Primal Hunter

by Zogarth

Jake is thrown into the System's tutorial — a survival scenario where billions compete for classes, skills, and the attention of gods. His affinity with a Primordial being grants him unique powers, and his path as an alchemist-archer hybrid becomes one of the most unusual builds in a LitRPG multiverse.

63 characters, locations, and items in this world codex.

Characters

• Jake Thayne — Earth's most dangerous antisocial archer — a former office worker whose Primordial bloodline and sheer stubbornness made him the single greatest threa
• The Malefic Viper — A Primordial god of poison and alchemy who emerged from 85 eras of self-imposed isolation because one mortal human was entertaining enough to make exi
• Sylphie — A tiny hawk of devastating power and even more devastating cuteness — the self-proclaimed 'Bestest Bird' who commands wind with the authority of a Pri
• Ell'Hakan — A charismatic alien warlord whose bloodline lets him manipulate emotions — Jake's perfect mirror and greatest rival, because charm is the one weapon J
• Carmen — A boxer who traded broken hands and a toxic family for divine rune-fists and a Primordial's blessing — she solves every problem by punching it, and it
• Miranda Wells — Haven's actual leader — a former factory manager who keeps an entire city running while its nominal lord is off hunting monsters and brewing poison.
• Caleb Thayne — Jake's younger brother — a former teacher turned shadow assassin who leads with empathy in a profession that typically rewards sociopathy.
• Arnold — Earth's resident mad scientist — a void-touched engineer who builds weapons on the moon and considers conversations a waste of perfectly good tinkerin
• Casper — Jake's oldest friend turned undead trap-master — a man who became Risen to save his girlfriend's soul and now builds dungeons that would make gods ner
• William Hanson — A diagnosed psychopath who became the multiverse's most skilled karmic mage — killed by Jake in the Tutorial, later became one of his most reliable al
• Duskleaf — The greatest alchemist the Malefic Viper has ever trained — a god who looks like a disheveled grandfather and smells perpetually of soil and reagents.
• Artemis — A wood elf goddess of the hunt who fell for the one mortal whose idea of romance is competitive archery — Jake's girlfriend and the Pantheon of Life's
• The Wyrmgod — The Primordial dragon who built Nevermore — the multiverse's greatest dungeon and the ultimate proving ground for anyone who thinks they're special.
• Minaga — A four-eyed blue god who can create infinite perfect clones of himself — Nevermore's dungeon engineer and the being who waged a 19,000-year war agains
• Eversmile — The Primordial of Karma — an ancient shapeshifter with a permanent unsettling smile who treats gods and mortals alike as research subjects in cosmic e
• Yggdrasil — The Primordial of Life — a tree that gained sapience in the first era and never stopped growing until she became a living divine realm containing smal
• Stormild — The Primordial of Storms — an elemental force in the shape of a cosmic bird who blessed Sylphie because even catastrophe finds tiny hawks adorable.
• Valdemar — The Wargod — the first human to achieve godhood, physically the strongest Primordial, and a man who once cleaved an invading planet in two because it
• Hawkie — Sylphie's father — a once-ordinary hawk who evolved into a Stormsong predator and taught Jake to fly by screaming at him until he stopped crashing.
• Mystie — Sylphie's mother — a mystic beast whose calm presence balances her mate Hawkie's intensity and her daughter's chaos.
• Vesperia — Jake's 'daughter' — a Vespernat Hive Queen created through ritual who commands an insect empire with the same single-minded intensity as her sire.
• Scarlett Allison — An Earth-born snake who evolved into a humanoid form — a Jadescale Crimsoneye serpent who serves the Malefic Viper with ancestral reverence.
• Hank — Haven's chief builder — a father who survived the Tutorial to protect his children and then built an entire city with his bare hands because someone h
• Sanguine — The first vampire — created by the Malefic Viper's alchemy as an attempt to build a superior human, then destroyed by a coalition of gods because he s
• Meira Dawnleaf — A former slave turned Principal Disciple of Duskleaf — a timid elf whose healing magic and alchemical talent earned her a surname from a god.
• Draskil — A former moleman turned Malefic Dragonkin — a shameless, volatile warrior with all nine Legacy Skills of the Viper and a deep fear of water.
• Gudrun — The First Valkyrie — Valdemar's wife who actually runs Valhal while he's off punching things, and the mentor who turned Carmen from a brawler into a R
• Sven — A Valhal warrior on Earth — Carmen's combat partner and one of Haven's strongest fighters.
• Lillian — Miranda's assistant and Haven's second-tier administrator — the person who handles the details while Miranda handles the crises.
• Phillip Morgan — The leader of the Fort — Haven's military arm and the man who introduced Arnold to Jake, connecting Earth's best weapon-maker to its most dangerous ar
• Maja — Caleb's wife and childhood sweetheart — the anchor that keeps the Judge of the Court of Shadows grounded in something other than shadow politics.
• Nature's Attendant — Yggdrasil's right hand — a gentle god who carries a flower-tipped staff and happens to be the Malefic Viper's father-in-law.
• Yip of Yore — A Primordial god whose Chosen Ell'Hakan absorbed his Records — caught in a proxy war with the Malefic Viper that ended with the Viper killing him dire
• The Holy Mother — Leader of the Holy Church — a Primordial whose faction has warred with the Empire of Blight for eras while maintaining an oddly cordial personal relat
• The Blightfather — The Primordial of Death and the First Lich — creator of the Risen race and leader of an empire of enlightened undead that spans the multiverse.
• Kim Eunseo — A psychologist who survived the apocalypse and then took on the arguably harder job of teaching a diagnosed psychopath how to function in society.
• Priscilla — Leader of Earth's Risen faction — a cunning undead strategist who plays the role of a subordinate while building her own power base.
• Oras the All-Seeing — A god of knowledge and perception who blessed Arnold — granting the mad scientist void-sight that turned engineering genius into something approaching
• Umbra — A Primordial of shadows who blessed Caleb — the patron behind the Court of Shadows and one of the twelve who has been content to operate in darkness.
• Adam — Caleb and Maja's son — Jake's nephew and a child growing up in a world where his uncle is the most powerful human alive.
• Lyra — Casper's girlfriend whose death and transformation into a Blightwraith drives everything he does — her soul is stored in a necklace he never removes.

