Downtown Druid
Downtown Druid
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SUMMARY
Betrayed by his former gang and thrown into the Rendhold Underprison, Dantes has spent the last five years scraping by. A whoreson of orcish, human, and elvish blood, he's lived on the periphery of the periphery, lying, cheating, and stealing to survive. After a run of bad luck, he's made a powerful enemy. Luckily, he's also gotten all the tools he needs to turn things around.
A slow burn progression fantasy focused on rising through the criminal underworld of a city-state using newfound powers and quick wits.
MC's powers will develop slowly, but he will use them in creative ways to get ahead, and in the meantime he's not above just braining someone with a club.
Anti-hero/villainous MC with a code.
6 Latest Chapters[ Updated a day ago ]
Chapter List
- Chapter 1: The Maw
- Chapter 2: You’ll owe me a favor
- Chapter 3: It doesn’t matter how you look
- Chapter 4: Filthy mutt
- Chapter 5: Your kind can be slow
- Chapter 6: Skittered away
- Chapter 7: Do you think they’ll treat you kindly?
- Chapter 8: I really don’t want to be stabbed.
- Chapter 9: Or mad. Or dead.
- Chapter 10: You are strange
- Chapter 11: Taller than a dwarf. Bit shorter than me.
- Chapter 12: The cannibalism didn’t bother him much
- Chapter 13: Too small a meal
- Chapter 14: The possibilities are endless
- Chapter 15: Head shape that indicates low cunning
- Chapter 16: He wanted to rule it
- Chapter 17: A god? Of rats?
- Chapter 18: Dead Man Walking
- Chapter 19: I have squats to do
- Chapter 20: A fool’s game
- Chapter 21: I was made for the stage
- Chapter 22: Hungry and Cruel
- Chapter 23: Dust, weed, favor, coin if they have it
- Chapter 24: We’ll see how the next roll goes
- Chapter 25: Too many are born with the sun on their faces
- Chapter 26: Brazen and bold
- Chapter 27: Tempt the gods to ruin your day
- Chapter 28: I did it very carefully
- Chapter 29: You’re not here to kill me I presume?
- Chapter 30: I’m no rat
- Chapter 31: Antennae tickled his lips
- Chapter 32: A Fey’s sense of honor
- Chapter 33: What would you say is the largest kind of tree?
- Chapter 34: Violent doesn’t mean stupid
- Chapter 35: Mating, yes. Also murder.
- Chapter 36: Doing a bit of flexing
- Chapter 37: The dainty wave of a highborn woman
- Chapter 38: Here’s the gist
- Chapter 39: Free booze, women, and money
- Chapter 40: Shouldn’t have been such an unrepentant-
- Chapter 41: Gorge yourself
- Chapter 42: Those aren’t to eat, they’re to bargain
- Chapter 43: How can I help you?
- Chapter 44: It seems it’s always ’the hard way’
- Chapter 45: Your surprises are no longer surprising
- Chapter 46: And then nothing
- Chapter 47: Are there any you would want me to spare?
- Chapter 48: Meet me in the Maw
- Chapter 49: None of that’s your blood, is it?
- Chapter 50: Ten copper on the big one!
- Chapter 51: Watch out below, fu-
- Chapter 52: It’s been a while
- Chapter 53: Any chance that could be a deluxe bath?
- Chapter 54: You shouldn’t, it’s a lie
- Chapter 55: That’s not what your mother told me
- Chapter 56: He wanted them to know that they’d lost
- Book announcement and a little treat
- Chapter 58: Too surprised to be angry
- Chapter 59: I like what I like
- Chapter 60: I’ve had far worse habits
- Chapter 61: There’s always some new vice
- Chapter 62: That’s his perogative
- Chapter 63: One bite at a time
- Chapter 64: Quick and dirty
- Chapter 65: Midtowner born and raised
- Chapter 66: A silence hungry for words
- Chapter 67: Fell into my knife
- Chapter 68: Just a chat
- Chapter 69: It would make us feel better
- Chapter 70: Sleep
- Chapter 71: Dantes the Druid
- Book 2 Chapter 1: Mondego, sir
- Book 2 Chapter 2: The weak and the tainted
- Book 2 Chapter 3: This is all that remains
- Book 2 Chapter 4: Plans to initiate. Old friends to kill.
- Book 2 Chapter 5: Why would I want to be anything other than a rat?
- Book 2 Chapter 6: Welcome a brother
- Book 2 Chapter 7: Why did these things all seem to happen in waves?
- Book 2 Chapter 8: Take Care of the Girls
- Book 2 Chapter 9: Grinning Down at Them
- Book 2 Chapter 10: I Think We May Need to Split Up
- Book 2 Chapter 11: Whip ’em out
- Book 2 Chapter 12: He Was a Rat and Had more Practical Concerns
- Book 2 Chapter 13: Such Tasty Crumbs She Gave
- Book 2 Chapter 14: So, We’re Even?
- Book 2 Chapter 15: Sincerely, Madame Cornelia of the House of Forteville
- Book 2 Chapter 16: Bureaucrats Are Worse Than Elves
- Book 2 Chapter 17: The Relief of Absolute Oblivion
- Book 2 Chapter 18: I Shall Hope for His Death
- Book 2 Chapter 19: You’re Under Arrest
- Book 2 Chapter 20: I’ll Need a Coat to Carry You In
- Book 2 Chapter 21: Do You Mind if I Go into Your Greenhouse and Say Hi?
