This dream we share escapes us: no masters, no traitors, only bugs united. Lucidity is a dreamer's sacrifice to reality, and our sacrifice is the vesperbane. A vile transformation through bat blood and black nerve, the vespers grant a mantis power to wield shadows and warp flesh, a metaphysical will. Only vesperbanes can give our grand dream breath — but every vesperbanes is shadowed by the potential for oppression and defection.
Three mantis nymphs will undergo this metamorphosis, yet each holds another dream in their hearts: a scholar who must learn the secrets of the mind to bring the dead back to life; a servant who must atone for lives taken and find a cause unquestionable; and a rebel who must kill an angel and avenge a destroyed home.
In this world, the mightiest wield the power to crush cities or spawn monstrous armies — here, there's always someone above you, and it's a long, arduous climb higher. But true power is wielded by those with the cunning and the connections to direct the mighty. In every shadow a conspiracy dwells, and these nymphs already have killers hounding them, spiders weaving webs around them.
Anyone can climb to the top, anyone can tangle in these conspiracies — but what would you sacrifice along the way?
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A Chimerical Hope | 28-3 | Chapter 28: A Murderous Misdirection, pt. 3 | RoyalRoadL | |
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A Chimerical Hope | 28-2 | Chapter 28: A Murderous Misdirection, pt. 2 | RoyalRoadL | |
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A Chimerical Hope | 28-1 | Chapter 28: A Murderous Misdirection, pt. 1 | RoyalRoadL | |
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A Chimerical Hope | 27 | Chapter 27: To Trap Your Hunter | RoyalRoadL | |
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A Chimerical Hope | 26 | Chapter 26: A Twilight for the Sky Below | RoyalRoadL | |
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A Chimerical Hope | 25 | Chapter 25: A Stifling Protection | RoyalRoadL | |
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A Chimerical Hope | 24 | Chapter 24: Awaiting the Unexpected | RoyalRoadL | |
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A Chimerical Hope | 23 | Chapter 23: A Debt Uncollected, a Demand Unfulfilled | RoyalRoadL | |
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A Chimerical Hope | 22 | Chapter 22: Suspicions and Sermons | RoyalRoadL | |
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A Chimerical Hope | 21 | Chapter 21: A Wisterun Welcome | RoyalRoadL | |
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A Chimerical Hope | 20 | Chapter 20: A Final Stretch | RoyalRoadL | |
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A Chimerical Hope | 19 | Chapter 19: A Distant Dark Lake | RoyalRoadL | |
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A Chimerical Hope | 18 | Chapter 18: Death in the East | RoyalRoadL | |
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A Chimerical Hope | 17 | Chapter 17: A Pursuit Concluded | RoyalRoadL | |
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A Chimerical Hope | 16 | Chapter 16: An Occluded Path | RoyalRoadL | |
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A Chimerical Hope | 15 | Chapter 15: Experiment and Application | RoyalRoadL | |
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A Chimerical Hope | 14 | Chapter 14: An Elusive Wolf, a Relentless Wolf | RoyalRoadL | |
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A Chimerical Hope | 13 | Chapter 13: Two Techniques and a Beetle | RoyalRoadL | |
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A Chimerical Hope | 12 | Chapter 12: A Spar And A Specter | RoyalRoadL | |
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A Chimerical Hope | 11 | Chapter 11: A Wasp And A Pond | RoyalRoadL | |
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A Chimerical Hope | 10 | Chapter 10: Direction Without a Path | RoyalRoadL | |
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A Chimerical Hope | 9 | Chapter 9: Lingering Clouds | RoyalRoadL | |
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A Chimerical Hope | 8 | Chapter 8: A Chimerical Hope | RoyalRoadL | |
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A Chimerical Hope | 7 | Chapter 7 | RoyalRoadL | |
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A Chimerical Hope | 7 | Chapter 7 | RoyalRoadL | |
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A Chimerical Hope | 7 | Chapter 7: A Servant, a Scholar, a Scion | RoyalRoadL | |
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A Chimerical Hope | 6 | Chapter 6 | RoyalRoadL | |
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A Chimerical Hope | 6 | Chapter 6: An Overburn | RoyalRoadL | |
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A Chimerical Hope | 5 | Chapter 5 | RoyalRoadL | |
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A Chimerical Hope | 5 | Chapter 5: A Hunter and a Dead Bug | RoyalRoadL | |
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A Chimerical Hope | 4 | Chapter 4 | RoyalRoadL | |
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A Chimerical Hope | 4 | Chapter 4 | RoyalRoadL | |
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A Chimerical Hope | 4 | Chapter 4: A Beleaguered Journey | RoyalRoadL | |
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A Chimerical Hope | 3 | Chapter 3 | RoyalRoadL | |
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A Chimerical Hope | 3 | Chapter 3 | RoyalRoadL | |
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A Chimerical Hope | 3 | Chapter 3: A Bloody Wolf | RoyalRoadL | |
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A Chimerical Hope | 2 | Chapter 2 | RoyalRoadL | |
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A Chimerical Hope | 2 | Chapter 2 | RoyalRoadL | |
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A Chimerical Hope | 2 | Chapter 2: A Nymph and a Trap | RoyalRoadL | |
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A Chimerical Hope | 1 | Chapter 1 | RoyalRoadL | |
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A Chimerical Hope | 1 | Chapter 1 | RoyalRoadL | |
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A Chimerical Hope | 1 | Chapter 1: Wisps and Pawns | RoyalRoadL |