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Fate's Attendant: A Cultivation Fantasy (Fate's Attendant
Hong Fei was a soldier until betrayal shattered his body and destroyed his future. Now broken and discarded, he wants nothing more than a quiet life, useful work, and no more causes worth dying for.
But when he finds a card deck on a stranger's corpse, his life becomes entangled with forces beyond his understanding. The deck's rules are described in an unknown language, its powers dangerous. His only guide is an unlikely summoned a giant badger named Ling, who can read the cards but communicates only through drawings and stubborn gestures.
Desperate to survive, Hong Fei enters service with the disgraced Yu family. They're exiles, marked by invisible numbers hovering above their heads. Curses. Signs of fate twisted by unseen hands. And where fate is distorted, an Attendant is meant to intervene.
Healing his body is only the first step. To restore his cultivation and protect the Yu family, Hong Fei must rely on skills he'd hoped to leave stealth, sabotage, and the violence learned on faraway battlefields. Political intrigue and hidden enemies surround the family, and powerful forces would rather see them erased than redeemed.
Every choice carries a cost measured not just in blood, but in fate itself.
Fate's Attendant begins a new cultivation fantasy series with LitRPG and deck-building elements, featuring a veteran protagonist, a mysterious system, and a measured rise in power where cunning matters as much as strength.
But when he finds a card deck on a stranger's corpse, his life becomes entangled with forces beyond his understanding. The deck's rules are described in an unknown language, its powers dangerous. His only guide is an unlikely summoned a giant badger named Ling, who can read the cards but communicates only through drawings and stubborn gestures.
Desperate to survive, Hong Fei enters service with the disgraced Yu family. They're exiles, marked by invisible numbers hovering above their heads. Curses. Signs of fate twisted by unseen hands. And where fate is distorted, an Attendant is meant to intervene.
Healing his body is only the first step. To restore his cultivation and protect the Yu family, Hong Fei must rely on skills he'd hoped to leave stealth, sabotage, and the violence learned on faraway battlefields. Political intrigue and hidden enemies surround the family, and powerful forces would rather see them erased than redeemed.
Every choice carries a cost measured not just in blood, but in fate itself.
Fate's Attendant begins a new cultivation fantasy series with LitRPG and deck-building elements, featuring a veteran protagonist, a mysterious system, and a measured rise in power where cunning matters as much as strength.
456 pages, Kindle Edition
Published February 23, 2026
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I loved this book much more than expected and even finished the whole thing in one day. The prose is tight, yet still has a lot of flow and beauty to it. the world is fleshed out. The characters are complex and realistic. Hong Fei is competent, intelligent, skilled, and so world weary its hard not to love him. The magic system is complex while still being pretty intuitive. I have no complaints here, tbis book was fantastic and I am so exciting for the rest of the series to follow that I will be looking into the following books immediately.
March 11, 2026
10 Star Masterpiece
Cultivation with actual political subplots. An intriguing mystery. Characters with flaws, understandable motivations, growth, and redemption arcs. More wuxia than xianxia IMO. I read this book originally on Royal Road and d/l'd it from Amazon to support Samer and to see if there were any changes. If there were, it only improved the flow of the story. Not sure if he does his own editing but there are no grammatical or spelling errors and the plot is tight. Can't wait for the story to continue? Follow along on RR until the next book comes out!
Cultivation with actual political subplots. An intriguing mystery. Characters with flaws, understandable motivations, growth, and redemption arcs. More wuxia than xianxia IMO. I read this book originally on Royal Road and d/l'd it from Amazon to support Samer and to see if there were any changes. If there were, it only improved the flow of the story. Not sure if he does his own editing but there are no grammatical or spelling errors and the plot is tight. Can't wait for the story to continue? Follow along on RR until the next book comes out!
March 9, 2026
A solid entry into the Western Cultivation genre. Rabadi brings an excellent understanding of the cultivation tropes, plus his recurring themes of found family. He presents interesting politics that I can follow along with (never a sure thing), without an omniscient view to give the game away.
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