The Kingom of Aethel.

You died a hero's death and woke in Aethel — a realm of dragons, dungeons, and old gods, where steel and sorcery rule and the night belongs to monsters. A cosmic being gave you a second life and one quiet riddle: "This world is climbing a ladder — from magic toward machine. Climb it well, or be dragged." You don't understand yet. You will. Embers of the Old World is Book One of a ten-book saga that carries you from a high-fantasy D&D age to a neon cyber-future, one rung at a time. Here, in the beginning, it is all blades and spellfire — and the five extraordinary women who become your sworn companions: a knight, a sorceress, a rogue, a cleric, and a beast-warden. Five hearts. One destiny. A world on the slow edge of change. Romance. Betrayal. Epic clashes. And the first faint hum of an age no one is ready for.