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DC/RH BK I, CH 17: Taking Form

Edit: Sorry, we're having a slight scheduling mishap. This is out an hour early. It is also why I don't use the scheduler.

Chapter Seventeen: Taking Form 

Brandr gave a single glance at the stunned sprite lord, before monitoring his internal processes. His passive essence gathering was skyrocketing. He could actually feel his cultivation base increase slightly which was a surprise considering just how much essence he'd spent to expand his domain. Only now did he recall ...

DC/RH BK I, CH 16: How to Build Your Dungeon

Chapter 16: How to build your dungeon

Brandr was born on the DunBlaze world to a small noble clan. His name meant sword and fire. Fittingly, he was born with innate attributes of metal and fire and they formed the root of all his cultivation.  

Growing up, the most popular resource for cultivation in the qi condensation stage was tinder fescue. It was one of the most common and useful mystic herbs. It could be refined into pills to restore fire essence, used ...

DC/RH BK I, CH 15: The Path before me...

Chapter Fifteen: The Path before me....

The sprite looked at him strangely but did as he asked. He drew the other sprites back as well, creating an open space around the ruby hued dungeon core.

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Brandr blocked out the external world and reached deep into himself. He ignored the new essence that was constantly seeping in through the walls of his domain and even the domain itself, ...

[Lore] Ranks and Tiers of HoGW

Ranks   

Arcanist/ Mage/ Psychic/ 

Arcane Disciple: Initiates

• Arcane Baptism
• Energy Gathering
• Arcane Manifestation
• Energy Condensation
• Energy Crystal

Arcane Lord: Mimics

Arcane King: Understands

Arcane Emperor: Controls

Arcane Sage: Fuses

World Transcendent: Becomes

Heavenly Immortal: Surpasses

Tellurian/ Terrenist/ Qi Warrior/ Physic...

HoGW BK IV, CH 9: People of Shadow

Okay, you guys have to let me know what you think of this chapter in the comments section. While it was easy to write it was very difficult to edit. That's mostly because it gets deeply philosophical in some areas and I had trouble smoothing that out. I needed to get my point across without losing you guys and I hope I did it right. Either way, let me know in the comments section. Maybe I can fix it before it goes public on Saturday. 

Chapter Nine: People of Shadow

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HoGW BK IV, CH 8: Attunement and Artificing

Quick Note: Okay, here we go. The next chapter, People of Shadow will be out soon. Tonight, I'll reveal the new feature of the site I was talking about earlier. Also coming are a couple of DC/RH chapters. I want to put them out there so I can focus completely on for a bit. 

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Chapter Eight: Attunement and Artificing

Valerian faltered a bit. He sh...

[Update] Hatchling's Cover and Editing

Here's the cover for HoGW Book One: Hatchling. The artist did an incredible job.  I never thought something I produced(you know what i mean) would look this good.

As some of you know, the editor for Hatchling walked out a couple of weeks ago due to personal reasons. Well, I managed to find us a new one. I spent the better part of my Monday discussing things with her. We might not be ba...

[Announcement] Explanations

Sometimes life gives you lemons. Sometimes it just fucks with you. Here's a recap of the last few days of my life.

Night of Thursday

• A scheduling mistake has the DC/RH chapter go out first instead of HoGW. Fine, I try to work around that to get all the releases out (I was launching something new on the site. You'll get to see it soon).
• The wifi craps out
• Frustrated, I do the only thing I know works; system restore. (It doesn't fix anyth...
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DC/RH BK I, CH 14: Choices

Chapter Fourteen: Choices

The sprite lord hurried over to his master's side. Once there, Brandr used his newfound knowledge to reveal the race selection screen to him. It wasn't that he couldn't make the choice himself. He was just being pragmatic. Dungeons grew by devouring those they lured into their depths. Why not tailor himself to his prey? Also, who better to help with this than someone who was once a professional dungeon morsel? 

"In your experience, which...

DC/RH BK I, CH 13: Starter Race

Chapter Thirteen: Starter Race

Musings over, he turned to the panels floating in front of him.

[You do not have a dungeon pixie!]

[Would you like to summon or create one?]

It contrasted greatly with another panel.

[You have bound a sprite as you dungeon guide.] 

[Would you like to maintain this choice?]

With his new [Greater World Link] skill, Brandr inquired as ...

