Where Titans Fall

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Description

I was taken from my home and brought to a distant land—alone.

I arrived aBoy, treated as aSlave, Conscripted as aSoldier, survived as aHuntsman, and claimed my vengeance as aTitan.

After decades of fighting a war I had no part in, and having lost all those I hold dear. I returned home, a broken and tired man—only to find that maybe my war had only just begun.

Aleks’Andros Titanos returns home after five decades at war, hoping to find a place to belong and a chance at peace.

But fate has a cruel sense of humor and old habits die hard, as he’s faced with the realization that his homeworld may not have been as mundane as he’d once thought.

Vampires stalk the night and werewolves roam the countryside, all the while witches barter their craft and covert government organizations scheme.

Will he find the life he’s looking for—or will he be forced to regain the powers he left behind and face the demons of his past?

Only time will tell.

Information

Status: Hiatus
Year: 2022
Author: Titanic Tales

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Rating: 4.4/ 5.0
Followers: 466
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Community Reviews(10)

FoolishhopeRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
No story has sucked me in like this one in a while. The grammat is good (I'm not native so I'm not best at it). The characters are all unigue and deep. The fantasy part is guite light and I think it's a good thing for this story. All around great story!
Gin-J-JackRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
I'm not big on writing reviews but I have too say this one is good. Characters are soild along with their interactions. While World building is interesting. I don't want to get into too much without spoilering anything. In any case if you like the tags, I highly recommend the series.
JustSomePugRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
I absolutely love this story and have been a little worried on the fact that chapters haven't been added in four days. I really hope this isn't dropped. I by no means can write a advance review because I personally think I lack the capacity to make a decent review but I heavily recommend reading this.
KittyJinglesRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Enjoyable urban fantasy. There's violence and blood, it doesn't shy away from trauma. It has a tone that makes me think of Sin City. The main character is a good protective guy doing messed up things to people who deserve it. He might be a little crazy. There are sexy vampires and shadow pets that eat people
Expect some formatting errors, but no grammar issues that make it unreadable. The narrative voice has a competent personality and it's entertaining watching him fight evil blood suckers, babysit children, rebuild his power base, make hungry eldritch beings come to heel, etc
TheNormanRoyal Road
★★★★★ 4.5
I immensely enjoy the story and will keep up with it, I only have a single complaint.
The main character keeps getting knocked out by things he has shown he can make items to protect against. 90% of the time what takes him out is a single large hit from an unknown angle. He has made 'single use' enchanted rings that will protect from one good hit, thus allowing him the reactions to protect himself, but its going on 5 or 6 times so far that he has been knocked out of the action by exactly the things that he 'couldnt see coming', and yet he still doesn't wear a ring that by what has been demonstrated in the story will take him far less than a day to create, and he has created over a hundred of such rings and possibly better than that but we didn't get a lot of explanation about thoes.
TrilandianRoyal Road
★★★★ 4.0
Preface
When translated from my grading scale, anything 3.5 stars or over is something I would like to read/watch, and anything 4 stars or over is something I’d recommend to others.
Story
The synopsis does a good job of describing exactly what this story is about. An interdimensional soldier returns to his home dimension on Earth, hoping for a peaceful retirement far from all the supernatural nonsense he’d spent his life fighting, only for it to turn out that his preconceptions about his home world being entirely mundane weren’t true. Realizing peaceful retirement isn’t an option so long as vicious monstrosities, supernatural or otherwise, roam the streets, he decides to put his plan of beating his sword into a ploughshare on hold and engage in some pest control.
What follows is a story stuffed to the brim with fast-paced action that sinks its hooks in and doesn’t let go, compelling you to keep reading nonstop. Background information about the MC and the world is peppered in sparingly in a way that doesn’t break up the pacing, while giving the reader adequate context.
My only complaint is that it’s difficult at times to gauge the MC’s power level. First, because he can “overclock” his abilities to gain a significant power boost while taxing himself immensely, which means he always has an ace up his sleeve for emergencies. Second, because while there are allusions to the scope of his abilities, it’s not yet been made clear exactly what he can and can’t do, leading to situations where he does something that, while congruous in retrospect or given further context, in the moment might leave you going “Huh. Really?”
Character
The cast of characters is varied, with each having their own drives and agendas. It’s also nice how they don’t fall into their archetypes’ stereotypes.
Style
My first major issue with “Where Titans Fall” is in respect to an element of the writing style, namely the writing convention wherein all of a character’s speech is contained within a single pa
theguynextdoorRoyal Road
★★★★ 4.0
I think it's a pretty good story and I would recommend it if you're into OP protagonists with endless angst and harem dynamics.
So normally when you rate something as a 4/5 you wouldn't drop it but in this case I just got annoyed by 2 things;
Firstly, the power system itself and the convenient times where our protagonist is borderline John Wick competent and suddenly chapters later he's caught off guard back to back (kidnapped twice) in a matter of 5 or so chapters. At the start I was intrigued but as of chapter 16 I feel a little let down. He has these cool shadow powers and summons but ends up being your average run of the mill bruiser character that basically loses at first until he gets angwy and then wins because the plot demands it.
