The First Rule of Adventuring

See more by Vichet Ou

Available at Select Retailers

He was just trying to be polite.
​​​​​​​

Asmund Alefson is a professional adventurer who hates his job. 
​​​​​​​

Silga Goldenfield is the chronically-kidnapped princess that he accidentally inspires to become an adventurer.
​​​​​​​

Unwilling to dash her dreams, and because dead princesses result in low-or-no reward, Asmund reluctantly takes Silga on as an apprentice.

Little do they know, her life choices have run afoul of more than a few dastardly schemes, as an old enemy of the Norlanders waits in the shadows, and a very strange goose follows them around from job to job.
​​​​​​​

The First Rule of Adventuring is a Pratchett-esque comedic fantasy adventure set in the Cruxverse, where music is magic, no one fights werecreatures for free, and even the Composer Gods have to pay rent.

About the author

Vichet Ou

Vichet Ou is a Cambodian-American writer of comedic fantasy for the gig-economy generation, in a subgenre he likes to call "Mundane-core."

​​​​​​​His work takes place in the high fantasy setting of the Cruxverse, where adventure and intrigue mix with quotidian drudgery, where dragons still live at the edges of the world because humanoids are gross, where talking swords have a tenuous grasp on the concept of metaphor, and where rent money is about as important as warding off the next were-creature attack.