Jackal Among Snakes
The royal bastard of House Vasquer, Argrave, changed after his stay studying magic at the Tower of the Gray Owl. The sickly man's awkward posture and cruel behavior have been replaced with a neat dignity and acerbic wit. Though once listless, he now strives towards his goals with a life-or-death tenacity. Most come away thinking he seems to know too many details about too much. Few can claim to know his motives or his goals. Yet behind that confident appearance, the primary contributor for an open-world RPG's wiki battles existential dread and things far beyond his ken as he struggles to adapt to a grim, gothic fantasy world mirroring his favorite game. The prospect of fighting against a world-ending calamity loses all of its appeal when it transitions from entertainment to reality. Argrave is spurred towards unwanted heroism to preserve his life as he struggles desperately to keep this sinking ship afloat.
Chapters (709)
- Chapter 201 — Chapter 201: Conflict in Paradise
- Chapter 202 — Chapter 202: Done Enough
- Chapter 203 — Chapter 203: Fight of the Fools
- Chapter 204 — Chapter 204: Omniscient Commander
- Chapter 205 — Chapter 205: Family
- Chapter 206 — Chapter 206: Fate of the Wetlands
- Chapter 207 — Chapter 207: Departing Changed
- Chapter 208 — Chapter 208: Rising Tension in Rest
- Chapter 209 — Chapter 209: Softly
- Chapter 210 — Chapter 210: Privilege of the Younger
- Chapter 211 — Chapter 211: Rigging the Odds
- Chapter 212 — Chapter 212: Advantage Play
- Chapter 213 — Chapter 213: A Prince's Gamble
- Chapter 214 — Chapter 214: A Prince's Arbiter
- Chapter 215 — Chapter 215: Unexpected Guest
- Chapter 216 — Chapter 216: Declaration of Spring
- Chapter 217 — Chapter 217: Golden Ticket
- Chapter 218 — Chapter 218: Shadows
- Chapter 219 — Chapter 219: Monitors
- Chapter 220 — Chapter 220: Talk of the Town
- Chapter 221 — Chapter 221: King's Bearing
- Chapter 222 — Chapter 222: A New Test
- Chapter 223 — Chapter 223: Amour Fou
- Chapter 224 — Chapter 224: Third Figure
- Chapter 225 — Chapter 225: The Troupe Departs
- Chapter 226 — Chapter 226: Drink What They Bleed
- Chapter 227 — Chapter 227: Stony Flesh Echoing Whispers
- Chapter 228 — Chapter 228: Caged and Unafraid
- Chapter 229 — Chapter 229: Shooting Star
- Chapter 230 — Chapter 230: Museum Tomb
- Chapter 231 — Chapter 231: Partner
- Chapter 232 — Chapter 232: Moving Past
- Chapter 233 — Chapter 233: Princess, Locked Away
- Chapter 234 — Chapter 234: City of Dragons
- Chapter 235 — Chapter 235: Help Yourself
- Chapter 236 — Chapter 236: First Breath of a Titan
- Chapter 237 — Chapter 237: New Inner Circle
- Chapter 238 — Chapter 238: Dog on the Heels
- Chapter 239 — Chapter 239: The Controlled Meeting
- Chapter 240 — Chapter 240: Imprisoned Snake
- Chapter 241 — Chapter 241: Vasquer
- Chapter 242 — Chapter 242: Golden Conduit
- Chapter 243 — Chapter 243: Unexpected Truths
- Chapter 244 — Chapter 244: Forced Hand
- Chapter 245 — Chapter 245: Behind the Veil
- Chapter 246 — Chapter 246: Intent
- Chapter 247 — Chapter 247: Unwanted Wanderer
- Chapter 248 — Chapter 248: Siege of Smoke
- Chapter 249 — Chapter 249: Relic Regalia
- Chapter 250 — Chapter 250: Weight of the Crown
- Chapter 251 — Chapter 251: Order in Chaos
- Chapter 252 — Chapter 252: Kingfish Lured
- Chapter 253 — Chapter 253: Poisoned Bait
- Chapter 254 — Chapter 254: Rats in Grain
