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The Godking's Legacy

Godking's Legacy · Book 1 · 2018

Durandal has spent millennia waiting for someone to claim the Godking’s legendary sword. When a prince finally arrives, the sword spirit refuses him and chooses Lucia, an enslaved squirrel-like beastwoman, instead. Her chance to inherit a hero’s power comes with a teacher who has very little patience left.

Fantasy Cultivation Absurdism

From the author’s blurb

“Trapped for millennia, the sword’s spirit awaits the day he’ll be set free.”

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What makes it funny?

The Godking’s treasure should justify an epic expedition. Durandal has spent his confinement using it up: spirit stones are gone, weapons have supplied materials for his hobbies, and the books have rotted. Lucia takes one look at the leftovers and doubts that this can be the famous inheritance. Readers in fantasy book groups also enjoy the absurd power and distractibility of the protagonist.

The comedy at work

The opening revisits the encounter through Durandal and Lucia’s separate accounts. He thinks about his inconvenience and his looks; she alternates between idolizing him and suspecting a fraud. Their incompatible ideas of a legendary hero give the same discovery two very different versions.

Try this if…

Readers in fantasy book groups pair it with The Blue Mage Raised by Dragons for exaggerated characters and ridiculous fun. It also suits readers who enjoy an impatient mentor puncturing a heroic legend. Readers describe the power growth as ascension fantasy rather than LitRPG.

Good to know

Expect profanity, gore, sexual themes and an opening that depicts enslavement and abuse. Readers discussing the original serial differ over whether Lucia’s cruelty is funny or unpleasant. Some also find the repeated viewpoints in the opening slow the story down.