Demesne

is a (NOT LitRPG) "Dungeon", Slice-of-life, Fantasy webnovel created and written by Shadow Crystal Mage. Cover Art by JackOfheart.
==Synopsis ==
==Chapters==
===Book 1: Setting a Frontier===
1 - Our Unfortunately Named Protagonist
2 - Do-It-Yourself Dungeon
3 - How to Build a Dungeon's Core
4 - Parts and Advanced Features Not Included
5 - When a Lord And A Lady Love Each Other Very Much…
6 - Food and Other Resources to Manage
7 - Suspiciously Sunny Day
8 - Minions Require Facilities
9 - Naming the Community With Malice Aforethought
10 - Material Shortages of Lori's Demesne
11 - We Left Living in a Society To Live Here
12 - Working with Tools
13 - Advancing Building Techniques
14 - Lori Goes Seeling
15 - Yes, There Are Dragons
16 - The Dragon and the Dark
17 - Stories In The Dark
18 - After The Dragon
19 - A Mess To Deal With
20 - Detritus To Clean
21 - Checking On Corpses
22 - Rebuilding
23 - The Importance of Lunch
24 - The Strangers
25 - Rian's List and Reasons
26 - Inconsistency
27 - Lori's Boat
28 - Beyond the Demesne Again
29 - Obviously, Grem Lied
30 - This Place Isn't Civilized
31 - River's Fork Demesne
32 - The Doctor of the Demesne
33 - The Savant
34 - She Remembered Someone's Name!
35 - Winter Plans
36 - The Aunt and the Niece
37 - Grem Explains Himself
38 - Don't Mention Your Fetish
39 - Runaway
40 - Fruits of the Morning
41 - The Promise of Breakfast
42 - The Binder of River's Fork
43 - Shanalorre Rising
44 - You're Wrong
45 - Grem's Sentence
46 - Home Is Lori's Demesne
47 - Finally Back At The Dungeon
48 - The Next Level
49 - Other Business
50 - Laundry Day
51 - We Need More Houses
52 - Foundations
53 - Building On The Foundation
54 - Work and Play
55 - Adequate Ventilation
56 - House Envy
57 - Minions Need Maintenance
58 - Material Restitution
59 - Post-Meeting Details
60 - Priorities in Construction
61 - The Map
62 - The Laundry Area
63 - The Laundry Area, Revised
64 - Lori Gets Ready To Explore
65 - Lori The Explorer
66 - Lori Goes To The Hospital
67 - Wounded
68 - Oh, Rainbows
69 - The Cost of Treatment
70 - An Altercation
71 - That Would Have Been Nice To Know
72 - The Proposal
73 - Home Again
74 - The Morning Of A Sudden Holiday
75 - Holiday Morning
76 - Things People Do On Holidays
77 - Lori's Bored, So She Goes Seeling Again
78 - Something To Do Tomorrow
79 - Breakfast Swimming Prizes
80 - Competitions
81 - Holiday Logistics
82 - Just A Thought During Holiday-Appropriate Semi-Violent Outlets
83 - The End of the Holiday
84 - The Holiday Is Over, Back To Work
85 - Unfinished Business and Experiment Preparation
86 - Experimental Preparation and Contextual Exposition
87 - Rian and Lori Experiment With Each Other
88 - Tests, Tanks and… Taxes?
89 - Successful Test
90 - Privacy, Privies, and Winter Worries
91 - The First Miners
92 - The Mine
93 - Subcontracting To Experts
94 - Lori Does Carpentry
95 - Craftsmanship and Cleanliness
Omake - Can You Fly?
96 - Emergency Order Bonus
97 - Fulfilled Obligations and Bedroom Hygiene
98 - Miners Home Again
99 - Blood, Wire and Water
100 - Ice Boats and Housewarming
101 - Lori Builds The… Um…
102 - Thank You
103 - Obvious, Insight and Brilliance
104 - Making Better Plumbing
105 - Waterworks and Ice… Actually Works?
