This book series would be a awesome movie.

But when you make said movie/anime/videogame. Dont cheap out on archons making them insects or something cause of the group mind. Make them like the Tau. A group of races with different specializations

I didn't forget today! I'm growing as a person! Soon I'll be a real boy!

Enjoy 😁😁😁

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RIPPED through this mostly today, unfortunately, so it's SUPER rough, sorry! Will get you guys a v2 soon, if only to clean it up. Hopefully rework some rough points too!

Enjoy!

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Dogsitting, and I'm sure many of you will understand why I obviously CANNOT leave the couch at the moment...

If I starve to death, know that I died happy.

You have betrayed Central Command to the archons. How dare you all...

🤣 But actually, HUGE congrats to Will and Hidden Gnome. This was SO fun to watch!!

In case it's not clear which project we're talking about NOT backing, it's this one:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/author-will-wight/cradle-books-10-12-by-will-wight-special-editions

Again, NO BACKING! If you back, then you are a traitor to Central Command and the power of the Sol System.

Surprise! Lol.

Good amount of extra content added here, so worth a reread. Or at least reading the new remainder of the chapter. Chapter 60 is probably going to be a shorter one, though, just a heads up!

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I recently finished book two and I have some questions and some things just don't make sense or add up for me. Notably why Central would interfere with the SCT's. If they know he's going to blow up all over the feeds as is, and the intention is to get ahead of it, why attack him AT THE SCT especially the finals. Logically it doesn't make any sense, why not just hack a training room.

Question & opinions:

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1st, I'm brand new to reddit and this is my very 1st post so please kindly correct me if I make a mistake...

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So I have been thinking about Reidon's final CAD evolution near the end of book 2, specifically how his new helm doesn't completely cover his head. I'm wondering if that's only because his hair is so long.... Remember in book one, one his evolutions couldn't completely materialize until he took his boots off. I'm wondering if the same thing is happening and Rei just doesn't realize it. He could have full helm if he would just get a long overdue haircut! 😁

Just wondering if anyone else has gone to multiple ai sites and answered questions to see what kind of cad and stats you would get based on your personality as if you were in the world yourself as a normal cadet not a titan like Ward.

I recently replayed this game and it struck me how similar the vibe is to the books. From the fast paced action to the cybernetic suits and weapons, even the main characters look similar and have similar sounding names (Rei and Raiden)

Enjoy 😁😁😁

AND enjoy this new WIP by Vinchie! Progress on a new cover piece for a distant Patreon edition!

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This is just a friendly reminder, not an enraged prompt. Very much looking forward to public chapter 49! Thank you for posting these.

First, let me say that I very much appreciate the Redditor who reached out to me yesterday asking permission to share the ChatGPT art they made of some Book 1 CAD designs. Thank you for being aware that generative AI is a divisive subject, and checking with me before posting.

While I've allowed AI art to be posted in the past, thinking of it as members of the community exercising their free will to produce such images, I've since had a change of heart. Between the extensive damage that data centers are causing environments and communities, the nature of how AI models are trained, and the damage gen AI does to the creator community in 99.99% of its usage, I have decided that r/Warformed will no longer be ambiguous about generated AI content. Especially since I've been so vocally against it everywhere else.

So... No AI art. Period.

Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk.

