McCrae in professional correspondence, to not be confused with the Canadian poet) – see the FAQ for more on the author. Ward is the fourth work and first official sequel written by ‘Wildbow’, who goes by John McCrae in real life (or J.C. The teaser features nine chapters of Parahumans Online, email, and chatroom content with hints and clues about the story to come. If you missed the ‘Glow-worm’ teaser, click here to read it.

She’s put in a position to make the decision: will she compromise to help forge what they call, with dark sentiment, a second golden age? Or will she stand tall as a gilded dark age dawns? She’s perhaps the person least suited to have anything to do with this tenuous peace or to stand alongside these false heroes. The facilities hosted parahumans and their victims, but the facilities are ruined or gone one of many fragile ex-patients is left to find a place in a fractured world.

None feel the injustice of this new status quo or the lack of established footing more than the past residents of the parahuman asylums. One of many compromises, uneasy truces and deceptions that are starting to splinter as humanity rebuilds. The world ended two years ago, and as humanity straddles the old world and the new, there aren’t records, witnesses, or facilities to answer the villains’ past actions in the present. It’s an uneasy thing to come to terms with when notorious supervillains and even monsters are playing at being hero. The unwritten rules that govern the fights and outright wars between ‘capes’ have been amended: everyone gets their second chance. The teaser is something of a prologue that features nine chapters of Parahumans Online, email, and chatroom content with hints and clues about the story to come. Those wanting to read this story without any spoilers or information on the overarching plot can click Here. Heavy spoilers for Worm follow from this point on. It is not meant to be read in isolation, and would-be readers should check out the prior work first. This work is a sequel, the events following that of the web serial Worm.

Worm by Wildbow