106 - The Ice Boat Prototype
107 - Prepare As You Did The Last Time
108 - Yes, There Are Still Dragons
109 - From The Core
110 - Timekeeping
111 - Day Shift
112 - Into the Night Shift
113 - Just Barely Not A Dragon Shelter Party
114 - A Mess To Deal With, Again
115 - Improving Defensive Measures
116 - Responsible For Fourteen
117 - No One Died
118 - Making A Better Water Jet
119 - Modeling
120 - Rian's Problem
121 - The Better Water Jet
122 - The Ice Boat Floateth
123 - A Favor
124 - Something To Come Back To
125 - A Lonely House
126 - Cheerful, Unreadable
127 - Playing with Water
128 - Golden Sweetwood Company
129 - Finishing Touches
130 - Trying To Convince Himself
131 - Come Back Safe, We'll Be Waiting
132 - Finally, To Covehold
===Book 2: Expand, Exploit, Experiment ===
133 - Can't Bring Herself To Care
134 - A Small Hole
135 - Hungry After All
136 - Even When He's Not Around
137 - It's Just Not The Same
138 - Needing More Light And Heat
139 - Chatrang And A Petition
140 - Riz's Chimney
141 - More Chimneys
142 - The Dock On The Other Side
143 - Beginning Improved Defensive Measures
144 - To Keep Busy
Demesne Anniversary Special 1: Riz And Mikon In Bed
145 - The Harvest
146 - The Best Kind Of Advice
147 - Drying To Thresh
148 - Experimenting With Riz
149 - Final Desiccation Test
150 - Threshing and Storage
151 - Everything Back To Normal
152 - I Missed You Too
153 - We're Home
154 - Leaving The Silliness To Rian
SS 12 - Talking About This
155 - First Morning Back
156 - Lori Reads An Almanac
157 - Customs Inspection
158 - All Was Right
159 - Report On A Journey To Covehold
160 - Images Bound In Light
161 - The Importance Of Milling
162 - The Mill Stone
163 - The Milling Process
164 - Warm and Cold
165 - Salt, Fees, Anchorage, Heat
166 - Ship Sinking
167 - Better Farming Through Explosions
168 - Tired Of Stairs
169 - The Dungeon Farm
170 - Winter Is Co—Oh Wait, It's Already Here
171 - Lori's Demesne In Winter
172 - Traveling In Winter
173 - River's Fork in Winter
174 - Punitive Measures
175 - An Accord
176 - Things Left Unattended
177 - Preparing To Smelt
178 - Smelting Copper
180 - Most Definitely Not Procrastinating
181 - Borders
182 - Expansion
183 - The Rest Of Her Life
184 - When It Rians It Floods
185 - Schedule Optimization
186 - Lori and Rian Wake Up Together
187 - Experimenting With Expansion Variables
188 - And Bloody War Followed
189 - Matters of Marriage
190 - Theatricality In The Presentation
191 - Seasonal Hazards
192 - Fortunately, No One Asphyxiated
193 - Taking A Rest
194 - Lori Officiates Marriages
195 - Application Complications
196 - Smarter, Not Harder
197 - Planning For Recovery
198 - Unexpected Unexpected
199 - A Success By Any Standard
200 - Past The Storm
201 - Oh
202 - The Sled
203 - The Sled Air Jet
204 - The Sled, Completed
205 - Not a Dungeon Core
206 - Bead Economic Theory
207 - Bead Experiments
208 - Breaking Bead
209 - White Iridescence
210 - Routine Set In
211 - A Gap In Understanding
212 - In Case of Pregnancy
213 - Interest
214 - Expecting
215 - Expecting Visitors
216 - A Guest
217 - Due Diligence
218 - A Clear Hazard
219 - An Outrageous Offer
220 - Project Negotiations
221 - Finalizing Agreements
222 - Flood Preparations
223 - Infrastructure Assessment
224 - One More Day
225 - Lori's Rest Day
226 - Sewing and Board Games
227 - Back to Work
228 - Rolling Stones
229 - Building The Flood Barrier
230 - Basic Bricklaying
231 - Stone Finishing
232 - Diagnose Shanalorre
233 - The Winter Community Meeting
234 - Land, Again
235 - Denied. Next!
