce hunter, providing food for her family and keeping them alive. Also, at that age, she was already fatherless. Great grief struck her as her father was taken and executed by the Valarians, the nobles that lay comfortably in their gold-riched land of Valaria. Three years later, Cathellyn grows cold and alone in the forest. Her days becomes still and unmoving, falling in a routine of; hunt, kill, provide. Hunt, kill, provide. Hunt, kill, provide.Until one day, she met someone that she thought she would never meet in the forest. Valarians were normally stoic, nose-high-in-the-air kind of people and uncaring of the people of the Outlands. But this one is... different. She decided she would take her chances with Ethan, the prince of Valaria. In the Outlands, the flame of hatred towards the nobles have been bigger than ever. Curses are being shout out and blood threatens to spill. It doesn't help that Cathellyn's twin sister has a strange habit that she doesn't knows about. In her life, friends are made and lost like the wind in the forest. But this 'friend', she wants to keep.

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