Introduction: Update 2/22/2025: Sorry folks, I am going to have to put this on indefinite hiatus while I deal with a medical emergency (jaw surgery is in my future ??). Sorry to come back only to dissappear again, but it's only going to get harder for me to maintain a normal schedule, especially during recovery. I'm sorry :(New Chapters Mondays & Thursdays @ 9:30am Eastern.Terre. A world of magic and monsters, protected by legendary beings known as Guardians. For one hundred and twenty years, these mages and warriors kept at bay those monsters the ordinary citizens of Terre could not face.But that changes when the Guardians disappear suddenly and without a trace.Ilsylvania, a kingdom whose resources are already stretched thin by a sudden epidemic, must bolster her army to protect her precariously held territories against the ever increasing tide of monster attacks.Ancient alliances are called into question as Ilsylvania looks outward to the Serethi-controlled city-states, magical cities built by a race long extinct before the Serethi claimed them, whose barriers of protection might be the answer to protecting Ilsylvania in the absence of the Guardians.As the whispers of war begin to grow, the Guardians return as suddenly as they had disappeared. But they have changed. No longer are they the mindless constructs who battle the monsters of Terre.They are people.People from a far off world called Earth.Ashley “Sinnamon Roll” Miller is one such person; she, like all the other Guardians, has been ripped from her home and placed into the body of what she’d thought was her character in the mouse and keyboard MMORPG, Annwyn Online. Some aren't taking the sudden kidnapping well and Sinnamon Roll finds herself caught up in a bloody player plot to force the developers of Annwyn Online to return them to their homes. A bloody plot that costs nonplayer Tyressa Pearce her closest friends and family.In her search to find a way home, Sinnamon Roll discovers the real reason she and every other player has been brought to Terre. They are an army recruited and given great power to stop a slumbering evil biding its time and scheming for its escape.Half a continent away, in his own quest to find out why his late girlfriend's account is logged in at their shared guild castle, yet ignoring his attempts to reach out to her, Isaac "Saiph" Thomas discovers his own connection to Terre and the beings who recruited the players to this world.There’s just one major problem: The ones who recruited them, and the only ones who know of this waiting evil, are already dead....