HoGW BK IV, CH 7: Secrets of the Orb

Valerian did not have to ask to know the old smith was pissed. Even so, he did not dare to lie so he told the man everything. The mercurial orb was his arcane focus. However, it only saw use when he was creating weapons from it. He especially liked being able to use the weapons he made to cast spells as he fought. It reminded him of fighting with his mace. Besides this, the orb only came out when he was cultivating. Otherwise, it remained within his spatial ring. The more Valerian talked, the mo...

DC/RH BK I, CH 12: Dungeon Starter Pack

Chapter Twelve: Dungeon Starter Pack

Brandr stared at the last window with some trepidation and no small amount of excitement. This world continued to astound him with how it monitored and responded to his every action. By all means, he should be looking over his shoulder right now but he knew it would be a waste of time. Nothing he'd done thus far could detect even the faintest trace of scrying, spiritual sense or any of the ways he knew to monitor someone rem...

DC/RH BK I, CH 11: A Step Forward

Chapter Eleven: A Step Forward

Brandr continued to surf Thorn's memories. The sprite lord's instincts were right. It only took a couple of days for the troll to find them again. This time, even more sprites died. The time after that, they were more prepared, ready and willing to fight and yet their numbers continued to decrease. Worse than that, Thorn discovered to his dismay that the troll had grown far more powerful than it was when they first encountered it. Each sprite ...

[Lore] Element/Attribute List

The unexpected popularity of the lore post had me thinking, why not do more. I’ve got lots of story and world building notes piling up in my drive account. Why not release a few non-spoilery ones? They do qualify as behind the scenes material, right? Hence, this… there are more on the way. You can’t see what i have planned for a the story but you can get a feel for the stuff I’ll introduce and a better understanding of Verre.

Bear in mind that this is not a complete list. There are a f...

HoGW BK IV, CH 6: The Insulted Smith

Got my computer back. It's fixed and many of you will be surprised to know that you were right about what was wrong with it (Driver issues and some sort of system redundancy that kept updating it to that driver-- didn't really bother to understand that bit). Thankfully, I did not have to actually replace the adapter. Again, Thank all of you for your support, suggestions and offers of help!

I've used it for close to 24 hours and I've not had any problems, if you exclude the incident 15 hours ag...

HoGW BK IV, CH 5: Ghost Goals

And here it is!

Chapter Five: Ghosts Goals

“I hear you and your phantasm fought against Richard this morning?” Great Elder Allard asked.

Valerian groaned and looked away, moving the cloth bag of ice from his face to the back of his head. This revealed the large black eye his loving uncle had given him. Given that the eye was nearly swollen shut, Valerian had to settle for glaring at the old man with the other one. Battered and bruised as he was, he could...

[Lore] DC/RH: Stats and Parameters

Long rant about stats tables: I'm sure that many were confused by the letter-based rating system values in the last chapter. That's what we'll be using. No numbers! This is not just to set this story apart but also because whiles numbers seem to fit the whole litRPG theme better, the numbers in many of these stories, especially on royalroadl, are completely arbitrary. 

No joke! They mean absolutely nothing!

What's the difference between one point and another? The MC has 40 STR and t...

DC/ RH BK I, CH 10: Attack on Faerie Haven

Up next are the HoGW chapters!

Chapter Ten: Attack on Faerie Haven

The atmosphere was very tense. Lord Clearwing had dictated that all without certified combat skills either help with the evacuation or join those leaving. Alyx did not want to leave. He was born in this very hawthorn bush and he had lived his entire life in it and its environs. It was clear that something had the elders spooked and that scared him but not enough to make him abandon everything and l...

DC/RH BK I, CH 9: Makas the Troll

More chapters incoming!

Chapter Nine: Makas the Troll

All of a sudden, Brandr was Thorn or was it that Thorn thought he was Brandr. Then, neither was the other or even himself. Eventually,  the world settled down and they both became Thorn as Brandr finally gained control of his technique. Once he did, he zeroed in the strongest memory associated with 'the troll' and the world reshaped itself into a battlefield. 

Brandr braced himself for an intere...

DC/RH BK I, CH 8: Vulnerabilities

Okay! I managed to schedule this and the following chapters. Tomorrow I'll  take my computer to be fixed. Hopefully, I'll have good news in a couple of days.

