15 Works in Shadow Carja (Horizon)
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Marble Collection - 2025 Prompt Shorts by OnlytheGoodPretzels
Fandoms: Horizon (Video Games), DC Extended Universe, Young Justice (Cartoon), Compilation of Final Fantasy VII, Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types
20 Oct 2025
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Bits and parts written for Whumptober 2025 prompts. These may eventually appear in other longer works, but they live in this jar for now. I had a lot of fun this year.
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Fallen into disgrace with the Sundom's intelligence agency, Vera is tasked to investigate the operations of surviving remains of the Eclipse cult. However, she comes across mysterious signs of a new piece of weapon: overridden machines, Focusses, and a military operation bigger since the Eclipse's downfall. What kind of secret weapon does the Eclipse now possess?
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Horizon: Echoes of the Shattered Forge by QuinnChronicles
Fandoms: Horizon Zero Dawn (Comics), Horizon (Video Games)
14 Mar 2025
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Quinvar was once an Oseram warrior, a smith with a sharp mind and a steady hammer. But when a rogue faction of the Eclipse captures him and subjects him to brutal experiments, he emerges as something else—stronger, faster, and haunted by the whispers of machines now woven into his very being.
Determined to uncover the truth of his transformation, Quinvar returns home, only to be cast out as an outlander, a corrupted thing no longer fit to walk among his people. Alone and hunted, he sets out to track the remnants of the splintered Eclipse, determined to destroy them before they can twist others as they did him. But the deeper he digs, the more he unearths—forgotten ruins, ancient knowledge, and a looming danger even greater than HADES.
ON PAUSEAs his path crosses with Aloy’s, their fates intertwine against the rising storm. But can Quinvar forge his own destiny, or will he be just another echo of a shattered world?
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There wasn't much left of Rost to bury because the Carja took him. Burns are sacred to the Sun, and the Shadow has questions it needs answered. He has to survive them until he can understand why they ask for Aloy even after she's dead. And until he can kill the monster who killed her.
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Previously titled Burnsetter. Started for Whumptober 2024 prompts: passing out from pain, forced choice. -
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Aloy is about to go on quite a journey! The Shadow stalwart armor is supposed to let her traverse the Shadow Carja’s territory without them recognizing her. At least, that was the hope. Not five minutes after she waltzed right into a nearby encampment the Eclipse soldiers recognized her and shouted, “INTRUDER!”
Now she's the captive of the shadow Carja in a remote area of their territory as they excavate a nearby ruin. Inside they discover many interesting bits of the old ones history. Including a means to tame the fiery flame-hair.
(I want to give a big thanks to: https://www.deviantart.com/aidenke for helping me edit and refine this! He really helped in giving the story some extra character and charm.)
Along the way, she cultivates a bond between herself and her trainer who isn't all that he seems.
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- Part 17 of Horizon Zero Bonds
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Hawk & Huntress #1: The Great Escape by aidenke
Fandoms: Horizon Zero Dawn (Video Game) - Fandom
17 Sep 2023
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When Vanasha came to Aloy & Talanah seeking their help with an urgent undercover mission, the newly-installed Sun Hawk of the Carja Hunter's Lodge and the woman now known as the Savior of Meridian didn't hesitate to sign up to help the Carja spymaster put a stop to a slaver's ring operating at the edge of the Rustwash.
But now, Aloy & Vanasha have been bound & gagged for the better part of a day. The camp is exploding around them. Was this part of Vanasha's plan? And with Vanasha nowhere in sight, will they have to make their escape on their own? Tied up as they are, it won't be easy -- and there are scarier things out in the wilds than slavers...
This piece was done as a trade / collaboration with PerilChaser (https://linktr.ee/perilchaser), and you can see the image that inspired this story here:
https://www.deviantart.com/perilchaser/art/The-Great-Escape-aidenke-collab-983463219
https:// /PerilChaser/status/1704338268496556083
https://bsky.app/profile/perilchaser.bsky.social/post/3k7scintdoc2qI've also made a version with the "in-game HUD" added here: [Link to be Provided Soon!]
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- Part 1 of Hawk & Huntress
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When she returns to the Embrace to defend the Nora from the Eclipse attack, Aloy discovers that Vala survived the Proving Massacre - and wants Aloy to take her along on her mission to find the ruins of GAIA Prime.
