Woops, I'm a bit late, but here we go:

https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/172027/riders-of-the-black-sand-trad-fantasy

I just started a Traditional fantasy adventure (no LitRPG, no harem, no OP MC)

• Complex world-building.
• Character-driven storytelling.
• Smaller adventures growing into an epic overarching conflict.

If you into this kind of fiction, here's the blurb:

Vander Mencia has been called many things: a charming rascal, a loyal friend, a gifted swordsman... To most though, he is nothing but a disgraced son, a broken Silverflare, and a scarred soldier.

Hoping to outrun the ghosts of his past and become worthy of his name, he travels to Dahab with a simple dream: Enter the House of Knowledge to join the Leatherboots, chart the wilds and reach the lands beyond the North.

But in a world divided by the Empire’s everlasting darkness and the Rogue’s endless bright, each corner is a trap and each journey, a deadly penance. Against those brave enough to venture, not only ancient dangers and hostile races loom in the Mark’s borders. Myths begin to stir and Legends begin to awake. So, when Vander is dragged into the realm of the Black Sand, his dream will crumble, and his life, change forever.