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Zoltraak Ragnarok: Interlude 1

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Three Houses of Westeros: Chapter 16

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Zoltraak: Ragnarok- Chapter 8

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Zoltraak Ragnarok: Chapter 7

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Zoltraak: Ragnarok- Chapter 6

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The Three Houses of Westeros: Chapter 15

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Zoltraak: Ragnarok - Chapter 5

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Zoltraak: Ragnarok- Chapter 4

Chapter 4

“I see.” Lügner’s voice was droll, his gaze never turning to look at his subordinate as Draht delivered his findings. “A boy with a bow.”

“And they have a mage with them?” Linie asked, looking for confirmation.

“Two,” Draht sneered. “Though perhaps I’m being generous. The girl at the market barely had any mana to speak of, but it was trained, focused. There is no doubt that she has some formal magecraft expe...

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Zoltraak: Ragnarok- Chapter 3

Chapter 3:

Monica Sternburg had a feeling this was going to be a good day.

Sure, some of her fellow guards were nervous, what with Graf Granat entertaining Demons in his palace, supposedly trying to make peace with Aura the Gulliotine, but that was way above her paygrade and far outside her role as a gate guard.

And in her opinion as a gate guard, the day was beautiful, the travelers were polite and seemed to have their paperwork in order, and Desmo...

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Zoltraak: Ragnarok- Chapter 2

Chapter 2:

Kratos:

He woke the next morning to an unfamiliar sky, in an unfamiliar land, with tongues he did not recognize and scents that spoke of food, but were equally unfamiliar.

The ancient God peeled his eyes open, casting his gaze towards the place where he knew the campfire to have been last night. It was still present, however much reduced, the boy - Stark - carefully tending it as he prepared breakfast. More stew,...

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Zoltraak: Ragnarok- Chapter 1

Chapter 1:

“Mimir, any idea where we are?”

“Not a clue laddie,” answered the head with its bejeweled eyes from his place on Kratos’ belt. “There are tales that speak of travelers that move through Ygdrassil getting lost. The World Tree is vast: only Ratatoskr might know it completely from root to branch.”

Atreus sighed. “Sorry father,” the boy said somewhat dejectedly. It had been a long time since he felt he let his father down.&n...

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Zoltraak: Ragnarok

Prologue:

“Mistress Frieren, we’re drawing closer to the city of Granat now.”

“Yes.” She answered, her voice soft as it always was. “Another days travel; perhaps two.”

“It’s kind of weird.” Stark said, almost whispered really, as if he didn’t want to disturb the quiet of the forest trail. “Granat is a pretty big city if I’m remembering right, but we’ve hardly seen any travelers at all.”

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The Weaving Force: Epilogue

Epilogue:

Vicky

“And there it is.” She took a deep breath after she said it, her whole body seemingly uncoiling from a tension she hadn’t really known it had as she watched the screen. 

There, splashed across the news reel- 

Senator Alexandria of Mandalore; Elected as Supreme Chancellor of the Republic!

Just above the News Ticker, was an image of Alexandria herself as sh...

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The Weaving Force: Chapter 154

Chapter 154:

Taylor

I was aware of the world before I opened my eyes.

I could feel the insects that crawled and moved through the earth like a billion little motes of starlight, illuminating the black void of stillness around them.

“Hebert. Can you hear me?”

I recognized the voice, it was close, right beside me, perhaps above me. I had the nearest insects move to check, and my voice croaked before it caught,...

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The Weaving Force: Chapter 153

Chapter 153:

Dennis

“Come on, I’ve got you.” 

His hand reached down, helping to pull the older Coruscanti man the last few feet up the hill of twisted metal that had once been a building. 

Behind that man, there was another, and another, and another. A column of civilians stretching out for at least a hundred meters. It grew by the minute, more and more people crawling out of the ruins; hearing that View Post

The Weaving Force: Chapter 152

Chapter 152:

Trench

It was… an odd thing. Almost alien truth be told. It felt… wrong.

And yet for all its wrongness, for all its queerness… he could not help the reality that affected him in this moment.

And that was, the simple fact that this battle, this orbital engagement above the world felt… almost like an afterthought. And as much as he tried to focus his mind and pay attention to it, as much as he tried...

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The Weaving Force: Chapter 151

Chapter 151

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The Weaving Force: Chapter 150

Chapter 150:

You can always tell... you know?

Can't really tell a human apart most days. Sometimes accents give it away. Maybe how they dress but there's no REAL way to tell at a glance where the Human came from. If he's from Corellia, Alderaan, Ord Mantel, or what have ya.

But Coruscant... aye... after the war. You can always tell when a human is from Corruscant.

They say it's the Fire, ya see. The fire they cou...

