Dreambearer
At the twilight of the First Age, when the great gardens of Earth still breathed in rhythm with the stars, the Earth-lord Enlil returns to the Forsaken Grove to write his final word. Weary with centuries of sorrow, he communes one last time with the Ogham trees-the living script of the world-seeking solace in their ancient language of leaf and light. But the grove answers with revelation: a prophecy concealed since the dawn of creation, the foretelling of a child whose name will either restore or undo the covenant between Earth and her stewards.
As Enlil's breath wanes and the age of the Earth-lords ends, the prophecy ripens in the orchards of Nammu. Under an unseasonable snowfall of blossoms, a child is born marked by the green veins of the living world. Her name is Gaula, called the Saerpanith, the Preserver-destined to carry both healing and ruin in her hands. Around her gather the last keepers of the old faith: Enki the Riddler, who binds himself to her with vows of water; Anya, her fading mother in spirit and in star; and Shara, the orchard-keeper who prays that his daughter may escape the weight of prophecy.
In The Orchard Keeper, I open the Eärédan Mythos with a tale of passing ages and awakening hope-a lyrical genesis in which the death of the old world gives root to the seed of renewal. Through luminous prose and mythic vision, it heralds the birth of Gaula, the child through whom the forgotten language of the Earth will speak again.