Short Stories
in ElantraOrigin Stories:
Origins: Kerrowyn Lightfoot - Period: 6490-6691 - 100 Pages, 5 Parts
This story follows Kerrowyn Lightfoot, a branded gnome thief, bound to an inheritance she never wanted, as she fights her given destiny to pursue a life outside the shadows. Not many make it out of Nightvalley, a district marred by crime and destitution. Her only chance is mastering her arcane talents and forging her own path. Gritty, raw, and unblinking, this is the making of a woman who learns exactly what freedom costs and pays it in full.
Wisteria in Winter - Period: 6551-6666 - 162 Pages
Born to a house that prizes reputation over warmth, Iliyria Sylren learns early that her first language will be expectation. Tutors measure her worth in posture and grammar; courtiers in the sharpness of her smile. When the spark of magic takes root, it opens one narrow door of freedom, study, discipline, the quiet perfection of a wand-hand, while the rest of her life is drafted, line by elegant line, by other people’s pens.
The palace teaches her the choreography of survival: how to be seen without speaking, how to mend a rumor before it tears, how to hide the bruise of a choice she never made. She gathers small rebellions where she can; midnight practice, secret promises beneath trailing wisteria, the stubborn belief that a life can be more than a family ledger.
When threats close around those she loves, a desperate plan begins to take shape; one that will turn a ballroom into a battleground of manners, masks, and quiet magic.
Note: Contains campaign typical violence, but there are two specific scenes where I place in-text content warnings with specific warnings and instructions for which parts to skip if you decide to.
On Theft and Theory - Period: 6930-6966 - 38 Pages
A wary, hyper-observant street orphan taken to the Wizard’s Tower, Alavara hides her hunger for knowledge behind silence and caution until her brilliance, and an unexpected rapport with Kerrowyn, pulls her from pure survival into the terrifying possibility of belonging.
The Troublesome Trio - Period: 6933-6942 - 294 Pages
At the heart of the Wizard’s Tower, three students from opposite ends of the Capitol form an unlikely alliance: Lavan Edor, a dockworker’s son with dangerous instincts for magic; Isemay Misendris, a half-elven noble determined to resurrect a lost art; and Ophelia Saloth, a tiefling illusionist who refuses to be defined by the city that scorned her. Bound by defiance and a spell of their own creation, the Troublesome Trio rise through brilliance, rebellion, and the fragile loyalty of friendship within a school where many would sooner break them than see them succeed. But genius has a cost, and as rival students, buried secrets, and their own ambitions collide, the three prodigies must decide whether the Tower will shape them into the heroes it demands… or the legends it fears.
On Death and Devotion - Period: 6947-6951 - 65 Pages
Elmiyra was never meant to be a caretaker. As the Raven Queen’s chosen blade, she built a life on precision, obedience, and solitude, until a wounded child crashed into her Temple's courtyard and shattered every rule she lived by. Taking the girl in forces Elmiyra to confront the limits of duty, the complications of mercy, and the terrifying possibility that she is capable of love.
Brynne has only ever known survival. Raised and remade by an order that sought to turn her into something holy and hollow, she escapes with nothing but her instincts, her fear, and a magic she no longer trusts. In The Temple of the Raven Queen she finds safety for the first time, but healing is never simple, and freedom never free. Slowly, painfully, Brynne begins to rebuild her sense of self, discovering who she might become when she is no longer someone else’s creation.
Campaign Events:
Arc 1: Welcome to the APS
First Impressions - Dates: Cuatrova 3-5, 6966 - 23 Pages
Iliyria's POV of the first few days of the Campaign.
Arcane Affairs - Dates: Cuatrova 14-15, 6966 - 15 Pages
Isemay's POV of the scrying attempt on the missing wizard and finding Maya's body in her office.
The Weight Can Wait - Date: Quintis 8, 6966 - Fluffy Version - 4 Pages - Spicy Version - 8 Pages
Lavan helps Isemay unwind. You can choose the fluffy (short and sweet) or spicy (explicit) version. Be aware: I went all in on the spicy one.
Arc 2: Volfast
While Team 7 is Away - Dates: Cuatrova 22 - Quintis 5, 6966 - 10 Pages
The APS makes guesses at the reason behind Iliyria's odd behavior since Team 7 joined the APS and then face
down a crowd of human nationalist protesters.
Kerrowyn Goes on Vacation - Dates: Quintis 3 - 14 Pages
Kerrowyn receives the blank bird message from Alavara.
Holdfast - Date: Quintis 3 - 12 Pages
Iliyria and Isemay meet with Lowshade, and Iliyria pays a visit to the Reaper.
Arc 3: Politics, Patrols and The Hag in Alavara's Head
Arc 4: The Capitol Coup
A Hearthswarming Coup - Date: Quintis 30, 6966 - 23 Pages
Iliyria and Isemay POV of the assassination attempt and journey through the sewers to reach the Gentleman's Circle.
Ashes of the APS - Date: Quintis 30, 6966 - 17 Pages
Various APS Runner POVs during the coup.
Please Enjoy Your Companionship - Date: Quintis 30, 6966 - 5 Pages
The Master Arcanists enjoy the quiet after the Tower's Faculty Hearthswarming Party.
