Vihyungrang

Warcraft story - Chapter 9

A/N: Just finished writing chapter 13. Some of my best work in my humble opinion, although not everyone will agree. I hope you'll enjoy this one.

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Sapphiron watched the landscape pass by from the deck of the elven destroyer. The river they were sailing along was wide enough for three ships to sail side-by-side, and the bridges crossing the river were easily tall enough to allow the ships to pass under. They were just about to reach Lake Elrendar. 'This is a wild idea....

Contemporary Corruption - Chapter 3

A/N: You thought I forgot this one, didn't you? No, I've just been wrapped up with the Warcraft one. I hope you'll enjoy!

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Selene stifled a yawn as the door shut behind her. Ha-eun's 'few calls' had turned out to be a lot more than what the term few implied. It had also required a lot of cross-referencing hundreds of documents so that they could find all the discrepancies in the last year. They’d even made Excel spreadsheets to organize the information better. It p...

Warcraft story - Chapter 8

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“…and I’m simply requesting some insight into your plans when the war starts. We all know plans change, but it would be helpful to know our initial goals at least.” Lorien, the House Carmine representative in the Convocation, rattled off. "I've heard some worrisome rumors about trying to destroy Zul'Aman, for example."

“What would be worrying about that?” Rathuron Brightwing asked, with a fed-up voice, his head resting on the round wood table they’d gathered a...

Warcraft story - Chapter 7

Author's note: This is a rather pivotal chapter, and another chunky one. Almost 10k words in fact.

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"Come on, Selessa! You know you want to!" Talanas begged in an obviously fake, desperate tone.

“No. I know it’s out of gratitude and an honor, but you’re not naming your firstborn after me.” She retorted. “Look, it might be ok if I were older, but I’m only twelve myself. Assuming your daughter is born on schedule, I’d be only thirteen years older th...

Warcraft story - Chapter 6

Author's note: Hey-ho. A meaty chapter for you to enjoy! Spent the last week in Spain. Fun place. Can recommend as a vacation spot.

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She sensed Nallorath’s approach long before she could hear or see him. Even if she didn’t have quite the senses she’d had in her previous life, she hadn’t lost her awareness entirely. His approach didn’t prompt a reaction from him, as she simply continued to lie back on the divan and looked at the stars above. Stars that still felt ...

Wow story - Chapter 5

A/N: I can't do troll accent. I tried, but I recognize that I'm shit at it. We also get a glimpse at a certain annoying group of lizards.

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She fluidly moved from one pose to another, her two-handed and slightly curved sword gliding through the air. She moved through a set of stances and strikes with smoothness that made it look like she was performing a graceful dance, every repetition faster than the one preceding it. To Thelion's eyes, her movements were extremely e...

Warcraft story - Chapter 4

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[You’ve unlocked the Squad Leader skill!]

[Your Discipline attribute has increased from 1 to 2! Discipline Perk point gained.]

[Your Commander skill has increased from 1 to 2! Commander Perk point gained.]

[Your Spellbreaker skill has increased from 1 to 2! Spellbreaker Perk point gained.]

That was a lot. Not surprising, considering what had been going on lately, but it did seem the System liked to group them up and drop them all at the same time. The i...

Warcraft story - Chapter 3

Author's note: Here we get a bit of a glimpse into Selessa's past, amd give some context to those unfamiliar with WH40K. Do keep in mind that Selessa isn't a neutral narrator, and isn't perfectly aware of everything.

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[You’ve unlocked the Body attribute!]

[You’ve unlocked the Athletics skill!]

[Your Magic attribute has increased from 1 to 2! Magic Perk point gained.]

[Your Arcane skill has increased from 1 to 2! Arcane Perk point gained.]...

