This Story is a Prequel to "A Time of Change and Broken Chains", but can be read concurrently, before or after. This book should definitely be read before the book that will follow "A Time of Change and Broken Chains". My posting of "A Time of Change and Broken Chains" has caught up with the Patreon, and I can't go ahead of my Patrons here on Royal Road, so I've decided I'm ready to start dropping chapters of this story while "A Time of Change and Broken Chains" concludes.

Set in the Griidlord's universe of Order and Entropy, more than two centuries before the events of "A Time of Change and Broken Chains", Tiberius has been pushed to compete for the Sword of Boston by his father. His father has amassed a great fortune as a merchant, he could buy and sell the castles and lands of the lords of the city, but there is one thing his money can't buy: nobility.

Tiberius has been trained and honed to compete for the Griidsuit and the founding of a new noble house that would be granted by attaining it. Competing against the sons and daughters of nobles houses, youths that have been trained by the finest tutors, youths that come from lines of Griidlords themselves, youths that see the suit as their birthright, Tiberius must navigate his own doubts, his own inadequacy, and see if he can grow enough in the precious days of the Choosing to become worthy of becoming The Sword of Boston.

I have categorized this story as a LitRPG, but it might be more accurately called lite-LITRPG. I'm new to the genre, but I'm having fun playing with it, so please, be forgiving and don't expect the hardcore stat sheets I've seen in some other stories.