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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 389 – Imperial Adherents
- Chapter 390 – The Shade’s Story
- Chapter 391 – We’ll Help
- Chapter 393 – Password
- Chapter 394 – Indecision
- Chapter 395 – Return to Mazehold
- Chapter 396 – Master of the Professional League
- Chapter 397 – Amiable Negotiations
- Chapter 398 – Judgement
- Into the Maze End Notes
- Into the Maze Character Gallery
- Beyond the Broken Lands Cover and Teaser
- Chapter 399 – Thank You
- Chapter 400 – The First Gateway
- Chapter 401 – Party Composition
- Chapter 402 – The Final Show
- Chapter 403 – Goodbye, Mazehold
- Chapter 404 – The Gateway
- Chapter 405 – Patron Task
- Chapter 406 – Voices
- Chapter 407 – No Wings
- Chapter 408 – Shaman
- Chapter 409 – Visitors
- Chapter 410 – Don’t Beat the Wind
- Chapter 411 – Planning For Four
- Chapter 412 – Goodbye
- Chapter 413 – In the Roots
- Chapter 414 – Starting the Challenge Chain
- Chapter 415 – More than Monsters
- Chapter 416 – Clear Moon Lake
- Chapter 417 – Good Dungeon Design
- Chapter 418 – Moonrest
- Chapter 419 – Fable
- Chapter 420 – Eclipse’s End
- Chapter 421 – What Happened Back Then
- Chapter 422 – The Second Letter
- Chapter 423 – What Should She Write?
- Chapter 424 – The Goddess of the Way
- Chapter 425 – Water Birds
- Chapter 426 – Upstream
- Chapter 427 – Above the Clouds
- Chapter 428 – Roc’s Nest
- Chapter 429 – Inside the Station
- Chapter 430 – Warming Station Three
- Chapter 431 – Goat Tossing
- Chapter 432 – Across the Pass
- Chapter 433 – Surprise!
- Chapter 434 – The Gardens
- Chapter 435 – Tea with the Prelate
- Chapter 436 – The Inchoate Mountains
