Epicfantasy Stories

There is no night in the Everburning City. There can never be. ***** For four hundred years the Everburning City has withstood the advance of the life-strangling fog known as the Gloam. Its walls have held back five invasions, but on the eve of the sixth, the city's inhabitants know things have changed. Golems are coming out of the mist, and the bodies of the dead are rising at the Gloam's bidding. The city's last and most desperate line of defence comes in the form of the Crafters, individuals who can channel the power of fire, though they risk their sanity each time they do. The brightest of these valiant heroes are Tabitha a'Loria and her apprentice Gerald Reath. Risking their lives, they mount their airships, determined to save the last bastion of humanity - the Everburning City. [[word count: 100,000-150,000 words]]

Hansu Lee is a twenty-nine-year-old game addict who has devoted almost a decade of his life to beating the notoriously difficult game Dungeon & Stone. When he finally reaches the boss monster, a status window appears with the message "Tutorial Complete," followed by a blinding light. Suddenly, Hansu is transformed into a barbarian named Bjorn Yandel inside the world of the game-but it's no longer just a game, it's actually real! With nothing but the weapon in his hand and his prior knowledge of the game, Bjorn must fight for his life in a world full of deadly monsters-and conceal his true identity to avoid execution-in a real-life battle for the survival of the fittest. WARNING: This story contains depictions of violence, gore, and/or graphic depictions of death, profanity, and strong language that may be upsetting for some readers. *** Weekly updates on Wednesdays and Thursdays. All Rights Reserved Written by Jung Yoonkang. *** Volume II of Surviving the Game as a Barbarian.

Sovarielle was born into a legacy of music and magic-one of the legendary sound dragons of Whispervale. But everything changed the day an attack stole her sense of smell, severing her from the bond that connects dragonkind. Exiled by instinct and grieving the loss of her family and horde, she vanished into the human world, learning to navigate life through sound instead of scent. In dragon society, scent is everything. It guides memory, emotion, and-most importantly-connection. It is how dragons recognize their mates. Without it, Sovarielle is considered broken, untethered... alone. Years later, a single misstep leads her back into dragon territory-and into a storm of long-forgotten alliances, mythical creatures, and rising tensions. From sirens guarding sacred seas to secretive centaurs with ancient wisdom, Sovarielle's path is shaped by those who see her not as damaged, but different. And as feelings deepen between her and a dragon who seems to know more than he says, she begins to wonder: If dragons find their mates by scent... will she ever truly know if she's found hers? A map of the country is included in the prologue, showing dragon territories, human cities, and key locations mentioned throughout the story. For readers who enjoy diving deeper, I've also created The Scentmarked Archive, which includes an interactive map and expanded lore exploring ancient dragon territories, mysterious islands, siren legends, shifter homelands, and more. You can find the link to the archive and map in my bio. Thank you so much for choosing to step into this world with me.

In the Kingdom of Valedorn, life has always been ruled by crowns, bloodlines, and secrets. Aren is a twenty-seven-year-old blacksmith living a quiet life in the village of Bellmere, far from the intrigues of the royal court. With four lifelong friends by his side, he has never wanted power, wealth, or a place among the nobles. All he wants is a simple life beneath the sound of his hammer. Until Princess Maria sees him. Their lives could never be more different. She was born behind castle walls. He was raised beside a burning forge. Yet a single glance between them begins a connection neither of them expects. But while Aren's life seems peaceful, darkness is already spreading through the kingdom. The king is betrayed by those closest to him. The crown falls into dangerous hands. A young prince is forced to flee for his life, carrying a secret that could destroy the men who now rule the kingdom. Then Aren is summoned to the palace. He is promised anything he desires if he can find the missing prince. For Maria, Aren may be the man she cannot forget. For the new rulers, he is the key to finding their greatest enemy. And for Aren, the journey will reveal a truth far more terrifying than any royal conspiracy. Because while the kingdom fights for its crown, something else is spreading beyond its borders. A sickness. A darkness. And soon, the dead will no longer remain dead. Before the kingdom becomes ashes, Aren must decide who deserves his loyalty-and how much he is willing to lose for the truth.

