THE THREADS OF DEATH
By @Ather
THE THREADS OF DEATH Monn Veylcrest menghabiskan kehidupan pertamanya sebagai putra bangsawan yang selalu mengikuti jalan yang telah ditentukan orang lain. Ketika keluarganya jatuh dan segala sesuatu yang ia miliki direnggut darinya, Monn menghadapi akhir hidupnya dengan satu penyesalan: > “Aku bahkan tidak pernah memilih hidupku sendiri.” Namun ketika ia membuka mata kembali, ia telah kembali ke usia 17 tahun - bertahun-tahun sebelum kehancuran yang seharusnya terjadi. Dengan kesempatan kedua, Monn bersumpah untuk menyelamatkan keluarganya dan mengubah takdir. Kemudian sebuah kekuatan misterius terbangun dalam dirinya. Blood Thread. Sebuah kemampuan yang memungkinkan Monn melihat benang tak kasatmata yang menghubungkan manusia dengan keinginan, emosi, hubungan, dan keputusan mereka. Benang itu dapat ia tarik, ikat, putus, bahkan digunakan sebagai senjata dalam pertarungan. Awalnya, Monn hanya ingin mengendalikan takdir. Namun setiap benang yang ia tarik mengubah sesuatu. Seseorang yang seharusnya hidup mungkin mati. Seseorang yang seharusnya menjadi musuh mungkin menjadi sekutu. Dan orang yang ingin ia lindungi mungkin justru terluka karena pilihannya sendiri. Di belakang Monn, sosok kematian bernama Mortis mulai muncul setiap kali kekuatannya digunakan. Semakin Monn berusaha mengendalikan kehidupan orang lain, semakin ia kehilangan kendali atas dirinya sendiri. Sebab ada satu hal yang tidak pernah ia sadari: > Benang takdir tidak menentukan pilihan manusia. Manusia sendirilah yang memilih ke mana benang itu akan ditarik. Dan pada akhirnya, Monn harus menghadapi pertanyaan yang jauh lebih menakutkan daripada kematian: Jika kau bisa mengendalikan hidup semua orang... apakah kau masih memiliki hak untuk menyebut hidup itu sebagai pilihan mereka?
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Dark
By @Carsten Wieschebrock
A magic school very war oriented. Its allowed to kill other Students. If someone dies it counts as weakness. Many female students offer their bodys to stronger students to get protection. Also a lot of female students offer Sex to Not be killed after loosing a duel
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The Shadow Tamer: Awakening
By @Ares
Tahun 2101. 76 tahun setelah monster dari luar angkasa datang dan hampir memusnahkan umat manusia, dunia telah berubah menjadi tempat di mana manusia dan monster memperebutkan tanah yang tersisa. Manusia kini bertahan hidup di 110 pangkalan yang tersebar di seluruh dunia, sementara lebih dari separuh daratan masih dikuasai monster. Kaiser, seorang pemuda berusia 16 tahun yang hidup di kawasan kumuh, hanya memiliki satu tujuan: bertahan hidup dan melunasi utang yang ditinggalkan kedua orang tuanya. Namun sebuah pertemuan dengan monster yang terluka mengubah hidupnya. Di ambang kematian, kristal misterius peninggalan orang tuanya tiba-tiba bereaksi dan membangkitkan Tamer Panel di dalam dirinya. Tetapi Panel Kaiser berbeda. Ia memiliki kemampuan untuk mendeteksi jalur evolusi tersembunyi dan memberikan misi dengan hadiah yang tidak dimiliki Tamer lain. Bersamaan dengan itu, sebuah kemampuan bawaan langka terbangkitkan dalam dirinya: Fusion. Dari seorang anak miskin yang tidak memiliki apa-apa, Kaiser perlahan melangkah menuju dunia para Tamer. Namun semakin kuat dirinya dan monster kontraknya, semakin jelas bahwa kristal yang membangkitkannya bukanlah kristal biasa. Dan rahasia di balik kristal itu mungkin jauh lebih besar daripada yang pernah Kaiser bayangkan.
