I Have the Sacred Sword?

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Description

Eleonora is an ego-sword that one day was abandoned by her candidate. Confident, she thought that not many days would pass until she would get a new owner, but to her surprise more than 3000 years passed.

In her absence, too many things in the world changed. Most of the things she knows, work differently and magic, along with technology, are moving across the continent as the 3 great kingdoms compete.

How will the sword adapt to this strange time never seen before?

(The story is always updated every Monday. On Wednesday there may be an extra chapter, but it is not certain. On Fridays on Patreon there will always be an extra chapter).

Information

Status: Hiatus
Year: 2023
Author: Erynd

Royal Road Stats

Rating: 3.5/ 5.0
Followers: 192
Views: 71,012

Chapters(60 total)

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Community Reviews(3)

Waffle(est)Royal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
A discarded blade seeks a new wielder.
A story about somebody inhuman yet human learning to live in society. A struggle to learn from and overcome or even just understand past mistakes so they won't be abandoned again.
It's novel and unusual enough to stand out and tickle that sense of curiosity. It does not seem to match anything I've read before. Unlike the norm I cannot guess what will happen except in the broadest of strokes. It's wonderful.
KaviRoyal Road
★★ 2.0
I will start off by saying there is at least a good idea here but it ultimately suffers because I will be up front. The sword, one of the main characters is buried until chapter 30, Around half the chapters follow a school group instead of your main character.
Normally this makes sense, sword and the wielder except this doesn't just follow two or 3 characters, there are I believe 5 different povs minimum within 30 chapters and unfortunately the chapters seem to be around 1000 words usually less which results in these switches breaking any flow the story could have had. And to be clear that amount can work but it means you should be following each person for longer than a few chapters is all.
I write this in an attempt to be constructive, again there is potential for a story here. If the Author does some rewriting and adjusts the pacing and asks themselves what the purpose of each chapter is and maybe just rearranges certain chapters for a less frustrating reading flow I will come back and change this. But until then there seems to be a lack of focus on any character, chapter or overall flow of the story and I cannot recommend it.
TLDR: Good idea but, pacing and pov switching is used in a way that makes reading frustrating.
PeteygRRRoyal Road
★ 1.0
I liked the concept, but the execution was lacking.
Lost sentient sword? Fine. Timid kid at magic school? Fine. The tropes are strong. Magical accident that brings them into proximity. Great! Trope engine engage! No, wait...
Why does it take 20+ chapters to actually get to the sword? I started skipping ahead 5 chapters at a time. Found it yet? Nope. How about now? Still nope. MC still a spineless wimp? Yep. OK, done. At this point the story is unsalvageable. Better to start over with the concept and come at it from an entirely different angle.