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Fateforged

Adam Lance, Michael Dalton, Leon West, Anne Ominous, Neil Bimbeau & Annabelle Hawthorne · 9 series · 26 novels · 2024–2026

Fate does not knock. It reaches through the cracks in an ordinary life — a trailer park, a graveyard shift, a bad night in the wrong city — and drags someone unremarkable sideways into a world that finally rewards the bold. Fateforged is a shared-world fantasy built on that one premise: Earthlings pulled into realms of elves, fae, dungeons and hungry old gods, and remade there as champions who level up, stake a claim, and gather allies (and lovers) as they climb. It is a loose federation of series rather than a single saga, written by a rotating bench — Michael Dalton, Adam Lance, Leon West, Anne Ominous, Neil Bimbeau and company — each running its own hero and hook. There's the culture-clash comedy of Trailer Park Elves, the throne-grabbing power trip of Isekai Emperor, the grind-and-loot of Dungeon Champions, the witchcraft of Hex Kittens, plus the Isle of the Amazonian Elves, King of the Fae Islands, Dark City Girls and the connective thread of Chosen by Fate. LitRPG mechanics, portal-fantasy setup and unapologetic wish-fulfillment are the shared blood. The register is brisk, warm and frankly adult — escapist underdog fantasy heavy on progression, romance and harem ensembles, light on grimdark brooding. Nothing here demands to be read in sequence: the world is a doorway, not a corridor, and each series stands on its own. Pick the flavor that suits you — Trailer Park Elves for the laughs, Isekai Emperor for the raw climb, Dungeon Champions for the numbers — and step through wherever you like.

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Where to start

One book per branch.

Reading order

26 novels

✦ Curated by the Loreful team

Adam Lance co-writes each of these eight LitRPG trilogies with a different partner under the shared 'Fateforged' brand; publication order is the honest default (the four 2024 launches are ordered as the worksheet lists them, and the same-year 2025/2026 pairs likewise — own knowledge, marked uncertain ? that a deeper multiverse link exists between them).

25 of 26 works

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Fateforged at the centre, 9 branches around it.

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What this universe published, when, and what it is made of.

26 works · 2024–2026 · busiest 2025 (10 works)

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Mood

Bright and intense: 47% of this universe's placed works, the catalog's 44%.

this universe · the catalog · one dot = one book19 of 26 works carry a tone

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Every work, three ways to look at it.

Series and publication data from ISFDB, CC BY 4.0. Branch grouping is derived, not curated.