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]]

The lineage of "Al-Ghalib" holds a treacherous secret. Hidden beneath the ancient dust of forgotten cellars is a portal to a world of blood and shadow. And at its center is Rayan, a young man whose broken heart is the least of his troubles. Once haunted only by the ghost of a dead love, Rayan is suddenly thrust into a realm of warring clans and ancient djinns. He is no longer a mere fugitive of his past; he is the heir to the "Dead Castle," gifted with a power that smells of incense and cold steel-a power he never asked for and cannot control. As the lines between reality and myth blur, Rayan must navigate a world that views his bloodline as a curse. Hunted by unseen enemies and trapped by the weight of a crown he hasn't yet worn, he must face the ultimate question: How can he lead an empire of shadows when he is still drowning in his own? -♛- WARNING: Mentions of intense psychological struggle and emotional trauma.

What does it take for a mute girl to climb out of the slums and defy the very heavens? Rescued from a rainy grave in the slums by a kindly Sage, Molly found a home and a talent for magic she never knew she had. But while others chant to shape Root and Structure, Molly sees the symbols in silence. When she awakens her true Affinity, [Epilogue], she learns her power doesn't just use the relentless magic of an archmage. It ends it. Even the gods fear the silence of Epilogue When her mentor dies, her final wish is simple: Hide. Enroll in the academy. Graduate. Find a party. Do not end up alone again. Disguising a divine-level threat as an average adventurer-in-training is hard enough. Harder still when the heavens are watching, waiting for the one mortal who holds the key to their undoing. In a world where only those with a voice are heard, can a mute girl defy the pantheons? Or will the world finally listen when this broken girl decides to stop hiding? *** This story was inspired by Frieren, The Silent Witch, Witch Hat Atelier, Delicious In The Dungeon, Wistoria Wand And Sword and Cultivation Stories.

Five hundred years ago, the world decided the Hydro Archon Egeria was dead. She wasn't. Now, under the name Lora, she walks Teyvat again with a single objective: to overturn the future that was forced onto her people. The Heavenly Principles wrote a prophecy. Fontaine is meant to drown. The gods are meant to obey. Lora doesn't. Every move matters. Archons, the Abyss, Celestia-everyone is playing their part, all trying to control the board. And Lora? She's already placing her pieces. Passing the throne to Focalors was only the opening move. Because this time, she isn't fighting fate head-on- she's playing for checkmate. No chosen-one nonsense. Just a former god who intends to win-before the heavens realize the game is already lost.

**Featured by @Wattpad in the Curated By You RL** **@HistoricalFiction Spotlight + Book of the Month Interview** ** @TheNanoWatt 2025 Fantasy Grandwinner!** **Featured and interviewed on @TeenFiction for the API Month** **Chosen to be mentored in @BootcampMentors in 2022** **Historical fiction Favorites (Top Picks) in @TheAmbys 2025** When Bridgerton meets Once upon a time in a compelling Standalone Historical Fantasy! _________________ During the 1920s, while escaping from his once-idyllic hamlet in rural India, Neil loses the only person who mattered to him. Rescued by a hunter, he molds himself into one of the best warriors of Cascadia. Impressed, the queen gives him a direct order to kill a traitor to the kingdom: the crowned prince, Dove. As a reward, he is offered a potion that would bring back his lover from the dead. Despite being the sole heir, Dove has been relegated to the role of a servant by his stepmother. Neil could not bring himself to complete the task when their paths crossed. So, they join forces, facing challenging quests to collect seven items required to make the potion. The only catch? They need to do so before the last shard of the mystical glass painting falls, as the potion would then expire. As the clock ticks, Neil is left to make a choice. Will he betray the young prince and become the hero of the kingdom, or try to complete an impossible task with the risk of facing a lifetime of cruelty in the dungeons? ________________ Second draft editing was done with the help of @eacomiskey. Please check out her works too! **I do not own the cover image. Credits to the very talented Mulan Jiang**

An invitation to be a pupil of the Dragonlords, an opportunity far too scarce to pass. Not only for the chosen, but also countless prying eyes in the dark, eager to join the frey of the game of power. One sea nymph's rise to the surface will send ripples and waves across sea and land, and change the world for good. Follow Violet Arcas as she begins her voyage from the depth of the sea to the peak of the highest firmament. The new world will embrace her surely, but its hands will not be empty.