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The Ferryman Returns Them Changed
By @Dino1208
In the perpetually fog-choked Vesswater valley, Cadoc Ryne is the grim Ferryman, burdened with an unholy task. He pulls the recently drowned from the treacherous Vess, a river that flows upstream on nights best forgotten, and returns them to their grieving families. His unique ability to call souls back comes at a terrifying cost: the Vess always claims a piece, substituting something alien and grotesque. Families, desperate in their grief, pay his escalating price, willfully ignoring the unsettling changes in their 'returned' loved ones. Cadoc, a man haunted by silent duty, keeps a locked shed housing the river's true abominations - the things too monstrous even for the desperate. Now, whispers of a growing blight, a malevolent mimicry, threaten to drown the entire valley in the very horrors he's unleashed, forcing Cadoc to confront the compounding debt he's exacted.
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The Siege That Cannot End
By @Dino1208
For three centuries, Sergeant Kell Ardo has perished over nine hundred times, each death an agony etched into his memory - a unique curse in a war where neither side can truly die. The Saltmere Wall, a monument to futility, stretches across a barren salt plain, separating two armies trapped in an endless cycle of slaughter and resurrection. Combatants forget their past lives, their reasons for fighting, but Kell remembers every single one of his deaths and the faces of those he’s killed. He’s seen generations born and die (only to be reborn), witnessed love blossom and fade, all within the grim theatre of war. This morning, a cold dread washes over him: the main gate stands inexplicably open. With the stalemate shattered, Kell must confront the impossible truth behind their eternal conflict and the terrifying possibility that true death might finally arrive, not as an escape, but as an ultimate weapon.
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The Forest Redraws Itself
By @Dino1208
Juno Brask, a cartographer whose very talent condemns her, faces the impossible in the Unfixed Wold. Every map she meticulously crafts becomes obsolete within a week, the landscape shifting with a sinister will. Three villages have already vanished into its ever-changing depths. The Crown demands a completed survey by spring, a task made deadly by Juno's unique ability to perceive the land's current, fleeting truth. But the forest isn't merely chaotic; it's sentient. It redraws itself not randomly, but with a predatory intelligence, taking a keen interest in those who seek to define it. Juno's unsentimental resolve clashes with the creeping dread that the Wold isn't just erasing her maps, but actively hunting for its next cartographer.
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Years Bought Cheap
By @Dino1208
In the gilded capital of Ashcourt, where glass arcades overshadow unlit tenements, the nobility defy mortality, sustained by the very lifeblood of the poor. Tomas Vell, a cynical yet charming broker, possesses a unique gift: he can appraise the exact lifespan remaining in any individual, including his own. He navigates the cutthroat 'Years Market,' facilitating grim transactions where the desperate sell their futures for coin, all while his own count dwindles to a mere four years. Haunted by the memory of a past he can't outrun, Tomas is forced to confront the decaying heart of Ashcourt and the true cost of immortality. As the city's veneer cracks, exposing the depravity beneath, Tomas must decide if he will accept his fate or ignite a revolution against a system built on stolen time.
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Cosmic Abyss: The Divine Exile
By @Axvv Fxvn
Mor'zael, a celestial entity woven from starlight and cosmic dread, descends upon a dying world, a lone bulwark against the ravenous tendrils of the Immaterial. His divine purpose: to stem the tide of sanity-shattering incursions that bleed from beyond reality, transforming landscapes into nightmares and souls into echoes. Yet, Mor'zael carries a secret burden, a profound loneliness born from his eternal isolation and the terrifying clarity of his cosmic task. As grotesque cults rise and reality itself frays, Mor'zael must confront not only the creeping horrors from the void but also the profound cost of his own existence, battling a despair that threatens to consume his divine resolve faster than any eldritch beast. Can even a god withstand the unraveling of everything?
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THE PUPPETEER OF ASH
By @Riddix
In the crumbling kingdom of Aurethia, where ancient oaths are broken and gods are silent, Kael Veridian moves like a phantom. Blessed - or cursed - with an unwavering resolve and a mind sharper than any blade, he trusts nothing but his own will. Promises, love, faith; all are chains for the weak. Kael, a master manipulator, pulls the strings from the shadows, his serene exterior belying a calculating intellect that sees all as pawns. Yet, even a puppeteer can fall. A creeping blight, born from forgotten pacts, threatens to consume Aurethia, twisting not just bodies but souls. Kael must now forge an alliance with the very people he disdains, using his ruthless pragmatism to navigate a world where his singular law is tested by an impending, all-consuming ash.
