Questline

Donivar wants nothing more than to be a Quester—one of those noble heroes who rescues villagers from terrible fates and the occasional cat from a tree. But when Donivar and his brother Roland uncover a terrible truth, everything changes. The entire questing industry is a sham. Monsters play their parts. Heroes play theirs. And somewhere behind the curtain, someone is pulling every string. When the shadowy organization known as Questline takes their friend Sal, the brothers are forced into a dangerous game they barely understand. With help from a gnome resistance group, they set out to uncover the truth behind the kingdom’s carefully staged adventures. Along the way they meet orcs, sorcerers, and trolls who aren’t quite what their roles suggest—and eventually find themselves inside the prestigious Questing Academy, where the most dangerous monsters may be the ones wearing fine clothes. As secrets unravel and hidden magic resurfaces, Donivar, Roland, and Sal begin to glimpse a world far stranger than the one they thought they knew. If the questing system is fake… what does that make the heroes inside it?