Grace Wilson
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The throne room in the palace wasn’t large enough for everything that was planned for the coronation. Sure, the typical thoughts of a monarch being crowned invoked images of a king kneeling before their throne at the end of a long and luxurious carpet, usually purple with gold embroidery, the crown being placed on their head after they swore their oaths as the king or queen of their nation and their people. At least it did for Kay, but that wasn’t really going to fly for this. While there were multiple…-
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Visitors arrived in drips and drabs of small groups as the day of Kay’s coronation drew closer. Some were envoys there to be the official presence of the cities, smaller nations, or other organizations they represented. While arriving for the coronation of Avalon’s first king and founder didn’t automatically make them allies, it implied that they wanted friendly relations. Most of the independent city states and tiny nations scattered throughout the contested areas in the center of the continent sent…
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Hello everyone! Book 4 of the series Outworlder's Blood: The Shatterplate War, is now live! If you're noticing that it's not the day I said it was coming out in the last chapter, that's because I messed up! Either I completely got it wrong and don't know how to read or I just mixed it up and totally typed the wrong thing and then decided that must be right. My deepest apologies for this mistake. But yeah, it's out today not next week. The stubbing of Book 4's content here on Royal Road will take place…
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It wasn’t much longer until what was left of the invading army marched away from Avalon. The now-independent factions moved away in drips and drabs, some of them banding together for protection as they left, but most watched everyone else warily and moved separately, timing it so that no one left in close succession to each other. The force that had agreed to continue following the Crusader General left last, still a modestly unified force. Stonegnawer led them all home, he himself carrying the terms…
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Amanda signed off on the last sheet of many in the pile of paperwork she was working on and handed it off to one of her many assistants without looking up. “Take this to the Treasury, please.” “Of course, ma’am.” Amanda was already working on the next stack. There was a lot of work to do in the aftermath of the very short war Avalon had found itself a part of, and Amanda was in the lead for how much her workload had increased. As the Prime Minister, it was her job to sign off on a large portion…
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Stonegnawer Eahn, the dwarven Crusader General of the Itarian Crusade, was still looking a bit weak from the poisoned weapon that he’d been stabbed with during the assassination attempt that’d started the recent battle, but he was much recovered compared to how he’d been on the day. He was still a bit pale and was moving gingerly, like his joints ached with each movement, but he was far from death. He sat back in the chair that’d been provided, leaning against the backrest to keep as much weight…
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The view from high up above Avalon city was both beautiful and added a sense of scale to Kay’s thoughts. He was multiple stories above the ground, looking down at the city in an office he’d had made at the outer edge of the cliff face his palace and domicile were built into. The large glass window he looked through was enchanted in several ways to prevent attacks or forced entry but still allowed a clear view of the small figures of people going about their business in the streets below. It was like…
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“It isn’t a turtle!” Kay screamed as he shot upright, jerking and thrashing as his body tried to escape whatever the fuck was happening. His memories were a garbled mess of nonsense that didn’t matter, all that mattered was getting the fuck away from all of it. “Kay! Kay, calm down!” He thrashed and moaned, alternating between curling up in the fetal position and vomiting uncontrollably while he trembled. The memories of somewhere else were fading even as they attacked his psyche, but even…
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Kay’s brain literally could not understand everything that was happening to him in that moment. The part of him that had anything resembling rational thought left wondered if he was processing even a millionth of what was happening. The human body wasn’t designed to interact with every piece of existence, even if those moments were happening every moment of every day. There was a limit to the wavelengths of light he could see, but ultraviolet light still passed through his eyes every second he had them…
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If one good thing could be said about sacrificial attacks, its that if you were on the receiving end and survived, you didn’t have to prepare for a follow up. With the scale flying around and generally acting more like living creatures than remote weapons, it was easy for many of the soldiers in the two armies to assume that they were a swarm of some kind and act accordingly. Sadly whatever rules the scales played by, they didn’t follow any logic that anyone on Torotia could follow, and things…
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