The Quiet Crown: Book One: The Steward

By Raymond Jenkins

Some crowns are taken. This one is kept. On the worst morning of his life, with a Storm tearing his county off the map, the System hands Harold Mercer a class it stopped believing in a long time ago: Steward. A class that cannot fight, cannot conquer, and cannot take a single thing from anyone. What it can do is keep. While warlords level up by burning villages, Harold levels up by keeping people alive, raising a settlement of the Unwritten from nothing under siege. Book One of a new progression fantasy series: a grounded, character-first take on the system apocalypse.