A samurai watches the mist move across the fields and tells himself it is nothing. A knight on a distant wall feels the same wind and thinks the same thing. They are both wrong. Nine realms. Eight centuries of peace. One war about to wake them all. A multi-POV fantasy story in style of Game of Thrones, featuring imperial legions, samurai clans, and knightly orders, alongside elves, dwarves, beastfolk, and many other mythical creatures that inhabit the world.

She was not meant to be destroyed. Only emptied. Warmth. Mercy. Kindness. One by one, they were taken from her- until nothing soft remained. What was left did not break. It learned. And in learning, it changed. After Mercy is a story of loss, transformation, and the quiet rise of something that was never meant to survive.

[MYTHICAL HISTORICAL REINCARNATION FANTASY With ACTION AND ADVENTURE] He died once... Not as a hero. Not as a chosen one. Just as a broken man who wanted peace. And then-he was born again. In a world where magic flows like breath, where empires rise on lies and power, and where destiny watches silently, a boy named Deva grows up in a quiet village with a family he never asked for... yet would die to protect. He learns magic. He learns love. He learns what it means to belong. But the world is not kind to those who shine too brightly. As friendships are forged, bonds deepen, and shadows stir beyond the horizon, Deva begins to realize that some lives are not meant to remain ordinary. That some souls carry echoes of the past-and storms yet to come. This is not just a story of power. It is a story of family, loss, love, and choice. Of a boy who wants nothing more than a peaceful life- in a world that refuses to let him have it.

A hunter who survived the dragon that destroyed everything he loved now walks a path of grief and fire-only to find his fate bound to the very creature he swore to kill.

Dorrun works with metals and takes gems as payment, just like everyone else in the empire. In a world with no magic, he discovers gems' true worth. He never wanted this knowledge, but now the future of the empire rests in his hands.

In the New Lands, peace has never been more fragile. For decades, the balance between the Four Great Kingdoms - Drayan, Gelior, Cordell, and Travia - has endured, held together by uneasy alliances, ancient traditions, and truths buried deep in forgotten history. But now, something long lost has been uncovered. Hidden within the ruins of an ancient temple, a relic known as the Seventh Legacy has resurfaced - said to contain knowledge powerful enough to reshape the destiny of mankind. It is a truth that was never meant to be found... and never meant to return. As whispers spread across the kingdoms, tensions begin to rise. In Mawress, the heart of faith and power, the election of the next High Father approaches - a decision that could shift the balance of the entire world. Noble houses scheme, alliances begin to fracture, and unseen forces move quietly in the shadows, each with their own vision of the future. Some seek to uncover the truth. Others would kill to keep it hidden. Because the greatest danger is not the Legacy itself- But what the world will become once it is revealed.

Nix is fourteen years old, blue-skinned and storm-haired, and his magic has just torn through him in the middle of a winter forest, eight years before it was ever meant to arrive. It left a wound in his chest and something dangerous loose in the world, and now he is running. Three brothers find him bleeding in the Sentinel Forest and do not turn away. What follows is their journey together through MirMarnia, an ancient world of breathing forests, river magic, and creatures older than any name for them, as four unlikely companions discover that the things hunting Nix are only the beginning of what this world has in store. ---------- MirMarnia is an epic literary fantasy twenty years in the making. It has its own language, its own cosmology, its own bestiary, and its own calendar, woven through every chapter. ------------------------------------------- (Artworks on my cover and in my content are originals created by me, either in pencil, pastel, watercolour, or in Procreate using oil paint brushes, Eaglehawk brushes, or smudge tools) Following Chapter 8 on 27 April 2026, new chapters will appear every Monday at 6:30pm (UK time).

Destiny often doesn't announce itself when it arrives. But for one boy, it comes with silence and smoke. Jett Arden was someone who was never supposed to matter. As the son of a humble tailor and a disgraced noblewoman, he was exactly the kind of person who was destined to disappear in the annals of history. But when tragedy strips him of his father and leaves him with nothing but grief, fate refuses to let him remain forgotten. With a desire to survive and a heart full of resolve, Jett embarks on a journey through life that will one day become the stuff of legends. A journey that will take him from the shadows of an orphanage to the brutal discipline of the Imperial Army, all the way to the throne room of the Korvax Empire itself. Every step forward in Jett's life is carved through loss, survival, and a persistent will to become something more than the world expected. Something that he hopes his father would be proud of. Jett Arden's journey is more than just another story about a historic rise to power. It is the tale of a man searching for his own identity, his own legacy, and his place in a world that was never meant to be his.

