A serial fantasy · fifty main characters

Fifty lives. One world.

Fateful50 is one enormous fantasy world told through fifty main characters. Thieves, mages, soldiers, kings and monsters live through the same wars, invasions and betrayals from completely different sides. Read one life, and you start seeing the others everywhere.

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Choose a life

Pick any of the fifty stories. Each one is its own book with its own hero, enemies and ending.

Read chapter by chapter

Read for free, one chapter at a time, and bookmark your place in every book.

Spot the crossovers

Side characters, places and events link between stories. The person in the background of one book is the hero of another.

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Bankia4 · The Ghost of Junction City

Two brothers, one burned house, and a city that gave him a name.

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The 50 Stories

One story is open now. The rest are sealed until their first chapters are released.

Places · side characters · events

The World

Everything here shows up in more than one story. Follow a place or a side character into the books where they appear.

Crossover · the invasion of Thandvang

One night. Thirteen lives.

The night the City of Gold was invaded, thirteen of the fifty were inside its walls, and none of them came for the same reason. Pick a light to see where they were.

AttackingDefendingOwn agendaCaught in it

How power works

Rock, paper, steel.

No magic sits above the rest. Everything has a counter, and the counters follow real logic: what puts out fire, what stops a blade, what kills a mage. Who wins depends on what you bring and how big the fight is.

Nothing is untouchable

Every power, spell and weapon has something that beats it. Fights are won by reading the matchup.

Mages were hunted almost to extinction

Both sides wiped out most magic users and kept a few alive. People born with powers practise only where it's allowed.

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Steel was built to answer magic

Anti-magic armour and tech cut mages down. On a battlefield they are one tool of many. In a small fight they can look broken.