The drunken outlaw and the gimp The slave and the cantankerous old bastard The hooded assassin and the prince’s ghost The witch and the red-eyed madman Four hundred years after the fall of the kingdoms, the world needs a savior.
Mysterious, not-quite-human creatures have enslaved all mankind, except for one small kingdom, protected by an ancient tower. Mediocre Saviors is Book 1 of The Tower and the Tree. Some seek to be the savior of the enslaved, while the power that enslaves the world seeks a way past the Stone Tower's magic.
If you're interested in reading an entire series and willing to get through the e tire first book without seeing any one character often enough to become attached this one might be for you.
Perhaps with two or three more of the series in I would start to appreciate the characters, but this book spends far too much time with people it then kills and introduces far too many 'main' characters.
The people who I suppose are meant to the the protagonists get only a handful of pages because so much time is spent wasted elsewhere and because there are just so many of them.
This means that absolutely no one has a character arc, that no plot is concluded, and that in general nothing happens in the entire span of this book.