Patch 1.0.1 ▸ Ambitious Build
Am I biting off more than I can chew starting three books in three different universes all at the same time? Yes. Will that stop me from doing it? …Absolutely not.
Patch Notes
Behind-the-scenes updates on drafts, releases, and the occasional system meltdown.
Patch 1.0.2 ▸ Healing Buff
The wife just had surgery and I’ll be taking care of her for the next two weeks. I have a feeling she’s gonna force me to get one of these books done early.
Patch 1.0.3 ▸ Multithreaded Brain
I think my ADHD brain needs multiple stories in progress all at the same time so that if I get bored or stuck I can just switch gears.
Progress
Three LitRPG series in active development. Click a series to see where it’s at, from spark to “Ready for Beta Readers.”
Beast Lord Rising ▸ Series Concept
A 5-book LitRPG series about compassion as a weapon, rebellion as healing, and what happens when growth refuses to stay inside the System’s limits.
A young hunter from a forbidden valley becomes the first person in centuries to break the limits of the Adventuring System—a magical algorithm designed to cap growth, control emotion, and preserve Veloria’s hierarchy.
When Cyle forms an illegal soulbond with a dying beast, he awakens a path the empire buried: true growth through empathy, not numbers. Marked as a glitch, hunted by the Church of Dominion, and thrust into an academy built to enforce obedience, Cyle and his wolf Riven upend the foundations of power.
As their bond deepens, Cyle discovers the truth behind the System’s creation—and why the elites fear anyone whose strength comes from connection rather than control.
Novel Planning Tracker
Spark
Character Profiles
World Bible
Plot
Beat Sheet
Basic Outline
Advanced Outline
Planning passes are locked in. Time to feed the wordcount.
Editing Process (Coming Later)
Stages I–VII are queued after the prose draft is solid: macro-structure, logic, line craft, rhythm, voice, pacing, and technical polish—ending on “Ready for Beta Readers!”
Prose Tracker
Series Map ▸ Projected Launches
- Book 1 – Soulbound (In Progress) — Projected: March 2026
- Book 2 – The Wild Rebellion — Cyle unites frontier tribes. (Projected: April 2026)
- Book 3 – The Soulforge War — elites weaponize S-tier relics. (Projected: May 2026)
- Book 4 – The Shattered Algorithm — journey into the Blank Zone. (Projected: June 2026)
- Book 5 – Worldbinder — Cyle and the Aetherwild rewrite the System itself. (Projected: July 2026)
The Aegis Vanguard Saga ▸ Series Concept
A 6-book Inducted Earth saga about experimental guardians, shattered safe zones, and the cost of defending a world the System never designed to survive.
Overnight, Earth is folded into a universal System. Technology dies, monsters spawn, and Safe Zones crackle into existence. The Aegis Vanguard are humanity’s answer: a coalition of soldiers, survivors, and AI-human hybrids engineered to hold the line.
As Inducted Earth evolves from panic to organised resistance, the Saga tracks the Vanguard’s attempt to turn a forced upgrade into something survivable—without becoming the very weapons the System wants them to be.
Novel Planning Tracker
Spark
Character Profiles
World Bible
Plot
Beat Sheet
Basic Outline
Advanced Outline
Planning is complete for Book 1. Aegis is standing by for deployment.
Editing Process (Queued)
Once the draft is written, Aegis runs through the same seven-stage editing gauntlet: macro story work through to “Ready for Beta Readers!”
Prose Tracker
Series Map ▸ Projected
6-book arc from first Induction shock through to the moment Earth stops reacting to the System—and starts rewriting it. Individual book titles and launch windows will be added as they’re locked.
Dungeonborn Soul ▸ Series Concept
A 5-book chimera evolution series about identity, power, and what happens when the “perfect weapon” refuses to stay a weapon.
In a world where dungeons are living titans and their cores are semi-divine intelligences, a rogue Lich attempts to forge the perfect world-ending chimera—an apex being with the bloodlines of dragons, trolls, wyverns, and other forbidden creatures.
But his creation is stolen. The Planetary Dungeon—Mother—intervenes, claiming the newborn vessel as her own and binding it to the primal laws of System and evolution. The Lich’s masterpiece becomes the Dungeon’s Child.
Born without memories or purpose beyond survival, Thalen awakens inside a controlled tutorial built to shape him into something new. Every power he absorbs threatens his sense of self, and every faction that learns he exists wants to dissect, weaponize, or worship him.
Novel Planning Tracker
Spark
Character Profiles
World Bible
Plot
Beat Sheet
Basic Outline
Advanced Outline
Planning complete. Thalen’s path through Mother’s world is fully mapped.
Editing Process (Queued)
Dungeonborn Soul will also run all seven editing stages—from spine checks to anti-caveman rhythm passes—before being unleashed on readers.
Prose Tracker
Series Map ▸ Overview
- Book 1: The Dungeon’s Child — Thalen survives the tutorial, rescues Aeris’s party, and chooses his first evolution path.
- Book 2: The Monster That Walks — Thalen leaves the dungeon; kingdoms and churches react to a chimera who grows without limit.
- Book 3: Blood of the Forerunners — his divine harmonic lineage is revealed; cores awaken or die across the world.
- Book 4: The Uncrowned Cataclysm — Thalen becomes a metaphysical threat; nations and dungeons realign.
- Book 5: Dungeonborn Champion — final choice between Dungeon’s Child and something beyond monster, human, or dungeon.
Worlds
Inducted Earth, Veloria, and Avarra—three very different Systems, three very different ways to break them.
Inducted Earth
The Aegis Vanguard Saga
Modern Earth gets forced into a universal System. Safe Zones, dungeons, and experimental guardians try to hold the line.
Veloria
Beast Lord Rising
A soulbond between a boy and a dying wolf glitches an empire built on level caps and emotional control.
Avarra
Dungeonborn Soul
Living dungeons, a planetary AI called Mother, and a chimera who wasn’t supposed to become a person.
About Chris
Author, gamer, husband, and the guy trying to keep three universes straight at once.
Chris Wood spends his days in the corporate trenches and his nights chasing the things that make the grind worth it. He goes home to his wife, his pets, and whatever world he’s gaming, binge-watching, or writing his way through.
He loves a good movie on the big screen, good food, and any excuse to travel somewhere he’s never been. New places, new people, new experiences—he collects them the way some collect achievements. There’s no respawn in this life, so he’s committed to making this run count.