236 - Not Her Problem
237 - Raining And Still Freezing
238 - The Coming Of Spring
239 - (Re)Securing Water
240 - Forward Planning
241 - Bug Repellent
242 - Cold Room Improvements
243 - Cold Room And Holiday Preparation
244 - Binder V Binder
245 - Holiday Excitement
246 - Worth More Than Anything
247 - The Horrified Light Of Realization
248 - Subordinates
249 - You Just Want To Eat Our Food
250 - To Deal With Malcontents
251 - Spring Construction
252 - Land Inspection
253 - The Dehydration Shed
254 - Further Adjustments
255 - Preparing For River's Fork
256 - Getting The Boat Ready
257 - Necessary Maintenance
258 - Water Jet Improvement Test
259 - Uncovered Results
260 - To River's Fork Once More
261 - Arrival
262 - The Core Of River's Fork
263 - What Have You Done
264 - A Poll, Not A Vote
265 - New Minions Require New Facilities
266 - They Know Where You Sleep
267 - A Belated Realization
268 - One Night's Rest
269 - A Restless Walk
270 - Ah, A Sound Idea
271 - A Little Girl And A House
272 - Shanalorre's House
273 - Shanalorre's Rock
274 - Suffering Marriage Problems
275 - A Standard Sales Technique
276 - Seeling Again
277 - Indecisions And Responsibility
278 - Under Serious Consideration
279 - Consequences Of (More) Theft
280 - Making Farmable Land
281 - This Probably Wouldn't Last
282 - Questionable Assistance
283 - Lori Needs Her Note-Taker
284 - Decreed Perpetual Non-Officer
285 - Warm Weather Bead Experiments
286 - To be Pleasantly Surprised
287 - Pleasantly Surprised, But Slightly Disappointed
288 - Rudimentary Bound Tools
289 - It's A Euphemism
290 - Another of Rian's Fetishes
291 - Prototyping
292 - The First Prototype
293 - Testing the First Prototype
294 - Unpaid Gainful Employment
295 - Congratulations
296 - Prototyping for Mass Production
297 - It's Not The Same, Again
298 - Ignorance of Something
299 - The Shed On The Edge
300 - The Production Mold And The Second Prototype
301 - Rian's Considered Advice
302 - Speaking of Tax Evasion
303 - Making The Third Prototype
304 - A New Line Of Inquiry
305 - Needing More
===Book 3: ===
306 - The Summer Dragon Comes
307 - An Itch In Her Mind
308 - The Dragon Shelter
309 - The Dungeon And The Dragon
310 - Sealing The Dungeon
311 - Between Friends
312 - Waiting For The Boat
313 - The New Girls
314 - The Dragon Arrives During Lunch
315 - Sleep and Farming
316 - Shana Speaks To Rian
317 - To Not Shirk Responsibilities
318 - Sleeping And Waking
319 - Illumination and Water Reclamation
320 - Resting to Be Ready For Emergencies
321 - Uncomfortable, Boring and Annoying
322 - Stepping Outside Again
323 - Distillation and Damage Assessment
324 - Welcome Home
325 - Fixing Home
326 - Leaving For Covehold, Again
327 - Three For One
328 - A Coldhold Interlude
329 - I Want To Shirk My Responsibilities!
330 - Food Supply Problems
331 - Shirking My Responsibilities Is Sounding More And More Tempting
332 - Seeling Is Not Shirking My Responsibilities!
333 - Reading Is Not Shirking My Responsibilities!
