Divine Dungeon: Artorian's Archives Books in Order
Part ofDakota Krout Books in OrderFind the Artorian's Archives books by Dakota Krout and Dennis Vanderkerken in order, with summaries, reading help, and series background.
Last updated: July 2, 2026
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Divine Dungeon: Artorian's Archives books in publication order
19 books
Alumni
by Dakota Krout
2019
Artorian starts learning what real cultivation can do, then finds himself drawn back to the Skyspear under very different leadership. Old philosophy, new enemies, and dangerous schooling make a lively mix.
Axiom
by Dakota Krout
2019
After his town is destroyed and its children taken, an old man decides to attempt the impossible and cultivate anyway. Artorian begins as a failure by every normal measure, which is exactly why he is so much fun to follow.
Acme
by Dakota Krout
2020
Cal's new world is barely holding together, and Artorian is the unlucky soul left to sort out its broken systems, rivalries, and secrets. Administration has rarely looked this hazardous.
Annex
by Dakota Krout
2020
Cornered and out of easy options, Artorian has to risk his hard-won place in the world to keep his school and friends safe. Every step toward his missing grandchildren costs him something.
Arsenal
by Dakota Krout
2020
After surviving the Ziggurat, Artorian gets no time to breathe before the next phase of a much larger plan begins. To protect the people he loves, he may have to become something less human and far more dangerous.
Algorithm
by Dakota Krout
2021
Bound by a new law but armed with unusual freedom, Artorian heads into Eternia to investigate a game world full of cracks. If the system is broken, he intends to figure out why and start fixing it.
Anima
by Dakota Krout
2021
Artorian is suddenly responsible for a realm, ancient problems, and the early bones of a world-spanning game system. Old horrors return just as he is forced to relive some of his worst memories.
Artifact
by Dakota Krout
2021
Artorian is hunted, disguised, and badly constrained, but giving up has never been his style. While stuck in a ridiculous form, he digs into the deity system and starts searching for the tools that can actually win.
Asgard
by Dakota Krout
2021
Artorian's role keeps expanding as the conflict moves into larger, more divine territory. Fixing Cal's future means taking on problems that sit far above ordinary adventurers and far beyond simple survival.
Accords
by Dakota Krout
2022
Cal finally comes home to a rebuilt world, and Artorian has diplomacy, demons, and ancient heroes to manage. It is a hopeful turning point, but only if he can hit hard enough when talking fails.
Acyrologia
by Dakota Krout
2022
Artorian wakes on a new planet and finds Cal's power pressing against dangerous oaths and rank ceilings. To keep things from going sideways, he has to relearn old skills and move very fast.
Avalon
by Dakota Krout
2022
With Cal restored to his sanctuary, Artorian takes up the administrator's burden in earnest. New empires, old weeds, and the promise of a second coming keep peace from feeling remotely simple.
Amanecida
by Dakota Krout
2023
As Cal's world keeps changing shape, Artorian has to manage fresh upheaval without losing momentum. New beginnings in this universe tend to arrive with a dangerous amount of baggage attached.
Antelucan
by Dakota Krout
2023
Artorian finally gets a happier new form and a chance to enjoy Avalon, right up until a Heavenly falls out of the sky. That sends him back into cleanup duty, and Eternium is not making it easy.
Architect
by Dakota Krout
2023
Artorian stops merely reacting and starts trying to shape the future before the next disaster hits. Building systems, alliances, and safeguards is one thing, getting them to hold is another.
Arcoplex
by Dakota Krout
2023
The next phase of Artorian's long stewardship pushes him into a denser tangle of laws, structures, and unfinished business. Every fix seems to reveal a larger problem waiting underneath it.
America
by Dakota Krout
2024
Old histories and new structures start colliding in ways that make Artorian's job even messier. The map keeps widening, and so do the consequences of every promise still hanging in the air.
Amore
by Dakota Krout
2024
Artorian pushes toward S-Rank and incarnation while trouble, change, and one very persistent Heavenly keep closing in. It is a fittingly wild mix of speed, heart, and long-distance consequences.
Anaheim
by Dakota Krout
2024
Hard-won stability never lasts long in Artorian's world. Bigger powers are moving openly now, and keeping Cal's creation intact demands another round of improvisation, force, and wit.
