Creation by Jonathan Moeller

Author:Jonathan Moeller
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: jonathan moeller, litrpg, rpg, role playing game, gamelit, sevenfold sword online
Publisher: Jonathan Moeller
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

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The xianzhar soon landed.

Later, Carver would wonder how to describe the xianzhar to people who had been fortunate enough never to see one.

Eventually, he would decide that they were like orcs.

But not the orcs in Sevenfold Sword Online.

Thanks to some archaeological and salvage discoveries, fantasy literature from Earth’s pre-hyperspace history had experienced a renaissance in popularity before Carver had been born. Maskell Entertainment had noticed the upsurge in popularity and had started building the fantasy game that would become Sevenfold Sword Online even before they ended up with the salvage claim that would net them the rights to Moeller’s books.

Reading had been an encouraged form of recreation for young people on Haven Colony, and though Carver had frankly preferred history to fiction, he had read quite a few fantasy authors – J.R.R. Tolkien, Robert Howard, C.S. Lewis, Anne McCaffrey, Jack Vance, Brandon Sanderson, David Gemmell, Poul Anderson, Andre Norton, Terry Pratchett, and numerous others.

In those books, Carver noticed, there tended to be two different kinds of orcs.

The first were orcs like those in Sevenfold Sword Online. Big, green-skinned, rough featured, tusked, and larger and stronger than humans. Usually, they were portrayed as a proud warrior race of berserkers – good friends and fearsome enemies. Sometimes these orcs could mate with humans, leading to half-orcs. In the books, half-orcs were often heroic outcasts who nonetheless returned to save their societies from dragons or evil wizards or whatever.

Then there were Tolkien’s orcs.

The darker ones.

The books of J.R.R. Tolkien had been popular among the leaders of Haven Colony. The Catholics liked his books because the historical record said that Tolkien had been Catholic, and the libertarians liked his books because they showed a healthy suspicion of government overregulation. Carver hadn’t been sure about either interpretation since Tolkien’s books had no organized church and several of Tolkien’s protagonists had been monarchs, but he supposed everyone brought their own interpretation to fiction.

But the orcs.

In Tolkien’s version, the orcs had originally been elves. But the forces of evil had taken the elves, corrupted them, twisted them, mutated them, turning them into monsters. Anyone who looked at the orcs would react with horror, with instinctual revulsion at something beautiful and noble that had been turned into a hideous nightmare.

That flashed through Noah Carver’s mind the first time he looked through his rifle’s scope at a xianzhar scout.

It was two days after the death of his family, and he was hiding in a forest five miles away. The xianzhar dropships had landed near the ruins of the major population centers and started constructing a base while scouting parties had swept out across the planet, seeking survivors. But Carver knew the land around his parents’ farm better than anyone, and he had eluded the xianzhar in the forests.

Now he was looking at one of the creatures through his scope.

The xianzhar was shaped like a human, but its skin was a greasy gray threaded through with black veins. Instead of eyes, delicate metallic tentacles extended from its sockets. Probably some sort of sensing apparatus.

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