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Lillandra is a traditional fantasy with a pretty light tone. It takes place in a world called Iona Magister, and follows the adventures of a swordsman named Arai, who, in the midst of his battle with the villainous Night Queen, is accidentally teleported to the other side of the world with her. On their long journey back home, the two of them -- hero and villain -- have all kinds of adventures and gradually begin to form an unlikely friendship.
The story is currently being serialized on Royal Road and on my Patreon, which you can find here. New chapters will be released every few days until it's complete, or until I run out of steam, whichever comes first. (I had about a third of the story written before I started uploading it, but I'm a slow writer, and there may be delays.)
As I said, the tone is pretty light and it has a lot of traditional fantasy tropes: magic, dragons, elves, monsters, and so on. It's also very episodic. I'm trying to give it a light novel, fantasy anime kind of feel, while keeping the story and the setting relatively serious.
The entire novel will eventually end up on Amazon, of course. If you'd like to start reading it now, though, or if you're interested in becoming a patron (I'd be extremely grateful), here's that link again.
Oh, and here's a map of the eastern half of Iona Magister:
