A character saga
Read 7 complete PicWar fantasy battle stories featuring Nofuqus Given across different rivals and endings.
The saga shelf
Each short stands alone, but together they trace how this character changes when the rival and circumstances shift.
The bathroom door hung off one hinge, and the tile floor had long since stopped being white. Nofuqus Given stood in the middle of it, bare except for his briefs, coated head to toe in the dark, glistening matter he wore…
Read the storyThe door of the flooded washroom swung open, and Nofuqus Given came through it laughing — a high, breathless cackle that echoed off the tiles as he stepped from the reeking chamber into the blue-lit corridor beyond.…
Read the storyThe corridor of the drowned shrine reeked before anything else arrived. Nofuqus Given came first, not walking so much as sloughing forward along the wet stone, his bare feet leaving dark prints that hissed and steamed.…
Read the storyThe water was clear enough to drink, and that was the first insult. Ганна Опанасова stood knee-deep in the shallows of a willow-ringed pond, her wet gold hair catching the late light, the flower crown of red and blue…
Read the storyThe bathroom door exploded off its hinges before Zyhun Raveneye even finished drawing his blade. Nofuqus Given came through the wreckage like a wet joke told at a funeral—arms spread, white briefs glowing under the…
Read the storyThe training hall's mirrors caught him first—a screaming smear of brown against clean glass, white briefs stark beneath the filth, and Nofuqus Given announced himself with a wet, delighted cackle that bounced off the…
Read the storyThe green mist rose from the floor of the underworld like the breath of something sleeping, and THANATOS walked through it, and the mist did not dare to part. He had come because a throne must be answered for, and…
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