That aside, let's celebrate! It's been eighteen months but finally, we've achieved our first patreon goal. We really made it past the $100 dollar mark. It might not seem like much to some of you guys but it means a lot to me. It means my dream of becoming a successful author, someone capable of living off his art, are vi...

[Announcement] Bad News

My Laptop's Wireless Adapter Keeps Dying!

This is the same issue I thought I fixed a couple of weeks ago. Well, it's back and it's worse. It's crapped out four times this week alone and nothing I've done seems to work for long. The adapter just switches itself off and all wireless options disappear from all the settings. Even when I find it (which I can only do if a I catch it right after it switches off) and turn it back on it goes off after a few minutes. Funny thing is, ...

HoGW BK IV CH 4: Steelborn Fighting

Two more chapters coming up. Stay tuned. Also, there’ll be an announcement so keep your eyes peeled. 

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Chapter Four: Steelborn Fighting

Valerian rose before the sun. Last night's talks had not let him rest easy. He'd had too much to think about. Thus, he did his breathing exercises quickly and stepped out to do something more involving, hoping the exercise help him clear his he...

HoGW BK IV, CH 3: Patron and Allies

 I’ve got a big announcement. We’ve met our first patreon goal. I honestly wasn’t sure this day would come (it has been over a year). Do you know what that means?

When payments clear on Wednesday, we’ll be having four chapters a week instead of three. Please join me to thank our beloved patrons who have made this possible. Calling them heroes could not be more apt. Funny, how it goes with the chapter title, doesn't it?

Also, I’ve been fallin...

DC/RH BK I, CH 7: Parameters II

Long rant about stats tables: I'm sure that many were confused by the letter-based rating system values in the last chapter. That's what we'll be using. No numbers! This is not just to set this story apart but also because whiles numbers seem to fit the whole litRPG theme better, the numbers in many of these stories, especially on royalroadl, are completely arbitrary. 

No joke! They mean absolutely nothing!

What's the difference between one point and another? The MC...

HoGW BK IV, CH 2: Terse Talks

 I've got a few more chapters coming out for patreon, a few changes and some bad news. Publication efforts have hit a snag. More on that when I get everything sorted out. 

First, we'll focus on getting you guys up to speed. I've got a lot to edit.

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Chapter Two: Terse Talks

Valerian turned to his great-grandfather with a mental sigh, wondering how it had come to this. Sparing an ear fo...

DC/RH BK I, CH 6: Parameters

Chapter Six: Parameters

"Open yourself to me, Thorn", Brandr commanded.

If there was only one thing he could say about Thorn, Brandr would definitely speak of his responsive decisiveness. The sprite lord did not even hesitate when called. He flew to him quickly and threw the link between them wide open. Thorn obeyed every order given to him without question, performed with admirable efficacy and addressed Brandr with the utmost respect. His actions and changes had not gone unnot...

DC/RH BK I, CH 5: A Dungeon, am I?

Chapter Five: A Dungeon, am I?

The sprites, as he knew now them to be called, had moved in. He had been forced to expand his corridor and create chambers and homes for them. His domain now had forty-eight new inhabitants all of whom were sworn to his service. Honestly, the whole thing had been a no-brainer for him.

Brandr had listened well to the proposed terms. Oaths of service, loyalty and obedience in exchange for shelter and protection? He'd had several swear such to him ove...

[Update] Book Cover (In Progress)

Here's an update on the book cover. Man! The artist is really good. 

Thoughts and suggestions, please!

DC/RH BK I, CH 4: Pact

Chapter Four: Pact

Brandr was frustrated. He'd long since made it to the surface. He was fully formed now, whatever that meant. His crystal form had grown a bit more and his ability to control his environment had improved. There was, however, a major catch. He could not leave. There was a metre tall, metre wide exit, more than enough for his twelve-centimetre tall self and yet he could not walk through it. It didn't matter what he did. He could no more leave his corridor th...

HoGW BK IV, CH 1: Home

This was originally titled ‘A Happy Welcome’. It was also more sappy. Regrettably, it was also a waste of a chapter. Nothing actually happened. I cut out some of the fluff and helped the plot along instead.

Chapter One: Home

The walls of DaleGuard are an even more impressive sight to an onlooker approaching from the west. For any perceptive person, it was clear that serious planning and aesthetics went into the laying the road to the fortress city. On a clea...