In celebration of finishing Book 1 and moving on to Book 2, we commissioned this awesome new cover art for Unforged! It comes straight from the desk (and monitor? Digital art is cool, right?) of the incredibly talented Erin Sexton, who has done a fantastic job of capturing our vision and making it a reality. She was even able to take Sean's original word art and blend it in flawlessly.
Believe it or not, this is just the low-res version. We've got an even better one coming soon!
We hope you love it as much as we do!
And yes, since we're required by Royal Road to have at least 500 words for a chapter submission, we are going to say a little bit more down here. It's kind of challenging, because part of me wants to just drop the first 400 words of the next chapter... but that would be getting way too far ahead of ourselves!
Book 2 will only begin in one week, after all -- on March 14th -- with Chapter 54, which is titled "Toward His Destiny," and that's really where Tristan is heading. Book 2 is going to be the next step up for our swordsmith. He's already grown so much in these opening arcs, going from Tier 1 to Tier 2, from a blacksmith to a swordsmith, and we all know and love the LitRPG tendency of "numbers getting bigger!" That definitely isn't going to let up in the next step of his journey. If anything, he's got much bigger things to deal with ahead of him...
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And I suppose a little bit of a preview for what's coming next wouldn't be too awful! Book 2 has some really fun and different arcs coming, with Tristan being tested in ways he might only have imagined in his first 53 chapters.
There's Venom, of course, and a big crafting ark--I mean arc--and a raid and--!
Wait. Was that too much?
Anyway, our lovable swordsmith is going to have a pretty big change of pace. We don't want to give away too much, other than maybe to say that all the things Tristan's been doing has started weighing on him heavily. And maybe he hasn't been dealing with it in the healthiest way. He's a young man, after all, and he hasn't really been processing all of what he's been through.
Telling you that he deals with Venom and survives should be enough, right? For what comes after, well, I guess you'll just have to see.
We really can't thank of you enough for your support. We love to read all the comments, ratings, and reviews, and genuinely those last two are the best ways to help us and Unforged grown here on the Royal Road platform. If you haven't yet, we'd absolutely love it if more people could give their feedback on the story.
Regardless, we hope you've been enjoying reading Unforged. We can't wait for you all to see what comes next!
--Sean & Kit
