Gorm Ingersson is a disgraced hero – a renowned berserker who ran from a job – and now he makes his living robbing other heroes for loot.
There’s a guild, regulations, and all kinds of other bureaucratic things associated with actual jobs. In the world of Arth being a hero is an actual job title. But let’s be real, this was something I read purely for the entertainment factor and I LOVED it! I learned things because this book made me curious. Admittedly I know very little about economics and stock trading aside from what I googled when the whole GME stock craze was happening a few months ago, so I did end up googling more stuff. Needless to say, it was darkly amusing and the satirical commentary of modern economics was interesting. This book reminded me of a comical D&D campaign and who knows, maybe that’s what it was based off. The benefit of that is I can usually binge read a few books in a row (or at least close together) because there’s more than one book out. Now, I’m a little slow to get around to some fantastic titles, and this is another example of me waiting FOREVER to finally pick up a book that everyone has been raving about. Orconomics is yet another self published success story that came to my attention during the Self Published Fantasy Blog Off (SPFBO). Promising fun, fantasy, and financial calamity, Orconomics: A Satire is the first book in The Dark Profit Saga, an economically epic trilogy.
Gorm might be able to turn a bad deal into a golden opportunity and win back the fame and fortune he lost so long ago. But there’s more to Gorm’s new job than an insane prophecy powerful corporations and governments have shown an unusual interest in the job. Twenty years later, a chance encounter sees Gorm forcibly recruited by a priest of a mad goddess to undertake a quest that has a reputation for getting heroes killed. Questing was all business for famous Dwarven berserker Gorm Ingerson, until a botched expedition wiped out his party, disgraced his name, and reduced him to a thieving vagabond. Corporations spend immense sums sponsoring heroes to undertake quests, betting they’ll reap the profits in plunder funds when the loot is divvied up. The Heroes’ Guild has turned adventuring into a career, selling the rights to monsters’ hoards of treasure as investment opportunities.
For the licensed wizards and warriors of Arth, slaying and looting the forces of evil is just a job. Brimming with swords, sorcery, and wit, Orconomics: A Satire introduces Arth, a world much like our own but with more magic and fewer vowels.
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