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"I was right there!" - Astarion.
Sometimes seeking out new experiences might not what you expecting. After installing a secret mod, I found myself within the Forgotten Realms, for real, fighting for my life and for those adorable companions that we meet along the way.
It is also said that a little knowledge can be a dangerous thing as events depicted within a video game aren't necessarily going to be the ones you are expecting to encounter. Starting with a heavily modded custom honour mode run might not have been the smartest idea after all. Still, I get to meet and be with the amazing people who just need a little help from a friend.
A/N ~ if you are reading this you've most likely played the game and will have a good idea as to what happens within the progression of the game.
This is an ongoing, serialised novel that seeks to cover the majority of the story.
A first person narrative which I've chosen to create, taking a journey where the parameters of the game no longer matter or are applicable. The encounters and major events of BG3 are mostly the same as you would expect yet circumstances and choices made in the story drastically alter future events and outcomes.
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A lowly rat-catcher, desperate to join the Royal Guard, rescues the very Captain who rejected him. In a world where magic is born of passion and colour is a defiance against a consuming grey, an uneasy bargain leads to training, terror, and a fire unlocked only by love. [Fantasy AU for The Pitt.]
Updates (roughly) every Sunday!! <3
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Ashes and Blood by Shadesia
Fandoms: Invincible (Cartoon 2021), Invincible (Image Comics)
03 May 2026
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Your genetics aren't designed for a citizen's arrest, Mark. They're coded for conquest and extermination. You're terrified of the brutality living in your marrow. You repress it. But the day your people land, that human morality will make you hesitate for a microsecond. And in that microsecond, they'll tear your head off."
In the wake of Chicago’s ruin and Omni-Man’s betrayal, Mark Grayson isn't found by the GDA. Instead, he is dragged into a rotting basement by Nicholas Greengrass—a youth hiding the blood of a Major Demon behind a mask of marble and onyx. Using ancient sorcery and the alien furnace of Mark’s metabolism as a fission battery, Nicholas rebuilds the fallen hero’s body, forging a tense bond built on cold pragmatism and mutual hostility.
Mark fights to remain the man his father couldn't be. Nicholas, however, wages a private war against his own corrosive shadow, clinging to the only human anchor he has left: Julian.
But in a universe of multiversal chaos, normalcy is a fragile illusion with an expiration date. When tragedy strikes and the world corners them, they will discover that the only force capable of containing a monster is the darkness of another
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A Dark God by Orexin
Fandoms: 月が導く異世界道中 | Tsuki ga Michibiku Isekai Douchuu | Tsukimichi: Moonlit Fantasy (Anime), 月が導く異世界道中 | Tsuki ga Michibiku Isekai Douchuu (Manga)
03 May 2026
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Every person who enters our lives is either a test, a punishment, or a gift from destiny. Some encounters, however, are fixed points in time — immutable, with consequences that ripple far beyond the moment. Yet sometimes, even fate rolls a one.
What if, at the very start of the story, Makoto had taken the wrong turn and never crossed paths with Emma, Shin or Mio…?
A story of fateful encounters, far-reaching consequences, and the dangers of awakening things better left untouched.
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Maro Raitelis is the adopted son of the late Duke jacob Raitelis. He is cold and calculating; Bathed in mystery, hiding dangerous secrets. His servents are strange and stare with bloodthirsty eyes at any guest who dares enter the estate.
Amber Lucas is the daughter of Duke Arthur Lucas and a mysterious woman he refuses to talk about.
Neither want to tread the path before them, but when a higher power gives you an order, you follow through or face the consequences, however unfair they might be.
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- Part 4 of Restless Universe
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Every man may ask of god his dream. I never though he would grand mine, for it was such a meager one. I was asked; Which Primarch would I save from Chaos if given the change? And I answered; Perturabo and the Iron Warriors! And now I find myself awake within their ranks at the dusk of the Great Crusade. And onyl one goal remains, deperate and insane, to save the Primarch before Chaos and his own failings will claw the Lord of Iron and his Legion into dammnation and me with them...
