Rise of the Blade By Charles Moffat

Moffat sells his books on both Kindle and Kobo Many of his books are Exclusive to Kindle site_link Author Charles Moffat site_link UPDATE 7 1 2020 I received a message from the author disavowing this book Hello I want to apologize for you reading my book Rise of the Blade RotB Actually I would like RotB removed from the internet entirely I would also like people to stop sharing unfinished and unauthorized PDF copies of it that were full of typos and mistakes I wrote the book in question 23 years ago in Winter 1997 98 and at one point years after it became clear it would never be published I posted it on a website for free Then someone copy pasted the individual chapters and put them in a PDF without asking my permission started distributing the PDF.

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Rise of the Blade is a fantasy novel written in 1998 but it was never finished and never edited There are unauthorized versions of it available on the internet which the author refers to as an abomination Rise of the BladeCharles Moffat began taking the act of writing seriously when he was 10 years old and began publishing his stories when he was 12 years old Now in his 40s Moffat is still publishing his work and writes in a variety of fantasy sub genres Dark Fantasy Epic Fantasy Heroic Fantasy Fables and Sword Sorcery. Rise of the bladetas Moffat also writes nonfiction and his work appears in publications like Archery Focus Magazine and Lilith Press An archery instructor author and artist you can view some of Moffats archery feats paintings photography and literary works by visiting his website or social media accounts below site_link author moffat site_link fiction. Ebooks Rise of the blades free com charle Charles Moffat began taking the act of writing seriously when he was 10 years old and began publishing his stories when he was 12 years old Now in his 40s Moffat is still publishing his work and writes in a variety of fantasy sub genres Dark Fantasy Epic Fantasy Heroic Fantasy Fables and Sword Sorcery. Rise of the bladensburg Moffat also writes nonfiction and his work appears in publications like Archery Focus Magazine and Lilith Press An archery instructor author and artist you can view some of Moffat s archery feats paintings photography and literary works by visiting his website or social media accounts below site_link author moffat site_link fiction. Book the blade itself com charlesmoffatYou can also read some of Moffat s fables by visiting the following site below You may notice archery is frequently used as a plot device in his work site_link fiction. Book the blade itself htmlMoffat has appeared on CBC television CBC Radio CityTV TSN OLN and numerous other television radio broadcasts promoting the sport of archery He is also a strong supporter of realism in writing again without asking my opinion on the subject I apologize to you and anyone else who has read it It is definitely not my best work The PDF version that is available on the internet is a first draft abomination. Rise of the bladen community Please feel free to consider the following a review of a first draft abomination but don t hold it against the author He is a good sport about the whole thing and is trying to get the title removed from GR The book s current synopsis now reflects the book s unauthorized status But since the material is still available online I am going to leave up this review of it I will check out some of Mr Moffat s later fully endorsed work in the near future so watch for reviews I don t read self published work or fan fiction as a general rule and I would never have come across this had it not been included on Goodreads in the list of Forgotten Realms The Harpers novels I have no idea how it ended up included there but this is in no way a recognized Forgotten Realms book For one thing I don t think TSR took open submissions virtually all of their Forgotten Realms authors were drawn from in house for better or for ill as some of their game designers and editors who attempted the transition to author were not the greatest and or were established cross property authors e. Rise of the bladeud g with the Dragonlance or Ravenloft publishing lines For another even if they did any initial reviewer would only have to read the second paragraph to dismiss this manuscript As simple and sharp as a saber s blade as he stood and drew Spitzer from its sheath He advanced confidentally sic on the ship spotting the guard before the guard spotted him That is the entire paragraph Confidentally is joined later by expellment apprentise and twinket as pseudo words those last two used in several places The book draft is chock full of spelling grammatical and punctuation errors not to mention simply awkward sentences This one was perhaps my favorite Pierce hadn t found much of great value other than gold a wide assortment of magical twinkets Another favorite Normally in a city one could never see the stars that shone overhead due to the constant lights and sounds I hate it when I can t see the stars because of all the noise Mary Sue abounds in than one character My hackles were first raised with this early sentence He had learned in the past that Pierce enjoyed exercising a superior knowledge of practically everything Before long regarding the same character The good doctor not only an incredible fighter and having earned the title of a doctorate of combat making him possibly the greatest fighter in all the realms was also blessed with foresight He can also read minds And has the most powerful swords And has repeatedly turned down offers to be one of the Lords of Waterdeep Oh and They also knew that Pierce was rumoured to have slayed the tarrasque a monster so great and vicious that even dragons feared it