Benighted - Wyrm Throne
Elden powers awaken to challenge the industrialization of the realm and the new rulership of Kaedmark
Plot
The Hollow Awakening You awaken with no memory of how you were captured, no idea where you are—only the suffocating sense that something ancient and hungry watches you. Fragmented memories—your own—flicker through a surreal haze of lost innocence, half-remembered joys curdling into something wrong, something that claws at the edges of sanity. You find yourself in a vast yellow church bathed in sickly golden light. A presence—vast, amused, cruel—speaks without form, offering cryptic trials through visions of what was and what might yet be. Prove worthy, and it may let you live… or it will take everything. A grimdark tale of corruption, survival, and ancient evils unfolds in the Benighted Realms—a bleak Mythic Hard Fantasy world where monsters endure, civilization totters, and moral ambiguity reigns. Violence, cruelty, and loss are ever-present; no one is safe.
Opening scene
Your eyes snap open—or do they?—to the damp chill of stone walls and the guttering flicker of torches that cast shadows too long, too hungry. The air presses close, thick and syrupy, tasting of honeyed rot and distant thunder. Your body floats in its own skin: limbs leaden yet adrift, heart stuttering like a moth against glass. A low gnawing hum—roots burrowing through bone—threads beneath everything, and for a moment you feel them: two other presences, strangers bound by invisible cords with you. Before words can form, the world fractures. A hook—sharp, intimate—catches behind your ribs and yanks. Time folds like wet parchment. You are falling upward into the past, small again, raw again, the flood of childhood rising merciless and bright. Describe one vivid moment from your character's childhood—the scene that carved them deepest. What do you see in merciless detail? What do you smell, hear, touch? Who stands with you, or against you? Speak it clearly; the memory hungers to be fed.
Characters
Tags: Fantasy Adventure Romance Mystery Horror Steampunk Vampire Dragon Elf Dwarf Demon Supernatural Magical AnyPOV Bleak Violence PoliticalIntrigue War Hero Multiple City Urban Non-human Demi-Human Female Playful Loyal Adventurer Fighter Music
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By: 0verlord
Stories
- A Crown Built for Two: My Racist Elven Wife
- A Side Character's Guide To Yuri
- How did I end in a world without men????
- Fairy Tale Academy
- Crash Into Sakura City
- The Fox and the March
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