The Realm
A kingdom grown comfortable behind generations of peace, unprepared for an enemy that has learned patience.
A baker's son with nothing to his name. A shield that refuses to break. A kingdom that has forgotten what the dark can do. And a storyteller who swears every word is true.
A character-driven epic fantasy saga by Jeremiah Richmond. Three completed manuscripts, available for editorial development, with a visual world built to extend beyond the page.
As the heroes stood before the ancient storyteller, more shadow than flesh, the air thickened with unseen power.
To the first, it offered wholeness. To the second, a kingdom restored. To Levi, it offered a question.
Continue belowThe central three-book arc is fully written, and the world was deliberately built with room to grow.
The Unbreakable Shield is an epic fantasy saga set in a realm standing at the edge of a long peace. For generations the frontier has held. Now the things beyond it have begun to change, and the kingdom is about to learn how thin the wall between order and ruin has always been.
The story follows Levi, a poor baker's son who takes up a soldier's shield and becomes the line the darkness has to cross. Around him stands a small circle of people worth protecting.
Behind the whole story stands its narrator, the Storyteller, whose role is far larger than it first appears. Its themes are duty, sacrifice, found family, and the price of standing when standing costs everything.
All three manuscripts are completed and remain open to professional editorial development. Open each volume for its spoiler-safe promise, themes, length, and place within the fully written trilogy arc.
A poor baker's son enters a conflict larger than anything he was prepared to survive. The frontier begins to fail, unlikely bonds form around him, and the shield becomes more than a piece of armor.
The conflict widens, the enemy stops hiding its intelligence, and the people around Levi are forced to discover what their promises are worth when survival is no longer enough.
The central war and the Storyteller's hidden purpose converge. The final volume changes the meaning of what came before while completing the trilogy's promised beginning, middle, and end.
Switch accounts to see how the kingdom's official record differs from the Storyteller's version.
A kingdom grown comfortable behind generations of peace, unprepared for an enemy that has learned patience.
The kingdom's farthest defended frontier, where shield-bearers stand between the realm and whatever waits beyond it.
Soldiers defined not by the blades they carry, but by what they are willing to stand in front of.
The goblins have stopped raiding like animals and begun moving like an army. Something older now directs them.
Their public descriptions are true. Their private annotations may be truer.
A baker's son turned soldier, and the one who chooses to stand where the wall is thinnest.
A warrior who never waits to be protected and rarely needs to be.
Steadier than the soldiers she mends, she keeps Levi whole in more ways than one.
He has watched good men break at the wall and intends to make Levi the exception.
Every word of the saga reaches you through him. Who he is, why he chose this story, and what he wants from the telling form the trilogy's longest game.
Choose a character to trace their spoiler-safe connections. Storyteller Mode changes the annotations.
A focused reading view with adjustable type and saved progress. The complete manuscript and Chapter One are available on request.
As the heroes stood before the ancient storyteller, more shadow than flesh, cloaked in whispers and forgotten truths, the air thickened, humming with unseen power. Words spilled from the figure's mouth like oil on still water, smooth and heavy, laced with temptation.
To the first of them, it offered wholeness. To the second, a kingdom restored.
And to Levi, it offered only a question. "Wouldn't you undo it, if you could? The night everything was taken from you?"
The question did not just resonate.
It detonated.
A thousand church bells rang in Levi's mind, each one tolling with the weight of memory. The air around him grew colder, his breath catching.
He saw a face he had spent years trying not to see.
Every step of his path, every battle, every wound, all of it had been born from one moment, and now that moment dangled in front of him like a blade suspended over his soul.
The world blurred. The Storyteller's voice faded into a distant hum, overtaken by the rush of memory, not fragments, but entire moments resurrected in full.
He was not simply remembering. He was reliving it.
And oddly enough, the memory did not begin in a distant land or on a battlefield, but here, in the exact spot where he now stood.
Ten years ago...
The streets had been narrower then, all cracked stone and muddy gutters, the scent of baked bread lingering in the air.
The Unbreakable Shield is a three-book narrative arc with a clear beginning, middle, and end. All three manuscripts are completed, with the full trilogy arc written and available for editorial development.
The series combines character-driven fantasy with a recognizable visual identity: a shield-bearing hero, an unreliable Storyteller, an advancing goblin army, distinct factions, evolving weapons and armor, and recurring symbols that can carry across formats.
The immediate goal is successful traditional publication. Beyond the novels, the world has natural potential for animation, serialized television, graphic adaptation, games, audio, collectibles, and licensed merchandise without requiring those extensions for the story to feel complete.
Jeremiah Richmond is seeking literary representation and traditional publication. Film, television, animation, graphic, audio, gaming, and licensed merchandise rights inquiries are also welcome.
Jeremiah Richmond is seeking literary representation and traditional publication for The Unbreakable Shield. Film, television, animation, graphic, audio, gaming, and licensed merchandise rights inquiries are also welcome.
All three completed manuscripts, a synopsis, query materials, and the complete series bible are available on request.