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Ironhold

A Base-Building LitRPG (The Founder's Forge, Book 1)

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Ironhold

Written by: Daven Korr
Narrated by: Sawyer Varvel
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Fifteen years of horseshoes. That's what the Ironworkers' Guild gave Edric Thorne for his loyalty. Nails and brackets and applications denied, while smiths with half his skill climbed on politics he wouldn't play.

A supply run goes sideways. Edric finds something in the Frontier ruins that kings would kill for: a Settlement Core, dormant for decades. He can sell it for enough gold to buy the title the guild refused him. Or he can plant it in the dirt and build something that belongs to no one but him.

He plants it.

Base-building LitRPG with crafting depth, settlement management, and a smith who'd rather fix a chimney than fight a war. Every wall he raises, every bracket he forges, every structure he reinforces feeds into a dual progression system where better buildings unlock better forges, and better forges produce stronger materials. No harem. No isekai. No chosen one. Just a competent man building something worth defending.

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If you're starting out and you're like building, this is something you might be interested in. It's pretty basic, it's following a formula and not really veering away from that. You can tell that there's going to be more in this series. And that there's going to be some mysteries that will be revealed. It was a little too early for that. This one should have been a town building but it does show also the potential for growth in the way that the interactions between the different people
Are more real, so the script potential here. It's just, I hope that this won't end up being a paint by number series of you do this. This and this and you get this. And more importantly that those interactions between the people will become deepened to enhance the sorry, even more

If you're starting out and you like building

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