WoW story Chapter 2

A couple of notes. As the WoW junkies might have already noticed, the story is starting just before the Troll Wars, which is almost 3000 years before the opening of the dark portal, so you should expect some time-skips both when growing up and after. I'll try to trickle those in, as I try with the system stuff. I don't want to overwhelm things by loading several chapters just full of it. I'll try to keep it manageable and digestible. That said, one of the reasons the starting date is this ear...

Contemporary Corruption chapter 2

Author's note: A simple point on names. I know jack shit about Korean names, so I googled Korean female names and picked the first one that sounded decent. So if it's off, do tell me. Secondly, this is an alternative world. I may use the names of certain celebrities when dealing with actors as a shorthand and to convey a certain image. I try not to use the names of politicians, except maybe historical ones for context. This story isn't supposed to be a political take on anything, so when I me...

WoW story - Chapter 1

The first proper chapter of the WoW story, as I promised. Name still pending.

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‘It’s odd.’ She thought to herself, her breath heavy from exercise, her short legs moving almost by instinct. She loved running, especially in nature. If it could be called that. Both the weather and the flora and fauna in the kingdom were carefully controlled, so there was very little natural about the ‘nature’. That wasn’t what bothered her. As unnatural as it might be, the...

Wacraft story - Prologue

Here we go. The prologue of the Warcraft story I've been working on. This might appeal to wider tastes than the previous one. This also has a LitRPG system that should be a lot more reasonable than the one in The Journeys of Seraphiel. Now something to note. This one started off as a sort of side-project to Seraphiel, as a telling of her time in this universe. It's transformed a lot since then, not the same MC and no longer a Draenei for instance, but I retained some elements that I found use...

Chapter 1 of Contemporary Corruption

Authors Note: This is what I currently have for the first chapter of the contemporary corruption story (so far unnamed). Some things to be aware of before reading. The story takes place in an imaginary city that's a combination of Los Angeles, New York, and to some extent even Night City, located where LA is currently, imaginatively named Los Yorkeles. I know, I know, but it's on the nose on purpose. Secondly, this is a corruption story. That means certain things. I haven't yet gotten to a po...

A question

I'm starting to reach a point in my side projects that I might drop a chapter or two for you to read and get a taste of. Not regular releases or anything, but like a taste of what I'm cooking. Thing is, I've never released anything on Patreon before, and I usually don't subscribe for chapters either, so I'm not entirely sure how to best go about it. I don't think people just copy paste the entire text into a post, so do they link Word files or google drive or something? What's more confortabl...

Current situation

Right, so, negative part first. My current level on inspiration for Journeys of Seraphiel is pretty dried up, as I already hinted at the last chapter. It's been on a downward spiral for a while, but I've been forcing myself to write anyway, with wildly swingy results. Some of the bits that I've written were pretty good in my opinion, but generally the quality has gone down. Most of it is just that I don't know what to do with the story. I have a vague end-state that I'd like to reach eventual...

A look behind the scenes

Hello to all my followers. I just thought it might be interesting to post a little looksie to my thoughts on things. The currently ongoing story Journeys of Seraphiel has certainly had it bumbs on the road, but at least I've learned a fair bit from it. I said from the start that that particular story is highly experimental.

The first main issue I have with it is the GameLit side of things. Readers may have noted that I've phased out the stats and the System side of things to the ...

The prologue of the new story was submitted

Just to let you know, I just submitted the prologue of the new story on Royal Road. It could take up to 48 hours to get approved, but never has taken that long so far. I expect it will be up later today, or tomorrow. I'll post the link when it gets the green light. I'll also post a bit more than just the prologue at that point.

An opportunity to influence the new story

So, I've finally gotten to the point in the new story (LitRPG) where the system becomes relevant. Only thing is, I need to come up with a whole load of skills up-front. So, I need some suggestions. What would be some skills that someone, if given access to a system, would pick up in the beginning that would fall under "General" category? Not crafting, not fighting, and not social, but general. Something relatively basic like running or some kind of learning. Something that a low level charact...

