Demesne

Art By JackOfheart

***Demesne*** is a (NOT LitRPG) "Dungeon", Slice-of-life, Fantasy webnovel created and written by Shadow Crystal Mage. Cover Art by JackOfheart.

## Synopsis

> Out on the frontier of a new continent, the wizard Lori and her group of settlers try to build a community for themselves in a land actively hostile to intelligent life. With their wits, their will, and their newly built Dungeon to protect them against the Iridescence, they should be fine. If they can survive the lack of infrastructure. And the supply shortages. And other settlements poaching their people. And idiots who *don't get* exactly what having to settle somewhere entails. And dragons... A slice-of-life fantasy story.
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> Official 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

TBA

### Patron Exclusive Short Stories

EX SS 1 - Little Lori Goes To The Library

EX SS 3 - A Mentalist's Morning (Preview Sample)

EX SS 4 - The Mighty Hunter

EX SS 5 - Shanalorre's Morning

EX SS 6 - Riz's Sortie

EX SS 7 - To Hunt Beasts

EX SS 8 - Mikon Wants…

EX SS 9 - The End of Umu's Day

EX SS 10 - Riz and the Dragon

EX SS 11 - House Cleaning With Umu and Mikon

EX SS 12 - Talking About This

EX SS 13 - An Armada Horotract's Morning

EX SS 14 - Open Hand Demesne Mentalism Skills Tournament

EX SS 15 - A Lord's Day

EX SS 16 - A River's Fork Binder in Lori's Demesne

EX SS 17 – Rousing In The Morning

EX SS 18 – "What If… Lori Was A Mentalist Instead Of A Whisperer"

EX SS 19 – Cause And Consequence

EX SS 20 – To Be A Guide

EX SS 21 – An Astrologer's Sometimes

EX SS 22 – The Mighty Hunter Returns

EX SS 23 – Shanalorre's Morning, Again

EX SS 24 – To Make It A Euphemism

EX SS 25 – We Need To Talk

EX SS 26 – It Was That Girl's Fault This Happened!

EX SS 27 – Moon Gazing

EX SS 28 – Swimming Lessons

EX SS 29 – Fruit Picking

EX SS 30 – Banditry

EX SS 31 – Cooperative Practice

### 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!

### Notes

Demesne Measurement Guide

Random Demesne Trivia!

Demesne Name Pronounciation Guide (1?)

More Fascinating Lore Secrets in Demesne Item Descriptions!!

Relative Bead Values

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