William Arand has a plethora of great ideas to start book series. Sadly, by the third book, they all take one of two paths; in both paths, the hero gathers a harem of women so large that the reader can’t keep track of them, but in one path the hero gets overwhelmingly powerful and much of his harem is killed off, and in the other path the same thing happens but then Arand seemingly doesn’t know how to end the story and so he “takes a right turn at Albuquerque” and just utterly changes the story.
This one is a little of both, but the ending was still very, very predictable.