This version of the story is defunct. Unless you're morbidly curious, please read this one instead. The overall story is the same, but it has had considerably more time put into it and should be easier to read.

You are chosen to alpha test a brand new Immersive VR MMORPG, "The Realms". After you create your character and log in for the first time, however, you find that instead of a VR game, you are instead transported to a world very much like a game, but with very real stakes. You have been Chosen by one of the Powers of this world as a pawn in a game much bigger than any you thought you would ever participate in. Do you have what it takes to walk the Path of the Chosen?

Inspired by the Chaos Seeds novels, TheDespaxas's The Gamer, and a wide variety of games and books, although the world, characters, and systems are my own. Expect high fantasy, magic, combat and intrigue, love and loss, grief and passion. This story is intended for adult audiences and contains explicit sexual content, profanity, and violence (including sexual violence, although not by the protagonist and not as a focus of the story).

This story was originally posted by myself as a Choose Your Own Adventure on chyoa.com, and that site contains alternate branches by myself and other authors as well as additional background and context information. This version of the story is completely self-contained, however, and there is no need to visit any other site unless you wish to see more stories in this world.

Updates will post at least once each day; the update schedule will be more frequent at the start until Royal Road catches up to the current chapter of the story.