"They said I was replaceable." F-rank support mage. Kicked from the hero party. Left with nothing but a strange book. Now? That book summons ancient beasts. Gods are watching him. And something called Chaos... is coming. They should've kept him.

Undesirables unfolds in a fractured reality where existence itself is governed by unseen laws, creators, and contradictions. The world is shaped by The Ananta--a domain that claims balance yet thrives on exclusion. Those who do not conform to its design are marked as Undesirables, beings stripped of worth, purpose, and voice. At the heart of the story is Joar, a boy burdened by an unnatural calm and an unwanted consciousness that separates him from others. He neither rebels nor submits; he observes. As reality around him fractures--floating lands, collapsing truths, and distorted time--Joar begins to realize that emotion, choice, and identity are not flaws, but threats to a system built on control. Alongside him move figures bound by fate and contradiction: a child hiding power behind innocence, warriors shaped by regret, watchers who claim neutrality, and creators who fear what they cannot predict. Each carries a different truth, yet all are drawn toward an inevitable convergence where loyalty, belief, and morality are tested. A shadow looms over the cosmos--a presence that does not rule through force, but through understanding human weakness. Its smile is not cruel, but knowing. As Joar's journey deepens, the line between creator and creation, good and evil, sacrifice and manipulation begins to dissolve. What emerges is not a tale of heroism, but of choice, not of destiny, but of refusal. Undesirables is a mythic science-fantasy epic about isolation, consciousness, and the quiet rebellion of becoming human in a universe that demands obedience. It asks a singular question: What happens when those who are deemed unnecessary refuse to disappear?

# The Cursed Princess Princess Nora was never meant to become a monster. Cursed as a child by forbidden magic, dark blue and black scales slowly begin spreading across her body every year. The royal family hides her away inside the castle, terrified of what she's becoming. Because according to legend- when the transformation is complete, the dragon will awaken. As fear spreads across the kingdom and ancient creatures begin returning from the shadows, Nora discovers the truth behind her curse may be far more dangerous than anyone imagined. But the more the dragon grows stronger inside her... the more powerful she becomes. Now hunted by enemies, trapped between destiny and destruction, and haunted by a power she can no longer control, Nora must decide: fight the monster within- or become it

Read (The Lonely Hermit) first. It's book #1 of the saga. The war for the Enchanted Forest begins. Who will come on top? Athena or The Blood Prince?

In a world where kingdoms have been at war for centuries, something ancient is awakening... and it belongs to none of them. The boundaries between power, betrayal, and destiny begin to crumble as an unknown force threatens to erase everything that exists. Kings, warriors, and beings with impossible abilities are forced to fight-not only for their kingdoms... but for their very existence. But there is something worse than war itself: someone has been watching it all along. And this time... no one will escape.

I WILL BE PUBLISHING 2 NEW CHAPTERS EVERY MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, AND FRIDAY! In a quiet human town where nothing extraordinary ever seems to happen, Kaelin Dusk lives an ordinary life, until the world begins to fracture around her. A mysterious relic hidden beneath forgotten ruins awakens something inside her: latent magic tied to an ancient lineage known as the Aetherborne. With no warning and no understanding of what she's becoming, Kaelin is pulled into a hidden conflict between three realms, Human, Magical, and Shadow, each governed by fragile alliances and long-buried secrets. As her powers emerge, so do those who are watching her. From the edges of the Shadow Realm, Riven Thorne observes Kaelin's awakening with intentions that are unclear even to his own faction. Meanwhile, Finn Eldrin, a strange and unpredictable guide tied to the magical world, becomes her reluctant mentor, teaching her to control a force that responds as much to emotion as to will. But magic is not merely power; it is inheritance, history, and consequence. When Kaelin discovers that her family's past is entangled in ancient wars between realms, she is forced into a larger struggle she never chose. Political tensions rise between factions, hidden betrayals surface, and the boundaries between ally and enemy blur beyond recognition. As shadow forces begin to move openly into the human world, Kaelin must learn to master her abilities before she becomes either a weapon or a catalyst for destruction. Every choice she makes ripples across all three realms, reshaping fragile peace into something far more dangerous. In a world where prophecy and manipulation intertwine, Kaelin is forced to confront a terrifying question: Was she chosen to save the realms...or to break them? And in the shadows that rise around her, nothing, and no one, is what it seems.