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Mahoutokoro doesn't teach you magic. It teaches you how to be a weapon.
Kieran Morgan returned to Britain as a stranger, bearing the cold discipline of the Jade Halls and the invisible scars of a tragedy he refuses to name. To the students of Hogwarts, he is an enigma—a boy who bows too low, speaks too formally, and moves with the lethal precision of a predator.
He wanted to survive his final years in the shadows. He didn't expect Hermione Granger.
Guided by her relentless sense of justice and a memory of the boy Kieran used to be, Hermione is the only one who refuses to look away from his trembling hands and haunted eyes. As the Triwizard Tournament turns the school into a political minefield, she becomes his unlikely bridge back to humanity.
But with ancient conspiracies stirring and the graveyard calling, Kieran’s deadly skills might be the only thing keeping his friends alive—if his own broken psyche doesn't shatter first.
What to expect:
A grounded, psychological take on the Wizarding World.
Slow-burn, canon-compliant character dynamics (In-depth Hermione).
High-stakes action rooted in Mahoutokoro discipline.
No Harem. No easy fixes for trauma.
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- Part 1 of The Hogwarts Gaijin
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40,000 Ways to Die by Necronos
Fandoms: Warhammer 40.000, Warhammer 40k (Novels) - Various Authors
02 May 2026
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Just yesterday, I was minding my own business, living a peaceful life, but I was killed by a stool. Well, who knew? Perhaps calling those guys "DoWerasts" was a bit of a stretch...
In any case, after death, it wasn't hell that awaited me, but something worse: a distant, bleak future and Tzeentch, who granted me the power of endless reincarnation, effectively immortality. It sounds good, but in practice... in the distant, dark future, there is only war and forty thousand ways to die in the name of someone else's goals. -
A Good Day's Work by Wardown for alperez, Sploot, chss, the_samovar_is_hot, Sph0015, ThatBishLizzie, ValNotThatVal
Fandoms: A Song of Ice and Fire & Related Fandoms, The Black Company Series - Glen Cook
02 May 2026
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Jon Snow flees from the Nights Watch to join his brother's military campaign
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Arknights: First To Hell by Approval, Cynical_Waste23, Democratic_Menace, Filteredboi, Historicalman123, Opera56
Fandoms: Helldivers (Video Game), 明日方舟 | Arknights (Video Game)
02 May 2026
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A Helldiver designated A1, found himself crash landed into a strange, alien planet protected with a dome, orbited by two moons, and plagued by a cancerous rock, that hasn't been charted by Super Earth's Expedition Forces. With his Super Destroyer compromised and damaged at the last minute, join this Helldiver as he navigates through this unfamiliar terrain by himself, with nothing but his guns, his strategems, and his sheer will and love FOR MANAGED DEMOCRACY.
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A story that is experimental, dense, and transgressive.
Featuring a world where lucky souls strive for eternal power, losing themselves along the way.
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A serial killer is stalking the streets of Brisbane, Australia. His savage methods have earned him a name that strikes fear across the city: the “Beast of Brisbane.” As the body count rises, Mackenzie Border-Collie finds himself spiraling—haunted by secrets, shadows, and a connection to the killings he doesn’t fully understand.
Who is the Beast? Why were these victims chosen? And what dark truth is Mackenzie running from?
In a city gripped by fear, the answers may be more terrifying than anyone imagined.
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My World My Justice (WC) by Choloman
Fandoms: Parahumans Series - Wildbow, 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga), Multi-Fandom
02 May 2026
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In a world consumed by darkness and despair, the light of hope becomes a beacon for the lost. But seriously... it is really necessary to force me with this cringe and crippling hero speech! (AU ELEMENTS) Waifu Catalog inspired
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Warframe: Earth-Bet Protocol by W_InhumanMan
Fandoms: Parahumans Series - Wildbow, Warframe
02 May 2026
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When a routine mission through the Void takes a disastrous turn, a lone Tenno finds himself stranded in a universe not his own—one without Orokin tech, without allies, and teeming with unstable powers called "parahumans." Cut off from the Origin System and with no way home, the Operator must adapt, infiltrate, and survive in this fractured new world. But Earth-Bet has secrets of its own and not all of them are eager to stay buried.
