Too old to live, too stubborn to die, He is about to become the most dangerous man in the desert!Eldin Doon built empires from a boardroom, outlived three wives, and ran out of things that frightened him, until his own failing body became the last one. So he does the only thing left that scares him: he puts his head into a machine and wakes up young, whole, and standing inside a game that is not a game at all. Every other Traveler runs north for the safe kingdoms. Eldin walks south, into the Sunforged Desert, a graveyard of failed settlements where the sun is a furnace with a grudge and the wildlife hunts in packs far too clever to be animals. He intends to build something that lasts.The desert kills him on the second day.But dying, it turns out, is a teachable moment, and Eldin Doon did not survive sixty years of hostile takeovers to be run off by a little sand. Reborn as Edric Dunestalker, he does what he has always done best: reads the terrain, finds the leverage, and turns a dying frontier outpost into the first stone of an empire, one water right, one desperate ally, one impossible climb at a time. On the summit of a storm-wreathed mesa, a divine tempest is waiting to remake him into something the world has not seen in an age. But power on this world is a beacon. And the moment Edric becomes a Storm Lord, everything that hunts the strong will know exactly where he lives. Sunforged is the first book in Endless Sands, a desert-survival LitRPG for readers who like their progression earned, their base-building real, and their heroes armed with a spreadsheet, a lightning bolt, and a very poor sense of self-preservation.
