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The World, Aqua Terra
The biodiversity of this world varies greatly from that of Earth, making the local flora and fauna rather unique. To avoid confusion, I've largely omitted these details from the narrative, as they don't significantly impact the plot. Moreover, Lansius, our protagonist, is neither a botanist nor an avid animal expert. So, he didn't know the subtle differences.
However, one noticeable difference that he is aware of is the duck and chicken of this world. The birds here are enormous, about half the size of an ostrich. They're dangerous, cruel, and almost demonic in nature. Imagine a wild ostrich, or cassowary.
As for the commoners, they mostly consume lamb or mutton and occasionally goat. Beef is also a staple, albeit less frequent.
Also, the carrots are mostly purple and banana is unappetizing because of the lack of selective breeding.
Lastly, despite rumors of fell beasts lurking in ancient forests on the Promissia Continent, there's no report such creatures walking in the plains or urban area. There are no goblins or trolls for thousand of years. Because, over the course of 4,000 years, humans have hunted these creatures, pushing them to the far corners of the continent.
Contact with goblins and other fell beasts predominantly occurs on the Old Progentia Continent, which is separated by vast oceans.
Regarding magic.
Magic is scarce and highly regulated, meaning only the high nobility employs these powerful individuals. Most commoners don't know about the extent of what Mages can do aside from them being powerful.
What commoners do know is about the Healers Guild existence in big cities. The Guild cloisters gifted individuals they name Saint Candidates. These people can cure injuries and maladies with healing magic. However, the healing process takes a lot of time and effort, so their services (naturally since this is feudal era) are reserved for nobility and patrons of the Guild.
The price for healing is a donation, and it starts at multiple gold coins' worth of donations. So, it's mostly off-limits to commoners.
Also, there are no wizards or witches in their lore. They have different lore with dragons and actual magic.
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Elven Calendar 4422
In an era marked by rising tensions and escalating raids, Viscount Karius, the formidable Lord of Inglesia, committed the ultimate act of aggression. He crossed the Great River and launched a large-scale attack on the jewel of the Arvena province - the city of Riverstead. Despite Lord Maurice of Arvena’s attempts to fortify the city, even sending his own son to bolster its defenses, Riverstead fell prey to Karius’ surprise assault.
The High Lords viewed this as an overt act of hostility and aimed to censure the Lord of Inglesia. However, the Imperium’s archaic bureaucracy, slow and unresponsive, sought to label the incident as a minor border squabble among its vassal lords.
This attempt was a bid to preserve a semblance of peace within a realm already besieged by wars, particularly the Western front’s ongoing struggle against nomadic incursions.
Unwilling to wait for the Imperium’s response, Lord Maurice rallied his forces and marched them to Ceresia on the eve of winter. There, he waited and launched a winter attack, which took Karius’ men by surprise and turned the tides of war. Karius was swiftly dislodged from Riverstead and forced to flee, with Lord Maurice’s men hot on their heels.
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This is the map of Promissia Continent.
The Third Human Imperium is everything (starting from 9 o’clock) from Sarmatia, Centuria, Arminia, Brigandia, Arvena, Rhomeia, Midlandia, and Lowlandia, including also Nicopola, Halicia, and Ekionia.
For scale, each Province is vast. Some, like Midlandia, are as large as almost the whole of Western Europe. So they don’t have resource or living space issues. The Imperium operates more as if the Roman Imperium survived into the Medieval Era.
Each Lord who governed a Province acted more like a Roman Governor who should have at least a legion, six-thousand men ready at his disposal. In the story, because of the relative peace for 1300 years, a high lord like Earl Maurice of Arvena has two-thousand at his disposal.
Nomadic People, Mercantile Kingdom, and Navalnia Empire are human but not part of the Imperium.
Beastman Confederati is self-explanatory.
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Elven Calendar 4423
Last year, Viscount Karius, the formidable Lord of Inglesia, had crossed the Great River and launched a large-scale attack on the jewel of the Arvena province - the city of Riverstead. Despite Lord Maurice of Arvena’s attempts to fortify the city, even sending his own son to bolster its defenses, Riverstead fell prey to Karius’ surprise assault.
The High Lords viewed this as an overt act of hostility and aimed to censure the Lord of Inglesia. However, the Imperium’s archaic bureaucracy, slow and unresponsive, sought to label the incident as a minor border squabble among its vassal lords.
This attempt was a bid to preserve a semblance of peace within a realm already besieged by wars, particularly the Western front’s ongoing struggle against nomadic incursions.