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The Weaving Force: Chapter 149

Chapter 149:

Have you ever seen a Jedi lose hope?

I have.

I was there that day.

I was there… the day Yoda died.

Pre Vizsla 

It wasn’t night on Coruscant.

Yet Pre Vizsla could barely see the sun beneath the smog, the darting shadows of fighters, and the colossal bodies of the capital ships fighting in orbit far above.

In a matter of hours Co...

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The Weaving Force: Chapter 148

Chapter 148:

When I saw the Separatist fleet arrive… I’m not sure what I felt.

I suppose the only feeling that fit was just… this numbness. This realization that, no matter what I was going to end that day. 

That surprises you I suppose. A Jedi feeling nihilistic. Well… It happened to me.

We were keepers of the peace… Not soldiers.

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The Weaving Force: Chapter 147

Chapter 147:

I was there when the first shots were fired.

I was there when the battle started. 

You asked me which side I was on. If I was chipped or Legion.

Doesn’t matter… answers the same for both of us.

We’d all seen battle. We were made for War.

Coruscant  wasn’t war.

Not by the end. 

Coruscant… is a nightmare I don’t thin...

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The Weaving Force: Chapter 146

Chapter 146:

I can guess what you’re here for. I’ve had god knows how many interviews at this point.

I’ll tell you what I’ve told all the others.

None of us saw it coming. 

The Committees and investigations all came later- deals came to light, back room negotiations, sure. But none of us knew, none of us really knew what he was. We...

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The Weaving Force: Chapter 145

Chapter 145:

It… it had just seemed like any other day. I woke up, brushed my teeth, had breakfast with my wife and kids, Got ready for work, kids for school. You know. Just… normal. That’s the scary part. That became the scary part afterwards. Even you know, years later, sometimes I’m going through the normal every day routines and I’ll just remember Corruscant and get sick to my stomach with worry. My wife too.

The kids I think, b...

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Last poll to release chapters

With a comfortable 66%-34% split on the last chapters/battle being released all at once in a month or so, and over a hundred votes coming in (usual max is around 130-ish) I'm calling the previous Poll.

So with that done this next poll is probably a formality given the trend of previous polls but you guys are the bosses.

Do we release the current Patreon chapters to the wider public?

(Note: This vote will not affect the future 'big batch' Patreon goers will get ex...

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Poll for last battle release

So as mentioned in the chapter, would you all prefer a single BIG release or to keep to the normal cadence of weekly updates?

Single release of course won't show up for a while, likely a month and a half or so. So it'll be a pseudo hiatus again. (if this option is chosen expect ANOTHER poll, on wether to release the patreon chapters to the wider public again.)

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The Weaving Force: Interlude- Darth Sidious

Interlude: Darth Sidious

“Twenty One million is a steep increase in troops Master Kenobi. What’s brought on this sudden request by the Council.”

Palpatine made sure to keep his voice calm, even amiable, the gentle curiosity that was entirely the Chancellor of the Republic, or what the Jedi had come to know as the Chancellor.

Before him the Council members, Kenobi, Yaddle and Dallon sat, relaying the latest request by the Council for <...

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The Weaving Force: Chapter 144

Chapter 144:

“Hey, Miss Taylor, are you alright?”

I came to with a jolt, almost startled before I opened my eyes and recognized the person shaking me awake.

“Guelzo?” I mumbled, the inside of my mouth felt like it was stuffed with cotton balls and my head was killing me.

As I sat up, my clone XO  kept his hand on my shoulder. “Never known you to take a nap, Miss Taylor. You really must’ve been tired.”

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The Weaving Force: Chapter 143

Chapter 143

Taylor:

“I’m here. I’m right here. Just breathe for me, alright?”

I could recognize, somewhere in the back of my mind, that Anakin was running me through the first aid medical procedure for Clone medics to help with battlefield shock or panic attacks. 

A part of me appreciated the irony.

He’d brought us back to what were supposed to be our rooms, though I didn’t feel any safer here t...

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The Weaving Force: Chapter 142

Chapter 142

Anakin:

Anakin knew beyond a shadow of any doubt that he was well and truly out of his depth.

Simply looking at these things, not with his eyes but through the Force itself… This felt beyond him.

And the three; the old man, the woman, and the Sith… they exhumed power in the Force unlike anything he’d ever felt before.

The old man described the entities, the shards, as their guests<...

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The Weaving Force: Chapter 141

Chapter 141:

Taylor:

It was one thing to say lets go over to explore the mysterious planet/space station with a Stranger effect.

It was quite another to actually do it.

Especially when one remembered… we were on a Venator.

A venator who’s doors didn’t work, and who’s electronics weren’t really working either. 

A Venator that somehow still found itself floating hundreds of f...

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