Character Creation (Paperback)

Name: Character Creation (Paperback)
Author: Candi Swallows
ISBN: 9798183684322

Candi Swallows

Language: English

Published by Independently Published, 2026

9798183684322

Series: Book 1 of 1 - New Game, New Girl

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Paperback. He died fixing other people's locks. She woke up in someone else's body, in a world that grades souls like salvage and marks hers for deletion. The railing gave way. The fall was final. Dane Pell knew the sound a finished thing makes, and that was it. Then she came to face-down in a salvage field that stank of iron and rot, breathing through a stranger's lungs, staring at hands that were too small, too thin, and unmistakably not the ones she died with. She had been a man. She had been good at exactly one thing: naming the parts of a problem until the problem opened. Now she is a young woman in a dying town perched on the lip of a place where the ground simply stops and reality shimmers and crawls at the edges. This world runs on a System. Everything, every person, every door, every street, carries a record and a grade. Climb the grades and you grow stronger, harder to ignore, harder to erase. Fall, and the System scrubs you from the world like skin off a fruit. They call it the Scour. Whole towns have been edited out of existence, every record lifted clean away, as if they were never written at all. She should have been graded like everyone else. Instead, the System rewrote her, dropped a dead man's mind into a body that was never his, under rules nobody will explain. And the only Access she has been handed is the strangest rung on the ladder: the power to hold a record in place. To keep a door a door. To stop a thing being unwritten, just for a little while. It is not much. But someone who spent a life inside locks knows that the smallest mechanism, understood completely, can open anything. Inside Character Creation: - A System that grades every person, object, and place, and can erase them- Visible, earned progression: real Access tiers, real costs, real stakes- A protagonist whose old-world skill set becomes her deadliest weapon- A gender-bender premise played for character and survival, never for shortcut- A buried mystery: why was she rewritten instead of simply graded? To survive, she will have to climb the System rung by rung, BIND, UNWRITE, and the deadly Access above them, learning the rules faster than the world can rewrite them under her feet. To matter, she will have to make herself worth a second read. And to understand why the System reached past death to choose her, in this body, she will have to walk straight back into the kind of power that erases whole towns. Character Creation is a clean, fast, mechanics-rich progression fantasy for readers who devour He Who Fights with Monsters, Dungeon Crawler Carl, and The Wandering Inn, a LitRPG built on a System with real teeth, a hard transformation that costs something, and a question buried at the root of the world. The grades are real. The climb is earned. And someone went to enormous trouble to put the wrong soul into this body. Start the climb today. The System is already reading. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

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Title: Character Creation (Paperback)
Author: Candi Swallows
Publisher: Independently Published
Publication year: 2026
Condition: new
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
ISBN 13: 9798183684322
Series: Book 1 of 1: New Game, New Girl

He died fixing other people's locks. She woke up in someone else's body, in a world that grades souls like salvage and marks hers for deletion.

The railing gave way. The fall was final. Dane Pell knew the sound a finished thing makes, and that was it.

Then she came to face-down in a salvage field that stank of iron and rot, breathing through a stranger's lungs, staring at hands that were too small, too thin, and unmistakably not the ones she died with. She had been a man. She had been good at exactly one thing: naming the parts of a problem until the problem opened. Now she is a young woman in a dying town perched on the lip of a place where the ground simply stops and reality shimmers and crawls at the edges.

This world runs on a System. Everything, every person, every door, every street, carries a record and a grade. Climb the grades and you grow stronger, harder to ignore, harder to erase. Fall, and the System scrubs you from the world like skin off a fruit. They call it the Scour. Whole towns have been edited out of existence, every record lifted clean away, as if they were never written at all.

She should have been graded like everyone else. Instead, the System rewrote her, dropped a dead man's mind into a body that was never his, under rules nobody will explain. And the only Access she has been handed is the strangest rung on the ladder: the power to hold a record in place. To keep a door a door. To stop a thing being unwritten, just for a little while.

It is not much. But someone who spent a life inside locks knows that the smallest mechanism, understood completely, can open anything.

Inside Character Creation:
- A System that grades every person, object, and place, and can erase them
- Visible, earned progression: real Access tiers, real costs, real stakes
- A protagonist whose old-world skill set becomes her deadliest weapon
- A gender-bender premise played for character and survival, never for shortcut
- A buried mystery: why was she rewritten instead of simply graded?

To survive, she will have to climb the System rung by rung, BIND, UNWRITE, and the deadly Access above them, learning the rules faster than the world can rewrite them under her feet. To matter, she will have to make herself worth a second read. And to understand why the System reached past death to choose her, in this body, she will have to walk straight back into the kind of power that erases whole towns.

Character Creation is a clean, fast, mechanics-rich progression fantasy for readers who devour He Who Fights with Monsters, Dungeon Crawler Carl, and The Wandering Inn, a LitRPG built on a System with real teeth, a hard transformation that costs something, and a question buried at the root of the world.

The grades are real. The climb is earned. And someone went to enormous trouble to put the wrong soul into this body.

Start the climb today. The System is already reading.

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