Retired Archmage Starts a Town 2
(2026)(The second book in the Retired Archmage Starts a Town series)
A novel by EvolvedRaccoon
James Wanbrook didn't plan to become a mayor. He planned to retire. The town was supposed to be small, quiet, and entirely uncomplicated.
Eight months later, Rune Hollow has a mine, a brewery, a Steam Elemental, a formally constituted town council, and a market day that traders are planning detours for. It also has a Lithomorph the size of a small hill moving slowly south through the bedrock, a silver deposit James hasn't mentioned to anyone, and an imperial assessor arriving with four weeks' notice and a reputation for reading between lines.
James is still pretending to be a hedge mage with moderate aptitude. His council is still pretending not to notice. And Rune Hollow is becoming something none of them entirely planned — a fixed point in the Forngal Expanse that other people navigate by, that something very old has decided to orient toward, and that a delegation from a struggling settlement two days south has traveled to learn from.
The place just needed to be found. What happens next is the harder and better thing.
Retired Archmage Starts a Town continues the story of the most quietly powerful mayor in the outer territories, and the town that became real because he believed in it hard enough.
Genre: GameLit
Eight months later, Rune Hollow has a mine, a brewery, a Steam Elemental, a formally constituted town council, and a market day that traders are planning detours for. It also has a Lithomorph the size of a small hill moving slowly south through the bedrock, a silver deposit James hasn't mentioned to anyone, and an imperial assessor arriving with four weeks' notice and a reputation for reading between lines.
James is still pretending to be a hedge mage with moderate aptitude. His council is still pretending not to notice. And Rune Hollow is becoming something none of them entirely planned — a fixed point in the Forngal Expanse that other people navigate by, that something very old has decided to orient toward, and that a delegation from a struggling settlement two days south has traveled to learn from.
The place just needed to be found. What happens next is the harder and better thing.
Retired Archmage Starts a Town continues the story of the most quietly powerful mayor in the outer territories, and the town that became real because he believed in it hard enough.
Genre: GameLit
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