The Arath Saga
Alex never saw the car coming.
Distracted by a woman with vermillion hair and impossible green eyes, his life ends in an instant. Instead of oblivion, he awakens in a place between worlds, where a goddess offers him a choice. Walk away into nothingness, or begin again in Arath, a realm bound by ley lines, ruled by gods, and slowly unraveling under the weight of ancient decisions.
Reborn as Xavier Ardynvael, he enters a world where power must be earned, survival is not guaranteed, and balance has long been replaced by control. As slavers fall, forgotten nexuses stir, and buried truths rise to the surface, Xavier begins to realize that Arath’s greatest catastrophes were not accidents. With every death and rebirth, he is drawn closer to a choice no mortal was ever meant to face, one that could reshape gods, mortals, and the world itself.
The Arath Saga is an epic progression fantasy blending isekai rebirth, deep systemic worldbuilding, divine intrigue, and hard-won growth, where power has consequences, gods are not infallible, and balance can only be restored through choice.
Book I – Welcome to Your Next Life
“When the heavens burn and the earth does sigh, a mark long forgotten shall pierce the sky…”
Xavier never asked to be reborn. Yet when a dying world calls out for balance, he finds himself pulled through the veil of reality into Arath-a land bound by ley lines, fractured by ancient betrayal, and suffocating under divine watch. Armed with only instinct and a soul-bound blade, Xavier must forge new alliances, challenge cruel slavers, and awaken forgotten magics buried beneath the forest of Silverwood. But with every step, the gods take notice. Life was ordinary, mundane, even, until a fleeting moment changed everything. Distracted by a stranger on the street, Alex never saw the car coming. In an instant, the world he knew disappeared, and he awoke in a realm unlike anything he'd ever imagined.
Transported to a land of danger, magic, and untamed beauty, Alex must navigate a new reality where survival is a daily battle. Everything he once took for granted-comfort, safety, even the rules of nature-has been stripped away. But armed with the lessons from his favorite books and games, Alex is determined to forge his path and discover if he has what it takes to thrive in this second chance at life.
Book II – Shadows Over the Wildlands
“Bound by chains yet fated to free…”
The deeper Xavier digs into Arath’s corruption, the more sinister the truth becomes. Infiltrating the slaver stronghold of Ironhaven, he uncovers a conspiracy centuries in the making... one that marks the Animari for eternal bondage. But not all chains are visible. When he meets Lythara, a succubus bound by an infernal pact, Xavier faces an impossible choice: defy a devil-backed kingdom, or become its next pawn. As the earth stirs beneath Rynthavael, rebellion ignites, but every act of freedom comes with a price.
Alex’s life was boring, and then he died. When he woke, he met with a goddess who offered him a chance at a new life in a wondrous world of magic and fantasy, complete with all the game mechanics and interfaces he had grown to love in his video games. In this new world he has taken a new name, Xavier Ardynvael, and he has found a companion in Ella Bree, an enigmatic woman who holds a mystery.
Book III - The Iron Oath
“Balance calls from the fractured core…”
Beneath the Ironspire Mountains, something old is stirring.
Summer wanes as Xavier Ardynvael is drawn beneath the Ironspire Mountains, where old roads still remember forgotten oaths. The dwarves of Dun Karak stand divided, their traditions strained by decree and fear, and what begins as diplomacy soon reveals fractures that stone alone cannot hold. As autumn turns to winter, endurance becomes as vital as strength, and every choice weighs heavier than the last.
A new life once promised freedom. Now Xavier finds himself bound by responsibility, steward to a growing settlement and ally to a people whose past has been buried for generations. To hold what has been built, he must learn which traditions preserve balance… and which must be reforged before they break.
As frost settles and fire waits beneath the mountain, the Ironspire does not demand conquest. It demands resolve.