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Broken Lands

Broken Lands
The day it all started was supposed to be an ordinary day.
For Sophia Rothmer, that meant escorting a new delver through a simple dungeon’s Tier One area. Sure, she knew her mother had seen a future where she ended up in another world on her own adventure, but that was months ago; it probably wasn’t going to happen.
For a group of offworld mercenaries, that meant damaging a dungeon’s instance core, snagging some extra treasure, and blaming it on either Sophia or her trainee.
For Dav Carolan, that meant exploring a new world. He may not know what’s going on, but he’ll figure it out; he always does.
The heist didn’t go as planned. After a disorienting and potentially life-altering trip through the place between everything known as the Origin, Sophia and Dav find themselves in a cave. They have no idea what happened to the bandits, no idea where they are, and Sophia seems to have lost her Skills.
It’s not an auspicious welcome to the Broken Lands.
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Updates daily for the first 7 days, then 4 days/week
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The content warnings are mostly to give me room to write; this fiction is not intended to be edgy, but there are times when someone is seriously injured and the Bad Guys sometimes do Bad Things. The characters also had lives before the story and they're ... not always happy.
No AI assistance was used in the writing, but there is AI art.
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Chapter List
- Chapter 51 – Rain
- Chapter 52 – Who are you?
- Chapter 53 – Collected
- Chapter 54 – Terrible Descriptions
- Chapter 55 – Slots Not Included
- Chapter 56 – So Many Spells
- Chapter 57 – Former Registry Leader
- Building Blocks End Notes
- Building Blocks Character Gallery
- Warped Teaser
- Chapter 58 – Two New Beginnings
- Chapter 59 – Welcome to the Vocational Registry
- Chapter 60 – Apothecary
- Chapter 61 – What About Hallows?
- Chapter 62 – Meet the Quinns
- Chapter 63 – A Fifth
- Chapter 64 – The Hungering Spark
- Chapter 65 – Practice Yard
- Chapter 66 – Ten Years Ago
- Chapter 67 – Why did they Lie?
- Chapter 68 – Backwards Border
- Chapter 69 – What does Warped mean?
- Chapter 70 – Domain
- Chapter 71 – Convincing Lillah
- Chapter 72 – Miss? Are you all right?
- Chapter 73 – One Corpsevine
- Chapter 74 – Is that Loot?
- Chapter 75 – Yes, that’s a Corpsevine
- Chapter 76 – The Fire Room
- Chapter 77 – Shiny Rock
- Chapter 78 – Not Here
- Chapter 79 – Mana Specialization
- Chapter 80 – Mana Specialization … Attunement?
- Chapter 81 – Level Two
- Chapter 82 – Shedding Color
- Chapter 83 – Lady Essia
- Chapter 84 – Mission Briefing?
- Chapter 85 – Forest Memories
- Chapter 86 – Waves
- Chapter 87 – Under Assault
- Chapter 88 – The Real Threat to Casterville
- Chapter 89 – Too Hot
- Chapter 90 – Message from the Registry Master
- Chapter 91 – Challenging Assumptions
- Chapter 92 – Hide and Fight
- Chapter 93 – Healers Needed
- Chapter 94 – Taika
- Chapter 95 – A Cautious Approach
- Chapter 96 – Why are there two of you?
- Chapter 97 – Purple Blood