Locations

• Earth — Humanity's homeworld — a newly integrated planet in the 93rd Universe where billions were thrown into a System Tutorial and most didn't survive.
• Haven — Jake's city — the first pylon-claimed settlement on Earth, named after the Danish word for 'garden' and run by Miranda while Jake is off being Jake.
• The Valley — Jake's personal territory within Haven — a wild, mana-rich natural area where he brews poison, trains archery, and houses his hawk family.
• Haven City — The urban center of Haven — where most residents live, trade, and pretend their city lord isn't a walking existential threat.
• The Tutorial — The System's survival gauntlet — a pocket dimension where billions of newly integrated humans fought, died, and emerged with classes that would define
• Nevermore — The multiverse's most famous super-dungeon — a World Wonder in the 2nd Universe where time dilates, leaderboards immortalize the worthy, and the Wyrmg
• Order of the Malefic Viper Headquarters — The ancient seat of the Viper's alchemist order — a place that smells of reagents, failed experiments, and 92 eras of accumulated knowledge.
• Skyggen — The Court of Shadows' city — Caleb's seat of power on Earth, where assassins and intelligence operatives maintain order through information rather tha
• New Yalsten — The Risen faction's territory on Earth — a settlement of enlightened undead led by Priscilla under the Blightfather's distant authority.
• Sanctdomo — The Holy Church's major settlement on Earth — a fortress of faith where divine light magic keeps the darkness at bay and the faithful organized.
• Nine Circles of Hell — A multiverse location of demonic power — nine layered realms of escalating danger where demons and devils maintain their own civilization.
• Primordial-4 — The Malefic Viper's divine realm — a universe-fragment where poison saturates everything and the Order of the Malefic Viper maintains its headquarters
• Midtgaard — Valhal's home base in the multiverse — a warrior civilization built on the philosophy that strength is earned through combat and nothing else.
• Colosseum of Mortals — A multiverse arena where combatants fight images of gods and each other — where Jake first encountered Artemis's Level 0 projection.

Items

• Bloodline of the Primal Hunter — Jake's bloodline — a System-granted inheritance that amplifies competitive instinct, perception, and killing intent to levels that make him functional
• Nanoblade — Arnold's masterwork for Jake — a weapon that merges void-energy engineering with close-combat lethality.
• True Blessing of the Malefic Viper — The highest tier of divine blessing — a direct connection to the Malefic Viper that grants Jake access to Primordial-level alchemical abilities and po
• Pylon of Civilization — A System-generated territorial marker — whoever claims it first becomes a city lord with authority over the surrounding territory.
• Arcane Hunter's Bow — Jake's primary weapon — a bow that evolved alongside him from Tutorial survival tool to a B-grade instrument of precision destruction.
• Alchemist's Flame — The fundamental tool of alchemical crafting — a mana-fueled flame that every alchemist in the Order learns to control as their first and most importan
• Gaze of the Apex Predator — Jake's signature bloodline skill — a predatory stare that can paralyze beings through sheer killing intent, turning his eyes into weapons.
• Black Snake Staff — The Malefic Viper's personal weapon — an ancient staff crafted from Yggdrasil's roots, forbidden metals, and a corrupted Godking-level elemental orb.

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