334 - Testing For The Trap
335 - Further Testing for the Trap
336 - Studying The Problem Is Not Procrastinating
337 - Coming To Covehold Demesne
338 - The Streets of Covehold
339 - Rian’s Adventures In Mercantilism
340 - Back On The Streets Of Covehold
341 - Worth The Price
342 - Rian Is Betrayed
343 - A Lorian Interlude: Karina
344 - A Little Wager
345 - The Tour
346 - Ravia’s Party Trick
347 - The Man Whose Name Was On The Sign
348 - The Final Negotiations
349 - Only Just Starting
350 - A Lorian Interlude: Mikon
351 - A Little Bit Evil
352 - Going Out Tonight
353 - A Night Out In Covehold
354 - The Lawyer And The Letter
355 - Installments, Bound Tools And A Deadspeaker
356 - The Interview
357 - Looking For Deadspeakers
358 - The Ship
359 - The Ship In The Morning
360 - Siblings
361 - A Large Cart
362 - Loaded And Ready To Go
363 - Settling In The New Recruits
364 - Good Night, Everyone
365 - Settling Accounts
366 - Towards Home
367 - Your Absence Was Missed
368 - Annoying Introductions, The First
369 - Deadspeaking Work Logistics
370 - Annoying Introductions, The Next
371 - Disproportionately Hurtful
372 - Isn't That… Dangerous?
373 - To Itch
374 - The Dangers Of Books To Schedules
375 - Until Dragons Drop Gold
376 - Honey Is Very Thankful
377 - A Room For Honey
378 - Tales Of Adventures In Mercantilism
379 - More Tales of Adventures In Mercantilism
380 - Not Completely Useless
381 - Projects
382 - Accelerated Harvest
383 - Prelude To Shana’s Holiday
384 - Shana's Holiday
385 - Shanalorre At Work
386 - Shana's Breakfast
387 - More Of Shanalore At Work
388 - Shana's Afternoon
389 - There Be Fruit
390 - The Return Of The Letter
391 - Tree Adjustments
392 - Ventilation and Boats
393 - New Bound Tools
2024 Anniversary Special: Good Night
394 - The Sawmill And Trees
395 - Resuming Expansion
396 - Rian in Trouble
397- A Third Alloy
398 - A Fourth Alloy
399 - Alloys Of Light And Dark
400 - Sliders And Dials
401 - Dedicated Expansion
402 - The Prototype Sliding Switch
403 - Prototype And Storage
404 - Resuming Excavation
405 - Building Another Wood Shed
406 - Post-Shed And Harvest Exhaustion
407 - Rest And Regret
408 - Probation's End
409 - Mine Shelter Development Planning
410 - Returning The Children
411 - Shana, We Need To Talk
412 - You Fall Beneath That Purview
413 - In Complete Opposition
414 - I Could Use Some Advice
415 - You Won’t Be Alone
416 - I Am Not A Child. I Am A Dungeon Binder
417 - Here With Me
418 - Shared Transition
419 - Sweet Talk
420 - A Very Strange Place
421 - Boat Shed Bead Making
422 - The Year's Second Dragon
423 - Time Until The Dragon Arrives
424 - The Possibility Of Invisible Dragons
425 - A Cold Wind
426 - Beneath The Dragon’s Shadow
427 - Simple Solutions
428 - Reading Words
429 - Cutting Wit
430 - Conspiracy
431 - Doing Great
432 - A Worrying Routine
433 - Someday
434 - Very Commendable Watchfulness
435 - Creatively Applied Deadspeaking
436 - Lori Retrieval Operations, Start!
