Blind Chaos - Tales Beneath the Dragoneye Moons

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Return to the world of Selkie Myth's Beneath the Dragoneye Moons, for an all-new tale.

Thousands of years ago, the five great gods created the world of Pallos. A land of mysticism where mighty beasts and beings struggled to carve out their respective territories, empowered by the System. On this world, a Paladin in service to Xaoc, the god of chaos, struggled and perished.

And then woke up as a young girl in a nation known as the Republic of Remus. She has a head full of patchwork and inconsistent knowledge, but she’s determined to use it to get a leg up on her second shot at life.

Ranthia is an Adventurer at heart, with a knack for getting herself into trouble. Fortunately, she's never met a problem she couldn't solve with a well-applied knife (if you ignore the myriad problems that couldn't be solved with a knife or that she really shouldn't have tried to solve with a knife). She might not be a [Paladin], but she does her best to embody the ideals of chaos and remains highly devoted to Xaoc. All while the beautiful Dragoneye Moons gaze down upon her.

Books 1 and 2 are stubbed and is available on Amazon and available through Kindle Unlimited!

Blind Chaos exists courtesy of a fan media license from Selkie Myth! While I emphatically recommend you read the source material and experience Elaine’s journey, it’s not required to follow Ranthia’s own adventures. Whether this is your first Tale Beneath the Dragoneye Moons or you have high familiarity with the setting, welcome to my own efforts to do justice to the wonderful world that Selkie Myth created.

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Chapter length is variable, with each chapter as long as it needs to be. I’m here to tell a story, not to adhere to some artificial word count goal.

Covers commissioned from the amazing Nozomi Matsuoka.

Information

Status: Ongoing
Year: 2025
Author: CrimCat

Royal Road Stats

Rating: 4.7/ 5.0
Followers: 704
Views: 145,826

Chapters(110 total)

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Community Reviews(10)