Divine Dungeon: Artorian's Archives books in chronological order

Axiom
by Dakota Krout
2019Divine Dungeon: Artorian's Archives, Book 1
Alumni
by Dakota Krout
2019Divine Dungeon: Artorian's Archives, Book 2
Annex
by Dakota Krout
2020Divine Dungeon: Artorian's Archives, Book 3
Arsenal
by Dakota Krout
2020Divine Dungeon: Artorian's Archives, Book 4
Acme
by Dakota Krout
2020Divine Dungeon: Artorian's Archives, Book 5
Anima
by Dakota Krout
2021Divine Dungeon: Artorian's Archives, Book 6
Algorithm
by Dakota Krout
2021Divine Dungeon: Artorian's Archives, Book 7
Artifact
by Dakota Krout
2021Divine Dungeon: Artorian's Archives, Book 8
Asgard
by Dakota Krout
2021Divine Dungeon: Artorian's Archives, Book 9
Acyrologia
by Dakota Krout
2022Divine Dungeon: Artorian's Archives, Book 10
Accords
by Dakota Krout
2022Divine Dungeon: Artorian's Archives, Book 11
Avalon
by Dakota Krout
2022Divine Dungeon: Artorian's Archives, Book 12
Antelucan
by Dakota Krout
2023Divine Dungeon: Artorian's Archives, Book 13
Arcoplex
by Dakota Krout
2023Divine Dungeon: Artorian's Archives, Book 14
Amanecida
by Dakota Krout
2023Divine Dungeon: Artorian's Archives, Book 15
Architect
by Dakota Krout
2023Divine Dungeon: Artorian's Archives, Book 16
Anaheim
by Dakota Krout
2024Divine Dungeon: Artorian's Archives, Book 17
America
by Dakota Krout
2024Divine Dungeon: Artorian's Archives, Book 18
Amore
by Dakota Krout
2024Divine Dungeon: Artorian's Archives, Book 19
Series background & context
Artorian's Archives begins with one of the strongest hooks in the wider Divine Dungeon universe: an old man whose town has been destroyed, whose children have been taken, and who decides that age, failure, and corruption are all poor excuses for giving up. Artorian is not the usual chosen-one fantasy lead. He is a grandfather, a scholar, a philosopher, and a survivor who keeps pushing forward because stopping would mean accepting too much loss.
That gives the series its voice from the start.
In the early books, the story feels close to the ground. Artorian wants revenge, answers, and a path that might help him save the young people taken from his village. Cultivation, training, and philosophy all matter, but they matter because they are tied to grief and responsibility. The books spend real time on learning, mentoring, and the awkward work of becoming dangerous late in life.
Then the scope keeps widening. Artorian is pulled deeper into the machinery of the Divine Dungeon setting, into the development of Cal's world, and into questions that are much larger than one village or one family. As the series moves on, he becomes not just a cultivator and survivor, but an administrator, builder, fixer, and occasional cosmic nuisance. He is always trying to hold things together, even when the things in question are entire systems, realms, or planes of existence.
That mix is what makes the books distinctive. Artorian's Archives can be funny and whimsical in one moment, then deeply invested in metaphysics, world design, or emotional fallout in the next. The series likes philosophy. It likes system mechanics. It likes old people being underestimated. It also likes watching a supposedly retired man turn into the person everyone ends up needing.
Artorian himself carries the whole project. He is clever without being smug, stubborn without being simple, and surprisingly warm for someone who spends so much time surrounded by disasters. Even when the setting gets very large and very strange, his perspective keeps the story human. He worries, lectures, improvises, meddles, and keeps moving.
By the middle and later books, the series becomes as much about stewardship as survival. How do you raise a world? How do you repair broken laws, balance oaths, manage dangerous powers, and protect people who may not understand what is hanging over them? Those are Artorian problems, and the books lean into them.
So if you are trying to decide what kind of fantasy this is, think cultivation adventure stretched across a long cosmic arc, anchored by a hero who feels older, wiser, and more patient than most. It begins with loss, but it grows into something much bigger: a story about building, protecting, and occasionally outrunning the consequences of caring too much.
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