Novel info
The Weight of Legacy

Author:
FauxPraetorAlternative names:
The Weight of LegacyGenre:
ComedySource:
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OngoingThe Weight of Legacy
{Participant in the November 2025 NovelFire Writathon challenge}
An elderly family historian with a poorly-suppressed penchant for violence meets a tragic end when the spaceship she takes to the Moon explodes, and so Malwine is born (reborn?), ready to once again become everybody else’s problem. Her new world is full of bloodline-based abilities and mana cultivation alike, so she’s bound to have a fun time. The system’s even given her some juicy Skills that reward her usual probing!
If only she hadn’t reincarnated into a world half-buried under the waves after the last Emperor yelled at the Heavens a bit too loudly, with no document repositories in sight.
Watch as Malwine’s dubious dreams of using the knowledge from her once-long lifespan to her advantage, becoming a powerful mana wielder, and reclaiming her new ancestors’ Legacies, clash with being born cursed, surviving the ever-growing fallout of her new grandfather being a murderhobo, and avoiding the strange grudge-holding smiters who live in the “sky”.
At least she’s leveling up fast! Ignore the -99% stat debuff, Malwine!
>strong>What to expect:>/strong>
- A main protagonist whose self-esteem hasn’t quite caught up to being in a completely unfamiliar environment
- Nerfed to Strong progression (as the description implies, the MC inherited a curse that coincidentally ruins all her isekai-given advantages—it will be dealt with, but walk into this aware of it)
- A measure of perspective switches that follow the family and fellows unfortunate enough to have had a cursed reincarnated baby born among them
- LitRPG with leveling, Skills, Classes, and very loose cultivation elements! (author may be taking quite the liberal approach to the connection between that English word and trees)
- Levels that are determined by total Skill levels and mana cultivation rather than only combat (there are advantages to combat, but you won't be seeing every noncombatant being level 1 that can't progress)
- Main protagonist starts (restarts?) off as an infant, so be aware of that—she won’t stay little for a million chapters, however
- Comedy with a wildly anachronistic world and story arcs that are wilder still
- Author’s formative years may have involved learning the meanings of new English words from a mysterious leather-bound dictionary, so corrections are expected
>em>Premise inspired by the anecdotal concept of people in cultivation/progression stories talking about how a character’s born strong because of their bloodline/family but never explaining what the deal of that bloodline/family is.>/em>
>em>Cover DIY by the author (and it shows).>/em>
{A winner in the April 2024 NovelFire Writathon challenge}
{A winner in the October 2024 NovelFire Writathon challenge}
{A winner in the April 2025 NovelFire Writathon challenge}
>strong>Schedule:>/strong> Once a week at mininum
Chapter List
- Chapter 1 - The Widow's End
- Chapter 2 - Staring at Starry Text Boxes
- Chapter 3 - Needs Must as Zayden Drives
- Chapter 4 - A Perfectly Cursed Start
- Chapter 5 - There is no One Beryl Limit
- Chapter 6 - The Convenient Arrival of Required Secondary Traits
- Chapter 7 - So About That To-Do List...
- Chapter 8 - Can Bad Judgment Be a Family Trait?
- Chapter 9 - Sometimes Cultivation Goes a Little Too Well
- Chapter 10 - Why Would You Ever Blame the Baby?
- Interlude - The Caves of Pikkōnheim
- Chapter 11 - Of
and - Chapter 12 - Lady Margreth's Superb Fashion Sense (and Brief Employment)
- Chapter 13 - Should Have Foreseen [Write Anywhere] Coming
- Chapter 14 - Cycle of the Sea, Cycle of the World
- Chapter 15 - So Many Wrong Ways to Seek Beryl
- Chapter 16 - Local Children Steal All the Loot
- Chapter 17 - Imagine Actually Thinking Things Through
- Chapter 18 - The Sea Ate Somebody's Homework
- Chapter 19 - To Avoid the Terror of Defeat
- Chapter 20 - Ill at Ease Behind These Masks
- Chapter 21 - Paths Carved by the Unknown
- Chapter 22 - So Say a {Legacy} That Steers Itself
- Chapter 23 - Who Bears the Blame for Silence
- Chapter 24 - Is it Prudent to Never Give up Your Dead?
- Chapter 25 - Violence Against Ancient Books Is Discouraged
- Interlude - Life After Spaceships
- Chapter 26 - There's Nothing Timelier Than Fresh Fruit
- Chapter 27 - The Worthlessness of a High Level
- Chapter 28 - A Still Poorly-Defined Search
- Chapter 29 - A Place to Rest
- Chapter 30 - Waves from Times Long Past
- Chapter 31 - Scrapping the Bottom of the Dictionary Barrel
- Chapter 32 - Even Terrible Acting May Still Yield Results
- Chapter 33 - The True Life of the Party
- Chapter 34 - In Defense of a Mind
- Chapter 35 - The Art of Disregarding All Balancing Advice
- Chapter 36 - When It Rains Finds, It Pours
- Chapter 37 - That Brotherly Predisposition Toward Unfounded Beliefs
- Chapter 38 - Some Slices of Strategy in Life
- Chapter 39 - Between Bad Parenting, Terrible Choices, and Worse Days
- Chapter 40 - Preemptive Enemy Monikers
- Chapter 41 - The Partial Success of an Affinity Heist
- Interlude - Sibyl
- Chapter 42 - The Fog, The Rain, The Wind…
- Chapter 43 - Cultivation Shall Not be Held Responsible for Existential Crises
- Chapter 44 - Vestigial Timeline Inconsistencies
- Chapter 45 - The Real Reason Family Time is Cancelled
- Chapter 46 - A Mother's Visage
- Chapter 47 - Nonchalance in the Face of Danger