The Watch's Holiday Guests - Dates: Quintis 30 - Senaris 1, 6966 - Pages 11
The APS Runners find themselves enjoying the hospitality of the Watch.
Evanton and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day - Dates: Senaris 1, 6966 - 7 Pages
Evanton's POV the morning of Hearthswarming.
There is No Utility in Panic - Dates: Senaris 1, 6966, 9 Pages
Deliah's POV the morning of Hearthswarming.
Private Erdwin Dalkins Works Overtime on Hearthswarming and is Mad About It - Dates: Senaris 1, 6966 - 4 Pages
What happened to Buggy's note he left at Evanton's Enchantments the night after the Coup.
The Gentleman's Final Form - Date: Senaris 1, 6966 - 12 Pages
Ophelia forces the criminal underworld to unite behind her through spectacle, blood, and impossible charisma, forging a fragile alliance with Iliyria and the last surviving Runners in the only way she knows: by winning the story as well as the fight.
Synod in Shadows - Date: Senaris 1, 6966 - 5 pages
The Capitol's high priests convene a clandestine Synod meeting beneath the Temple District; reviving centuries-old alliances, unearthing Deliah’s dire prophecy, and setting the temples on a collision course with the darkness wearing the city’s uniform.
The Gentleman vs The Lawmaster - Dates: Senaris 2, 6966 - 6 Pages
The negotiation between Ophelia Saloth and Orintha Runecoat about hiring the Gentleman's Circle.
Chains Don't Break Songs - Dates: Quintis 30-Senaris 2, 6966 - 20 Pages
Imprisoned in the iron-choked Black Tower, the APS runners are denied care, menaced by a new warden and his secretly Arethian-sympathizer guards, and separated from Dalliance and Radiance—but they turn songs, jokes, and coded chants into a rebellion of memory and meaning, holding each other together. They prepare, quietly, for the moment Black Tower finally cracks.
Nails and Fire - Date: Senaris 2 - 13 Pages
When Team Seven storms Black Tower to free the imprisoned APS runners, Iliyria fights through iron, guards, and her own fury to rescue Jarren from torture, igniting a brutal, coordinated prison break that proves the APS will burn down an empire before they break.
I Mourned You - Dates, Senaris 3, 6966 - 2 Pages
Isemay and Ophelia finally have a private conversation.
The Day the City Looked Up - Date: Senaris 5, 6966 - 15 Pages
When the Watch announces the dawn execution of Radiance, Dalliance, and Nethspira, the APS, the Temples, and the Gentleman’s Circle unite to storm Fountain Square, shattering the public spectacle as Radiance’s secret pregnancy drives Uvak and the Runners into a fury that ignites open rebellion. At the gallows, the trio are dropped but saved in the same breath by Team 7’s intervention, while Ophelia and Isemay project the coup’s true face across the Capitol: Commander Lowshade revealed as a rakshasa manipulating the Watch. As chaos engulfs the Square, the clerics of every temple, deserters from the Watch, and the criminals of the Circle join the fight, turning execution into revolution. Team 7 confronts the rakshasa behind sealed doors, emerging bloodied but alive as the city looks on in awe; Fountain Square transformed from a place of death into the moment the Capitol finally saw the truth.
When the Tower Opens its Doors - Date: Senaris 5, 6966 - 11 Pages
In the quiet aftermath of the Capitol Coup, Iliyria and Alavara reopen the Tower and face a fraught debrief with the Masters while wounds, physical and political, are laid bare, and Ophelia’s unexpected return forces the Tower’s leadership to confront buried truths, fragile second chances, and the cost of surviving the revolution.
About Damn Time - Date: Senaris 5-6, 6966 - Fluffy Version - 10 Pages - Spicy Version - 14 Pages
After surviving his own execution, Dalliance finally confesses his long-buried love to Felara and they choose each other for real; sharing their first night together, facing the hilariously nosy APS house the next morning, and turning their shared “tap-tap” rhythm into songs that claim a fragile, hard-won happiness in the middle of a wounded city. Choose between the Fluffy Version (sweet) and the Spicy one (explicit).
Arc 5: Interlude and Leviathan
Constellation Realigned - Date: - 12 Pages
After days of upheaval and reckoning, Ophelia is offered an unexpected place in the Tower and, through a strange and intimate encounter with its magic, finds her old bonds to Isemay and Lavan quietly and irrevocably restored.
Things We Owe Them, Things We Hide - Dates: Senaris 22-24 - 16 Pages
A few nights before a desperate last-ditch mission to save the city, Iliyria and Alavara share tea and unvoiced truths. The night Team 7 plans to attack Leviathan, Lavan, Isemay, and Ophelia wrestle with fear, loyalty, and the promises they can and can’t keep.
The Waiting Room at the End of the World - Date: Senaris 24 - 24 Pages
As a strike team departs on a desperate mission to stop an approaching world-ending threat, those left behind in the Tower must endure the agonizing wait, confront buried secrets, and decide what lines they’re willing to cross to save each other.
Arc 6: Kir Darul
One Last Trick - Date: Senaris 29 - 4 Pages
A long-retired Master returns to the Tower on the eve of catastrophe, only to find himself face-to-face with the former apprentice he lost years ago; forcing the two of them to confront old wounds, offer long-delayed forgiveness, and stand with the remaining Masters as they prepare for the coming siege.