Welcome to Valloroth!
The Chronicles of Valloroth is a fantasy series that started out as half a worldbuilding project, and half a 'scrape the serial numbers off this drizzt fic idea, it'll be faster'. Reader, it was not faster: I've been working on this on and off since 2021.
Here you'll find summaries and info on the series, as well as playlists and the various other bits of miscellany I've created in the process of writing these books. If you want to follow along with me writing it (for various definitions of 'writing'), come over to tumblr.
Books
Book 1 - Crowned Prince
⚔ Features: Queer cast, found family, A Whole Entire Dragon, magical mishaps, The Mere Concept of Doing The Right Thing, a grumpy assassin, a sparkly mercenary, knock-off tieflings, a handsome prince (he’s gay), more banter than your average dungeons and dragons campaign
⚔ Status: Second draft complete!
⚔ One Sentence Summary: A runaway prince seeks freedom in a new world and must find a way to convince a rag-tag group to defeat an ancient dragon, all whilst he is being hunted by a band of mercenaries and an infamous assassin.
Prince Lucian Everent, sole heir to House Everent, has run away. He has not just fled the family estate in the infernii city of Naazgarash, he has abandoned his home plane of Infernus altogether and escaped to the world of Valloroth. Hired to recover him is the flamboyant mercenary, Prince Sorrow and his band of misfits and miscreants, Vetusak K'zinla.
Also sent after him is notorious assassin the Wraith — recruited by House Fenthari to further their plans of family advancement in Naazgarash’s heirarchy by way of Lucian’s death.
Lucian has no idea he’s being hunted. He’s far too busy trying to emulate the heroes he’s read about, with help from a dubious collection of new friends: Aliyne, a recovering thief on the run from her past; Leshanna, an anxious wizard with spellcasting issues; Zander, a charmingly insensitive bard (and Aliyne’s ex-boyfriend); and Quest, an optimistically cheerful infernii in search of Destiny with a capital D.
Their adventures bring them in contact with a greater threat than any of them are quite prepared to deal with, as an ancient dragon awakens beneath the mountains of Cidra’s Teeth.
With Lucian keeping secrets, and a collection of monsters, mercenaries and murderers on their trail, can the runaway Prince and his companions stop the dragon before it becomes too powerful to kill? Or will their differences prove too great, and leave the world at the mercy of a very old, very angry, very hungry beast?
Book 2 - Awakened Witch
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coming soon
Book 3 - TBD
coming at some point...