Some examples of the art I mentioned

I promised some examples of the art I've managed to acquire. Here are four of such examples. Might end up even using one of them as cover art. Well, these or many others. I...may have gone a little overboard. I have over 270 pieces of art now and creating more the entire time...help me, I have an addiction!

Info on the next story

Just to keep my patrons informed. Work on the new story has been going well. I've already written 7 full chapters, and 5 what I'm calling halfsies, snippets that aren't full length and didn't really fit the main chapter, but still add characterization and information. Why haven't I posted any yet? Because this one is a little more complex than my previous works, partially because of the LitRPG aspect. For one, I have to learn how to make blue boxes and design the game system. I also want to r...

More peeking behind the curtain.

As a little morsel for the patrons, I'd like to drop some hints about the future. Power Overwhelming is slowly approaching the end. Not right away mind you, but we're getting there. As such, it's time for me to start drawing plans for the next project. Nothing is set in stone yet, but I was considering making something in the LitRPG style. I've got some outlines penned out, and it would likely be tagged as fan fiction, though not in the usual way. More like capricious gods summoning champions...

A note to all Patrons

I'm also going to mention this in the author's note of the next chapter (already scheduled to release tonight), but I thought it only fair to mention it here first. So I've always loved the TBC expansion of World of Warcraft and they're going to release the classic version of the game soon-ish. The pre-patch goes live tonight in fact. Why am I telling you this? Well, because I'll be spending a lot of time playing that game for the next few weeks. I'm not going to be playing all the time, so I...

A reminder

With new patrons around, I thought it was time to make a small reminder again. If you want to ask those questions then feel free, either publicly or with a private message. This patreon isn't really about the rewards, but I thought I should remind people just in case, just so anyone doesn't feel jibbed.

A peek behind the curtain

I thought I'd drop an interesting little tidbit for those that visit the Patreon. I mentioned before that I got about ten chapter into the first draft of Power Overwhelming before I decided to rewrite it. This was before I put it up on RRL There are a couple of little bits of information that some readers might be interested in from that original first draft.

In that version, Karma's name was actually Anastasia, and she was the daughter of Wolfgang, who in turn was a yet unsp...

The prologue of the new story is up.

As promised, the prologue is now up and can be found here:

https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/33126/power-overwhelming

Update on the new story

So a little sneak peek behind the scenes for those that bother to open my Patreon. I've started writing the new story and I already have a handful of chapters for it. I'm just holding on to them because I'm still making small tweaks and adjustments that affect the story. I also want to get enough chapters in to see if I'm on the right path. I'm feeling good about this one, but I won't know for sure until I really get into it. For reference, I already had a first crack at the idea while I was ...

Song of the Void coming to an end.

So as some of you may have figured out at this point, my latest story is coming to an end quite soon. I'm still going to release an extra-long last chapter for it, which is going to plant seeds for the next story while trying to provide a decent resolution for this story. You'll understand what I mean when you read it. Anyway, as per usual, after the story ends I'll take a small break to recharge and plan out the next story. Ideally, the next story would start releasing chapters about a month...

New beginnings.

So I'm happy to announce that the prologue of the new story "Song of the Void" is up. Linky here: https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/21979/song-of-the-void

A small update

So just to keep you all informed, I have decided on my new story and I have the prologue and the first chapter written, as well as plenty of ideas for the next few chapters. However, my practical training is still ongoing so my time and energy are in short supply at the moment, and will continue to be for this week and the next. I won't post the chapters I've written until the practical is over because I want to maintain that steady release pace once I start, and I won't be able to do that durin...

Lament of the Fallen coming to an end

So as most of you are aware, my current story will see the final chapter and epilogue released today at the normal time. I already have plans for the next story, and I will most likely start releasing it about a month from now. There's a slight hiccup in that I'll have a five-week practical training period in my studies starting a little under two weeks from now, and I have no idea how much energy that leaves me. So it is entirely possible that the next story will start coming out after that pra...