- Chapter 255 — Chapter 255: Loss
- Chapter 256 — Chapter 256: Profligacy and Corruption
- Chapter 257 — Chapter 257: I Decide
- Chapter 258 — Chapter 258: Siblings in the City
- Chapter 259 — Chapter 259: Establishing Contact
- Chapter 260 — Chapter 260: Family Patriarch
- Chapter 261 — Chapter 261: Vying for Primacy
- Chapter 262 — Chapter 262: Logistics of a Battle
- Chapter 263 — Chapter 263: Skirmishes
- Chapter 264 — Chapter 264: Reform
- Chapter 265 — Chapter 265: Return to Form
- Chapter 266 — Chapter 266: Eat the Rich
- Chapter 267 — Chapter 267: Big City Life
- Chapter 268 — Chapter 268: Acquisitions
- Chapter 269 — Chapter 269: Lesser
- Chapter 270 — Chapter 270: Uncrowned's Council
- Chapter 271 — Chapter 271: Realities of War
- Chapter 272 — Chapter 272: King of Vasquer
- Chapter 273 — Chapter 273: Introspection
- Chapter 274 — Chapter 274: The Past Answers
- Chapter 275 — Chapter 275: Coddled Children
- Chapter 276 — Chapter 276: Sign of Things to Come
- Chapter 277 — Chapter 277: Price of Pledges
- Chapter 278 — Chapter 278: Start of an Era
- Chapter 279 — Chapter 279: Wonders of Time
- Chapter 280 — Chapter 280: To Work
- Chapter 281 — Chapter 281: First March
- Chapter 282 — Chapter 282: Blossoming Spring
- Chapter 283 — Chapter 283: Untamed Valley
- Chapter 284 — Chapter 284: Entropy in Order
- Chapter 285 — Chapter 285: Trust in Him
- Chapter 286 — Chapter 286: Ancient Wisdom
- Chapter 287 — Chapter 287: Unknown Factor
- Chapter 288 — Chapter 288: Reignition
- Chapter 289 — Chapter 289: Embers in the North
- Chapter 290 — Chapter 290: Time On Our Misery
- Chapter 291 — Chapter 291: Enemies of a Different Measure
- Chapter 292 — Chapter 292: Lord of the March
- Chapter 293 — Chapter 293: Avenues of Approach
- Chapter 294 — Chapter 294: Debt of Blood
- Chapter 295 — Chapter 295: The Spurned
- Chapter 296 — Chapter 296: Calling All Cars
- Chapter 297 — Chapter 297: Borrowing to Invest
- Chapter 298 — Chapter 298: Underhanded Handyman
- Chapter 299 — Chapter 299: Poison Upon Poison
- Chapter 300 — Chapter 300: Intruded Sanctuary
- Chapter 301 — Chapter 301: Revealing Conversation
- Chapter 302 — Chapter 302: Weeding
- Chapter 303 — Chapter 303: Elaborate Self Advocacy
- Chapter 304 — Chapter 304: Stroke of State
- Chapter 305 — Chapter 305: The Gang Floors It
- Chapter 306 — Chapter 306: Geriatric Pal
- Chapter 307 — Chapter 307: Run Back Home, Boy
- Chapter 308 — Chapter 308: Four Horsemen of the Protagonists
- Chapter 309 — Chapter 309: Tree Hugger Armistice
- Chapter 310 — Chapter 310: Piercing Thoughts
- Chapter 311 — Chapter 311: Blood Bender Hangover
- Chapter 312 — Chapter 312: No Pain, Only Gain
- Chapter 313 — Chapter 313: Used Kingdom Salesman
- Chapter 314 — Chapter 314: Knocking Heads
- Chapter 315 — Chapter 315: Abyss Attraction
- Chapter 316 — Chapter 316: Atrophy of Neglect
- Chapter 317 — Chapter 317: Going Where the Dead Have Gone Before
- Chapter 318 — Chapter 318: Drinking Deep of the World
- Chapter 319 — Chapter 319: Magic Migration
- Chapter 320 — Chapter 320: Surprise Drop-in
- Chapter 321 — Chapter 321: Reserved Parking
- Chapter 322 — Chapter 322: Ashen
- Chapter 323 — Chapter 323: Alone Against the Storm
- Chapter 324 — Chapter 324: A Dance for a Song
- Chapter 325 — Chapter 325: Vice
- Chapter 326 — Chapter 326: Reparations
- Chapter 327 — Chapter 327: Feed the Earth
- Chapter 328 — Chapter 328: Hot Blooded
