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Lost Story of hero being trained as a Knight

dougb 🚫

I finally bit the bullet and joined SOL. As such I can now download and save some of my favorite stories from the many years I was a free (cheap) user. The problem is that I've forgotten the titles of some of my favorites. I'm going to post information on each as I slowly remember them. This is a short description of the first one whose title I don't remember.
It was set in the times of knights, kings, etc. A young man is being raised by his Mother and Step-father in a neighboring country aligned with the King's country. As I recall his Mother is the sister of the King but I could be remembering that wrong. Anyway, the boy is the 'second son' and can't inherit from his father so he is sent to the King's capital where he is to undergo Knight training. He turns out to be better than all the other trainees and catches the eye of the King's brother who is in charge of the trainees. He also catches the eye of the King's daughter, however, in later chapters she turns out to be a bit of a slut and our hero ends up with another woman. The hero eventually leads the army against the countries foes and his mother is reunited with the King's Court.
I know it is not much to go on but does anyone recognize this story?

Replies: sunseeker dougb XofDallas

sunseeker 🚫
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@dougb

Maybe Jay Cantrell's "Always on Guard"? Dad and step-mom though not mom and step-dad...the rest seems to match though.

"Jorgarn Elmwood's only goal was to avoid the life of a priest. He would have settled for becoming a sailor, a soldier or possibly even a thief. So how does he manage to woo and lose a Princess, destroy a would-be empire, raise a new country, avert a civil war and wed a Queen? It's all his stepmother's fault."

https://storiesonline.net/s/70888/always-on-guard

dougb 🚫

@dougb

Sunseeker.....that's it!! Thank you so much. I should have thought of it because Jay Cantrell is one of my favorite authors here. He hasn't posted since 2020 so I hope he is still around. I've always enjoyed this story along with the Brock Miller stories but my all time favorite is "The Rise of Azkoval". I wish he would come back and finish it. Or if he is gone, perhaps another author could step in.
Anyway, thank you so much.

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jimq2 🚫
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@dougb

Unfortunately Jay has not been on the website for 2+ years. His last addition to his writing was 5 1/2 years ago. I don't think he will be adding anything else.

Replies: tendertouch

tendertouch 🚫

@jimq2

I usually think like that, too, but I just saw a new story from Shrink42, so anything is possible.

Replies: Dinsdale solitude

Dinsdale 🚫

@tendertouch

Something I noticed about Shrink42 was that his stories are no longer premier-only once he returned, and I'm pretty certain they had been that way for a year or more.
Looks like we now have coding for the case that an author resurfaces, either as a reader or as a writer.

solitude 🚫

@tendertouch

I usually think like that, too, but...

On that note, perhaps we can hope for The Private to be completed. (It's not behind the paywall, but inactive for ten years.)

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limab 🚫

@solitude

I never noticed that. I really don't hold much hope, but he WAS logging in for at least some of that time.

dougb 🚫

@solitude

What is "The Private"? I searched here and did not find a story with just that name. I also search "Shrink42" but it was not a story there.

Replies: tendertouch sunseeker

tendertouch 🚫

@dougb

Shrink42 is an author, not a story title.

sunseeker 🚫
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@dougb

The Private is written by Random Writings. The only story on sol by this author. Last activity 7/27/2015

https://storiesonline.net/a/Random_Writings

XofDallas 🚫

@dougb

There was another, very similar story, but not one by Jay Cantrell. The protagonist was a third son of a Duke or something, whose brothers (eventually) wound up being killed by their stepmother, who wanted her own (young) son to inherit. The protagonist somehow saves the King's daughter (and even the king from poisoning). There's more to it than that but hopefully that's enough. There's definitely some magic involved.

Replies: awnlee jawking Dinsdale

awnlee jawking 🚫

@XofDallas

G Younger's 'The Third Son'? No longer on SOL but it's on Bookapy.

AJ

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XofDallas 🚫

@awnlee jawking

That's the one. I thought it was his, but didn't see it in his SOL story list. Thanks for the catch!

And for those of you who haven't read it, it's a good story from an author who's only getting better. Can't wait for his next one in the Better Man series.

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awnlee jawking 🚫

@XofDallas

It may be available on his website. I don't know the address but perhaps someone could send you a PM if you ask.

Can't wait for his next one in the Better Man series.

I can. IMO things started going downhill when he switched from 1st POV to 3rd.

I liked 'The Outsider'. I'm undecided about 'Club Dtf' at the moment (surely it should be ClubDTF, but it was possibly a victim of SOL's title capitalisation algorithm). I'm not a fan of 'Norse' - it seemed too frenetic throughout. But then my opinions are worthy exactly what you paid for them - zilch.

AJ

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awnlee jawking 🚫

@awnlee jawking

I'm undecided about 'Club Dtf' at the moment (surely it should be ClubDTF, but it was possibly a victim of SOL's title capitalisation algorithm).

By some machination of the universe, it's now 'Club DTF'.

AJ

sunseeker 🚫

@awnlee jawking

maybe 1 day he will bring it back for a little while...

dougb 🚫

@awnlee jawking

I wonder why "The Third Son" is no longer available here. It was a great story.

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awnlee jawking 🚫

@dougb

His best ones regularly disappear from SOL. I'd guess various reasons - anti-piracy or to sell down the river are probably top.

AJ

Replies: Dinsdale upper

Dinsdale 🚫

@awnlee jawking

They can apparently be found on his own site, but I don't know why he does that. Some stories require you to register to read them so that sounds like anti-piracy to me.

upper 🚫

@awnlee jawking

"Sell down the river" -- that's a great phrase for removing something here to sell in the rainforest. I suggest we make that our standard euphemism.

itsmehonest 🚫

@dougb

Its on his Bookapy site.

Dinsdale 🚫

@XofDallas

Argon's https://storiesonline.net/s/58363/joerg-isebrand has something like that. The young noble has inherited but his stepmother is trying to poison him so one of her three sons gets to replace him.

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dougb 🚫
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@Dinsdale

Dinsdale, this wasn't the story I was looking for (turns out is was "Always-on-guard") but I want to thank you for mentioning this one. I had never read it till now and I thoroughly enjoyed it. Thank you.
By the way if you, or anyone else, knowns of similar entertaining stories I'd love to hear about them.

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