04/06/2026
I'm doing a little writing project on a place called Royal Road. It is an amateur site. They encourage posting a chapter at a time, and readers can make comments. You probably have to sign up to leave a comment, but if you just click on this, it might give a bump to my algorithm.
When I wrote the (MG level) book WECU, I had the kids write a fantasy story within a story. This is basically taking those fantasy characters and writing more with them.
An evil king directs his sorcerer to punish the neighboring kingdom, but it goes wrong and lays waste to both societies. The survivors escape to a land outside the evil influence and start new lives. After decades of fighting the creatures created by The Darkness, Niara, the eldest and most mysterio...