Caught between old instincts and new rules, one Tenno walks the thin line between Warrior and Hero, searching for a path back while leaving a mark that won't be easily forgotten.
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El peor camino by KevinDLozano
Fandoms: Warhammer 40.000, Warhammer 40k (Novels) - Various Authors, Warhammer
01 May 2026
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Una línea alterna a la historia de los primarcas de Warhammer 40k. Cada uno de los hijos del emperador sufrieron destinos diferentes, definidos por los lugares y sociedades en las que creció cada uno. Entonces ¿Qué pasaría si este inicio hubiese sido distinto? ¿Que sería de Macrage sin Guilliman? ¿Cómo hubiese sido Angron sin los clavos del carnicero? El destino es cruel a veces, y puede que aquellos que hubiesen sido grandes, vean escapar ese futuro por los caprichos del universo. Esta es una historia en la que aquel que llegó a obtener la gloria en otra línea temporal, ahora será convertido en un chiste cruel, y aquel cuya existencia fue una tragedia, tenga ahora lo que nunca se le permitió. Esta no será una historia de herejías, sino algo diferente. Pero a pesar de que ya no llegue a ocurrir aquello que sumió a la galaxia en llamas, puede que el final de todo termine resultando más oscuro que un universo donde sólo existe la guerra.
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Silent Victory - A Pokémon Story by Drascal101
Fandoms: Pocket Monsters | Pokemon - All Media Types
01 May 2026
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Sinnoh is a nation held together by controlled violence and carefully managed lies, and Dawn Berlitz has spent ten years mastering both. She has fought the League's wars, buried its secrets, and writ its will across the Pokémon world. As Captain Platinum of Strike Force Victory, she is her nation's most renown warrior.
She doesn't sleep. She hears things she shouldn't. She forgets things she knows she did herself. Somewhere, a ticking clock strikes midnight, and Sinnoh's hour is at hand.
Inspired by 'A Game of Champions', by Lamora.
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Hive World Darnath was never built to withstand what came for it.
As shadowed raiders descend on the world and the defenders are pushed past hope, Major Rayne Dresden is forced to hold together a dying hive with discipline, blood, and impossible choices. But when rescue finally arrives, it brings not deliverance, but a colder lesson in endurance.
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First, a god stuck in a book, suddenly, Vivian finds herself in a mortal body. All her previous memories are a blur, yet they haunt her in nightmares. Persecuted because of what she is, she finds herself linked to two mortal boys.
If they perish, so will she. Without the link, the gods that haunt her dreams will descend on her. A dilemma since one of the boys is set to die soon.
“I don’t care if I’m a monster! I’ll survive no matter what it takes!” Vivian refuses to give up her only chance at freedom!
The third and final book in the trilogy of The Gates of Shadows
Will update on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.Series
- Part 3 of The Gate of Shadows
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Biography of two siblings.
A marriage of havoc and harmony.After a calculated closure, Lowen wakes up in an unadorned and rustic room, trapped in a four-month-old body. As he loathes fate's irony, the interference of the nearly three-year-old Seraphine gives him the intellectual match he craves.
What happens when an experienced, high-functioning mind unites with a raw and innocent genius?
Will they self-preserve? Or will their curse of competence morph them into fertiliser for the new world-unifying era?This is a story that explores the cost of improving civilisation through a tragic sibling bond struggling to protect its integrity and find its humanity.
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Don't Look at Me by thewitchoftheficz
Fandoms: Mission: Impossible (Movies) RPF, Actor RPF, Marvel Cinematic Universe RPF
01 May 2026
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