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Tower of God
What is Tower of God?

Tower of God is a South Korean web manwha written and illustrated by S.I.U. The series started in 2010 and started to receive an official translation in English on the website Webtoons. The series is mostly completely free to read with new chapters coming every Monday.

Tower of God centers around a boy called Twenty-Fifth Bam, who has spent most of his life trapped beneath a vast and mysterious Tower, with only his close friend, Rachel, to keep him company. When Rachel enters the Tower, Bam manages to open the door into it as well, and faces challenges at each floor of this tower as he tries to find his closest companion.

As the story progresses, the reader gradually explores the lore, history, and motivations of important characters and factions that drive or try to change the fate of the tower, for more than 10,000 years. Mysteries are gradually unveiled and added, as the readers learn about the struggles and triumphs of the inhabitants of the tower.

Characters

Twenty-Fifth Bam

Our protagonist of this story. Bam enters The Tower in search of Rachel, the only person who visited him and cared for him in the years of isolation that he spent in a cave underneath the Tower. After entering the Tower, he is told that all the answers that he seeks will be answered if he climbs the tower.

Khun Aguero Agnis

Bam's eventual best friend. Khun meets Bam on the second floor of the Tower and ends up partnering up with him from there. Khun is the smart one in the group and ends up being the brains behind many of the operations they under go.

Rak Wraithraiser

Bam and Khun's teammate and one of their closest friends. Rak meets both of them on the second floor of the Tower and is tricked into joining their team. Rak wants to find stronger people to fight as he goes up the Tower as so he himself can get stronger.

Rachel

Rachel is the reason that Bam starts to climb the Tower. Before climbing the Tower she was the only person who had interacted with Bam and when she disappeared into the Tower, Bam immediately followed her as well.

Setting

What is the Tower?

The Tower is the setting for the whole series. In order to gain access to the next floor you must first pass a test given by a Test Administrator. These tests can be a wide variety of things, everything from a battle royale, a game of capture the flag, or even a game of catch... it's basically up to the Administrator to choose.
"So each floor is just a test?"
Haha, no. Each floor can be incredibly expansive and end up developing it's own culture. Many of the floors end up developing cities where those climbing the Tower may end up living but pretty much anything goes on what could be on a floor. It could be a bustling city, a large ocean, or a desolate wasteland devoid of life. The Tower is the sole setting but each floor may change up the setting.

Powers and Fighting

Shinsu is the lifeblood of the Tower. It permeates everything in higher concentrations as you go up the Tower and it is used by those trying to climb the Tower. Since most people going up the Tower do so in teams, 5 positions were created to describe how various people use Shinsu.

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• Fisherman
  The main offense of the battle, Fishermen are to dash into the heart of the enemy force and decimate their forces, usually through physical attacks.
• Spear Bearer
  Spear Bearers act like snipers for the team, throwing their spears with deadly accuracy, but they can also serve a purpose similar to the Fisherman's by using their spear like a staff for close-combat. Technically speaking, they take all long-range matters into their own hands.
• Scout
  Scouts will usually run ahead and investigate enemy forces for info, then return and deliver the information to the Light Bearers. They also help the Fishermen with offense.
• Light Bearer
  Light Bearers store and deliver knowledge to their team-mates while guiding them with the light of their Lighthouse.
• Wave Controller
  Wave Controllers are the directors of the battle, aiding their comrades by healing their wounds, annihilating enemy forces or subtly changing the tide of the battle, all through the use of Shinsu. There are many variations of this Position.

Each position can be filled as needed in a team though those in the Tower usually have a specialization. The fights can be very tactical between teams or it could basically be DBZ with who can send the bigger burst of energy at the other person. There is some variety in how fights play out but as people get stronger it starts to lean in to the later rather than the former.


Why should you read Tower of God?
Tower of God is a large fantasy epic with a world to back that up. The history of the world feels incredibly well developed and almost feels like a mystery that you slowly get more and more enticing info about. If you like well thought out and planned worlds where discovering more about it seems enticing, ToG might be for you. The characters help support the story and there are a lot of characters. Let me restate that, there are A LOT of characters. This series has an incredibly large ensemble cast all with their own motivations and goals who start to weave in and out of the story as needed. It feels like there are very few "only relevant for an arc" characters cause many of the characters are going up the Tower as well. Obviously some characters get more focus than others but the series is very comfortable in adding in new ones consistently and giving them proper attention and setting up many of them as it goes on. This is a world worth digging into and is full of characters that make that world feel alive.

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Reach the top, and everything will be yours. At the top of the tower exists everything in this world, and all of it can be yours. You can become a god. This is the story of the beginning and the end of Rachel, the girl who climbed the tower so she could see the stars, and Bam, the boy who...

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