Aleah CatRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
I must admit, I handle some of the editing for this series, and I write another of the Tales Beneath the Dragoneye Moons series. Slightly biased? Sure. Does it matter? Nope.
Ranthia… where does one even begin when talking about Ranthia as a main character? She’s a powerful driving force for this series. She does what feels right for her character and flips the board of what the author is planning on multiple occasions, as if the character has so much personality that she sets her own script, whether Crim has planned for things to shake out a certain way or not.
The plot feels like it is alive, and Ranthia reacts to it and bends the trajectory to her own whims at every moment. This sort of character writing is what authors should strive for, especially with fantasy and fiction. Ranthia doesn’t have a modern sense for things because she’s a native of Pallos and she approaches her conflicts with the Pallos mindset so well.
The progression fantasy genre for Pallos means there’s a ton of things to juggle at once. The element system is very intricate and allows very interesting themed characters that catch the attention of a lot of readers. The system of Pallos has intricate details and restrictions that make the powers of the people living in the world both highly varied with a massive ceiling for potential and at the same time, susceptible to whatever counters them best. These aspects of the setting make me excited as an author and a reader, but they also make for incredible hurdles to navigate while writing the story.
Crim has a ton of content written in advance that has had to be revised before being published to RoyalRoad, meaning a lot of math has had to have been adjusted, and with the spreadsheet getting as crazy at is always does at high levels, I am humbled by the amount of effort that goes into every chapter.
The way Blind Chaos reuses moments and details from the original series feels refreshing and exciting as every character that is carried over is done exce
Duct Tape EngieRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
This is a fantastic story and would easily stand on its own. CrimCat has put incredible effort into maintaining the world created by Selkie Myth while adding so much to it with their own story.
Ranthia is a wonderful, compelling main character, and each chapter has me looking forward to the next in the best way.
The only real criticism I have is that side characters have been getting killed off outside the story in ways that don't seem meaningful. That said, this does help reinforce the setting regarding death being common and largely meaningless. Ranthia does find out about the deaths at points in the story where it makes sense.
IyamGrootRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
This is a great spin-off of BTDEM, licensed by the original author for a new take by a talented new writer. But the main protagonist (Ranthia) is very different from our beloved Elaine from the original series. A much more physical classer so the fight scenes are fast, furious, and engagingly written. And she is quite a bit darker in personality. I’m not here for the romance, but for those who are it is well written. I give it a solid recommendation for a great and fun read, and hope the author has many more chapters to come.
MrXeriosRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Greta story. I love the BTDEM world and most of its characters, and I think the author did an amazing work putting their own spin on it. This story is a bit darker, the main character is slightly more interesting in my opinion (I still adore Elaine, don't worry), and the fighting style is pretty cool.
My main issue is that I want more chapters. ;)
MaestruTyrRoyal Road
★★★★★ 4.5
The story is great so far. I really enjoyed the original story by Selkie Myth. Your story is a very fun way to explore characters we all lost in the story Selkie gave us. Her world is very fun and I enjoy the spins you have given us on viewpoints. Seeing a character as an Adventurer become a Ranger might possibly be blasphemous to Sentinel Dawn, but still creates a great fun twist for us to see from a different angle how this world can grow.
Zephyr3141Royal Road
★★★★★ 4.5
If you liked Selkies "Beneath the Dragoneye Moons" you should definitely give this story a try. You'll get to see how things progressed in Remus after Elaine visits the fae through Ranthia's eyes.
If you haven't read Selkies series, I think this book is still readable, but I'd strongly recommend that you read the first 7 books of "Beneath the Dragoneye Moons" before reading this, as it provides a lot of background context to characters and places that appear in this story.
There is a lot of girl-girl love in this book (but nothing R rated) so if that's something that you don't like in your books, then this story is probably not something you'd like.
One criticism of the story I have, is how improbable it is that so many of the female side characters turn out to be lesbian or bisexual women, that it begins to feel like half the female population of Remus must be either lesbian or bisexual in order for this to occur.
Around book 2 chapter 36, where a new romance arc began, is where I started to check out, eventually giving on up on this story in chapter 62. It felt like the book transitioned from 20% romance + 80% adventure, to the opposite (80% romance + 20% adventure), and that the romantic dialog was unrealistically sickly sweet. The number of times the author manages to work in "my love" into normal dialog is painful... once or twice per chapter is more than sufficient. No one I know IRL, movies, or TV speaks like that. Also the amount of how-beautiful-you-are flattery is way too much ...I get they find each other really attractive, no need to constantly remind me of the fact. This probably a personal hang up, but the word "babe", as in "babe, I love you more than life itself" doesn't feel like it belongs in swords and scocery, and it gets overused too much.
ReviasRoyal Road
★★★★★ 4.5
This story is really great.
While it is a fanfiction, it has a wholly different story and the only interaction with the original mc of btdem is well done and wholly believable.
Additionally it explores plot threads that were left hanging after the timeskip in btdem. Now we can actually read someones headcanon about the time after elaine was whisked into the fae realm.
BakanogamiRoyal Road
★★★★★ 4.5
The good:
- The author really nails the world and style that Selkie Myth created. If, like me, you got to the end of Beneath the Dragoneye Moons still hungry for more, this is a fine way to sate your appetite.
- Most of the original characters are pretty good and interesting. Ranthia is a very different protagonist to Elaine, with unique skillset and a tragic penchant for making those she loves into an unshakable pillar in her life, only for them to be separated from her by one reason or another.
- It picks up a lot of the lingering storylines from the earlier books of BtDEM that some may have wanted to read more about.
The bad:
- Some of the side characters feel a little less fleshed out compared to Dragoneye Moons. Ranthia's penchant for never remembering names or making friends with others is cute at first, but in the long run makes the world feel less alive and more difficult to follow. Ranthia's love interests also never really hooked me like Iona did.
- Materials from the original series basically guaranteed the Shimagu war would be a major focus, but I'm not sure it was handled super well.
After spending years passively defending a front-line base from passing armies little to no resupply, Ranthia then is moved to passively defend a somewhat larger front-line base that's supplied somewhat better. She spends basically an entire human lifetime sitting there dueling passing Shimagu twins (usually indecisively) without ever getting reassigned, sent on missions, interacting with more than a couple other sentinels, etc. I realize Remus was still treating it like the Formorian war, but it made the lengthy war arc kind of samey and dull at times.
- While Ranthia is fun as a character, she feels kind of lost and purposeless, only walking paths others have set her down, without much ambition or goals of her own. Even her [Oath], which is supposed to be a defining, personal thing, has only ever restricted her actions once or twice. I'm not sure what she'll even do after
Tejas KhandwekarRoyal Road
★★★★★ 4.5
I like how the story has begun. Grammer looks good and I also like the MC. The pace is not too slow nor too fast. Would definitely want to see more class options than just the first one though. Definately don't mind seeing more of the famous BTDEM system. *Dings* all around. [*Ding* You have unlocked the gernal skill Writing!]
XtraRoyal Road
★★★★ 4.0
You can tell the writer is very good at story telling and writing protagonist with a great sense of agency and willpower. But there just isn't enough deeper emotions to turn this from good to perfect.
Even if the main character has a handicap and is oblivious to many things, it doesn't excuse them and so the story is missing the cherry in top. It is already good but it could be close to perfection.
Many choices like the one sided relationship to the chaos god is not strong enough to the reader. We don't hear anything about the god except general idea. There's a lack of moment dedicated for the reader to empathize with the god and believe in the god like the protagonist does. Since the god could be fake or false. And because the protagonist's goal is so tied to the god, it makes it even harder to understand her desire to survive and get stronger. Instead, many of her actions and the wonderful themes of independence feels unrelated and even in near death experiences, it feels like she still get off so easily from every conflict. A lot of things get quickly resolved a bit too fast too conveniently.
We also don't get to see that vulnerability or flaw in her character well even though it is obviously stated many times, but not deeper than surface level.
Her dialogues are cute and quirky and establishes her character extremely well. There's a good consistency in how she acts which makes her feel real.