Legends of Progression: Tales from the Arcana
by Honour Rae, C. Mantis, Ivan Kal, Hunter Mythos, KrazeKode, J Parsons, Cale Plamann, Timothy McGowen, D.K. Landtroop, Matt Pivots
Why You'll Love This
Ten authors, one shared premise — every legend gets the origin story it deserved — and no two tales feel remotely alike.
- Great if you want: a sampler of top LitRPG and Progression Fantasy voices in one place
- The experience: bite-sized adventures — punchy, varied, easy to read in sessions
- The writing: each author brings a distinct voice; the range of styles is the point
- Skip if: you prefer deep world-building over self-contained short fiction
About This Book
Behind every legend lies a story someone forgot to tell — or perhaps chose to bury. This anthology gathers eleven original works from some of the most recognized voices in LitRPG and Progression Fantasy, each tasked with the same deceptively simple challenge: invent a myth, then write the origin behind it. Ancient artifacts with terrible histories, assassins whose reputations outlived their humanity, empires built on secrets — the premises span wide, but each story carries that particular weight of consequence that defines the best progression fiction. These aren't tales about chosen heroes. They're about the moments that made legends necessary in the first place.
What sets this collection apart is its structural premise: every author began from the same creative constraint and arrived somewhere entirely their own. Reading across all eleven stories reveals not just range of imagination but range of craft — different sentence rhythms, different approaches to power and cost, different definitions of what makes a life worth mythologizing. For readers already devoted to one or two of these authors, it offers the rare chance to discover several more without commitment. For newcomers, it functions as an unusually honest introduction to a genre at its most inventive.