Andrew Rowe (u/Salaris)'s newest book, Arcane Ascension 4, "The Silence of Unworthy Gods) has just been released
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Hey all!

I write books with a style heavily influenced by RPGs and other fantasy games.

My latest book is The Silence of Unworthy Gods, the fourth book in my Arcane Ascension series. This is my most popular series by a wide margin, and I generally recommend starting here with my books.

Arcane Ascension begins with Sufficiently Advanced Magic and is heavily inspired by games JRPGs Final Fantasy, Lufia, Bravely Default, and Trails of Cold Steel. It takes place in a high magic setting where magical marks called attunements grant vast powers to individuals who take "Judgments" inside a colossal tower to earn them. Each attunement has a distinctive power set analagous to a character class in a game -- for example, Guardians gain abilities that excel in front-line combat, Summoners can forge pacts with monsters and learn to draw on their power, and Elementalists can hurl fire and lightning. There are many more attunements, some with more straightforward abilities than others, and each attunement can grow stronger and accumulate more powers through practice -- and a few other clever tricks. Once a character earns an attunement, they must learn how to wield it properly. As such, the series involves a group of newly-attuned students learning magic at an academy - and also occasionally going on dungeon crawls in deadly locations filled with traps, treasure, and monsters.

My other main series are Weapons & Wielders and The War of Broken Mirrors.

Weapons and Wielders follows Keras Selyrian, a magic-wielding swordsman who arrives in a foreign land to search for help for his homeland. In the process, he will stumble upon the legend of the Six Sacred Swords and begin to seek them out.

The first novel in that series is Six Sacred Swords, and the series as a whole is heavily inspired by games like The Legend of Zelda, Dragon Quest, and Ys. You might enjoy it if you're in the mood for talking swords, bibliophile dragons, and a lot of accidentally breaking traps and puzzles. The audio book versions can be found here, narrated by the fantastic Nick Podehl!

The War of Broken Mirrors, which starts with Forging Divinity, is more closely related to western fantasy novels and RPGs. Forging Divinity focuses on a group of people investigating a city's religion, which claims that the local gods can raise anyone to divine status if they prove their loyalty and value. The feel is more D&Dish, with more of a focus on political intrigue than my other books. Unlike the others, this series is also third person limited with multiple perspectives (the others are all first person with a single narrator). The third book in this series just came out, and it's my only completed series - the others are still in progress.

If you're in the mood for something lighter as an entry to my works, How to Defeat a Demon King in Ten Easy Steps is a JRPG inspired comedy novella, and it's a good intro to my style.

Hey all!

I write books with a style heavily influenced by RPGs and other fantasy games.

My latest book is The Silence of Unworthy Gods, the fourth book in my Arcane Ascension series. This is my most popular series by a wide margin, and I generally recommend starting here with my books.

Arcane Ascension begins with Sufficiently Advanced Magic and is heavily inspired by games JRPGs Final Fantasy, Lufia, Bravely Default, and Trails of Cold Steel. It takes place in a high magic setting where magical marks called attunements grant vast powers to individuals who take "Judgments" inside a colossal tower to earn them. Each attunement has a distinctive power set analagous to a character class in a game -- for example, Guardians gain abilities that excel in front-line combat, Summoners can forge pacts with monsters and learn to draw on their power, and Elementalists can hurl fire and lightning. There are many more attunements, some with more straightforward abilities than others, and each attunement can grow stronger and accumulate more powers through practice -- and a few other clever tricks. Once a character earns an attunement, they must learn how to wield it properly. As such, the series involves a group of newly-attuned students learning magic at an academy - and also occasionally going on dungeon crawls in deadly locations filled with traps, treasure, and monsters.

My other main series are Weapons & Wielders and The War of Broken Mirrors.

Weapons and Wielders follows Keras Selyrian, a magic-wielding swordsman who arrives in a foreign land to search for help for his homeland. In the process, he will stumble upon the legend of the Six Sacred Swords and begin to seek them out.

The first novel in that series is Six Sacred Swords, and the series as a whole is heavily inspired by games like The Legend of Zelda, Dragon Quest, and Ys. You might enjoy it if you're in the mood for talking swords, bibliophile dragons, and a lot of accidentally breaking traps and puzzles. The audio book versions can be found here, narrated by the fantastic Nick Podehl!