Every year, the Mother Temple of Nihamal calls upon twenty-five Fey women blessed with the gift of magic to complete their sacred studies. Among the countless gifted Fey of the Realms, Akhala-the adopted daughter of the Emperor of Folam-is one of the twenty-five.

Velindra is the young queen of a powerful kingdom ruled by dragons, where ancient magic, royal bloodlines, and dangerous secrets shape the fate of the realm. As she learns what it truly means to wear the crown, Velindra finds herself surrounded by rival kingdoms, mysterious creatures, and secrets hidden within her own royal family. In a world where dragons hold the highest power, one young queen must discover whether she was born to rule the kingdom-or to change its destiny forever.

BEYOND THE PRIMORDIAL GODS, I SEEK A QUIET LIFE Raphael has reached the summit of existence. Kings bow before him. Gods fear his name. There is nothing left for him to conquer. After countless years of war, bloodshed, and endless pursuit of power, Raphael finally abandons it all. He does not seek another throne. He does not seek greater strength. He simply wants one thing: A quiet life. Then he meets Lunia. With her warmth and gentle presence, Lunia gives Raphael something he had long forgotten-the feeling of having a home. To the world, Raphael may be an existence beyond the gods. But to Lunia, he is simply Raphael. For the first time in eternity, Raphael begins to believe that perhaps he can finally live peacefully. But the past never truly disappears. Ancient powers begin to awaken. The Primordial Gods turn their gaze toward the mortal world. Forgotten enemies emerge from the shadows, and forces that once shook the foundations of existence begin to move once again. Raphael wants no part of it. He wants his home. He wants his peace. And most importantly, he wants his life with Lunia. But if the gods insist on disturbing his quiet life... Then Raphael will remind them why even the gods once feared him.

Two loves. One betrayal. A dozen lives - and she'll spend every one if she must to save them all. ***** To gain the power of a goddess, claim the Ashen throne, and prove her worth, Princess Kisa Aggre must first drown. When the ritual fails and the goddess never comes, Kisa is declared a disappointment. Stripped of her future and any claim to power, she is offered to the desert Empire of Fend-a sacrifice meant to secure an uneasy alliance between two long-standing enemies. On the eve of her departure, Kisa's beloved cousin, Keldra, returns after months away. But their reunion is short-lived. Within hours, Keldra bleeds out in Kisa's arms, leaving behind a cryptic message-Sestra, do what I could not-and a bloodstained scrap of leather Kisa recognizes as Fend. Now Kisa must leave the only home she's ever known with the very people she suspects may be responsible for Keldra's death. In Fend, she finds herself bound to Rath, the ruthless, unrecognized son of the emperor, and drawn into the orbit of his charming and dangerous brother, Davros. But something impossible is awakening in Kisa: a magic unheard of, a power that answers to blood. As she searches for the truth behind Keldra's death, enemies both foreign and familiar begin moving in the dark-and the mystery reaches far beyond a single murder. Before Kisa can expose the conspiracy, she, Rath, and Davros are killed. Drowned. In death, Kisa finally meets the goddess who abandoned her-and is given the chance to begin again. This time, Kisa intends to save them all. Even if she must tear an empire apart to do it. 𝐖𝐈𝐏 | 𝐅𝐮𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐏𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐬𝐞𝐝 | 𝐔𝐩𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐬 𝐖𝐞𝐞𝐤𝐥𝐲

Elora is the heir to the power of nature, gifted with magic that allows her to command the living world. But one mysterious night, an ancient door hidden deep within the forest opens before her. Beyond it lies a forgotten kingdom swallowed by darkness-and a mysterious prince bound to its cursed fate. They say the kingdom fell beneath the curse of the Goddess of Nature. But why did the door open for Elora? And what is her connection to the darkness that has haunted the kingdom for centuries? Sometimes, light and darkness are not enemies... they are two halves of the same destiny.

