Thresholder: The Six Worlds of Morgan Lim

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When his sister vanished through the portal, Morgan took a leap of faith - Out of his world, and into a universe of wonders and horrors beyond imagining.

He really should have thought things through.

Lost amid the multiverse, Morgan must survive brutal slavers, darkest sorcery and the unstoppable Empire of Iron, by might, magic and whatever means possible.

Join him on his adventures, from the green hell of Arcadia to the eternal vaunt of Phosphiach, as this most unworthy of heroes reaves his way across the many worlds.

A short story based on the events and setting ofThresholder,byAlexander Wales. Featuring savage adventure, outlandish peril, love, death and intolerable cruelty.

Cover art is via MidJourney.

Information

Status: Hiatus
Year: 2024
Author: iridium248

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Rating: 5.0/ 5.0
Followers: 13
Views: 6,525

Chapters(11 total)

What readers say about Thresholder: The Six Worlds of Morgan Lim

“The story and worldbuilding of the six worlds of Morgan Lim are its best traits. That also means that it can be read independantly from the original Thresholder fic by Alexander Wales. Grammar is mostly perfect, with a few mistakes here and there (I spotted…”
Chaos' Crow KanigamiRoyal Road5.0 / 5
“Style: The style of the opening chapter reads like a classically told Greek, Norse or Roman heroic tale. It’s wonderfully done and the tone is just right. There is a spoken word like rhythm to the opening chapters that has a hint of sarcasm which really pul…”
PeterRobertsRoyal Road5.0 / 5

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Community Reviews(3)

Chaos' Crow KanigamiRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
The story and worldbuilding of the six worlds of Morgan Lim are its best traits. That also means that it can be read independantly from the original Thresholder fic by Alexander Wales.
Grammar is mostly perfect, with a few mistakes here and there (I spotted about a dozen up to chapter 6, which is not much considering the length of each chapter).
The main character is a bit like those sweets leaving a sour taste but quite enjoyable. Indeed he's a bit of a failure/bully which you can't help but lament. But he's also consistent and interesting, especially when you compare him to the usual unabashed hero/villain you can find on rr.
The worldbuilding is akin to the pactverse if it was set in a heroic fantasy setting. The depiction of the gods, local actors and main antagonists are quite vivid and makes for an interesting plot.
The story is epecially interesting due to the nature of thresholderss where you get a pack of stories in one. Indeed the character and antagonists have all been to other worlds with their own challenges and came out better or worse for them. Expect to get a fairly detailed picture of what each world was like.
I would overall recommend giving this fic a try.
PeterRobertsRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Style: The style of the opening chapter reads like a classically told Greek, Norse or Roman heroic tale. It’s wonderfully done and the tone is just right. There is a spoken word like rhythm to the opening chapters that has a hint of sarcasm which really pulled me in. It reads like an autobiographical account.
Story: The tale is told to us by a Thresholder and details their own journey through a multiverse that was crafted by Alexander Wales in his super popular Thresholder series. I haven’t read Thresholder, so I don’t think I can fully appreciate many of the references or elements included, but I can understand epic storytelling and the author's wonderful ability to craft a unique tale.
We follow a Thresholder through battles, betrayals, multiverses. Expect epic weapons and power and amazingly vivid action sequences. The tale that drives the early narrative is the plight of the religious followers of Pa’quan against the stronger gods. It gives background form to the narrative, but it’s the personal journey of the Thresholder that is the real story.
Characters: I believe Morgan the Destroyer is the character that we follow and the insight into their thinking is what really kept me reading on. They seem to know the power they have puts them far above mortals, yet below gods and they revel in it, seeming to lust for the violence that their power affords them.
Grammar: Perfect. Better than perfect.
Overall: The first chapter was 8k words and I stopped at the end of chapter 2 which was almost as long. I feel that it was nowhere near enough to really do this story justice in a review. This author has some serious, heavyweight, literary skills and I eagerly await their first original fiction.
SaucingtonRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
I went with the prologue (it seemed like a "first chapter" to me) and here's what I have to say:
The "Honest Mercenary" Hook: The protagonist's radical honesty is different and memorable. Most LitRPG/Isekai protagonists try to justify their cause as the most righteous or necessary. What Morgan does is looks the reader in the eye with a loud shrug and be like, "I’m doing this for power, for spite, and because I’m hungry." Delicious hook. So I'm not looking for a world-saving protagonist here; I'm looking for "how far is this guy gonna go?" So instead of a dungeon crawl it's a "how far is this guy going to go to save himself?", instead of a world or little sister or whatever else other protagonists got goin' on. It's refreshingly dark, funny, and cynical.
There's a phrase in screenwriting: "Plot is cheap, but voice is gold". I like that here we have this nebbish office drone turned reaver/conquistador extraordinaire. Not generic tough guy. A vain, petty, greedy touggh guy I wanna cheer for.
Then the theme: It's clear and palpable. The opening image is about the pounding and the drudgery, then the next theme is about being alone and unfairness. And you're right and it makes his character work. The gods are cruel and peasant life sucks. And it makes sense why he's not doing it to be a "hero" but a professional.
Trope-wise, I like that this is a deconstructed isekai. Far too often they gloss over the cost of transmigration ; his gifts come with a price, like the constant starvation and his body breaking down. There's a biological cost, not just a psychologcal one.
Then you did something really interesting with the "Good vs. Evil" trope. Instead of the 6 normal "good vs. evil" you gave them totally alien and inhuman motivations. Like collecting scalps. Their logic is foreign and dangerous to us.
Finally, it took me a while to put this into words: He's an anti-villain. He refuses to be a sadist. He spares enemies in the the arena like in Gladiator. He's got a code (and not