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Horizon: Erend's Revenge by BookGenreQueen
Fandoms: Horizon: Zero Dawn (Video Game), Horizon: Zero Dawn (Comics)
11 Dec 2022
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Horizon Zero Dawn focuses on Aloy's journey. Now let's dive into that world again. Let's explore Erend's story. What thoughts, feelings, and adventures did he have that we missed?
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A different take on the in game quest: Robbing the Rich.
Before Aloy was the Savior of the Meridian, she had be a resident of the "happily" named, Sunstone prison. Convicted a of a crime she didn't commit, Aloy sets out on a journey of payback and misadventure!
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- Part 18 of Horizon Zero Bonds
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broken and scarred. by asongofpiratesandzombies
Fandoms: Horizon: Zero Dawn (Video Game)
04 Jun 2022
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Lyric saw her parents being murdered during the Mad King's Red Raids. The chieftain of a powerful werak took in not only her, but a newborn thirst for revenge that poisoned the inmost roots of a once naive girl's heart. Far away from Song's Edge, deep into banuk territory, she is trained the ways of her tribe. Endure. Survive. Never again would she be helpless. Never again would she cry out of fear - only out of spite.
When the word of a growing rebellion in the heart of Meridian reaches Ban Ur, Lyric awaits trial. The same man who raised her among her own deems her broken - and, hoping there's someone beyond banuk borders that might mend her inner wounds, sends her as a spy to the lands of the Carja. Fueled by hate alone, Lyric is determined to carve in blood a path to the Sun Palace in exchange for the lives taken from her people and herself - but new allies in a whole world she has never seen before will make Lyric question if there's still forgiveness for the broken; and something else to life but revenge.
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Taking place after the events of the final battle of The Meridian. Aloy’s search for more Tallnecks and her hopes to expand her network had led to deep into the territory which had once been controlled by the Shadow Carja. Unfortunately for her, the area wasn't as clear as she has hoped.
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- Part 16 of Horizon Zero Bonds
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Fire and Spit: An Oseram Tale by Rorys_Ramblings
Fandoms: Horizon: Zero Dawn (Video Game)
02 Apr 2021
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Agda Ealdordaughter is as Oseram as they come, except that she’s a girl. With an interest in delving into the Old World Ruins and building new weaponry, the last thing Agda wants is to be married off to a powerful Ealdorson in Mainspring for the strong political ties it will offer her Ealdorman father. With the Carja pushing further into the Claim and the Red Raids in full swing, she may just get her wish of becoming more than her tribe will allow, in a way she never would have hoped for. The derangement of man may truly be worse than that of the machines.
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After defeating Hades and helping the Nora rebuild, Aloy returns to Meridian. There she is reunited with Avad. Aloy wonders if Avad still feels for her as he did before, and whether this time they can be together. But before anything can be resolved between them, Avad is attacked.
It doesn't take Aloy and Avad long to realise this wasn't just an attack, but rather the start of a coup, forcing Aloy and Avad to track down their enemies in a city turned against them. They have to restore Avad's throne and save Meridian from tyranny, with the help of their allies. Those allies that are left at least. -
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Aloy and Talanah are getting ready to take on the the mighty Thunderjaw, Redmaw! However, they decide to help out a village on the outskirts of the Meridian border with a Bandit Problem.
However, there seems to be forces at play that don't want them to return in time for the big hunt.Hopefully they'll make it back in time and maybe learn a few things along the way!
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- Part 3 of Horizon Zero Bonds
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The age of Derangement: The fall of the shadow and the journey into the west by MeerkatMatt2
Fandoms: Horizon: Zero Dawn (Video Game)
28 Jul 2017
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Elysium and Thebes, two last bastions of pre-Faro plague civilization long believed to be non existent or all dead, they mysteriously thaw out shortly before the hour of Hades. these few residents to he metal world are plunged head first in the savage nightmare of the derangement and the chaos that comes within. meanwhile strange animals not seen in entrusts are returning, the consequences of the derangement will have global consequences as the other eight cradle's descendants fight to survive against one another, mad sub function AIs and Hephaestus robots.