Rejected because of his birth, Karna's search for a guru reaches a dead end after Dronacharya refuses to teach him. Refusing to deceive Bhagwan Parashurama, he chooses an entirely different path-one that leads him to the depths of Paatal. There, before the court of the Asuras, Karna seeks knowledge from Asur Guru Shukracharya. His honesty, determination, and unwavering desire to prove that worth is defined by actions-not birth-set into motion events that shake the three worlds. What happens when the greatest guru of the Asuras accepts the son of Surya as his disciple? How will this single decision change Karna's destiny... and the future of the Mahabharata? An Alternate Universe (AU) inspired by the Mahabharata and Ramayana. This story is a work of fiction and reimagines events and characters for creative storytelling.

Thirty-five years after surviving the Vorai invasion, the Peoples of Earth are no longer fighting for their homeworld but pushing steadily into the territory of the aliens who nearly destroyed it, mapping new worlds and raising fortresses on alien soil. For the first time in generations, the future seems larger than the world people were born into, and Mara Vey is determined to claim a place in it. When Mara narrowly misses her chance at the military specialization she wanted, she refuses to let that failure decide what comes next and turns to the black market for an edge, taking an experimental power serum that promises abilities capable of changing her life. It works far better than advertised, but as Mara struggles to understand what she is becoming, she discovers that her new power has roots stretching back thousands of years and connects her to a person the world would prefer remained buried in the depths of history. Meanwhile, the Federation remains focused on its advance into Vorai territory, unaware that the enemy it has spent decades pursuing was never truly defeated and never abandoned Earth. The Vorai simply had more important prey, and now that their priorities have shifted, Earth is back on the menu. Schedule: New chapter every Monday evening, with occasional bonus chapters as time allows.

Two hundred warriors enter a frozen realm where magic and monsters and deadly storms decide who survives but sixteen-year-old Freya Grimorie has only one goal and that is to claim victory and begin her journey towards becoming the greatest tournament queen in history.

In the village of Tarsaw, there lived a Wulver named William, what William didn't realize however was that his life would change. And he will be thrust into an army fighting for the Age of The Wild, alongside the likes of a Alseid, a Daitengu from the eastern isles of Shinkoku, and his old friend, a Boar that talks.

For generations, the people of Elara lived peacefully beneath the ancient trees, protected by traditions passed down through blood and whispered through songs. They believed the witches were nothing more than stories. Until the stories came for them. When the armies of the witches descend upon Elara, Lyra watches her peaceful world burn. Her father is killed, her family is forced into hiding, and the life she once knew disappears in a single night. But Lyra is not the only life caught in the chaos. Her mother carries an unborn child a daughter who has yet to take her first breath. A child whose existence may be tied to an ancient prophecy. Far from Elara, Prince Caelum, son of the ruthless Witch King Azrael, is being prepared to inherit a kingdom built through conquest. Young, powerful, and feared, Caelum has been taught that humans are nothing more than obstacles standing in the way of the witches' destiny. Yet even he does not know what destiny has planned for him. As the surviving people of Elara disappear beneath the earth and seal themselves away from the witches, an ancient magic awakens. Deep within the darkness, an old prophecy begins to reveal itself one that speaks of the scent of honey and flowers. Years will pass. And when Aurelia finally opens her eyes to a world already scarred by war, she will have no idea that her birth is connected to a destiny that began long before she took her first breath. A destiny that will eventually place her in the path of the Witch Prince. Caelum was raised to destroy her kind. Aurelia was born into a world that fears his. But when fate brings them together, hatred begins to blur into something far more dangerous. Because sometimes the greatest war is not fought with swords or magic. Sometimes it begins with a heart falling in love with its enemy. And sometimes... the scent of honey and flowers is the beginning of the end.

