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His hand comes up against her shoulder again, warning her not to move forward as she tries to take another step. His tone is harsh, warning. Scolding. She knew this was dangerous - but wasn't this the point of his training? To be able to fight against machines like this, to protect? It wasn't as if she hadn't been alone before, either. Exploring a metal ruin out of reach of her father figure, where she'd picked up the device that would now help save the young boy's life. Training all her life to survive in the wilds, even if it had only been a few short years. She looks back to him, weighing her choices and the cons of each.
Stubbornness was in her veins, though, and no amount of his stern tone would stop her.
She pulls away from him, sprinting forward. His hand tries to reach and grab her again but only catches her bow, causing her to stumble and quickly slide down the ledge they’d perched atop. The immediate panic in his voice is clear as he calls her name, but there was no stopping her downward momentum. Even more than him, though, her attention as she tumbles downward was on a nearby noise. Mechanical, machine. A watcher, requiring him to pull backwards and hide - else he reveals himself, and her.
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Después del éxito de Aloy en la prueba ritual Nora, la joven se encuentra más perdida sobre su lugar en aquel mundo primitivo, por lo cual decide aceptar una propuesta del rey carja para abandonar las tierras Nora y encontrar su propio camino marcado por el pasado del mundo. Divergencia de la trama original, contiene violencia y tema para adultos.
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- Part 1 of Horizon Divergence
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Anointed in Dawn, Chosen in Ash by Angelinasway
Fandoms: Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV), Horizon (Video Games)
06 Oct 2025
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Long ago, as the world fell to the swarm, the Last Slayer and a Vampire who chose a soul sought refuge in forgotten technology, sealing themselves away while fire and ash consumed the Earth. Centuries later, Aloy’s search for GAIA’s lost heart carries her into the ruins of the Ancients, where a hidden chamber stirs — and a past neither the Slayer nor the Seeker can keep buried awakens once more.
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Six months since the battle with HADES, Aloy and Neoma have been searching for the backup of GAIA in order to fix the terraforming system. In that short span of time, a Blight has begun to spread with the help of strange storms that seem to carry it. It kills everything and the machines are still changing despite HADES being gone, becoming more dangerous. In pursuit of the backup, Aloy and Neoma decide to travel to the Forbidden West, where they both learn to trust other people and how to obtain what they need in order to save the world from itself.
It's not all bad on their travels, as Aloy and Neoma learn what it is to be partners together. As they travel to the Forbidden West, things are discovered, and they are tested to the extreme on both their relationship and their allies.
Ride with them as they try to find the backup, fix the world, learn how to trust others and obtain allies, all the while their relationship grows into something more than they ever thought. It's time to go into the Forbidden West, the untamed wilderness of both machines and people.
It's time to go into The Wild West.
Sequel to "Past Revisits the Future"
Aloy x Female OC
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- Part 3 of Horizon: Journey into the Unknown
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Aloy doesn’t cry. Not for the mother she never had, glimpsed only in aged pictures. Not for the man in the open casket today, her father in everything but name. Not even for herself, for all the bridges she’ll burn, when she disappears tomorrow. Because if Aloy started to cry, she wouldn’t stop.
Or: After Rost's passing, Aloy is desperate to find out who her mother was. The truth isn't kind.
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They brought her back to save the world.
She awoke in the Sacred Land, accompanied only by ghosts. However, the old paths are beginning to change.
Rost is alive. Varl and Vala are now strangers. Erend doesn’t even know her name. As war looms and the future threatens to spiral into ruin, Aloy discovers something she never had the first time: a family willing to fight alongside her from the beginning.
This time, she refuses to lose them.
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Aloy died, she wasn't strong enough. But then she wakes up in Rost's cabin two days before the Proving with all of her gear and scars, and realizes that she has the chance to fix things.
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A new game+ fic where post Burning Shores Aloy is sent back to Zero DawnSeries
- Part 2 of The End and The Beginning
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In the final battle against Nemesis, the people of the tribes are alarmingly overwhelmed, and Aloy is faced with the reality that they have failed. In the last moments left, she finds Beta amidst the battlefield, desperate and grieving what they are set to lose.
Instead, Beta reveals a plan she has set in place, a failsafe if all should fall to ruin. Her final words to Aloy are those of a desperate plea to be found, to not be forgotten.
Before Aloy can even question her sister, she wakes in Rost's cabin in the Nora sacred lands, left with nothing but a recording from her sister and a head filled with memories that haven't even happened yet.
Now, she has to get the gang back together, and fast. They're going to need all of the time they can get to prepare for Nemesis, and this time, they can't fail.
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Footsteps and Broken Paths by CannotBeginOrEndWithAnUnderscore
Fandoms: Horizon (Video Games)
27 Sep 2025
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Gaia made 2 clones that day, one of Elisabet Sobeck and one of Ted Faro in a last-ditch effort to fix the system once she is gone. The one who ended the world and the one who secured its future. High level directives prevent Gaia from contacting the Tribal societies in anyway herself or even leaving much of a warning but her final words ring in the empty holo space “through you Elisabet all things are possible.”
