Writertok March Madness 2026:
Corruption Chaos
Welcome to your Interactive March Madness Bracket!
Surprise Resurrection Match!
Devil’s Rage challenges Niya!
Victor’s Village!
2024 Champion: Samantha Havardson
The Apex Cycle Series by M.T. Zimny
2025 Champion: Peter Blair
Paragon Exordium by Mikel Melwasul
The 2026 Melee Conference
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Devon Bertrand: The Ultimate Agent
He's a civilian turned superhero, with superspeed, super strength (can punch a full capacity 747 plane aka 400 metric tons), has psychic ability, can fly, and shapeshift his whole or part of his body into whomever or whatever he wants.
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Breekie the Dwarf: Paragon Exordium
A Dwarf mercenary with one hand, a Russian accent and a Warhammer. He has a crippling fear of dragons and English isn't his first language… that doesn’t mean trash talking is our of his vocabulary!
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Nanna: A Djinnfernal Conspiracy
Snark and grit. Jury is still out on whether she is immortal, but she’s lived long enough to master most martial arts and weapons. She’d be the last one standing because she has had lifetimes of facing down foes, both supernatural and human. Plus, she’s damned if she’s ever going to admit defeat. Especially when it comes to djinn….
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Michael Sheppard: The Elysian Hegemony
Crack shot. Close quarter combat specialist. Educated. Tactician. Spy. Short sighted. Impulsive. Manipulative. Traumatized.
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Aiko: Aiko's Choice
Aiko is an orphan girl who is the last human in the galaxy. She’s already smart, but throughout her journeys she’s developed plenty of street smarts and common sense. She’s got a power armor arm that increases her strength.
Along with mechanical prowess, she’s infected by an alien parasite called the Yuul. This parasite, unbeknownst to her, actually makes her body uncommonly tough and resistant to damage.
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Ari "Lucky Fox" Barlow: Lost in the Light
Ari Barlow spent her younger teen years fighting in a gladiatorial style ring and got promoted at 17 to taskrunner which means she’ll do just about anything for the right price. Ari is resilient. Even if she’s not the strongest fighter, she keeps getting up. She’s beaten many a foe just from outlasting them in a brawl. She’s fast and in tune with gut instinct in a fight—it’s muscle memory for her. However, she’s also damn near feral. Her anger and bloodlust can blind her sometimes.
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Linden: The Parallax Trilogy
Linden is a Tender, a non-sentient humanoid robot that can change its appearance. Generally, Tenders are used in customer service roles because they track everything you say, buy, etc and are very good at talking you into buying things. They also want to make sure you're happy. Linden, however, has been programed to be a medic. Her biggest concern is your physical and mental health.
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Virginia: DEADFISH
Virginia would enter the arena to protect those she cares about, and she would be the last one standing for the same reason. She is technically unkillable due to the bioengineered disease she suffers from and overall she's just an old, tough, learned bitch who life has already chewed up and spat out a hundred times over, and that's before she was infected. She can grow back her body parts, though not quickly.
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Alex: The NOVA system
She is a top spy, master of stealth, hand to hand combat is multiple martial arts forms, and weapons. She favors knives/throwing knives, but is also proficient in guns and is a top marksman. She is genetically altered to be prime human strength if not just above. She is brutal, efficient, and deadly. She has taken on armies since she was 13. Able to go in, without back up, weapons, support, or even tactical gear, and walk away covered in everyone else’s blood.
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Spencer Williams: A Ruby in the Rough
What's scarier than a talking bad tempered donkey? A hot Appalachain redneck with a shovel!
Spencer works at a ruby mine through the muggy Smoky Mountain summers, so he's got strength and stamina and no shortage of mountain grit in addition to his killer looks, and he certainly knows his way around that shovel. There's a reason Rednecks vs The Zombie Appocalypse is a meme, and Specner is ready to show y'all why Rednecks come out on top.
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Sarina: The Maven Knight
Sarina is a Maven Knight trainee who possesses an advanced suit of armor powered by energy crystals (kryos) and a spear that functions mostly as a melee weapon but can be imbued with kryo energy for a special attack. Her strength would be defense since she has a long-range weapon and wears durable armor.
