Listen once, listen true, else ye'll end up at the bottom of that bonny blue!
Keep to the Code: sail calm, sail fair, catch the wind, nay my ripe stare!
There be gold aplenty so nay be selfish, have a care!
Now, if'n ye be settled, if'n ye can keep to, salute yer Captain and find yer station, there be tales to be told and legends needin' of investigation...
⚓About Me⚓
Hi, I'm N. Opal (call me nopal 🌵) and I write for fun! I mostly write original, long-form pieces in multi-pov style and dabble into short stories here and there. I love participating in tag games and gushing over other people's characters and stories, so come say hi!
age: 32
pronouns: she/her
where: southern california
other stuff i like doing: running, weightlifting, yoga, reading, drinking coffee, playing video games, making unfunny jokes
Check out my Completed Works and WIPs below the cut!
And here are a few handy links to help you around!
My author website
About my pen name
Character Directory
WIP Taglist Opt-In/Out Form
⚓Completed Works - Novels⚓
🦎 "As A Stranger Or A Friend?"⏳
Free to read, 18+ (minors DNI), find it on Wattpad or AO3.
Characters: Mariel, Axtapor
Length: 64.4K words
Genres: romance, fantasy, adventure, medium magic, pirates
Tags: aasoaf, aasoaf1, aasoaf lore, meta aasoaf lore, aasoaf feels, mariel, axtapor
🦎⏳"As A Stranger Or A Friend?: The Swallow And The Drowned Sailor"🔮🌌
Free to read, 18+ (minors DNI), find it on Wattpad or AO3.
Access to free release material (Axtapor & Mariel's Scrapbook + Mini Art Gallery) can be found on my website under the Mixed Media section. Contains spoilers.
Characters: Mariel, Axtapor, Fay, Wilkes
Length: 106K words
Genres: romance, fantasy, adventure, medium magic, pirates
Tags: aasoaf, aasoaf2, aasoaf 2's maiden voyage, aasoaf lore, meta aasoaf lore, aasoaf feels, mariel, axtapor, fay, wilkes
⚓Completed Works - Collaborations⚓
🦎 Mariel & Axtapor's Scrapbook⏳
Experience the world of "As A Stranger Or A Friend?" like never before in this special mixed-media release that contains lore, maps, and much more! Each page has been hand-picked for you, not by me, dear reader, but by Mariel and Axtapor themselves!
Note, contains spoilers for AASOAF 2.
Free to read, all ages, access it on my website.
Characters: Mariel, Axtapor
Length: 60 pages
Authored By: N. Opal
Illustrated and Designed By: @illjustpretend
Tags: aasoaf 2's maiden voyage
⚓WIPs⚓
⏳🔮🌕"As A Stranger Or A Friend?: Children Of The Broken Star" 🦎🌌☄️
The conclusion to the AASOAF trilogy💙
See the masterpost here!
Status: EDITING
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Characters:Mariel, Axtapor, Fay, Wilkes, Magdalene*, Sartor*
Length: ?
Genres: romance, fantasy, adventure, medium magic, pirates, knights
Tags: aasoaf, aasoaf3, aasoaf lore, meta aasoaf lore, aasoaf feels, mariel, axtapor, fay, wilkes, magdalene, sartor
Starred (*) characters courtesy of and created by @illjustpretend
🩸 Man O' War 🐍
This episodic collection of works will chronicle the lives, misadventures, and layered relationship of the affectionately known Lizardfolk Boatswains of the Angel's Lyre, Hartim and Lexlar. Its release will be chapter by chapter, with installments posted to Wattpad and AO3 as they become available!
See the masterpost here!
Status: DRAFTING
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Characters: Lexlar, Hartim, Cassia, Kirik
Length: ?
Genres: slice of life, fantasy, romance, adventure, soft magic, pirates, vampirism
Tags: lexlar, hartim, kirik, cassia
“But I didn’t and still don’t like making a cult of women’s knowledge, preening ourselves on knowing things men don’t know, women’s deep irrational wisdom, women’s instinctive knowledge of Nature, and so on. All that all too often merely reinforces the masculinist idea of women as primitive and inferior – women’s knowledge as elementary, primitive, always down below at the dark roots, while men get to cultivate and own the flowers and crops that come up into the light. But why should women keep talking baby talk while men get to grow up? Why should women feel blindly while men get to think?”
Jo in Little Women: "I find it poor logic to say that because women are good, women should vote. Men do not vote because they are good; they vote because they are male, and women should vote, not because we are angels and men are animals, but because we are human beings and citizens of this country."
this chapter is taking it out of me y'all. its super pivotal and i need to get a lot right with it but holy shit its fighting me at every turn. after this i have two more chapters to go, so i know i cant throw in the towel now but goddamn if this isnt disheartening.
The gods are silent. Rivellon bleeds. New powers stir.
Built by the team who brought you Baldur's Gate 3, Larian Studios unchains its ambitions to bring you an RPG with greater breadth & depth than ever before.
