Griidlords - A Time of Change and Broken Chains (Book 1 - Complete)(Book 2 Releasing Daily)

You can start here, or with my other title, Griidlords: A Throne for a Blood Prince.  Blood Prince is a LitRPG.  It doesn't matter which you start with as the stories are independent but will eventually join into a single narrative. The world started anew 1025 years ago.  After unknown centuries of barbarism following The Fall of the Old Civilization, the first Towers rose from the ground in the ruins of ancient cities like Chicago and Phoenix.   With the rise of the Towers came a measure of control over the Entropy that covered the lands.  Where before, this chaotic energy prevented any technology more complicated than a bow and arrow from functioning, suddenly the Order Fields of the Towers allowed cities to banish Entropy to varying degrees permitting steam engines and muskets to function. With higher Order, even assault rifles and electricity were returned to the hands of humanity. The Order wasn’t free.  Each year cities sent their armies to Falling Fields to gather Orbs, the lifeblood, the source of the Flows that were expended to manipulate the Order and Entropy fields.  Cities rich in Flows had tractors for their fields, air conditioning for the homes of the wealthy, and armies bristling with guns and tanks.  Those without struggled to survive, always wanting more. With the rise of the Towers came something more than control of Order and Entropy.  With the rise of the Towers came THE GRIIDLORDS.  Each city was granted 5 Griidsuits, making superheroes of their wearers, individuals with remarkable powers, each the match of a 1000 fighting men. It is the year 1025.   The old Bostonian Empire is crumbling, and new opportunities are emerging.   The Red King of Kansas is eying an empire of his own.   Brightforge, the Sword of Cincinnatti aspires to free his city from the yoke of the empire and is willing to risk everything to wage a perilous war.   Cordelia Moonshade of San Francisco, one of the greatest Griidlords in all the land, is disenchanted with the system, the wealthy living lives of luxury, squandering Flows to ease their lives, pampering themselves with icecream and air-con while the peasants toil to plow the fields with horses, while peasant children die for want of medical technology that is made unavailable because of the wants of the nobles. The Mysterious Slinger, The Cowboy Knight, roams the land battling the fiends that stalk the wilds, seeking to untie the mystery of the creatures' existence and the Entropy Storms that seem to birth them.   And Clive, a man from our time, is just now about to step forth into this reality, lost and confused, but carrying arcane knowledge that might change the world. What to expect: -Game of Thrones-esque land of intrigue, warfare, alliances, betrayals, and plots. -A Fallout meets Middle-Earth world of medieval cultures melding with the futuristic. -Multiple POV characters. -A complex system of cities manipulating Order and Entropy. -Pitched battles. -Superhero combat. -Mysterious histories, worldbuilding, lore. Note: The history of this world is inspired by the history of the NFL, modern events will be affected by outcomes of live NFL games.  This will add a level of unpredictability, even the writer can’t know everything that’s about to happen.  If you don’t like this idea or don’t like football, then you can ignore this, it will have ZERO impact on your experience, I promise, so don’t be put off.  But for those who are NFL fans then there will be easter eggs, and for those who want to experience something new, an evolving story where the outcomes of wars and battles are something you can watch unfold on the gridiron on Sundays, then this will bring something you’ve never seen before. Note: When writing this title I experimented with AI proofreading tools.  I discontinued the practice when I became dissatisfied with the results.  Despite only directing the tool to correct spelling, punctuation, and errors, I found the AI tool tended to alter the text and bury my voice, so I stopped using it.  I have been re-reading and editing this work recently, as I prepare for the next installment.  To my distaste, I have noticed the fingerprints of the AI tool remaining in many sections of the text.  I considered removing the piece completely so that I could extensively rewrite it and republish later, but I want to continue the Griid-verse and, as such, have decided to leave it up.  For now, I am going to tag this story as "AI-Assisted".  I will continue to edit the work to completely rewrite the AI-tainted passages and hope to remove this tag in the future. TO BE CLEAR: 1) The greater part of this text does not fall under the tag, but large sections do, especially earlier chapters  2) The text is in no way AI-generated, but my original writing appears to be modified to varying degrees in many passages. It's upsetting to make this discovery, but I tend to "move fast and break things" and this is an unfortunate consequence I have to deal with.  I have rewritten much of the damage already and would love to remove the stigmatizing "AI-Assisted" tag, but too many sections continue to be affected.