- Book 2 Chapter 22: Let Me Come Up with Something Better
- Book 2 Chapter 23: One of the Most Ignoble Rakes
- Book 2 Chapter 24: Mages...They Just Couldn’t Help Themselves
- Book 2 Chapter 25: It’s Really All Very Simple
- Book 2 Chapter 26: We Can’t Afford Mistakes Now
- Book 2 Chapter 27: Wasn’t Worth a Boot Filled with Piss
- Book 2 Chapter 28: No. He’ll Just Die
- Book 2 Chapter 29: What Is Your Displeasure?
- Book 2 Chapter 30: Go In Sword Drawn and Start Swinging
- Book 2 Chapter 31: Please, Just Let Me Go
- Book 2 Chapter 32: This Would Certainly Rot Your Teeth
- Book 2 Chapter 33: I Was Aiming For Her Head
- Book 2 Chapter 34: Maybe Dantes Changed More Than I Thought
- Book 2 Chapter 35: How are my seconds?
- Book 2 Chapter 36: He Loved That Hand
- Book 2 Chapter 37: I Want to Talk
- Book 2 Chapter 38: I Owed a Debt
- Book 2 Chapter 39: I Always Appreciate a Good Performance
- Book 2 Chapter 40: Midtowners Are Nothing if not Adaptable
- Book 2 Chapter 41: Your Second Favorite F
- Book 2 Chapter 42: I’m Supposed to Count Things Now?
- Book 2 Chapter 43: Don’t Shake Them
- Book 2 Chapter 44: Where was he? Hiding under a half-pint mug?
- Book 2 Chapter 45: Just a Student Trying to Learn
- Book 2 Chapter 46: Try not to die before we can meet again
- Book 2 Chapter 47: What a Lovely Eye You Have
- Book 2 Chapter 48: I’ve Seen Worse at Family Reunions
- Book 2 Chapter 49: We Recite this Prayer
- Book 2 Chapter 50: I’m the One Standing With the Knife
- Book 2 Chapter 51: Don’t be an Idiot
- Book 2 Chapter 52: Eat! Spread!
- Book 2 Chapter 53: Yours, Dantes
- Book 2 Chapter 54: We Were All Young Once
- Book 2 Chapter 55: There’s No Reason to be Subtle
- Book 2 Chapter 56: It Was a Nice View
- Book 2 Chapter 57: Steel’s Steel and Steal
- Book 2 Chapter 58: Ah, That Old Yarn
- Book 2 Chapter 59: So, What’re Your Terms?
- Book 2 Chapter 60: This is an Ugly Look for You
- Book 2 Chapter 61: Are you here to say goodbye? To join me? Or to kill me?
- Book 2 Chapter 62: He Needed Help This Time
- Book 2 Chapter 63: Jacopo is Right There for Gods’ Sake
- Book 2 Chapter 64: Carapace, Fur, and Feathers
- Book 2 Chapter 65: I Win
- Book 2 Chapter 66: Spreading to Fill it Like Roots
- Book 3 Chapter 1: A Drink on the House? Maybe a Whore?
- Book 3 Chapter 2: Is Something Amusing?
- Book 3 Chapter 3: Jacopo is Uniquely Motivating
- Book 3 Chapter 4: Two-Legs and Their Problems
- Book 3 Chapter 5: Good Work Today
- Book 3 Chapter 6: Don’t Make an Enemy of Me
- Book 3 Chapter 7: Aside From the Obvious?
- Book 3 Chapter 8: I Have Spawned Thousands
- Book 3 Chapter 9: She’s a Legend
- Book 3 Chapter 10: Quarter Dead
- Book 3 Chapter 11: Magic, I Assume
- Book 3 Chapter 12: Where the **** am I?
- Book 3 Chapter 13: Blood Covered Muzzle
- Book 3 Chapter 14: Learn or die
- Book 3 Chapter 15: Get out of there
- Book 3 Chapter 16: I’m Better Qualified
- Book 3 Chapter 17: You Don’t Need to Flex
- Book 3 Chapter 18: No Such Thing as Doom, No Such Thing as Fate
- Book 3 Chapter 19: You Can Keep the Extra Blankets
- Book 3 Chapter 20: But You’ll Own Me
- Book 3 Chapter 21: He Couldn’t Show Weakness
- Book 3 Chapter 22: Bad
- Book 3 Chapter 23: I don’t have to kill you here
- Book 3 Chapter 24: Jacque should meet his uncle
- Book 3 Chapter 25: Keep a lady on her toes
- Book 3 Chapter 26: You’re Shameless
- Book 3 Chapter 27: You’re My Favorite Date
- Book 3 Chapter 28: We Are Very Dangerous
- Book 3 Chapter 29: Welcome to the Fall
- Book 3 Chapter 30: I Have Seen Suffering
- Book 3 Chapter 31: He was Rendhold, and Renhold was Him
- Book 3 Chapter 32: At Least I’ll See the Sun
- Book 3 Chapter 33: I AM Your superior