Downtown Druid
Downtown Druid
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SUMMARY
Betrayed by his former gang and thrown into the Rendhold Underprison, Dantes has spent the last five years scraping by.
A whoreson of orcish, human, and elvish blood, he's lived on the periphery of the periphery, lying, cheating, and stealing to survive. After a run of bad luck, he's made a powerful enemy. Luckily, he's also gotten all the tools he needs to turn things around.
A slow burn progression fantasy focused on rising through the criminal underworld of a city-state using newfound powers and quick wits.
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MC's powers will develop slowly, but he will use them in creative ways to get ahead, and in the meantime he's not above just braining someone with a club.
Anti-hero MC with a code.
1500+ words per chapter
Current schedule Tues-Thurs-Sat
This is my first third-person novel length work, may be some accidental perspective switching, feel free to point it out. Collapse
6 Latest Chapters
Chapter List
- Chapter 1: The Maw
- Chapter 2: You'll owe me a favor
- Chapter 3: It doesn't matter how you look
- Chapter 4: Filthy mutt
- Chapter 5: Your kind can be slow
- Chapter 6: Skittered away
- Chapter 7: Do you think they'll treat you kindly?
- Chapter 8: I really don't want to be stabbed.
- Chapter 9: Or mad. Or dead.
- Chapter 10: You are strange
- Chapter 11: Taller than a dwarf. Bit shorter than me.
- Chapter 12: The cannibalism didn't bother him much
- Chapter 13: Too small a meal
- Chapter 14: The possibilities are endless
- Chapter 15: Head shape that indicates low cunning
- Chapter 16: He wanted to rule it
- Chapter 17: A god? Of rats?
- Chapter 18: Dead Man Walking
- Chapter 19: I have squats to do
- Chapter 20: A fool's game
- Chapter 21: I was made for the stage
- Chapter 22: Hungry and Cruel
- Chapter 23: Dust, weed, favor, coin if they have it
- Chapter 24: We'll see how the next roll goes
- Chapter 25: Too many are born with the sun on their faces
- Chapter 26: Brazen and bold
- Chapter 27: Tempt the gods to ruin your day
- Chapter 28: I did it very carefully
- Chapter 29: You're not here to kill me I presume?
- Chapter 30: I'm no rat
- Chapter 31: Antennae tickled his lips
- Chapter 32: A Fey's sense of honor
- Chapter 33: What would you say is the largest kind of tree?
- Chapter 34: Violent doesn't mean stupid
- Chapter 35: Mating, yes. Also murder.
- Chapter 36: Doing a bit of flexing
- Chapter 37: The dainty wave of a highborn woman
- Chapter 38: Here's the gist
- Chapter 39: Free booze, women, and money
- Chapter 40: Shouldn't have been such an unrepentant-