Together they are raised by Rost in the mountains above Mother’s Heart, the daughter of All-Mother and the other the son of the Metal Devil. Will things change when they find out the truth about their births and where they came from? -
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After the defeat of The Eclipse and Hades, the legendary warrior Aloy has left, having been seen for the last time heading towards the distant lands of the great north. In these lands, she will meet another solitary Nora hunter, Mathias Wargan, an outcast like her. It is in these distant lands where almost no life is possible that the two Noras will then discover a new threat, old and forgotten, even more terrible than Hades... A threat that could sound the end of the human species and the birth of a new race of machines.
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Seyka has committed the ultimate crime.
After stealing a Diviner’s Focus in an effort to save her people, Petty Officer Seyka is cast out of the Quen. Thrown into the wilds with nothing but her sword and the desperation to stay alive, she journeys east to seek shelter in the bustling settlement the locals call Meridian—away from the spears of the Tenakth and the bloodlust of the rebels.
After months of struggle, death, and grief, Seyka has reached the farthest edge of the Sundom, finally seeing the path to Meridian within her reach.
Until she meets a redheaded huntress in the woods of the Daunt… wielding a Focus.
A complete retelling of Horizon Forbidden West, set in an AU where Seyka joins Aloy at the very beginning of her adventure in Chainscrape.
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Elisabet Sobeck's untold story of her childhood yet here we are, reborn in a younger body after a near-death experience at her ranch, finds herself rescued in a Nora cabin by Rost. As she navigates this strange new life, she encounters Aloy, a young woman who shockingly mirrors her own appearance. Compelled to uncover the truth behind their connection, Elisabet joins Aloy on a thrilling journey to unravel the mysteries of the ancient world. As their bond deepens through shared adventures, Elisabet discovers unexpected romantic feelings stirring within her.
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Rewritten story of Horizon Zero Dawn and Forbidden West.
Most POV centres Elisabet.
Additional Non-Canon encounters.
Some dialogs from the character are change in most part.Series
- Part 3 of Project Protocol
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There are, apparently, multiple ways to be redeemed in the eyes of the Nora.
She already knew of two.
The first was, that you could serve your time in the wilds. Feel the loneliness of being forgotten.
The second, of course, is that you can (if you’re still young) run in the proving. Fight to prove your worth to the tribe.
And she now knew of a third.
You could become a mother.
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I read “Mother Tongue” by knitbone and my brain would not let the implications of Aloy carting a baby around on her big world saving, life threatening adventure go.
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A Nil-centric, mostly canon compliant-ish exploration of our favorite Carja murder hobo, with a backstory growing up as a child and a young man in the Sundom before going off to war during the time of the Mad King Jiran. This will follow Nil through his time in the Forbidden West and the Liberation of Meridian all the way through meeting up with Aloy and the Battle of the Alight. Very slow burn Nil/Aloy fic with a happy ending...for now!
Very minor spoilers, lore, and characters from Horizon Forbidden West and Horizon Call of the Mountain are used to tell his story, but are not necessary to have played before reading
NOW COMPLETE!
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A blight plagues the land, but while the people whisper of a curse, Aloy sees a disease. Every disease has a treatment, Aloy just has to find it. Her last lead lies in the Forbidden West, if she can get past the Tenakth. They are fearsome pirates and raiders, and something else far more impossible than Aloy could have imagined.
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An exploration of the little slices of Erend's life before, during and after the big events of the series.
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- Part 1 of Songs from the Reach
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Back To Roots by NightWriter93
Fandoms: Horizon (Video Games), Horizon: Zero Dawn, Horizon: Forbidden West
02 Sep 2025
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Aloy's life was going pretty good. Far Zenith was defeated, and the world was slowly fixing itself with Gaia's help. Yes it was going pretty good until it wasn't. With Gaia's sudden annoucement that Cradle ELEUTHIA-9 located within All-Mother was active, Aloy is suddenly thrusted back into the Nora Lands, can she survive long enough to find what made ELEUTHIA-9 activte and the reactions of the Nora to her Tenakth Lover?
Goddess help her.
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Vala is a strategist. Bast is sharp-eyed. Aloy doesn't walk alone.
OR: in which Vala and Bast survive the Proving Massacre.
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- Part 1 of The Three Seekers Verse
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There were few things in this life that made it worth living, especially when the world was trying to kill itself. A good bow, a full quiver, a sharp spear--some truly stupid enemies that would die easily never hurt, too.
But, what truly made life worth it? Family. Friends. People to trust and depend on.
Now, if only Aloy could just keep them together and alive, that would be great.
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Talanah Khane Padish has faced machines, rebels, and the nobility of Meridian without ever bowing her head. But when an ambush leaves her broken and bleeding at the gates of GAIA’s Base, the last person she expects to catch her is the grumpy Tenakth Marshal she can't stomach.
Kotallo has no patience for Carja pride, useless ornate armor or hunters who confuse recklessness for courage. Yet when duty demands he stand sentinel over the Sunhawk, he finds himself tangled in a battle fiercer than any fought with spears.
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- Part 3 of Building Starlight