The Dark Traveler

Christmas with centaurs

by The Dark Traveler

Chapter 31 in Modern Fantasy

Brandy explained that centaurs have their own Christmas spirit, a helper of Father Christmas believed to have been their own winter spirit before being assimilated into Christmas. Her name was Kunama, a chremileo centauress who places presents in the saddle bags of good centaur c...

Carrie’s first ride

by The Dark Traveler

Chapter 30 in Modern Fantasy

Brandy set off in a gentle trot, and you felt her powerful muscles move under the saddle. You had to avoid the compulsion to try to steer her or use your heels to control her speed, like you would with a horse. You just held on and let her take you. Brandy picked up the pace onc...

Meeting the herd

by The Dark Traveler

Chapter 29 in Modern Fantasy

You met with Brandy’s family herd the day before Christmas. Although Brandy has warned that members of her family preferred to be naked, most would be wearing Christmas jumpers and “horse rugs” due to the cold. Brandy was wearing a warm jumper and a rug you had brought her last C...

Settling in

by The Dark Traveler

Chapter 28 in Modern Fantasy

You parked up and opened up the box for Brandy. She took Marnie and laid her on the bed. She helped you unload the bags from the car. The house was a bungalow for easy access for Brandy and Marnie if she used her wheelchair. You had brought it so that Brandy wasn’t laden with alw...

Traveling for Christmas

by The Dark Traveler

Chapter 27 in Modern Fantasy

The Christmas holidays were approaching, and you had planned a visit to Brandy’s family herd. Now that you were engaged, there was no risk that one of her cousins or half-siblings might have their way with you. Regardless, you and Marine had been practising with the equine strap...

Wedding plans

by The Dark Traveler

Chapter 26 in Modern Fantasy

News had spread fast about your engagement and the rings helped spread the word. The three of you had been planning and so far set the date for the autumn two years after graduation. This gave you all the time to settle down and save. You were planning a beach wedding so that Mar...

Anatomy of non-human species

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Chapter 2 in Modern Fantasy

The next term story: A Spooky engagement

by The Dark Traveler

Chapter 25 in Modern Fantasy

It was the start of the final year and coming up to Halloween. You had been trying to find a good costume that didn’t fall under cultural appropriation. Most of the classic monster stories turned out to be prejudice against a particular group or the story of a single individual w...

next term

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Chapter 26 in Modern Fantasy

rotes

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Chapter 21 in Modern Fantasy

Snake People

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Chapter 20 in Modern Fantasy

There are many different kinds of snake people with differing anatomy. Some come under the Beastfolk umbrella term, but will be detailed here as a way of showing the differences between them and other snake people. There is also some confusion over the distinct names of the diffe...

notes

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Chapter 21 in Modern Fantasy

Warforged

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Chapter 20 in Modern Fantasy

Despite being mostly mechanical in construction, warforged have a soul of a humanoid contained within a gem implanted in their chest. Their bodies are powered and controlled by the soul gem. Healing magic is converted by the soul gem into energy that powers the self-repair system...

notes

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Chapter 21 in Modern Fantasy

Tiefling

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Chapter 20 in Modern Fantasy

Tieflings have fiendish ancestry. They have features associated with the fiend they are related to. The closer the relation, the stronger the traits. Examples of common physical traits are horns, tails, sharp teeth, increased tolerance to heat, skin with red-purple or blue-purple...

notes

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Chapter 21 in Modern Fantasy

Changeling

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Chapter 20 in Modern Fantasy

Changelings, sometimes called doppelgangers, may resemble humanoids but are actually related to mimics. They are essentially a sentient blob of grey goo. They are able to mimic the appearance of any humanoid and any other 4 limbed creature of humanoid size. They are brood parasi...

notes

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Chapter 21 in Modern Fantasy

Shifters

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Chapter 20 in Modern Fantasy

Shifters are descended from lycanthropes. They do not carry the curse but gain some animistic features and tendencies. They have heightened senses, claws, and grow thicker body hair than Humans. They are not classed as beastfolk despite similarities in appearance and physiology....

notes

by The Dark Traveler

Chapter 21 in Modern Fantasy