This isn't a Commonweal story.  This is something Past Me wrote, and referred to as The Doorstop.It's been said that everyone of a certain age who winds up writing fantasy in English has a response to The...

Egalitarian heroic fantasy.  Family, social awkwardness, and a unicorn.

Egalitarian heroic fantasy. The first Creek standard-captain known to history, certain curious facts concerning the graul people, and an operational test of the Line's altered doctrine.

Egalitarian heroic fantasy.  Career options after your Talent-mediating brain tissue catches actual fire, what became of the Shot Shop, and certain events involving Scarlet Battery, Fifth Battalion (Artillery),...

Egalitarian heroic fantasy.  Experimental magical pedagogy, non-Euclidean ancestry, and some sort of horror from beyond the world.

Egalitarian heroic fantasy.  Presumptive female agency, battle-sheep, and bad, bad odds.