Fiction reading guide
Sorcerer — A Web-novel by J.F. Danskin
A reading guide and contents page
Dear readers: this is a guide to my complete web-novel, “Sorcerer, Level 1”. It is a fantasy gamelit web-novel, with a Dungeons & Dragons flavor! Contents page below, with all chapters listed.
What is the novel about?
It follows Alcar, a young man in a mythic fantasy city, and his dreams of becoming an adventurer. Despite an absence of any talent, he finds himself apprenticed as a sorcerer. And from there, he gets embroiled in a great many adventures, and is soon very much out of his depth…
What is a web-novel, anyway, and what is gamelit?
A web-novel is simply a novel that is published on the web. Typically, however, these are published one chapter at a time, in contrast to traditional novels which are released all at once.
Sorcerer is a gamelit novel set in the Shadow Kingdoms game world. This means that it is a fiction piece set in a game, or in game-like world. Samuel Kenneth Kauffman discusses what is meant by gamelit here. The genre is closely related to LitRPG, but a key difference is that gamelit often doesn’t include stats (or is very light on them), and characters typically don’t know that they are in a game.
Okay, take me to the story…
Sure! Here are the chapters, in order of course.
Part 1
Chapter 1: Adventure awaits
Chapter 2: The Lizard
Chapter 3: A Deadly Chase
Chapter 4: In Trouble Again
Chapter 5: The Conditions
Chapter 6: Diverse Contenders
Chapter 7: An Inflammatory Incident
Chapter 8: The Deal
Chapter 9: The Kidnap
Chapter 10: The Interrogation
Chapter 11: The Sorcerer’s Scroll
Chapter 12: Informants
Chapter 13: To the Tower with Brutus
Chapter 14: Five Adventurers and a Secret Mission
Chapter 15: A Herbal Helper
Chapter 16: The Backstreets
Chapter 17: Time for a Sharp Exit
Chapter 18: Sorcery in the Dark
Chapter 19: Carousers
Chapter 20: Maluhk’s Tale
Part 2
Chapter 21: Morning Manners
Chapter 22: The City Watched
Chapter 23: Teamwork and Mentorship
Chapter 24: Gearing Up
Chapter 25: Sorcery and Flames
Chapter 26: Along the Wall
Chapter 27: The Parchment
Chapter 28: Creeping Past the Gates
Chapter 29: Don’t Stand so Close to Me
Chapter 30: A Way Ahead in the Dark
Chapter 31: A Mysterious Meeting Place
Chapter 32: Tunnel to the Swamp
Chapter 33: The Treacherous Caverns
Chapter 34: Afternoon Light
Chapter 35: And Back to the Farm?
Part 3
Chapter 36: Illustrious Leader.
Chapter 37: The Gaze of a Dog Lover
Chapter 38: A Ravine
Chapter 39: Ambush
Chapter 40: Chaotic Defence, Desparate Attack
Chapter 41: To the Valley
Chapter 42: The Incident in the Trees
Chapter 43: By the Riverbank
Chapter 44: The Outpost
Chapter 45: Bunking at the Imperial Outpost
Chapter 46: A Good Book
Chapter 47: Up at Dawn
Chapter 48: Sorcery Practice
Chapter 49: Flight from the Knight
Chapter 50: Into the Gulley
Chapter 51: Kobold Attack
Chapter 52: Laying Low
Chapter 53: Arrows and Companions
Chapter 54: The Hills
Chapter 55: Elves and Expectations
Chapter 56: The Welcome of the Elves
Chapter 57: A Herbalist
Chapter 58: Elvish Herbcraft and Copper Coins
Part 4
Chapter 59: The Road Ahead
Chapter 60: Troll Terror on the Trail
Chapter 61: Imperial Entanglements
Chapter 62: Northwards
Chapter 63: Out of the Gulch
Chapter 64: Tunnel Through the Trollbones, pt. 1
Chapter 65: Tunnel Through the Trollbones, pt. 2
Chapter 66: Tunnel Through the Trollbones, pt. 3
Chapter 67: Tunnel Through the Trollbones, pt. 4
Chapter 68: The Steps
Chapter 69: Rivers in the Dark
Chapter 70: The Survivors
Chapter 71: High Above the Lava
Chapter 72: Dungeon Dive, part 1
Chapter 73: Dungeon Dive, part 2
Chapter 74: Dungeon Dive, part 3
Chapter 75: Dungeon Dive, part 4
Chapter 76: Dungeon Dive, part 5
Chapter 77: Dungeon Dive, part 6
Chapter 78: Dungeon Dive, part 7
Chapter 79: Dungeon Dive, part 8
Chapter 80: The Dungeon of van Zorika
Chapter 81: A Room with Runes
Chapter 82: Fleeing
Chapter 83: Alcoves and Goblins and Books
Chapter 84: Chaos Sorcery
Chapter 85: Remnants of Web
Chapter 86: Rope and Arrow
Chapter 87: Escaping the Caves
Aftermath:
And that’s all, folks! I hope you read, enjoy, and comment. Thanks so much for your support.
You can follow and subscribe to my email alerts to avoid missing new chapters. And if you’ve been enjoying this web-novel, please do check out the following fantasy short stories set in the same world.
In particular, ‘Meanwhile, the NPCs…’ follows on directly from ‘Sorcerer’.
