Pellan Rise

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Description

Sam is a quiet 16 year old high school guy. He's a nerd and a geek. A pretty typical guy. When his friends try to peer pressure him into playing the tank role for the new VR game they all want to play, he rebels, although he can't quite figure out why. Choosing instead to play as a healer, Sam dives into the world of Pellan Rise as the dainty little healer named Sylanna, where he discovers that the game has a lot more influence over the real world than everyone thought.

Lots of LGBTness in here, as well as unending cuteness. Also, this story doesnt really focus on the mechanics of the game as much as litrpg would, which is why it's not filed under that tag.

This story was my first ever story to be uploaded online. This is the edited version, fixing as many of my dumb mistakes as I can find. Unlike my other story, Kammi Kettu, this one is also much more in line with the audience this site attracts, which is to say it is both an Isekai and a VRMMO story in one :P. I hope you enjoy!

Information

Status: Hiatus
Year: 2019
Author: QuietValerie

Royal Road Stats

Rating: 4.5/ 5.0
Followers: 725
Views: 234,918

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Community Reviews(10)

DragineaRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
For as long as I can remember reading, I've wanted a story that deals with a sudden, unexpected sex change in a serious and satisfying way. Most manga and light novels (even web novels tbh) treat gender bending with a light tone and, sadly, are often irreverent towards identity, treating it like putty to be molded and toyed with. QuietValerie treats her characters like people and handles them in a way that makes sense given the confusing mess that is gender and sexuality.
I wanted something like this long before I knew I was trans, and this story finally satisfies that long held desire.
P.S. If you were also dreaming of a story like this, you might be trans.
P.S.S r/egg_irl
FenraeDraconisRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
I really love the character set up and the confusion/acceptance that is going on and am so looking forward to this continuing for a few *hundred* chapters. *cough*
JakylorhideRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
I thought this looked familar :) Yet another great piece by QuietValerie
Spoiler: Spoiler
Although the use of "not just a game" is a little overdone, the execution and repurcusions of it stunning in this piece
All in all, if you enjoy gamelit (not litrpg) and tg stories where the genderbending isn't played for laughs, you'll love this
Katie-the-Angel-WitchRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
I have been following Pellan Rise over on TGStorytime, and I'm glad to see Valerie bring it over to here as well. As someone who has read up to what is it now chapter 23? Of the story, I adore it. I adore the characters, the relationships, the world building and game structure.
Syl is an absolutely adorable goofball who deserves all the hugs, and I can't wait for you all to meet Izzy later in the story.
Especially because Izzy is my brand of trans girl in regards to living while closeted.
OokawaRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
+ Incredibly cute Main character. Syl is just a darling. I wish I could be like her
+ That romance... Super adorable and heartwarming
+ Gripping story you can immerse yourself in
- Let me sleep, Vale. I just couldn't put it down, meaning, I lost 2 hours of sleep. Only after forcing myself away from the story, was I able to sleep.
TwasHonestMistakeRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Okay, honestly I am terrible at writing out my thoughts and can't judge style for shit, but here goes nothing. I love this story. As with QuietValerie's other stories, it is a wonderfully written story with great worldbuilding, plot, and characters, all tinted with trans subjects and lesbian action.
While the whole MMO trope has been done, QuietValerie puts her own spin on it and ties it in with a bigger plot reaching across several stories, weaving an epic tale that makes you wish she wrote faster.
raregliscor1Royal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
I should have gotten around to reading Pellan Rise a long time ago.
Vale shows a fairly indepth knowledge on the type of game Pellan represents and all the fleshed out mechanics actually make me want to play something like it, if only the technology was there. I'd love to create my own character.
I like a lot of the characters, highlights for me include Greg and Syl's parents, along with Syl herself. Also Liam, who strikes me as perhaps one of the more relatable characters for me.
Its also gearing up to show its villains. I'd love to see where certain characters head direction-wise, because I think some very interesting paths could be taken. All in all, Pellan Rise is excellently written and well crafted. I really am excited for the future of this story.
TrashlynRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Pellan Rise was the series that made me fall in love with QuietValerie's writing and her worldbuilding and why later on I ended up writing with her for her Kammi Kettu series.
Pellan rise is full of adorable characters, epic worldbuilding, cool abilities and fun adventures.
A must read if you like any of her other work!
SinessiRoyal Road
★★★★ 3.5
This review is long and contains spoilers, read at your own risk!
Let me go ahead and preface this review by saying that the story isn't bad by any means. If you're looking for an LGBT novel with a dash of gaming elements, I'd definitely give this story a read. That being said, this story has some serious flaws that I feel the need to point out.
Story - To put it bluntly, this story is a transgender wish-fulfillment novel. The transgender part isn't the problem to me. It's the wish-fulfillment. I found the story to be extremely lacking in tension. Sylanna is lucky, supernaturally lucky. She gets a female body, she has supportive parents, she has supportive friends, and she has a supportive girlfriend. The only "antagonists" throughout the story so far are side characters at school that no one cares about. The entire plot up to this point has been about Sylanna being afraid to come out of the closet. But then she does, and everything goes perfectly.
With the slight exception of Jeremy, who is fine after a few chapters, Sylanna’s parents and friends are instantly accepting. They gender her correctly every time, they instantly switch to using her correct name without fail, and they barely bat an eye at her sexuality.
No offense to anyone, but if my child or friend literally transformed into a different person, I'd definitely be conflicted.
The second main issue that I find inexcusable is everyone’s treatment of the “game”. WHY IS EVERYONE STILL PLAYING THE GAME?! Two people in the friend group have experienced radical physical transformations and they still are “playing” it? They even acknowledge that players in the game could be killing real people, yet their solution to the situation is to try and solve the issue themselves like they’re part of the Mystery Gang from Scooby-Doo. Their initial trepidation lasts a grand total of 5 seconds.
Seriously, here’s a direct quote from the story:
“- We can stop people from earth who are killing what might be other
RainbowFoxRoyal Road
★★★ 3.0
This story begins interesting and is OK until it is not OK. Why? The main reasons are characters and the number of coincidences.
You can compare this story with superhero television series, where in small town everything unnatural that can happen. It will happen to the MC.
Meteor hit a person, it was the MC. The only cow dung on clean street in area where no one has a farm, the MC will step into it. The bad people from whole country, nay from whole world, will want to come to this little town, to make MC life miserable.
School queen bee must be perfect bi*ch.
This handsome school jock must be school bully with problems.
It would be all right if something like that was once in the while but in this story you can throw a stone and you can be sure that it will hit someone significant story wise.