Darraika
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- Final Fantasy XIV (24)
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- seaQuest (1)
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The Empire has fallen, but peace proves harder to win than any war.
While Cassandra remains in Garlemald to rebuild a nation through diplomacy instead of battle, the Scions sail west to Tural — a continent promising discovery, opportunity, and a rare chance at something resembling quiet adventure. The Rite of Succession should have been simple: help a friend claim her future and see what waits beyond the horizon.
It isn’t.
Old soldiers and new heroes step forward in Cassandra’s stead, carrying their own histories and loyalties with them. Among them is Allie, whose presence unsettles Alphinaud Leveilleur in ways no battlefield ever managed.
As trade alliances form and ancient ambitions awaken, exploration turns to politics, politics to conflict, and the New World proves that even fresh starts carry the weight of the past.
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- Part 19 of The Black Wolf
- Part 3 of The Circle's Echo
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She was at Carteneau when the world burned.
Sahja Dakwhil—Archon, archer, mage, and one of Louisoix Leveilleur’s first—and forgotten—Warriors of Light—vanishes in the white fire meant to end everything. When she opens her eyes, it has been five years. The Calamity has passed. The realm lives. And no one remembers her.
Not her name. Not her deeds. Not the four heroes who fought beside her.
Reappearing in the heart of Old Sharlayan, Sahja finds herself confined to Labyrinthos, caught between kindness and containment, studied rather than welcomed. Yet the Echo still answers her. Hydaelyn still calls. And something vast and impossible stirs beneath her feet.
As old ghosts resurface—Louisoix, Gaius van Baelsar, a world she helped save but cannot reclaim—Sahja must decide what it means to be a hero when history has erased you… and whether the path forward lies in escape, obedience, or stepping into a role even the Forum fears to name.
Because the world may have moved on...
... But Hydaelyn has not finished with her yet.
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- Part 2 of The Circle's Echo
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This is a fluffy end to the Black Wolf series. Well, I say fluffy... but it's more bittersweet.
Gaius embarks on a new stage of his life, one without war or the shadow of it but not without its own set of unique challenges and tribulations... one on a deserted isle in the middle of the balmy Ceideles Island Chain south of Limsa Lominsa and Ul'Dah as his wanderer daughter leaves him with a unique present and opportunity.
Yep, the WoL regifts the Island Sanctuary to Gaius instead.
Caught between Tataru's "trade empire" intentions, wandering dodos and chocobos, the islands unpredictable nature and a life he never expected can he rise to this new challenge?
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- Part 18 of The Black Wolf
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Gaius van Baelsar, the Empire’s youngest Legatus, stands poised on the border of Ala Mhigo, a kingdom fractured by rebellion and ruled by the tyrannical Mad King Theodoric. Tasked with subjugating the kingdom in the name of Emperor Solus, Gaius begins his campaign by manipulating the rebellion against Theodoric, a strategy as cunning as it is ruthless.
But as Gaius witnesses the depths of the king’s madness and forges unexpected bonds with the resistance leaders, cracks form in his ironclad resolve. For every choice he makes—whether to uphold his duty to the Empire or his growing sense of justice—the cost looms larger.
Amid a backdrop of political intrigue, desperate alliances, and devastating war, Gaius must walk a knife’s edge between his ambition and his conscience. What price will he pay to bring order to chaos—and at what cost to his soul?
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- Part 3 of The Black Wolf
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The first year of the seaQuest’s voyage was meant to be one of exploration, diplomacy, and quiet redemption. But beneath the calm waters, deeper currents begin to shift.
Captain Nathan Bridger returns to the world he left behind and finds more than just the ghosts of his past—he finds a new crew, a second chance, and a thread of hope he thought lost forever. As Lucas Wolenczak challenges him in unexpected ways, and Kristin Westphalen becomes a steady, complicated presence at his side, Nathan begins to rediscover not just the ocean, but the man he used to be.
But small moments—offhand remarks, half-familiar looks, the quiet hush of data left unexplained—hint that his son’s death may not have been the end of the story. These vignettes slip between the official record of season one, casting light on the cracks, the bonds, and the mysteries that will define the massive rewrite of Season 2 and beyond.
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- Part 1 of This Quiet Depth
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The Black Wolf.
That was the title they gave him, even before he was the Legatus. Legends start with less, and there is always more than one side to every story.
From the beginning, Gaius of the noble Garlean House Baelsar had set himself apart with his talents as a pilot of magitek powered machina. From Reaper pilot to Legatus, and to hunter of Ascians in vengeance after Praetorium to his involvement in the Sorrow of Werlyt... this is his story in a series of tales of varying length.
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Louisoix's first protege, the Archon Sahja Dakwhil, was sent out from Old Sharlayan before many of the others joined, or were old enough to even be considered. She was the first of what would become the "Circle of Knowing".
Before she became the Warrior of Light.
Before Carteneau.
Before Louisoix left Sharlayan for Eorzea.
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Some legacies don’t end… they evolve.
What if the oceans still had stories left to tell? What if the show that captured a generation’s imagination had one more voyage beneath the waves?
In a bold reimagining of the cult classic seaQuest DSV, This Quiet Depth dives into an alternate canon where science and soul return to the forefront. Old threads are rewoven. Broken arcs are mended. And at the heart of it all is a secret long thought buried in the deep: Robert Bridger, the son Captain Nathan Bridger lost and never stopped mourning.
As the seaQuest sails once more under familiar stars, the crew finds themselves at the center of a tide that’s turning. Hidden histories surface. Long-lost faces return. And a new legacy begins to take shape—one born not only of exploration, but of healing.
This isn’t just a rewrite. It’s a resurrection.
A restoration of purpose.
A return to the depths where it all began.For under the sea lies the future
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After Fordola is fielded to take down the Ruby Weapon at Cinder Drift, Gaius finally has a chance to speak with the young woman he once recruited as a pilus. But what is even left to be said?
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- Part 3 of Fordola Does Sidequests
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01 May 2026
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After leaving the Burn and making camp, Alphinaud, Maxima, and the mysterious Shadowhunter get into a discussion about carbuncles and the aesthetic choices associated with them. Namely, why are those little guys so danged cute?
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15 Mar 2026
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Cassius tol Flavus has played many roles in his life - a thief in the cold Garlemald streets, an escort for the often bored high society, Gaius van Baelsar's lover, a begrudging soldier, and a hostage to Valens van Varro. After the fall of the VIIth Legion, he throws all such roles aside, reaching a level of desperation befitting the apparent end of the world. Cassius is just a man who just wants to go home even if that home is ash and dust.
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- Part 11 of A Chorus of Hope, A Song of Glory
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23 Sep 2025
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Girl meets boy under the shade of a palm tree
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- English
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- 1,026
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- 1/1
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10 Dec 2024
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Olivia is no stranger to dark dreams. Even years later after her liberation from the labs there would be times she'd wake from muddled recollections of scalpels, whimpers, and blood.
But when she is stolen away from the home she has found, that she has claimed as her own, the consequences may be far different than her captors expected.
A follow up to Mint & Olives.
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- Part 7 of Who We Once Were And What We Will Become
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11 May 2023