The Accidental Kingmaker

Ellis Varden, a calculating scholar from Earth, transmigrates into a minor noble in the high fantasy world of Astera. Armed with fragmented memories of the novel's plot and the 'Wandering Lantern's' ability to glimpse faint future threads, he aims to discreetly navigate away from the story's dangerous main characters. Yet, every calculated avoidance backfires spectacularly. Years later, Ellis, intending only to survive, finds himself at the unintentional head of the most formidable, disparate faction the continent has ever known, bound by bizarre, unearned loyalties. His every move, guided by fear, only deepens his accidental influence, thrusting him closer to the very conflicts he desperately wished to escape. Can he control the butterfly effects of his own strategic blunder?