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Relics of the Living Saints
By @Dino1208
Within the foreboding Grey Abbacy, Brother Osric Dale, a gentle relicwright, grapples with a terrible gift: the ability to measure the fading sanctity within living saints. He ensures the Order’s endless demand for miraculous relics is met, determining precisely how much more can be harvested from those who willingly offer their bodies. But the saints, their bones slowly claimed for the 'greater good,' linger in the infirmary, broken husks of faith. Osric, quietly coming apart, believes he is merciful, the one who knows when to stop cutting. Yet, with each measurement, he inches closer to the abyss, haunted by the agony behind their stoic smiles and the chilling question of true mercy in a world where belief demands such a price. The line between devotion and monstrosity blurs, threatening to consume him.
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A Sword That Eats What You Loved
By @Dino1208
Ser Halden Crowe, a knight haunted by a fading past, cleaves through the war-torn Marchlands with Nettlecry, a cursed blade that grants him unmatched prowess while devouring his most cherished memories with every life it claims. His ledger, a desperate chronicle of a life he can no longer fully recall, is his last anchor against oblivion. But as the Marchlands descend into a brutal free-for-all among desperate warlords and forgotten gods, Halden finds himself an unwitting champion for a populace with nothing left to lose. He must confront the terrifying truth of Nettlecry's hunger, not just for his past, but for his very identity, before he becomes an empty shell, a weapon without a wielder, in a world that needs him more than ever.
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The Plague Doctor of Vesmoor
By @Dino1208
In the perpetually sinking canal city of Vesmoor, where the black waters teem with the restless dead, Aldric Vane is the only physician capable of granting final peace. Bearing the heavy burden of 'Rest-speaking,' Aldric must voice the dying thoughts of every corpse to quiet their tormented spirits. Yet, each whispered confession doesn't merely pass through him; it lodges permanently within his own mind, a growing cacophony of borrowed memories and unresolved regrets. As Vesmoor slowly drowns, the walking dead rise in ever-greater numbers from the flooded districts. Aldric, tormented by the memories of countless strangers, races against time and the encroaching darkness to quell the rising tide of undeath, even as his own identity threatens to drown beneath the weight of their final thoughts.
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The God We Are Mining
By @Dino1208
Two centuries ago, a god plunged from the heavens, its colossal corpse becoming the foundation of Cairnhollow. Mirren Sokal, a pragmatic and foul-mouthed seam-reader, navigates this grim mining town, her loyalty fiercely devoted to her crew, her contempt reserved for the exploitative company that owns the divine remains. Mirren's unique ability allows her to feel the dormant life within the god's petrified tissue, a connection slowly rewriting her own flesh and spirit. But deep within the marrow-rich seams, something ancient and terrible stirs. The very workers who harvest its essence have begun to offer prayers to the silent, monstrous form they are dismembering. As the divine corruption seeps into the town and its people, Mirren must unearth the truth of the god's fall before Cairnhollow becomes less a settlement and more a consumed, living offering.
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The Mask of Every Last Word
By @Dino1208
Ysolde Fen inherited more than just her father's executioner's mask; she inherited a chilling duty. In the grime-streaked merchant republic of Draveline, where debt is a capital crime and the scaffold is a public spectacle, Ysolde's mask reveals a terrifying truth: the final, honest memories of the condemned. Most are innocent. Outwardly, she is the cold, efficient instrument of state justice, but beneath the mask, she secretly records every unjust death. Bound by an ancient magic, the Mask of Every Last Word grows heavier with each truth, whispering of a deeper corruption. Ysolde must navigate Draveline's treacherous alleys and powerful guilds, all while battling the mask's growing influence, to expose a system that thrives on innocent blood, or risk becoming just another executioner consumed by its grim power.
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Witchfinder, Know Thyself
By @Dino1208
Inquisitrix Bethan Roule has spent twenty years as the Sanctorate of Halvenmark’s most feared witch hunter, her palate honed to taste the Taint in the very blood of heretics. Her certainty, once an unyielding bulwark against the creeping darkness, begins to crumble when the familiar iron tang of magic erupts within her own veins. Suddenly, she is the hunted, forced to navigate the treacherous world of the Order she once upheld, every stone chapel and frozen millpond now a potential trap. With the chilling revelation that her unique ability is the very mark she has condemned in others, Bethan must confront a horrifying truth: the zealous faith she dedicated her life to is built upon a profound, deadly lie. Her unwavering devotion is now her greatest curse as she seeks to unearth who she truly is, before the Order she served extinguishes her.
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