The War of Broken Mirrors, which starts with Forging Divinity, is more closely related to western fantasy novels and RPGs. Forging Divinity focuses on a group of people investigating a city's religion, which claims that the local gods can raise anyone to divine status if they prove their loyalty and value. The feel is more D&Dish, with more of a focus on political intrigue than my other books. Unlike the others, this series is also third person limited with multiple perspectives (the others are all first person with a single narrator). The third book in this series just came out, and it's my only completed series - the others are still in progress.

If you're in the mood for something lighter as an entry to my works, How to Defeat a Demon King in Ten Easy Steps is a JRPG inspired comedy novella, and it's a good intro to my style.

Hey all!

I write books with a style heavily influenced by RPGs and other fantasy games.

My latest book is The Silence of Unworthy Gods, the fourth book in my Arcane Ascension series. This is my most popular series by a wide margin, and I generally recommend starting here with my books.

Arcane Ascension begins with Sufficiently Advanced Magic and is heavily inspired by games JRPGs Final Fantasy, Lufia, Bravely Default, and Trails of Cold Steel. It takes place in a high magic setting where magical marks called attunements grant vast powers to individuals who take "Judgments" inside a colossal tower to earn them. Each attunement has a distinctive power set analagous to a character class in a game -- for example, Guardians gain abilities that excel in front-line combat, Summoners can forge pacts with monsters and learn to draw on their power, and Elementalists can hurl fire and lightning. There are many more attunements, some with more straightforward abilities than others, and each attunement can grow stronger and accumulate more powers through practice -- and a few other clever tricks. Once a character earns an attunement, they must learn how to wield it properly. As such, the series involves a group of newly-attuned students learning magic at an academy - and also occasionally going on dungeon crawls in deadly locations filled with traps, treasure, and monsters.

My other main series are Weapons & Wielders and The War of Broken Mirrors.

Weapons and Wielders follows Keras Selyrian, a magic-wielding swordsman who arrives in a foreign land to search for help for his homeland. In the process, he will stumble upon the legend of the Six Sacred Swords and begin to seek them out.

The first novel in that series is Six Sacred Swords, and the series as a whole is heavily inspired by games like The Legend of Zelda, Dragon Quest, and Ys. You might enjoy it if you're in the mood for talking swords, bibliophile dragons, and a lot of accidentally breaking traps and puzzles. The audio book versions can be found here, narrated by the fantastic Nick Podehl!

The War of Broken Mirrors, which starts with Forging Divinity, is more closely related to western fantasy novels and RPGs. Forging Divinity focuses on a group of people investigating a city's religion, which claims that the local gods can raise anyone to divine status if they prove their loyalty and value. The feel is more D&Dish, with more of a focus on political intrigue than my other books. Unlike the others, this series is also third person limited with multiple perspectives (the others are all first person with a single narrator). The third book in this series just came out, and it's my only completed series - the others are still in progress.

If you're in the mood for something lighter as an entry to my works, How to Defeat a Demon King in Ten Easy Steps is a JRPG inspired comedy novella, and it's a good intro to my style.

LINKS:

US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BH1SZV33
UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0BH1SZV33
ALL OTHER REGIONS: https://books2read.com/u/bP7NYY

BLURB:

Upon returning to Valia after his journey to Caelford and the Unclaimed Lands, Corin Cadence is confronted with a familiar foe — his own father. While his strength has vastly increased since his last encounter with Magnus Cadence, Corin knows that he’ll need every trick at his disposal — and maybe a few new ones — if he wants to survive a duel with his father intact.
While Corin struggles with his family, his friends must face a second year at Lorian Heights with new classes, familiar but new chancellor, and deadly new enemies both on and off the campus. But school itself is the least of their worries. As the year progresses, the nation of Valia faces new travails at the emergence of a mysterious faction targeting attuned commoners and foreigners. Casualties mount as Corin’s allies seek to unmask the leadership of this deadly order — and discover a threat that they cannot hope to face and emerge unscathed.