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Drawn to another world at the behest of a goddess without hope, thrown into conflict to protect a people on the brink of destruction, and drawn into a conflict millennia old, Koda Burke should have been upset at the very least.
But in exchange for answering the desperate pleas of Thera Ivorycrown, Koda has been given everything that he had wanted in his previous life and more. A people to call his own, a place to belong, and a purpose in his life.
He even found love in the form of a spunky wolf beastfolk named Sienna, who had been by his side and supporting him the entire time.
Thera was not content with just that as the reward for her champion, the last of a lost bloodline of warriors she had invested her own power into. She sent her own daughter, a demigoddess and primal spirit of the bear, to accompany and protect Koda, as well as join his family if they could connect.
With the threat to Silverstone Vale and the Ivory Spear tribe handled within days of Koda’s arrival, he struck out into the world to ensure that there were no more nearby threats, and has pursued one to the nearest town in an effort to secure his people’s lands.
Amberpost, the nearest trading partner to Silverstone, is under siege by a force of Crooked. The same Crooked who terrorized Silverstone and Koda cut his teeth fighting. But now they were in numbers that were impractical for Thera’s champion and his allies to fight face to face.
First, they need to break the siege, then they need to rally the defenders of Amberpost to clear out their countryside. Only when the threat of the twisted monsters known as the Crooked are wiped from the world can Koda turn his gaze to the other duty and pleasure Thera has promised him.
A family.
Keeping his head up and moving forward was what Koda Burke was best at. After having to emancipate himself as a teen and find his own way at a young age, it became part of who he was. The most important part, or so he thought.
Until that the faithful day that chance aligned with fate, and his true worth lay revealed when he met with a dying goddess, someone who had lost hope and all but given up until she felt the call from across the void between dimensions.
Thera Ivorycrown, known as the Beast Queen, had resigned herself to the deaths of her last few faithful. And with it, the ultimate death of her divinity. But when, by pure chance, Koda wandered within range of the ancient speaking wells of her people, the call of his blood and ancestry spoke to her.
The goddess begged him for his aid, as he carries within him the ancient pact of her champions, passed on to him by a distant ancestor of his. An ancestor that Thera had thought lost to the void between dimensions. And Koda answered her call, because she promised him the one thing he sought above all else.
A place to belong, a family to call his own, and a purpose to do more than just survive.
Join Koda as he enters into a new world, meets with species far different from what he is used to, and finds love amidst the chaos of war that has spanned dozens of centuries. Thera and her people’s survival rests on his shoulders, as he is the last of the lost bloodline, returned once more in his people’s time of need.
Having finally completed the trials to join the Roaring Mountain, Casey has earned the support of the clan and access to their considerable resources. Both Maude and Magnus are backing him completely, encouraging Casey to do everything he can to be ready for the next challenge that comes along.
At his back, he has two true friends. Einar Riggsson, the first drengr that Casey met in this world, and Vibeke Ylvasdottir, a fierce warrioress who has already proved a staunch ally through bloody conflict.
With these friends to aid him, Casey is ready to see what opportunities await him within the borders of the Windsong Valley and the halls of the Roaring Mountain. But with the comforts and opportunities of a clan come the challenges of other drengr and the exterior threats that hunt them.
On the horizon, a dark cloud rises. For each opportunity that awaits in this new place, a deadly threat readies its claws. Casey will have to show his true grit as a warrior if he is going to survive the challenges that await him.
Steelforged Legacy is a progression fantasy, men's romance, Western cultivation story that takes heavy inspiration from classic cultivation and combines it with an alternate take on Norse mythology. Even the gods can't always see the future right, and in this world, sometimes even the Fates can make mistakes.