The Monk & The Witch
The Monk and the Witch is a long-form, free, noncommercial Forgotten Realms fan-saga about mercy, protection, love, and the consequences of trying to help in a world too large for one body to fix.
It follows Ṛṣiśūra, a Mercy monk shaped by suffering, discipline, and practical compassion, and Maeril Greenward, an abjurer-witch of thresholds, wards, food, shelter, green life, and stubborn protection.
Their story begins with practical acts of care: a body placed between violence and the vulnerable, a ward set at the edge of danger, a meal offered where the world has become cruel.
From there, the saga grows outward.
Across the full nine-book saga, the question changes. At first, it is simple: how do you help the person in front of you? Then the answer becomes harder. How do you build care that lasts after you leave? How do you heal without erasing truth? How do you protect people without owning them? How do you keep goodness from becoming a path the enemy can use?
This is a Dungeons & Dragons fan fiction, but it is not a game recap. It is a character-driven saga of roads, cities, forests, gods, wounds, chosen family, romance, monsters, magic, and moral consequence.
The adventure matters. But the heart of the story is what mercy becomes when one good act is no longer enough.
For more about what this saga is, where it comes from, and what kind of reading experience it offers, read What This Saga.
New readers should begin with Book 1: Mercy and Wards, now available.
The Saga
Volume I: Spirit Threads
Book 1 Mercy and Wards Published: 2026-05-16 Book 2 Choosing the Road Published: 2026-05-23
Volume II: Twilight Stream
Book 3 Pale Sap Weakness Prose draft completed Book 4 A Broken Family Prose draft completed Book 5 The Sleepless One Prose draft completed
Volume III: Reckoning
Book 6 Golden Nightmares Prose draft completed Book 7 Living Echoes Scene plan completed Book 8 The Final Ward Narrative plan completed
Volume IV: Epilogue
Book 9 The Witch Returns Narrative plan completedAbout
This site is the canonical home of The Monk and the Witch saga: an archive for the books, reading order, downloads, release status, and project notes.
The project grew from a long-held wish to write a multi-novel story set in the Forgotten Realms: adventure, magic, monsters, gods, roads, and danger, but also intimacy, consequence, care, and choices that refuse easy answers.
It is free, unofficial, noncommercial Dungeons & Dragons fanfiction, written as a serious long-form prose project.
For a more personal note on what the saga is, where it comes from, and what kind of reading experience it offers, see What this saga is.
For transparency about my creative workflow, including how I use AI as part of writing and revising this fanfiction, see How I create Fan Fiction.
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