Author Notes for Forged Destiny

The following page lists all author notes created for the literary work *Forged Destiny*.

## July 2016

### Chapter 1

**Monday, July 11**

Welcome one and all to *Forged Destiny*, the fic that is set to replace *One Good Turn Deserves Another*. As with my last, this story will be another adventure / romance, and with a fresh new pairing – one that I think is criminally underrepresented in the fandom. Lancaster, or Ruby x Jaune for those who weren't aware.

This chapter is realistically speaking, a prologue – future chapters will be much longer.

I am also going to try something completely new… and write it in first person. I've never done this before, but I'm determined to give it a go. Oh, and for any who wonder, this is another fic inspired by The Writer Games, since College Fool prompted me with "The World of Remnant is an RPG" - At the time I think he expected I would come up with a WoW or SAO game-playing idea, or VR. Instead I went with this. CF then liked it so much he suggested I do it in full.

And College Fool has helped me since, mostly with muse, inspiration and coming up with RPG mechanics to effect this world!

I'd like to have a quick mention here that this fic is not, and has never been intended as, a crossover with The Gamer, TGWP, or any other fics like that. Nor is it a crossover with SAO or whatever else, which I'm sure some may comment at in coming chapters. Similarly, lore, rules and exposition will be explained through dialogue and interactions, and I will not be info-dumping things in author's notes or dedicated explanation chapters.

The entire world here is an RPG-based Remnant. But they are not "playing" it, they are living in it.

So in some ways you won't have the full picture of how things work initially, but will come to learn them along with Jaune. That said, much of it is an original concept, so it's not worth listing similarities to things like Gamer, WoW, Sao or other things. Remnant here works on other rules. Which will be covered in time. Similarly at this point, the stats what they all mean might not make sense (though obviously they will likely be recognised).

As for chapter length, as a prologue this one is incredibly short – but average chapter length should be more along the lines of 5,000-7,000 words. I don't want to make any promises, but that's what I am aiming for. Btw, some words start oddly with a capital letter - that is because they are "big things" in this world, and thus are given them in their culture. It's not just me spelling badly. ;) I.e. Dexterity, Quest, Skills, etc... it differentiates between skills (Jaunes' skill at stuff) and Skills (Jaune's actual RPG active abilities).

### Chapter 2

**Monday, July 25**

Important note:

Due to a glitch in the system (the site's) the original second chapter was plagued by an error that prevented many people being able to access or view it. On the advice of some moderators, I have deleted the original chapter 2 - and then re-posted this in its place.

There is a hope that this will fix the error. I hope that this will not send out alert emails to doubly confuse people, but if it does then I am sorry!

I do apologize if anyone got super-excited, thinking that the next chapter had been released or something. This is just an effort by me to make this accessible to people again - as many could not read it. Again, sorry if you get spam in your inbox as a result.

Okay, so as we can see, some things are different – others, the same. This will be a recurring theme for the story in a sense. Don't expect the exact same rules or situations to apply from canon Remnant to this one. Yes Weiss and Pyrrha still meet, but this time there is no overnight initiation and Jaune meets no one else as of yet.

The numbers are different too, as is the task and the attitude towards it. And that makes sense, because the world itself is different. Different world, different rules. The plot will also be different, so expect a new adventure in a sense – even if we'll still undoubtedly see our usual favourite characters.

You can no doubt see where my worry about the Log issue came from. Jaune is an NPC trying to become a Hero, but the point I tried to make clear is that it isn't the same thing. NPC is a different acronym; it doesn't refer to playable characters or AI. It's just a term for the social hierarchy section Jaune is within.

Hope you enjoyed anyway. Please feel free to leave a review

## References

1. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20191128201534/http://www.fanfiction.net:80/s/12044591/1/Forged-Destiny
2. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20190416015813/https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12044591/2/Forged-Destiny