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Sandin Ravoc: The Firstborn Duology
Sandin Ravoc grew up in Shadowspire, the school where Abithian assassins are created. His education taught him survival through betrayal. Upon graduation, he killed his former mentor and became the Royal Dagger. From there he grew to be the most notorious assassin in his people’s history. When a mark is whispered from the queen’s mouth into his ear, that mark can already be considered dead.
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Karina Ivanovna: In the Line of Rebellion
She’s small but fast. She’s an expert one of her planet’s mixed martial arts, Systema, trained by her uncle for many years. Most people underestimate her just looking at her height and wiry build, and she uses that to her advantage.
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Eyla: The Celestials Series
Elya has teleportation and the ability to predict odds with absolute accuracy her ability to predict odds often leads to her being able to predict an opponent’s move but she tends not to think multiple moves ahead and she’s on the clumsy side so if she trips she might accidentally teleport. Elya is very determined and has been training under celestials for most of her life. Her biggest strength is her sheer determination and resolve.
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Hemera Nyx: Adventures of Hemera Nyx
Hemera is back and ready to win! Thanks to her space adventures, she's tough, she's funny, and has a protagonist’s luck. She wears a augmented spacesuit that enhances speed and strength. Her intense desire to survive, plus her instinctive combat abilities, will ensure she survives any encounter on her journey to find her long-lost home.
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Arianne Murray: Legends of Pangaea Series
She might have wings, but she's no angel. Warrior, princess, headcase, Arianne is a fire that, once started, is impossible to put out. Trained from youth to be a weapon to win wars, she is a mutant powerhouse with a potent mixture of martial prowess and physical dominance. Much like fire, she'll burn hot and fast. The best way to win: counter her passion with composure and you might just outlast the onslaught.
The 2026 Magic Conference
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Clara Bernardino: Prism
Clara crushes enemies with brains and brawn, overwhelming enemies with speed, martial arts, and lightning magic. Her aura fuels her spells, empowers her strikes, and shields her from harm (like a shield in HALO). Clara uses her magic not just for lightning bolts but also to manipulate electromagnetic forces. Clara can be stubborn, prideful, and quick to anger. Piss her off, and she'll smash your skull in with static-charged punches.
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Prince Rednyr: The Rift Bringer Saga
Prince Rednyr is an energy-based warrior class eonite. He has the ability to heal and wield a rock-like material unique to his species to form his weapons and armor - but it doesn't stop there. His gargantuan size, coming in at a whopping seventy-four feet tall, adds a level of strength that will severely up the ante for his opponents. Between size, strength, and a scalding level of energy behind a wall of armor, get ready to dance, partner.
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Wren Warrender: Skalterra by Nightmare
Wren is a Nightmare— that is, her consciousness occupies an idealized version of herself, powered by magic and limited only by her imagination. She can morph her body and clothing at will, adapting to any attack and turning herself into a living weapon. She’s fairly grumpy about the arrangement, but she’s going to take care of any opponent before they can get to her.
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Nyssa Thornheart: The Lunar Order Chronicles
Not only is Nyssa a witch, with the ability to harness solar magic (literal firepower), she's also a lunar witch meaning she can tap into the moon's power allowing her to cast shields and moonfire. But it doesn't stop there, Nyssa is also an alchemist, she's got a potion that can heal you or cover you with sticky ooze.
Nyssa isn't here for Glory, for Fame, for renown. She is here to show that her realm is not a pushover. That the Lunar Order stands strong. And most of all, that the last lunar witch is not to be trifled with
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Pumpkin: Miss Pretty Pumpkin Princess
Pumpkin is a demon warrior, who uses vines to fight. They can store items in their belly, but because they are a plant they are weak to fire. Luckily they have regeneration powers as well.