I get it, it's hard to write a OP main character. It's also not satisfactory to read about kidnapping/saving the damsel plotlines on repeat because the author couldn't be bothered to think of something new that'd drive the plot forward. I also think it's funny how he has these rings that explicitly helps against his sole weakness but again, plot demands otherwise.
Secondly, the romance is progressing at the speed of light. This is just a minor annoyance compared to the first but I would have preferred if you took your time building them up instead of rushing them. 16 chapters in and he's already claimed 3+ women afaik, tension with 2 more I think.
If this story actually doesn't abuse kidnapping plotlines please go ahead and dm me, I genuinely liked it at first.
WisdomKingRoyal Road
★★★★ 3.5
This novel is good, like really good with only few thing things that in my (humble) opinion i believe could be improved
but after reading some chapters this novel started to give me a feeling of déjà vu, the writting, the story, the Mc, the way the story goes from one situation to another, and after reading some more chapters it finally clicked, Hellsing (Alucard) this novel feels like reading Hellsing with a few minor changes to the story.
1-Grammar:
In all honestly, i didn't feel like there was any issue while reading.
2-Style:
Although i'm not really a fan how some pov are changed at times and how certain events of the Mc past are introduced. i'd say the Author is doing a great job.
3-Mc:
i'm still wondering what his goal is,
and so far we know very little about his past, like:
-how and why did he get to another realm before even becoming a huntsman
-how long was he gone for?
-where is he from?
-nobody ever heard of Titans, was he born one or did he become one?
-why is he not prioritizing on getting his runes back at 100% instead of getting himself involved fights. smh
4- Story
Sorry, this story was interesting till i couldn't shake the feeling that i was reading Hellsing and i unfortunately lost interest.
it's a novel i'd recommend though.
primemountainRoyal Road
★★★ 3.0
TLDR at the bottom.
But holding a single note gets a bit flat. I don't mean flat in the sense that there is no emotion, I mean flat in the sense that the MC has only one mode. This work holds a single note, one tone, and sings it solidly. But a single note, even done well, gets... boring. Badass MC beats on Evil Monsters, who did Evil. And again. And again.
I don't know. It's like the victims are dressing for the scene to show off how Evil the Evil Monster is, so the MC can reduce them to gibblets and show how badass he is without being Evil themselves.
The victims, their families, funerals? Emotion, character? How the law deals with a massacre, or a bunch of missing people? Automatic weapon fire in a major city?
Nope, none of that. We shall move on to more magic babble, supreficial flirting, and waiting for the next Evil to happen in next week's episode.
There are other bits, signs of storytelling that are disjointed.
Now, mind you, MC has been through a lot. This could be good story telling. Like, it could an attempt to draw the leader into the headspace of the MC, by making them experience the story the way the MC experiences their life. Which is focused on regaining magical power, and dealing with the monsters around them.
If so, hats off.
Disjonted examples: memories are interjected between current scenes, but not marked by anything. It's like the MC is doing one thing, then *** and we've in a memory.
Another *** and we're back. But *** is used to denote any scene change. There are not italics to the memory scene, no sign it is remembrance. It's almost like the MC gets attacked by their past while doing something relevant to it, and then comes out of it, days later.
We get similar jumping around with time going forward, where days or weeks pass in the blink of an eye. And it's like... nothing? Nothing important happned during those. No talks, to interaction, no planning, no nothing? That's another thing: The MC plots. But we only ever get to see the results, ne
xicsessRoyal Road
★★★ 3.0
It's not a bad story, but it keeps progressing at odd levels. You end up with a couple of fights scenes at the intro and it kinda feels like a nice brawler progression up until it turns into a lot of crafting, chatting with eldritch shadows, and empire building (without any empire building?). Just kinda odd scope creep.
So Aleks keeps gaining power but he ends up being barely able to finish every fight, it feels a lot like watching a hulk comic where he gets beaten down and then just has to get angry. He alone can fight multitudes of enemies, except when he can't. There's shows of overwhelming force, and then when the brief bit of action starts he ends up completely unprepared and almost overwhelmed. Why do you spend all your time making rings and talking to shadows, and making runes when it seems like it does all of nothing when shit goes down.
Then there's the pacing. The author sets up little arcs that complete and immediately escalate the progression. Romance dynamics, power dynamics, the supernatural hierarchies and clans all just feel odd.
If you want to read a story that jumps from crisis to crisis with none of the characters being concerned about said crisis until it blind sides them while generally crafting odd/not important things, (and engaging in some kind of self demeaning poly relationship) then go for it. For beings 100s of years old it feels more like twilight than a serious attempt at maturity.
(potential spoiler below)
Just as an example of the oddness: Spend a week fighting in my cave against a supernaturally strong shadow, no issues - brush myself off and go to the dance. At the dance, show overwhelming force, have literal agents everywhere, still don't notice some casting shenanigans (what can't do any rune crafting to the building of the most important gala ever more safe, but you can hang out in a cave and crank out rings?). Then engage in a ten second fight and end up in the hospital, after weirdly making / breaking random oaths durin