How far would you go to save the ones you love?Will you become a savior or a villain?

She is a survivor of a cruel king’s deadly past time.She is a healer in a world where healing is a dying magic.And she is the Keeper of Veilswood. Alastríona has seen her fair share of the world’s evil. For years she and the people she swore an oath to protect lived in a fragile peace, but in a single night it was fractured by the Mortal King. In a kingdom not his own, while sitting on a stolen throne, he orders the Hunt to begin anew. As Alastríona helps the Lords of Old save those who share the same fate as her, fledglings start disappearing throughout the Realm of Ember and Ash.

In order to keep her people safe and find the missing fledglings, Alastríona will find unlikely allies in old enemies. And in her search for answers she uncovers a dangerous secret that could damn them all.

Because no one can escape the destiny the stars have written.

For the stars have written that a great Darkness has risen and it will consume everything in its wake.

Let's face it. Heroes are B.O.R.I.N.G. All they know is to be good and do good. That is how they are wired. Even a dog does that.

What about the Villains?

They are broken and complex. They don't want to be saved, but you know they need redemption.

If you like complex interesting villains and level-headed, intelligent heroines to tame their inner beasts, you are in for a treat.

A young actress dies from a incurable disease, holding a book in her hand in  her last minutes. But that is not the end for the young actress. She is reborn and and young child, she slowly finds out that she was in the book she was holding when she died...

Milahi loves her family. She loves her community. She loves her people. She works hard at the cafe six days a week. They don't have much. But they have each other. They make sure they have each other no matter what. And that's strength.

She's blessed as much as she's cursed.

As much as the Lords have every piece of her, they don't have her soul.

Monday through Saturday are days for misery.

Sundays are days for joy.  For rebellion. For hope.

———

This work is in the public domain and anyone can do anything they want with it.

The Lands of Ralosia: The Fighting Academy

Aero, Jirro, and their friends travel to the Fighting Academy to take on their challenge. On the way, they come across Temp, a Mecarne bandit they previously faced off with who seeks to do the same. What follows a six on six team tournament between the kids and the Fighting Academy!

The Lands of Ralosia series takes place in a world with individuals capable of incredible feats of strength, animals of abnormal size, races of people with distinct anatomy and cultures.

This story acts as the 7th entry in the series. I try to write most entries in the series in such a way that they can be read as someone's first story. But with the large cast featured in this story, there isn't really a single character that is focused on the most, it's much more of an ensemble. I'd recommend reading some of the prior ones so you're familiar with the characters going in.

This story was preceded by The Lands of Ralosia: The Farm

A story that leads into this one well is the Lands of Ralosia: The Tournament.

(7/9/21) Self edited, audio edited, and peer edited

Peer edit by mikrokosmostae

Three forgotten Disney characters follow a magical compass pointing them through a barren and harsh world. What will they find at the end? They don’t know. All they know is that they have to try and reach wherever it is the compass wants them to travel to. The one thing they do know is that along the way they will find a whole lot of adventure. 

Betrayed by the people she trusted. Tortured and enslaved by the hands she once aided. Everything that kept her still sane was the desire to kill the one who did this to her. The one behind all this. All she needed was an opportunity and surely it was given to her. By him.