About Year of the Sword (Patreon)

So, real quick rundown of the Year of the Sword series:

The entire series is based around a calendar.  There are seven Houses named after the days of the week, House Monday, House Tuesday, etc.
Each House has a mission.  Monday is geared towards management/leadership.  Tuesday are the peacekeepers.  Wednesday are the monster hunters and crafters (they craft materials out of the monsters they hunt).  Thursday is focused on being merchants, which leads to them having the largest defensive fortifications (because they are rich).  Friday are bounty hunters, and they are obsessed with fighting and training.  Saturday are alchemists (and rumored to be assassins).  Sunday are healers, and focus more on utility spells and magic.

The money is called Time.  Minutes would be like coppers, Hours would be silvers, Days would be gold, Weeks would be platinum, Months would be kinda-sorta like gems, and Years would be the motherlode.  A Year coin is the equivalent of an entire laborer's year worth of work.  I'm sure you get the idea.

There are four main types of people: regular folks, cultivators, Vassals, and Wielders.  A cultivator is a regular person who chooses to improve themselves.  A Vassal has an empowered weapon, and can cultivate at twice the speed of a normal person.  A Wielder carries a Weapon of Power, of which there are only 365 on the whole planet.  They can cultivate at four times the speed of a regular person (at least).  Wielders have the ability to empower a regular weapon, up to the number of double their position on the calendar for their month.  For example, the Wielder of June 15th could create 30 vassals, while June 30th could only create 2 vassals.  The weapons can take many forms, such as swords, shields, maces, paint brushes (that erase whatever they touch), a gourd that creates magical whiskey, a staff, cudgel, etc.  A noble could increase their rank and power by challenging a wielder with a number higher than their own, and if they win, increase the number of their vassals.  The more vassals, the more supporters.

This might all seem complicated right now, but it won't be once you start to read the series.  I hate info-dumps like this because they tend to fry brains and steal the author's thunder, but since you are starting off at the third book in the Sword series, I wanted to give you some better background information.  I will do my best to include information where I can to make the process easier on you, but rehashing too much can also be a bad thing.

The Year of the Sword series is a massive undertaking, one that will start in January of 2022.  One book per month, for the whole year.  January will release in January, February in February, March in March, and on and on.  You get the idea, I'm sure.  No one has ever done something like this in the LitRPG genre, and we are hoping it will stir up plenty of attention.  Audio will be performed by Travis Baldree, the same guy that does all my Threads books.  I am really excited to see what you all think!