She remembers every life she has ever lived. He never remembers her. Ten thousand years ago a woman went into a flood after a drowning man and did something in the water that no one had ever done. He got four more years out of it, and a promise, and then he died anyway, the way people do. She has been finding him ever since. Every lifetime she wakes as a child with the whole weight of it already in her - every face, every death, every name she has been. Every lifetime the pull is there in her ribs like a hand at her back, pointing to wherever in the world he has been born this time. And every lifetime she walks to him, and he looks up at a stranger, and she starts again from nothing. Sometimes she gets forty years with him. Sometimes she gets four. Once she got a bad winter and a war two valleys over and never reached him at all. She is very good at this now. That is the worst part. Eternity in an Hour is a serial from the world of River of Souls. New episodes Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Free, always.

An ordinary expedition for three friends turns into a desperate struggle for survival after discovering a forbidden grimoire in the basement of an abandoned house. By chanting a mysterious runic incantation, the ancient seal breaks-fusing the soul of the legendary warrior, 'Alaric Castronov', directly into young 'Joseph'. Driven by the search for the lost sword 'Yanrid', the companions must face the horrific depths of 'The Pit'-a hidden 32-floor labyrinth crawling with lethal monsters and unearthly powers. Do they have what it takes to defy the Floor Bosses, or will 'The Pit' devour their very souls?

The road to Aurora was supposed to save Marrow. Instead, it delivers Marrick and Mara into the heart of every lie their world was built upon. Mara has reached the shining kingdom in chains, captured beneath walls that promise mercy and hide something far crueler. Marrick has carried his fallen king's hope across dying villages and broken lanterns, only to discover that light can be as hungry as darkness. And far behind them, the Lymph is no longer waiting. Emperor Sael has spent years refusing the war his people expected him to unleash. But Marrow's foolish new king has broken an old protection he never knew existed, and the army of the shadow hemisphere is finally moving. To reach Aurora, the Lymph must come through Marrow - through the farmers, the lanterns, and the fragile seam that holds the world apart. As the hidden Deep opens its doors, the dead king of Marrow rises to save what remains of his people. In Aurora, a gentle general begins to see the horror behind his own kingdom's light. And every crown, every border, every sacred duty begins to crack beneath the truth. Marrow was never just a country. It was the wall. And now the wall is falling.

THE CURSE Three friends. One mysterious golden plate. And a curse that should have remained buried. When Thomas, Ben, and Juma discover a strange golden plate capable of granting wishes, they believe they have found the answer to their problems. But their discovery quickly turns into a nightmare when greed and jealousy lead to betrayal-and Ben is killed. But death does not end Ben's story. Trapped between the world of the living and the dead, Ben discovers that the plate is connected to an ancient curse. To break it, he must guide those responsible for his death toward the truth hidden deep within the forests of Mau. As Juma searches for answers, he encounters mysterious guardians, ancient secrets, dangerous criminals, and a supernatural force that can imitate the people he trusts most. Meanwhile, Niger, a ruthless man searching for the plate, is willing to risk everything to possess its power. But the deeper they go, the more Juma realizes the truth: The plate doesn't grant wishes. It feeds on them. And one final wish could unleash something that has been waiting for centuries. Some wishes should never be granted.

Countless books. Stories without origin. Pages whose ink sometimes seems to precede the hand destined to write them. Thus is whispered the name of the Infinite Library. Each tome unveils a possibility; between the blackened lines lies a depth no gaze could ever fathom. Some recount worlds long since vanished. Others, fables that have yet to find their way into existence. And beyond this infinity unfolds an even more unfathomable enigma: the City of Stories. A dimension unbound by fiction, where reality itself seems to surrender its sovereignty. There dwell the Homo Idæ, singular beings whose destinies intertwine with the primordial flow of creaton. Yet, it was not always so... If only he had known... But he knew... To reach the true world, one must surrender entirely to the void...

War never really ended in the Heimr. It just changed its fate. For years, kingdoms have fought, not knowing who truly started it. Many thinks It's fate. Many follows orders from something. But a few whisper about something else... something watching from the shadows, far away. Now the war has stopped. Or at least, it just looks like it has. A prophecy begins to come to light. A king who will unite everything and bring salvation upon humanity, upon the Heimr... A true king... or perhaps a tragedy waiting to happen. Somewhere in a countryside village, a child is born. Just a normal child. Or maybe the one who will destroy everything.