Alexander Gerifalte is at the top of his game, literally, in the seat of a plane when the planet awakens and magic envelopes the world. In the wake of the Pulse, all that was electronic is gone, and Alexander is left to fend for himself in a world newly ascended to godhood. Those who survive must contend against the regions where magic bridges worlds, and monsters cross between. Gaia itself conjures beasts where they have been extinct for a century and which flourish under the ever present wash of mana that enriches the environment.

What to expect:

A young man's journey full of struggle, pain, determination, and discovery in a land familiar but twisted.

Heavy survival and post apocalyptic themes, with a heavy dose of dark fantasy. I don't hesitate to use the word gritty.

There are new, improved, blue boxes! There are literpg elements which are not abused, but have a role in the story. Now hear this, there will NOT be numbers go burr!! There are dungeons and classes, and I hope they're done in an interesting manner.

There is magic, but not wizardry, so to speak, and magitech is present, but not prevalent, especially at the beginning.

If you've read my other story then you have some idea what you're in for, if you haven't then I tell you now, you will be sitting on the MC's shoulder, right next to the devil in his ear that whispers paranoia. I like to write a story with real people in them, and real people think real thoughts, not all of which are useful, intelligent, or even very nice. This is the first book of a series and, in this one, the only person left to navigate the new world is our MC, alone. It's man vs wild out here, so don't go looking for help, it isn't coming for a while. I learned from my mistakes last time, this release will be full length chapters, as written, no mucking about with webserial chunking, however long the chapter is, is how it gets posted, typically about 8-10k words.

If all that sounds like a good time then welcome aboard, I hope you have fun.

Posting Schedule: Due to time constraints from work, editing Varda Walk, walking my dog, and occasional bouts of neurotic obsession with reinstalling skyrim for the 18th time or some such, as well as time to read, I'm only going to publish once a month while I work on Book 2. More than that and you folks wouldn't get the quality you deserve and I want to expect from myself.

I'll post the first two chapters today to give you enough to decide whether this story is for you, although I think it really picks up steam by around chapter 4.

Disclaimer: I work full time and write for fun and to let the spiders out of my brain. That brain likes words, weird ones, and isn't afraid of a thesaurus and neither should you be. Not having fun? No problem, I encourage you to go somewhere else and have fun, life is short, I wish you the best. See my relentless grammatical and structural mistakes? Point them out, I'm pretty on the ball with fixing things, and I desperately would like to edit my work into a highly palatable state. Want to tell me how you would write my story? Write your own instead, we'll both be happier that way.