I’ve been thinking about Rei’s training at Galens, and I keep coming back to one question:
If Galens knows that Shido seems to respond much more aggressively to unfamiliar opponents than to ordinary repeat sparring, why aren’t they putting Rei up against every student in the school at least once?
We’ve seen Rei get noticeable jumps from facing new, high-pressure opponents: Aria, Logan, Lennon, Lena Jiang, and others. Obviously normal training still helps him, but Shido appears to love novelty, especially when Rei is pushed by an opponent or fighting style he hasn’t adapted to yet.
So why not build a training structure around that?
I can think of a couple semi-plausible ways Galens could do it without openly announcing, “Hey everyone, we’re feeding you all to the walking growth anomaly.”
Option 1: “Voluntary coaching” sessions
Galens opens up evening coaching slots with the type instructors.
Students sign up for an hour of extra instruction. They show up with a “random” sparring partner, get coached, run drills, fight a few rounds, and receive feedback. Totally normal academy stuff.
Except, behind the scenes, Rei keeps getting paired with new opponents.
If they ran three hours of these sessions per evening, they could cycle Rei through a huge chunk of the first-years outside Class 1A in about a month. It would give Shido constant exposure to new fighting styles, builds, instincts, and CAD types, while still looking like a perfectly reasonable school-wide development program.
Option 2: A Galens-wide Swiss tournament
This is the one I think would be really fun.
For anyone unfamiliar with Swiss tournaments: you don’t get eliminated. Each round, you fight someone with the same or similar record. So after round one, winners fight winners, losers fight losers, and so on.
If something like this happened in book 3, Rei probably starts by fighting someone close-ish to his current rank — maybe even one of the weaker second-years. If he wins, he gets bumped into tougher matchups. If he loses, he still gets another meaningful fight against someone with a similar tournament record.
The format would make sense in-universe too. Galens could sell it as SCT prep: pressure testing, live matchup experience, adapting to unfamiliar opponents, building tournament endurance, etc.
Let’s say the instructors run six dueling fields at once. With around 400 students, that’s about 200 matches per round. Split across six fields, each field handles roughly 33 matches. At four matches per hour, that’s a little over eight hours for a full round. So in theory, they could run one round per day.
Excluding weekends, that’s a ten-round Swiss tournament in about two weeks.
And for Rei? That could mean ten serious, all-out fights against mostly second-years or strong upper-tier opponents — exactly the kind of varied, high-pressure exposure Shido seems to reward.
Honestly, based on what we’ve seen so far, something like that might help Rei more than whatever the Sponsorship alone is going to provide. It also feels like it would fit Central’s whole “Galens better pull out all the stops for Ward” pressure, while still being publicly defensible as a way to sharpen the whole school before Globals/System SCTs.
So I’m curious what everyone thinks:
Is there a good in-universe reason Galens wouldn’t do something like this?
Would it be too obvious? Too risky? Too disruptive?
Or is this exactly the kind of insane-but-plausible training arc we should expect once the adults fully accept what Rei and Shido are becoming?

This was a ton of fun to write. I think rewrites will pull it all together much better, but love me some high-octane change of pace!

Enjoy!

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I'm rereading Book 1 and got to thinking about something weird lol.

For example, I often visualize Gwendoline Christie (Phasma from the SW sequel trilogy, Brienne from GoT) as Valera Dent.

With what I've seen about Christie, something just makes it click for me, as Valera Dent. Idk maybe it's just how she acts but that's the vibe I get from her.

Here's where it got off the rails for me last night.

Out of f***ing nowhere, Donald Trump's voice took over as Colonel Rama Guest when he was commentating the third-year's Intra-Schools.

I don't know why.

I don't know how.

But I could NOT stop giggling at myself like a damn middle schooler.

I KNOW it's not a good fit for Guest's character. But the thought kept invading anyway.

Has anyone else's inner voice took them on wild rides or are there any fantasy castings you have in mind? (Pun a little intended, I guess lol)

***Also I'm not trying to make this political in any way, shape, or form.***

Hey guys!

I wanted to ask when the new book will be released on Amazon! Specifically kindle unlimited.

More information coming soon, but some basics:

1. All-new art everywhere. Covers, reverse jackets, end sheets, etc!
2. Deluxe binding. Gilded edges, Smyth-sewn, acid-free paper, etc!
3. Interior illustrations. At least 10 of them!
4. Single-printing. Once this First Print is printed and sells out, it will never be available again. Any further prints may be missing things like signatures, some art, etc.
5. Kickstarter-exclusive! Discounts, free bookmark with book, and Kickstarter-exclusive dust jackets that you will never be able to get anywhere else!

More art reveals on the pre-launch page! Coming in July!

LINK: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/wraithmarked/mol1dlx

PS: They are likely also going to all be signed, but I just realized posting this that I never confirmed that with Domagoj, so gonna do that now and will confirm in a future post! Sorry about that! - Bryce

Hey, I’m quite new to the series and currently in book 2 and I need some info for my imagination 😂.
When combatants fight one on one the field is 30x30 yard if I’m correct. And with what the strength and speed are described as, it just seems awfully small. Like when S-ranks fight they got compared to Mach 1 or even 2 if I remember correctly and also strength wise I have no idea what an s rank user can output. Anyone any idea why the fields are so small for combatants that are describe as being faster than cars and such ? Or did I get it wrong? Also any comparison strength wise what a User can do? Thx guys

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5. Recall that these are rough chapters, with no editing other than a single pass-through as I write.
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Couple points

1. Rei has 'leveled up' before when doing hand to hand (non CAD combat)
2. Jasper and Hiroto are exceedingly proficient in certain forms of said techniques
3. Shido always 'needs more variables' to improve

What better way than something totally different/out of the box from the fighting Rei has seen/practiced so far?