- Chapter 329 — Chapter 329: Blood Makes the Body Whole
- Chapter 330 — Chapter 330: First Steps of Progress
- Chapter 331 — Chapter 331: Race to the Finish
- Chapter 332 — Chapter 332: An End to Things
- Chapter 333 — Chapter 333: Keys to the Kingdom
- Chapter 334 — Chapter 334: Haste to Judge
- Chapter 335 — Chapter 335: These Shadows Grow So Tall
- Chapter 336 — Chapter 336: Return of the King
- Chapter 337 — Chapter 337: Ground Control
- Chapter 338 — Chapter 338: After All This
- Chapter 339 — Chapter 339: Incomprehensible Mind
- Chapter 340 — Chapter 340: Settling Dust
- Chapter 341 — Chapter 341: Rightful Heir and Usurper
- Chapter 342 — Chapter 342: Everyone is Here
- Chapter 343 — Chapter 343: Blood's No Bond
- Chapter 344 — Chapter 344: The Summit
- Chapter 345 — Chapter 345: Terms for Survival
- Chapter 346 — Chapter 346: Puppet Chain
- Chapter 347 — Chapter 347: Guests from the Motherland
- Chapter 348 — Chapter 348: The Little Things
- Chapter 349 — Chapter 349: A Malleable People
- Chapter 350 — Chapter 350: Dynastic Troubles
- Chapter 351 — Chapter 351: First Session
- Chapter 352 — Chapter 352: Familial Mending
- Chapter 353 — Chapter 353: The Reunion Union
- Chapter 354 — Chapter 354: New and Old
- Chapter 355 — Chapter 355: Sea of Land
- Chapter 356 — Chapter 356: Coast to Coast
- Chapter 357 — Chapter 357: A Measured Response to the Unmeasurable
- Chapter 358 — Chapter 358: All Converging
- Chapter 359 — Chapter 359: Wire Net
- Chapter 360 — Chapter 360: Holy, Holy Mother
- Chapter 361 — Chapter 361: Looking Into the Mirror
- Chapter 362 — Chapter 362: Stepping Outside
- Chapter 363 — Chapter 363: Irreplaceable
- Chapter 364 — Chapter 364: No Man is an Island
- Chapter 365 — Chapter 365: Coalition of the Unwilling
- Chapter 366 — Chapter 366: Die Trying
- Chapter 367 — Chapter 367: Not the First Time
- Chapter 368 — Chapter 368: Crushed From Within
- Chapter 369 — Chapter 369: Superimposition
- Chapter 370 — Chapter 370: Collision Course
- Chapter 371 — Chapter 371: Blood Test
- Chapter 372 — Chapter 372: Truth to Omnipower
- Chapter 373 — Chapter 373: Conspiracy Against the Divine
- Chapter 374 — Chapter 374: Proxy
- Chapter 375 — Chapter 375: Too Much, Too Late
- Chapter 376 — Chapter 376: Collector
- Chapter 377 — Chapter 377: Boxed In
- Chapter 378 — Chapter 378: Hostage Situation
- Chapter 379 — Chapter 379: Layered Problems
- Chapter 380 — Chapter 380: A Grip of Blood
- Chapter 381 — Chapter 381: Wash Away
- Chapter 382 — Chapter 382: Funneled and Pressured
- Chapter 383 — Chapter 383: Immortal Lockstep
- Chapter 384 — Chapter 384: Two Dozen Eyes
- Chapter 385 — Chapter 385: Reaping a Harvest
- Chapter 386 — Chapter 386: Small and Infinite Universe
- Chapter 387 — Chapter 387: All For Clay
- Chapter 388 — Chapter 388: Rules of the Game
- Chapter 389 — Chapter 389: Standoff
- Chapter 390 — Chapter 390: Salvage
- Chapter 391 — Chapter 391: Kansas City Shuffle
- Chapter 392 — Chapter 392: Comparing Painting to Reality
- Chapter 393 — Chapter 393: Gotta Serve Somebody
- Chapter 394 — Chapter 394: Zealot Outreach Program
- Chapter 395 — Chapter 395: Blind Obedience
- Chapter 396 — Chapter 396: Descent Into Mockery
- Chapter 397 — Chapter 397: Insight In Sight
- Chapter 398 — Chapter 398: Ancestry Evaluation
- Chapter 399 — Chapter 399: A Personal Study
- Chapter 400 — Chapter 400: Imperialism is Good