437 - Fallen Abominations
438 - Just Mostly Irresponsible
439 - Still Being Fulfilled
440 - Familiar Ceiling
441 - Back To A Working State
442 - How To Get Rid Of Dragonfrost, Prototype
443 - Restoring Water
444 - How To Get Rid Of Dragonfrost, Limited Mass Implementation
445 - She Hates It When…
446 - How To Burn A Corpse
447 - How To Get Rid Of Dragonfrost (Version 2), And Other Cleaning Hazards
448 - Sample Containment
449 - Officially A Best Friend
450 - Rainbows With All The Colors
451 - Premeditated Death
452 - Not Actually Trying To Procrastinate
453 - Staying Up To Work
454 - Setting Off To Finally Kill This Thing
455 - The Abomination
456 - Lightning
457 - Anti-Climactic
458 - It Will Always Be Waiting
459 - Places To Study
460 - Better Ways To Use Lightningwisps
461 - Satisfying To Build
462 - Oh, NOW They're Here
===Book 4: ===
TBA
=== Patron Exclusive Short Stories ===
V1 EX SS 1 - Little Lori Goes To The Library
V1 EX SS 3 - A Mentalist's Morning (Preview Sample)
V1 EX SS 4 - The Mighty Hunter
V1 EX SS 5 - Shanalorre's Morning
V1 EX SS 6 - Riz's Sortie
V1 EX SS 7 - To Hunt Beasts
V1 EX SS 8 - Mikon Wants…
V1 EX SS 9 - The End of Umu's Day
V1 EX SS 10 - Riz and the Dragon
V2 EX SS 11 - House Cleaning With Umu and Mikon
V2 EX SS 12 - Talking About This
V2 EX SS 13 - An Armada Horotract's Morning
V2 EX SS 14 - Open Hand Demesne Mentalism Skills Tournament
V2 EX SS 15 - A Lord's Day
V2 EX SS 16 - A River's Fork Binder in Lori's Demesne
V2 EX SS 17 – Rousing In The Morning
V2 EX SS 18 – "What If… Lori Was A Mentalist Instead Of A Whisperer"
V2 EX SS 19 – Cause And Consequence
V2 EX SS 20 – To Be A Guide
V2 EX SS 21 – An Astrologer's Sometimes
V2 EX SS 22 – The Mighty Hunter Returns
V2 EX SS 23 – Shanalorre's Morning, Again
V2 EX SS 24 – To Make It A Euphemism
V2 EX SS 25 – We Need To Talk
V3 EX SS 26 – It Was That Girl's Fault This Happened!
V3 EX SS 27 – Moon Gazing
V3 EX SS 28 – Swimming Lessons
V3 EX SS 29 – Fruit Picking
V3 EX SS 30 – Banditry
V3 EX SS 31 – Cooperative Practice
V3 EX SS 32 – My Next Demesne! I'm Happy With My Wife!
V3 EX SS 33 – Good Morning
V3 EX SS 34 – Happy With My Wife In Our New Demesne
V3 EX SS 35 – Learning With Kutago!
V3 EX SS 36 – More Learning With Kutago!
V3 EX SS 37 – The Captain, Retired
V3 EX SS 38 – Holding Hands Forever
=== Demesne Snippets ===
1: Brewing
2: A Story
3: More Of A Story
4: Intimacy
=== Demesne What If...? ===
SS1 – "What If Lori Was A Generic Charismatic Main Character?"
SS2 – "What If Mikon Was Lady Instead Of Rian?"
SS3.1 – "What If (nearly) EVERYONE In Lorian But Lori And Rian Was An Isekai?" Part 1
SS3.2 – "What If (nearly) EVERYONE In Lorian But Lori And Rian Was An Isekai?" Part 2
SS3.3 – "What If (nearly) EVERYONE In Lorian But Lori And Rian Was An Isekai?" Part 3
SS3.4 – "What If (nearly) EVERYONE In Lorian But Lori And Rian Was An Isekai?" Part 4
=== Demesne Non-Canon Stories ===
SS 1 – "What If Lori Was A Generic Charismatic Main Character?"
SS 2 - Ryan Is An Isekai! (Non-Canon April Fools)
Ryan Is An Isekai Zeo! - April Fools 2022!
Ryan Is An Isekai Turbo! - April Fools 2023!
Ryan Is An Isekai In Space! - April Fools 2024!
Demesne Deleted Scenes! Chapter 245 to 371!
===Notes===
Demesne Measurement Guide
Random Demesne Trivia!
Demesne Name Pronounciation Guide (1?)
More Fascinating Lore Secrets in Demesne Item Descriptions!!
Relative Bead Values
A Rant On Demesne Tech, and Isekai Uplift
==External Links==
*Read on Royal Road
*Patreon - Demesne
*TV Trope: Demesne
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Category:Adventure
Category:Slice of Life
Category:Fantasy
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