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Thank you to everyone who voted, and hearty thanks and congratulations to everyone who submitted.

Haven't been by in a while, so I thought I'd drop in and give you gents something to read. Hope it isn't too derivative.

The books had burned swiftly, old and dry as most of them were. Only with...

Not to worry, I'll be sure to spare some of you. After all, I expect I'll need plenty of "volunteers" to maintain all the statues of me that will be going up. Bronze doesn't polish itself, you know....

I am fire-fretted, and I flirt with wind.
-Line from an Anglo-Saxon riddle

I have been in this city for - a week? five days? - I cannot say for sure. Time passes oddly here. Sometimes it does not...

Thanks a lot, I hope soon I'll have a submission for ToTW 238 as well!

I had to ponder a while before voting... good show everyone!

Had to cut it down from 600 words. It was good stuff, too.
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One morning, Sophia woke up with a feeling that something tremendously important was hovering just out of reach, and that if...

That's sort of what I was going for. You see, he's supposed to be writing it decades after the Crusade, and one of the big questions about the First Crusade is "Did anyone have any clue what was...

This was actually assigned as part of the final for my medieval history class. It's supposed to be an account of the First Crusade from the point of view of a fictional knight in the service of...

Submission 2 was mine.

I don't know if submissions are still open, but I though I might as well put something up just in case. Although looking at some of the people who've submitted, I can't help wondering if there's any...

I've been quite a fan of Yi Sun-sin (the spelling I'm familiar with) since I read a book on Asian military history that had quite a large section on him. I believe that book in particular made...

For my money, the best writer on Late Antiquity - at least in general terms - is the first one. Peter Brown's The World of Late Antiquity is an excellent general history of the period, and was really...

An unfortunate dearth of submissions for this one.

397 words. I tried to footnote some of the less-obvious kennings.
(Recovered from a partially burnt manuscript found in an English monastery)
...Grey grew the faces of Grimulf's men,
Weary hands...

Text of this post deleted due to its being a) no longer terribly relevant and b) poorly written.

Prologue
The ship looked fast and sleek, with large engine nacelles bulging out of its smoothly curved body. Its slimness, however, was deceiving; the clipper held a surprising amount of cargo...

Voted. An unusual theme with some interesting entries.

Is TotW being funded by corporate sponsors now?
484 words

Tris gaped at the girl in the cage. He was little more than a child, only fifteen, and for the entirety of his life he had only ever seen...

Hey guys, it's been quite a while since I posted here but you have done an incredible amount of work since then. It's looking really awesome. I was wondering when we can expect to see some preview...

Much obliged.

Thanks very much. A capital idea! It does sound better.

Er... Can someone tell me how to edit the thread's title?

Not a long-term project, just a little story based on a name I made up. There should only be a total of three parts.

Introduction
Scholars of Norse history will no doubt be familiar with the saga...

I'm glad you liked it! And as for back in time... well, not quite... *heh heh*

I was riding guard on the right flank of the column when Felix shouted my name. "Hé, Cherbray!" he cried. "Come and see what I've found skulking in the forest!" His words were accompanied by the...

We cannot trust your words, Scotsman! You twist and turn like a... twisty, turny thing! Where is our update, damn you!

This is the last of the "historical" sections I will post, at least for now. The next update will be the beginning of the actual story.

The Midgard System
For over a century, the Midgard System held an almost unique position in galactic politics. Situated directly on the shortest route between Free State and Imperial space, it was...

Voted.

Politics of the Zheng Empire
By the end of the Second Galactic War, the Zheng emperor had been a powerless figurehead for over a century. Only a few decades after the death of Zheng Qiang, the...

That was the sense I was trying to convey. The fact that I succeeded probably means that I read too many history books.

The First Galactic War (122-125 IE)
Barely worth the name, the First Galactic War was little more than a series of skirmishes. Attacks on one side were followed by punitive raids on the other;...

At the end of the Third Galactic War, all materials relating to Nicholas de Vries, the ship Raven, and their role before and during the war was made classified as one of the provisions of the...

Voted.

Hark to my tale of this singer of songs,
this weaver of words and righter of wrongs,
I speak of that most skilled, that wonderful Dude,
that silver-tongued worsdmith who always has Food.

That...

Please see my previous statements re the accuracy of my update predictions. I can definitely maybe promise that you can most likely expect an update sometime soon. Ish. Hopefully.

Voted, again. At what point do we just give up and declare a tie?

400 words. For once I didn't have to cut half of the story just to stay under the limit.
The muttering of the ominous hooded figure gained a new urgency. Standing, he began to pace counterclockwise...

Congratulations indeed! A momentously magnificent, er... thing beginning with M!

O brethren, my lot has been well and truly cast. Or something.