Godefiance: Audun

Self-Published

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Description

Audun Baste is a young child who was born with startling potential, leading him to grow up being nurtured and doted on by his clan. Yet they soon realize he cannot grow stronger, and he is quickly forgotten about, until one fateful day. He survives certain death, and now seeks to become strong enough to stop all misfortune from coming to him and those close to him.

Information

Status
Hiatus
Year
2016
Author
jsghines

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Rating
4.3/ 5.0
Followers
16
Views
17,324

Chapters(15 total)

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Community Reviews(2)

  • titanxtitanRoyal Road
    ★★★★★ 4.5
    Pros:
    -Good Story
    -Good Characters*
    -Really good action
    Cons
    -Story starts out slow
    -Characters have a bit of trouble finding themselves
    -slight grammar errors and weird wording
    All in all, I really really like the story. It feels similar to other Xianxia novels, but the recent chapters have really brought it into its own. Keep up the good work dude.
  • OpCrystalRoyal Road
    ★★★★ 4.0
    I’m going to preface this by saying that I do really enjoy the plot so far, grammar is good, style is fine. Characters though are all two dimentional. Take our intrepid hero for example, his parents just died, his clan exiled him, the Heavens themselves want to exterminate him, he cries for one night and is back on his feet like nothing ever happened. The kid is 12, and while he does have the naievity that comes with youth, he isn’t nearly as emotionally unstable as he should be for someone who just lost everything he’s ever known.
    Example number 2, the years he spent in the trial of the expert in the forest. He spent roughly ten years in that trial, he lived his life on the farm, his parents both died of natural causes this time around, he became a soldier, fought in a war, and when the trial was over he…. Didn’t change at all? 10 years is a lot of time when you’re 12, people change with every passing moment, they learn, grow, adapt, the you today is not the same person as the you of yesterday, even less so the you of the day before that.
    How would he react to living his life peacefully on the farm, would he mellow out? Would he yearn for adventure? Yearn for city life? Continue to try to fix his dantien? Or a little of A and a little of B?
    How would he react to his parents dying of natural causes instead of murder? Would he be upset he wasn’t strong enough? Would he close himself off, bottleing his emotions? Would he come to terms with it and live his life?
    When he was 18 he joined the military to fight in the clan war, how would that change him? Would he go crazy from seeing so much death? Would his days in the military teach him disipline and honor? Would it harden him like a war veteran? You mentioned he did well as a soldier, rising through the ranks, did he gain any battle experiance from it? Or did he never see combat?
    While the things in the trial did not happen in the real world, they happened for him, no matter how logical a person is, you can’t discard t