Godclads

Self-Published

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Description

Professionally edited and published versions of volumes 1 and 2 can be found on Kindle and as audiobooks on Audible!

Avo was born to destroy New Vultun. In a twist of fate, he’ll become its only hope for salvation.

The gods were the enemy. The slaver. The chains. With dreams of paradise, humanity slaughtered them and stole their powers, opening the path to become more – to ascend.

Instead, they nearly destroyed the world.

Vast hive cities serve as the final bastions against the crumbling of reality. New Vultun is the greatest of them all, and within its borders, ascenders wage war to determine the laws of existence itself.

The world descends ever deeper into ruination.

Avo was born a weapon, a slave to his instincts and his masters. He and his brothers were made to burn New Vultun to ashes. Everything changes when Avo gains immortality and becomes heir to an impossible legacy.

He must ascend the megacity of New Vultun. He must challenge the very tyrants that usurped the gods.

He must finally free the world from chains.

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Chapters are usually around 2.5 to 3k words.

Disclaimer: Expect detailed descriptions of violence, cannibalism, and cursing.

Expect: Monster mc, magitech, cyberpunk, implants, atrocities, oppression, non-human protagonist, reality-warping powers, and combined arms warfare.

Do not expect: Smut, romance

If you develop a sudden outbreak of rash after reading Godclads, it's not the story. But go see a doctor. Just in case.

Information

Status: Ongoing
Year: 2022
Author: OstensibleMammal

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Rating: 4.7/ 5.0
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What readers say about Godclads

“An incredibly imaginative setting that comes together really well. A lot of thought and love clearly went into it. Really interesting characters that develop and change in very satisfying ways. It's already good right from the start but it really takes off…”
AshmalechRoyal Road5.0 / 5
“Overall this story is like walking into a regular house and finding out its filled with hungry crack and heroin addicts that want to eat your flesh. In others words its a rollercoaster ride from the first five sentences. I was hooked immediately and I know…”
JusttryingtofindawayRoyal Road5.0 / 5

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Community Reviews(10)

AshmalechRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
An incredibly imaginative setting that comes together really well. A lot of thought and love clearly went into it. Really interesting characters that develop and change in very satisfying ways. It's already good right from the start but it really takes off after a while and it seems to be only getting better as it goes on. I could hardly put it down.
JusttryingtofindawayRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Overall this story is like walking into a regular house and finding out its filled with hungry crack and heroin addicts that want to eat your flesh. In others words its a rollercoaster ride from the first five sentences. I was hooked immediately and I know others will be too. At every turn I was impressed by the authors mastery of worldbuilding, mystery, and charcter design.
Style: From the very start its action packed with hints of mystery as well. However the star of the show if Avo's inner conflict. Emotionally heavy scenes appear to flow easily for the author as I even had to put the book down and reflect on it for an hour or so before finishing my first read. The prose is well constructed too.
Story: Everything escalates so quickly. It starts with heavy eldritch horror transhumanist end of all things vibes which then transitions as the main character (Avo) gains sentience? Power doesn't come easily, but that power in the hands of a ghoul (Avo is a ghoul) is very meaningful in the larger setting and serves to make him uinique without giving way to wish fulfillment. (In no way do I ever want to be Avo but I love reading about him)
Grammar: The author would sometimes benefit from an additional passover but nothing is immersion breaking enough to warrant a lower score. Frankly at this posting speed...I'm impressed.
Character: As I've said before the character dialogue and inner conflict is extremely meaningful and everything that they say or think feels important and unique.
CosmorosRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
The amount of time that was spent on recommending this novel got to me in the end, and I decided to read it. It's a great novel on most of the front, but it drives me nuts.
Let's start with the pros:
Great writing. Great personages. Great action scenes. Great system. Great storytelling. All this is done in excellent quality and makes you want to read the story further. Small comedy moments and just progression are great on their own.
Now to the negatives:
The author, I have no idea why you decided that you hate any descriptions of surroundings and coherent descriptions of personages. BUT FOR LOVE OF ALL, describe them better.
I started reading from the books where these flaws got pathed and then came to RR where everything was just void. How people look is void; how do the surroundings look? Void? Void. Yes void. If you look into it deep enough, it looks back.
The amount of "surprises" I got from asking people how someone looks is more than okay on my scale. You would get these surprises, too :) Suffer like I did.
Now to the main point of this review. Small spoiler :)
I hate chronomancy, I hate Zein, I hate Veilis, and I fully agree with EGI "Only way to be sure". I'm so done with them, with their time magic spaghetti, and can they just explode? End rant.
DisillusionRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
I love this story so much! I have just been binge reading it and hoping it never ends.
This has to be one of the most unique stories on Royalroad. The amount of effort to write so much so quickly without losing quality is amazing.
The characters are wonderful, unique and distinctive. Avo the protagonist is an actual monster in both mind and body, but becomes more over the story. However, this is a horrible world where life is worth nothing, and millions could die because a Godclad was having a bad day.
I love it. Go read it!
DrakilianRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Godclads is an engrossing story that follows a ghoul named Avo - a psychopathic, cannibalistic monster that was adopted by a good man and taught to be one himself. It follows him as he does his best to be that good man despite all the efforts of the world around him to push him away from that ideal.
The story opens with a hard cold start - frankly speaking it's very confusing, and especially if you're unfamiliar with the cyberpunk genre you'l be very lost very fast, with a lot of unfamiliar terms being thrown about with little to no explanation. Push past it. There is an index page the author added to avoid info dumps, look up unfamiliar terms there. Things start making more sense the more context you get but things are never really explained too explicitly, as the story keeps a tight pace.
The setting has very big warhammer 40k energy, with the epic scale of its magic and technological background. It's a very dark, awesome and intriguing world.
There are a number of smaller uncorrected spelling mistakes in the earlier chapters - likely a result of readers not bothering to point then out to the author because of the very fast update schedule meaning they had a lot of backlog to read through, help the author out and comment on the mistakes.
Give this one a go, it's most definitely worth your time.
CalabanVIIIRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Cool book with nice stuff in it. Cyberpunk story with depth and mechanics and worldbuilding that puts a smile to my face.
I really enjoyed what I found and hope to see more.
I can't tell much about the characters so far but the MC atleast seems logical, and portrayed like an actual psychopathic cannibalistic Monster, that somehow integrated into society.
Great work Author
Fred FredsonRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
In a world where the 1% wear the remains of lobotomized gods as a mantle of power, where baseline humans are just cattle to feed the soulforges, where intimacy is retributed by an eldritch plague, where technology is powered by mind-r*ping necromancy, it takes a special someone to upend the status quo. But who would have thought that a cannibalistic eye slurping subhuman ghoul actually had the decency to do something against it?
Greg #174Royal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Literally The Sound and the Fury of LitTPG with a little Catch-22 thrown in for good measure.There is so much incredible creativity (and vulgarity) in this series that i have been walking around dazed for about a week now, trying to wrap my mind around how creative a human being needs to be to write something like this. Look, it’s got blood, sex, and trauma galore, but there’s so much about the human condition on display here that I can’t help but recommend this. Also features one of the strangest love stories I’ve ever encountered; I will never be able to think about true love again without pondering the taste of eyeballs.
IchorMortisRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
This is easily the wildest content on royal road today.
Utter madness. Cyberpunk as a genre wishes it has the balls to do what this story does on the regular.
Little confusing at times but that's to expected. Im def buying the full edited version and buckling the fuck up
KSDragonRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Godclad deftly portrays a world of great complexity, with a genuine impression that it is a living breathing world where people off screen have their own lives and stories. There's a real sense of history, with events in the distant past moulding the present without overshadowing the fact that the characters care far more about events within their own lifetimes.
Broken people living in a broken city, wracked by ugly political realities, and built on broken physics ... and yet the story doesn't wallow in the misery, instead beating it back with the characters' defiant humor and the fact that a sociopathic monster with morals is still a sociopathic monster.
Characterization is STRONG in this story, to the point that even the city of New Vultun has a consistent characterization and "personality".
Most all though, I am in constant awe of the genuinely unique system(s) of metaphysics the author has created for the story. It's not a gamer story but I do strongly believe that the setting could easily be made into a tabletop rpg.