Kyoto won a tentative peace between ghouls and humans through bloodshed and compromise, but it all is about to fall apart. Underneath the false tranquility, an insurgent group of ghouls is rising to power, a mysterious investigator called Kusanagi is on a bloody rampage, and various forces from both sides are gearing up for another war. Taking character submissions.

Slight AU Shmuel, a Hebrew slave, is saved one day by Nekhtamin, a boy who says that he will become the greatest thief in all of Egypt. This is a story about the consequences of being powerless in a ruthless world and the despair of those whose lives are stolen by the cruel whims of the Heavens and their messengers.