9 parts Ongoing MatureThe world is radiant. Its cities hum with light, its oceans gleam with towers that stretch toward new suns. Humanity thrives among wonders once thought divine - not in ruin, but in splendor. Yet even paradise leaves a shadow. Beneath its marble calm, something ancient watches.
In the city of Magna Hortus, a man named Solomon Bliss drifts unseen through the streets, followed by the songs of the dead. Once mortal, now cursed to feel every echo of life that lingers after death, he serves no master but the music that binds him to the forgotten. To most, he is a myth - a spirit in human shape - but to a boy from the Mawlands, he will become something far greater.
That boy is Edgar Cobb, clever, restless, and marked by a world that refuses to let him belong. When he meets Bliss, he finds not salvation but initiation - a descent into the mysteries that pulse beneath the city's immaculate surface. Through Bliss, he will learn how the living and the dead are woven together, and how easily the thread can snap.
Far beyond them, upon the outer wall of the world, Borghild Bock - the Allmother - returns from twenty-five years of cosmic adventuring. Her people welcome her home with reverence and celebration. To them, she is the mother of nations, the protector of the human spirit. But far above, Lady Anima, sovereign of the tower, watches with quiet envy and ancient fear. For she knows the truth behind Borghild's immortality - and what was sacrificed to buy it.
Across the world's icy edge, Hephaestus, the Sire of Machines, dreams of giving his creations souls. His machines worship him, his children obey him, but even he cannot stop what's coming.
When faith collides with memory, when the divine faces its own reflection, the world will tremble - not from war, but from revelation.