The luster of gods and man alike fades over time. But Marika, inundated with her newfound freedom from the Greater Will and set upon the world as a Numen woman once more, seeks to right her eternal wrongs-starting with the reclusive Queen Rennala. (Post-Age of the Duskborn, AU.)

A civilian she may have been born, but her mind, her cunning, was entirely Orochimaru's, and perhaps that was the beginning of the end.

Hermione Granger, former dental assistant and child psychologist, never imagined she would encounter the alluringly dark Tom Marvolo Riddle in her best friend's parlor, nor would she have, in her wildest dreams, believed Draco Lucius Malfoy would be the one burying brass knuckles into his face for debts unpaid, all because of a dead man named Sirius Black.