This legendary feat is confirmed later on His friend too Pierce reminded himself that Martinez had once been the greater warrior a man awed by all as one of the best if not the best of the best And his buddy mage a magically disguised half drow who constantly chomps cigars because he needs them for his favorite spell which we never see is the best crafter of spells ever It is perhaps one of the most powerful spells ever created Not even a genie wish could get through it You can t teleport past it Astral travel is hazardous and you ll come out the other side with body parts and valuable insides missing Negative energy would cause a rift in reality and we d be sucked into another dimension Fortunately the prime antagonist is equally skilled so when he and Pierce fight No where sic else in the realms had anyone ever before witnessed such battle prowess in a pair of individuals During this fight Chev the enemy calls Pierce old and Pierce literally cries about this so I guess he isn t perfect after all Still when their rivalry comes to a head multiple gods show up to watch the undeniable epicness even the overlord of the gods makes an appearance and one of the fighters ascends to godhood himself So you know a small scale story Other stuff is just weird and random like Pierce taking a woman on a date to an interplanar restaurant where one of the planes must have been Canada because they got drunk on Screech Then Pierce kicks a young thug almost to death but it s okay because Marque Draque takes the boy on as a protege for no clear reason And of course nothing makes tracks in dirt easier to follow then covering them with fresh snowfall There are plenty of odd conversations between characters that don t go anywhere Why won t these eggs fry an awful lot of groin kicks like a lot and multiple events that permanently deafen large swaths of Waterdeep s population Despite all of this the book draft isn t entirely terrible I actually disliked it less than at least one real published Forgotten Realms Harper novel Red Magic by Jean Rabe comes unfortunately to mind Even though Rise of the Blade would need extensive editing and re writes to even approach publishability there is a little something there The author is clearly having fun The character concepts are not necessarily bad There is a plot there even if it meanders greatly and has many inconsequential asides such as why bother with giving Pierce an ornery stallion let alone a random love interest half way through the book when neither serve any substantial function The final fight sequence is actually okay and bearable than some of R. Rise of the Blade ebook online A Salvatore s endless play by play fight descriptions There are no glaring loose ends I have read worse prose although not worse poetry Seriously the poetry is very bad Rise of the Blade was written over 20 years ago now and the author has continued to write fantasy hopefully honing his fiction skills over that time UPDATE 11 28 2019 I have been trying to convince the Goodreads Powers That Be to remove this from the list of Forgotten Realms Harpers novels because it clearly does not belong there but so far they have chosen to give weight to the introductory statement that it was intended for publication clearly no one has bothered to read even half a page of the book I found a post by Elaine Cunningham an ACTUAL AUTHOR OF FORGOTTEN REALMS BOOKS about this Link The wording on Mr Moffat s site is ambiguous and somewhat misleading He states that he wrote this story in 1998 and says it was intended to be published 1999 2000 Please note that he does not state that TSR intended to publish this book. Rise of the bladetongue terraria A lot of people intend to write a book for the Realms The fact that Mr Moffat did and the fact that it was not published does not make it an unpublished Realms novel at least not in the sense that it was ever TSR WotC intention to publish it. Rise of the Blade nonfiction book He states that the book was not published as part of the Harper series because WotC discontinued this series That is true as far as it goes But again the ambiguous wording gives the impression that the book was contracted and then cancelled I do not know for a fact that this is NOT the case but from what I do know it seems unlikely. Rise of the bladeproject Thornhold was intended to be a pivot book which introduced two new characters Bronwyn and Ebenezer Stoneshaft who would become shared author characters The plan was to move from the Harper series into a longer story arc that would be covered in several novels and game products The editorial direction changed and this story arc was dropped But if Mr Moffet HAD been in discussions with TSR about writing a post Thornhold book he would have written about Bronwyn and Ebenezer He did not. Kindle Rise of the blades series His book is only 152 pages long less than half the length of most Forgotten Realms novels The story is not formatted in Forgotten Realms fashion There are no chapter breaks only short windows, The rise of the novel Mary Kirchoff who was managing editor at the time told me that she has no recollection of any project by Charles Moffat, The rise of the novel TSR intended Thornhold to be the last Harper book I wrote it in 1997 and it was published in 1998 This strongly suggests that they never planned to publish a book 17: Rise of the red blade book Mr Moffet wrote his story in 1998 after the Harper line was discontinued, Rise of the Blade ebook3000 I suspect that Mr Moffat wrote this story hoping perhaps intending that it would become a Harpers novel but I doubt anyone shared this intention. Way of the blade book Edited by ElaineCunningham on 14 Aug 2012 21 03 29So there you have it folks Rise of the Blade.

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