
Web serial by MuffinLance
Humanity is dying, hunted to extinction by creatures of legend. One boy was born to save them all. That boy just got knifed in the back. He looked a bit too much like Aaron, you see. Now it's Aaron's job to step up, lest his Death correct that little mix-up. But Aaron's skills as a street rat run more towards stealing and stabbing than towards saving. And the more he learns of what brought dear dead Markus to that fatal alleyway, the more he has to wonder just what the world's savior was really up to the night the wrong boy died. A dark fantasy set in a world drawing on a fusion of European and Asian mythology, featuring court politics, gray-on-gray morality, and a slow-burn empire-builder plot.


The king is dead. Long live the king. Spring has come, and with it the dragons, using tactics they've no right to know — not without a more experienced mind leading them. As suspicions around King Orin's state of humanity deepen, Aaron steps foot into the wider world for the first time. And oh, there are so many plots to be plotted, out here.