{"id":12263,"date":"2025-02-25T11:44:38","date_gmt":"2025-02-25T11:44:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/?p=12263"},"modified":"2025-02-25T11:44:38","modified_gmt":"2025-02-25T11:44:38","slug":"the-realm-dungeon-immortal-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/the-realm-dungeon-immortal-war\/","title":{"rendered":"The Realm Dungeon &#038; IMMORTAL WAR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B0DW26SSHF\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The third<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/primer-for-the-apocalypse-awakening\/\" title=\"Primer for the Apocalypse &#038; Awakening\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Primer for the Apocalypse<\/a> novel takes place entirely inside a dungeon that does not come across much like a dungeon at all. It&#8217;s not really any different from the action switching to a sequence of different planets, which is something that I&#8217;m thankful for. Quite a bit of time is covered as the protagonist advances from third all the way to eighth rank, with the main question being why she&#8217;s so set on advancing to the next realm without having spent much time in this one.<\/p>\n<p>Like, there&#8217;s no guarantee the next realm is any better. It could easily be worse (like it is in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/the-shop-of-souls-1-2-techromancy-scrolls-adept\/\" title=\"The Shop of Souls #1-2 &#038; techromancy SCROLLS \u2022\u2022\u2022ADEPT\u2022\u2022\u2022\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Shop of Souls series<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/the-first-witch-mage-beneath-the-dragoneye-moons\/\" title=\"The First Witch-Mage &#038; BENEATH THE DRAGONEYE MOONS\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Beneath the Dragoneye Moons<\/a>&#8216; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B0DT7FXDVG\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">fourteenth novel<\/a> is a bit of a head-scratcher. The titular war only takes a day or two and the rest is the protagonist rebuilding her home&#8230; which she just did a couple books back. The apocalypse itself even gets handwaved away a few years later by a pair of &#8216;lifebringers&#8217;. What was the point of the pseudo-reset? To push Night off the stage? Why bring him back in the first place then? The whole production just comes across as completely arbitrary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The third Primer for the Apocalypse novel takes place entirely inside a dungeon that does not come across much like a dungeon at all. It&#8217;s not really any different from the action switching to a sequence of different planets, which is something that I&#8217;m thankful for. Quite a bit of time is covered as the protagonist advances from third all the way to eighth rank, with the main question being why she&#8217;s so set on advancing to the next realm without having spent much time in this one. Like, there&#8217;s no guarantee the next realm is any better. It could easily be worse (like it is in the Shop of Souls series). Beneath the Dragoneye Moons&#8216; fourteenth novel is a bit of a head-scratcher. The titular war only takes a day or two and the rest is the protagonist rebuilding her home&#8230; which she just did a couple books back. The apocalypse itself even gets handwaved away a few years later by a pair of &#8216;lifebringers&#8217;. What was the point of the pseudo-reset? To push Night off the stage? Why bring him back in the first place then? The whole production just comes across as completely arbitrary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[764,820,28,29,818,766],"class_list":["post-12263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-related","tag-beneath-the-dragoneye-moons","tag-braided-sky","tag-fantasy","tag-paranormal-romance","tag-primer-for-the-apocalypse","tag-selkie-myth"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12263\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}