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Kyle Goodwin: The Shadow Walker Chronicles
Kyle Goodwin is a former U.S. Army Ranger who discovers he is a mage after succumbing to a demonic possession while deployed to Iraq. Although new to his magical abilities, his nearly decade long career in special operations, along with multiple combat deployments in the war on terror, has made him a true expert in the art of warfare. This, with his ability to use shadows as a means of teleportation makes his ability to out maneuver his enemies in the field of battle all the more devastating when he uses his explosive elemental magic to destroy his foe.
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Sabira: From Bones to Ashes
She’s is a badass able to use magic of all types. Being a seer, she can see all of her opponents moves and is undefeated in combat.
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Zel Cean: Sins of the Past
Zel is a 600+ year old wizard who has mastered the primal schools of magic as taught by humans including elemental magic and magic of light and dark. Well traveled and as ancient as he is, Zel is an experienced foe in the arena who can bring expertise and caution to any fight.
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James Crable: The Veil Saga
James Crable would win a magical fighting tournament not because he is the most outwardly powerful sorcerer, but because he is the most dangerous kind of opponent: an immortal who has survived nearly a thousand years of wars, betrayals, monsters, and mages who were stronger than he was. Crable fights with layered patience, battlefield pragmatism, and a willingness to adapt that younger magic users simply cannot replicate. He has an extremely powerful sword layered with offensive and defensive runes and enchantments. His mastery is not flashy but precise, blending sigil work, instinctive magic manipulation, and brutal close-quarters combat into a style designed to end fights efficiently rather than impress spectators.
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Amy Larksupr: A Sanctuary from Shadow
Amy is a triple goddess who just found out she's fae and has magic. She was raised on Earth in Pittsburgh, PA and thought she was human.
She was gifted 3 principle powers by three other triple goddesses. The goddess Brigid gave her fire, which is her most powerful and longest lasting magical ability, although she can struggle to contain it. The Morrigan gave her shapeshifting, which she is terrified of and doesn't know how to use yet. And Danu, the all-mother, gave her the power to conjure wind, giving her the ability to fly.
These goddesses also gave Amy several secondary powers she can use in a battle: the Scoran heart--she can unlock any door she touches; the warrior's skin, which makes her harder to kill, quicker to heal; and the ability to shield one or two of her allies from physical harm by casting a magical, golden net around them.
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Flek: Social Sorcery
Flek is a goblin artificer skilled in creating an extensive array of traps and explosives as well as vehicles and automatons. Whether he is laying a trap for you to walk right into or he is coming at you head on with a war golem, you won’t have a chance.
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Emily: Mask
Emily just gained access to her power of summoning fire and lightning, so while she is the daughter of an incredibly powerful demon, she doesn't always know the full extent of what she is capable of - or how to control her power.
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Adara: In Her Shadow
Adara is a fully trained assassin and sorceress. She prefers to be quick and stealthy rather than confrontational. She is trained to use two short words and is experienced in her Guild's style of hand-to-hand combat. Her magic is versatile -limited only by skill and imagination - and she is not the most practiced with it. She uses it most frequently to enhance her speed and strength, ending fights before they start.
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Victria Bloodletter: Chronicles of the First Gods
Victria is a viatari, a race known for their supernatural strength and agility. They have long life and have the ability to bend light in order to create illusions, most often used to disguise themselves as humans. They are very hard to kill, able to self-heal through self-regeneration but too much damage and their self-healing abilities won't be enough.
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Niya: The Kingdoms Series
Niya is our Unseelie princess who won’t take nonsense from anybody and secretly owns a nightclub in the vampire district. She has dark magic powers, including elemental magic that threatens to grow out of control. She’s curvy, likes to snack, and loves to fight. In fact, her favorite weapon stays strapped to her thigh in case of any standby emergencies.
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Devil's Rage: Devil's Spider
From a fusion of the MC Adrian Cardin and the Devil’s Spider comes the Devil’s Rage. Covered in thick obsidian armor-like skin, lava flows through his veins.
Standing well over seven feet tall, he is unmatched in strength. In addition to super durability, fire, lava, shadows, and regeneration. The Devil’s Rage will be the last one standing because of his mighty power. Only someone who can match him blow for blow and not get tired has a small chance. There’s a reason why the Devil’s Rage hasn’t been seen for centuries.