Fantasy

The Ledger Hall Uprising At Tianlu Fortress, Wei Wenyu survives by keeping his head down and his hands busy—until a wounded scout carries in a sickness that doesn’t belong ... → The Altered Day-Count of Xochitlan Milpa When the lake at Xochitlan Milpa rises out of season and the reeds keep a strange, spiral-marked foam, Xotzin’s questions earn him only tightened f... → Oaths of Iron and River Smoke At the Sanctuary of Esu-Odan, where disputes are traded like salt and iron, Ademilade comes seeking judgment for a single night of blood on the riv... → Tides of Oath and Trickster Fire On his third night at Odu Ile-Imo, shipwreck survivor Makenoluwale is dragged into the Arena of Turning Tides and accused of wielding forbidden anc... → The Garden Beneath the Ashes In the shadow of a gilded tyranny, five strangers—Darivash, Navidamir, Mard, Kouroshmir, and Shahin—stumble into one another’s orbits at the Garden... → Ink Under the Jade Ford Wei Lun drags barges through the dawn mist of the Jade Ford, just another river-hand bound by ink, rope, and debt—until a celestial inspector’s bar... → Where Three Waters Meet → The Threshold Bargain Zinoviya Volkov built her fortune on the trade routes flowing through Granitsa Keep, but when caravans begin vanishing into the Thorn Forest, she d... → The Seven Gate-Archways of the Lamp-Lit Necropolis In Al-Maqbara al-Mu'allama, even a stray syllable can become a shackle—and Saif’s discovery of a scorched covenant-mark suggests the dead corridors... → Oaths in the Whispering Grove Nkemdirim has one chance to poison the garrison commander who enslaved her people—but when the ancestors reveal that his death alone won't break th... → Oath-Rooted in Eichenkrone In the Schwarzwald’s drowned light, a scar-marked priestess in hiding and a boy-boss with a too-heavy oath-ring take refuge in the Fallen Hall of E... → Inklung Alley In the shadowed trade haven of Caer Bréan, apothecary Maelchonaire and copyist Brenaile scrape by in a narrow loft, trading in small illicit miracl... → The Serpent’s Calendar At the Obsidian Guesthouse, a travel-worn scholar named Moyolehua notices a “decorative” border that doesn’t match the day-signs everyone swears by... → The Trickster's Debt Exiled by a prophecy he never violated, Damilola Ogunleye returns to Abeokuta Village with nothing but his name to reclaim—and discovers the truth ... → The Sealed Market of Coatzacoalpan Tepoztecatzin wears a jaguar mantle and calls it duty, but the city’s calendar is starting to speak in bruises, missing pages, and ink that won’t s... → Moon Over Sealed Stone In the mining town of Tanigawa, silver is ripped from the mountain at the cost of bodies, memories, and the restless dead. When a forbidden shaft c... → Iron in the Shadows of Frostmark When a rumor of misrouted steel drifts into Ragnarolf Skaldson’s taproom on a frostbitten night, he gathers a crew of disillusioned fighters and qu... → string string → Untitled → The Hollow Beneath Heaven's Gate For seventeen years, Xiu-Lan maintained her temple on the World Tree's highest branches—until a corrupt Administrator's ritual destroyed everything... → The Fortress of Bleeding Stones In the Twice-Cursed Fortress of Daeva's Sorrow, innkeeper Rostamira serves thin stew to travelers while the walls groan with ancient hunger—and lea... → Chains Beneath the Silent Moon In the shadow of the Monastery of Al-Qamar al-Samit, a reluctant scholar, a haunted smith, a debt-bound scribe, a streetwise runner, and a tavern-k... → Chain of Custody →