Book One · Coming Soon
ABYRITH
The Fracturing of Light
The Light burns a purpose into the skin of every child — a destiny, a name,
a role, a death…
Those poor enough to never be marked by the Light are the extra weight of
the world. And now they are vanishing without a trace.
Preorder opens soon — the list goes first
The world of Aethergard
The sun does not rise here…
It unveils…
The Light comes as a wave, washing all darkness away and promising safety to everyone it touches…
At six, every child kneels and receives a Mark. Sun Guard. Archivist. Founder. The Mark is the anchor — the promise that the world has agreed to remember you.
Some children receive nothing at all.
They are called the Undefined. The System does not record them, so the maps show them as static — black dots beneath the rivers of gold. Cleaning errors. Noise.
And lately, the noise has been going quiet. Whole settlements of them. They do not die — a death leaves its own mark on the map. They do not move. They simply cease to be data.
Those who travel at night don’t need a map —
the Light forgets where they live anyway.
Erik was Defined. A captain of the Sun Guard — and the only man to walk out of the first Rift alive. The Kingdom made him a hero, and then it exiled him. He tore a strip from his captain's cape, tied it over his eyes, and became the hunter who does not see, hunting only through the rest of his senses.
He is the only man alive who can feel that the light is going wrong.
Vaelor Thal-Nythra 10,000, Vireth na, Ab-Yrith kai.
— the Erythae Lamentations, in a tongue nobody has spoken for nine thousand cycles
Light that stops holding the world together.
One world. One sun. Endless horizon.
The Ring
Aethergard does not orbit its sun — it encircles it. The world turns clockwise around a fixed star, and the light crosses it like a tide. Aurelion holds barely a sixth of the ring. Open the living atlas to follow its roads, discover its cities, and explore the records beyond the chart.
THE LIVING ATLAS · IN 3DStep into AethergardOrbit the Ring · Fly over the kingdoms · Walk among the cities
Moving picture
See the fracture
Trailer arriving shortly
The North Eye · Resonance Table
Are you Defined?
Every citizen of Aethergard is indexed by the Light. Submit your name to the Table and see what the System has on record for you.
Recovered records
The Archive
Fragments pulled from the North Eye before the purge. Several files remain sealed — opening them early would spoil the whole business.
Surveyed territory
Places on the Ring
Six locations the Archive still holds maps for. The world turns; the Light crosses it like a tide. These are the stops along the way.
Held evidence
Artefacts & fauna
Objects the Archive has catalogued, and one thing it would rather have shot than filed.
Recovered plates
The Blind Hunter
What he carries, what he wears, and the one afternoon he keeps going back to. Tap any plate to open it and look closer.
Recovered plates
Those who were there
Faces the Archive still holds a clean image of.
Recovered plates
Cities of the Ring
Above and below the ramparts — the capital, the trade roads, and the places built out of what the foundries could not use.
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Abyrith: The Fracturing of Light opens for preorder soon. Everyone on this list gets the link first — along with the opening chapter and the release date before it goes public.
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Adult science fantasy 12 mind-bending chapters Book one of a planned trilogy
A word on content. This is grimdark. It contains mass death, body horror, torture, harm to children, a suicide bombing and a beheading. Nothing is there for shock, but it is all there.