Unwilling to wait for the Imperium’s response, Lord Maurice rallied his forces and marched them to Ceresia on the eve of winter. There, he waited and launched a winter attack, which took Karius’ men by surprise and turned the tides of war. Karius was swiftly dislodged from Riverstead and forced to flee, with Lord Maurice’s men hot on their heels.
With the arrival of spring, the tensions remained unresolved. Lord Karius stubbornly resisted all offers of truce, seemingly engaging in negotiations merely to buy time. Lord Maurice, in contrast, secured a fortress to guard against any potential reinforcements. However, he failed to foresee the alliance that had formed between Karius and Margrave Gottfried.
The formidable Margrave, the ruler of four northern Brigandia provinces, had previously clashed with Karius, making their sudden alliance a surprise. The specifics of their agreement were unclear, yet one thing was certain: Karius had set a trap for Maurice.
Karius successfully lured Maurice out of Riverstead, allowing Gottfried and his formidable army to cross the Great River and launch a devastating flank attack. The situation rapidly escalated into a crisis for Maurice and his men, who had their escape route effectively cut off.
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- Chapter 211 : CanardiaMar 18, 2025
- Chapter 210 : The Dark HorseMar 14, 2025
- Chapter 209 : BloodvineMar 11, 2025
- Chapter 208 : Ordu KhanMar 7, 2025
- Chapter 207 : Saint & MageMar 4, 2025
- Chapter 206 : Twin Shadows Over EclipseFeb 28, 2025
- Chapter 205 : Hallowed FangsFeb 25, 2025
- Chapter 204 : Pandora’s ShardFeb 21, 2025
- Chapter 203 : Birds of a FeatherFeb 19, 2025
- Chapter 202 : Auriga’s WhisperFeb 11, 2025
- Chapter 201: Curtain CallFeb 8, 2025
- Chapter 200 : The Last BowFeb 4, 2025
- Chapter 199 : EncoreJan 31, 2025
- Chapter 198 : The Paused RhythmJan 28, 2025
- Chapter 197 : The Return WaltzJan 24, 2025
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It has promise if does continue on the realistic isekai of an person in medieval setting unlike most fanfics and novels of an op guy with extreme great knowledge about medieval weapons and gunpowder. But this one is realistic and showing a lot of promise so I recommend it
May also have romance and a tactician MC rather then a op militry one which does make sense.
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I rarely review anything because quality of stories are usually too low for me to bother but this here is absolute gem. Especially if I did leave a review on two sites just to make sure it gets a fair review!
- Attention to details, realism and knowledge about how actual warfare works, how medeival society actually operated without self inserts and nonsense.
- Historically accurate despite minor splashes of reincarnation and potentially magic. Actually not potentially but actual magic (and MC is not obsessed with it), elves that live thousands of years and more. So much more!
Almost as if I am back to school or just reading r/AskHistorian. Feels amazing and refreshing without having to bother myself with another power trip of astronomical nonsense and don't get me wrong, it is fun to read about that if written in a good way but having magic in actually realistic setting is almost entirely non-existent in current popular novel/literature space.
So yeah, at least give it a try!
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Okay I just finished chapter 1 but I am loving it so far! It seems like it will be a realistic progression in a medieval world. And it also seems like an accurate representation of how life was back then. Also, like the
memory loss part
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If you come from reading a Japanese Isekai light novel, at first you like the power and the change that generates that power in the world, but few Authors manage to give a purpose of such power, but when they try to give coherence, when you keep reading you realize that such power is an excuse to interact with ultra mythological beings, but you end up disappointed because they are mostly beings that are more generic than a Hollywood movie cliché, then you wonder what happens to people who do not have a gift power?
Well we have "Horizon of War" escaping and proving that you don't need a poor excuse of power fantasy from a novice Author, who never read or informed himself on how to structure a good fiction, Many forget that the greatest power an Isekai character has, is not the generic gifted power they are given, it is the human knowledge we have gathered, which many of the public despise for not being relevant in our days, but in a world where things are in diapers, no one is prepared the power of the modern Real world and all that it implies. Muajajajaja cof cof cof... well, if you are looking for something more credible, realistic, argued and prepared, this novel is for you, it is fascinating how the Author shows that the most feared weapon in the world is a well applied knowledge.
PS: The protagonist hasn't said it, nor thought it, but I suspect they were a fan of "Age of Empires II" haha.
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Do you want to read about a portal fantasy that has a smart MC who doesn't have a cardboard personality but a normal one?
Do you like it when all the characters are well-developed and aren't 2D dumbasses to make MC look better?
Do you like it when information is cleverly and realistic given to you instead of boring info dumps and the world isn't in a box but a true world and things are happening?
Then this is the novel for you.
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