01 · Central saga
Nine books at the heart of Elaris
The main saga is planned as a nine-book sequence. Individual titles and further details will be revealed as the work develops.
In developmentAn original dark fantasy world
ELARIS
A history of fallen civilizations, buried truths and kingdoms built upon what they have chosen to forget.
Dark fantasyNine-book central sagaIn development
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WORLD
Four continents · one inherited past
History is never lost. It is altered.
Across Valen, Saryth, Valdros and Nareth, kingdoms inherit ruins they do not fully understand and archives that never tell the whole truth. Power survives by deciding which version of the past becomes official.
Elaris is built from the lives inside that struggle: rulers, witnesses, wanderers and ordinary people forced to choose what deserves to be remembered.
Character file · 01
Meet Saeron
A court painter in Ardelon, entrusted by the Crown with an image meant to outlive the moment it portrays.
- Role
- Court painter
- Place
- Ardelon
- Commission
- The Image of Unity
Saeron has been commissioned to preserve the Crown's chosen image of order. Yet he understands that every official image leaves something outside its frame.
Enter his first record ↓The story begins
The Image of Unity
Ardelon is introduced through the eyes of Saeron, a court painter commissioned by the Crown to preserve an order no one is expected to question. Yet a fracture always remains between the truth and its official image.
“A painting is not the truth.It is the part of the truth someone has chosen to preserve.”
Read Chapter I
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One world. More than one path through its history.
The nine-book central saga forms the heart of Elaris, but it is not the boundary of the world. Separate books and other future stories will stand beside it.
02 · Beyond the saga
Other stories of Elaris
Separate novels and future works set in Elaris will extend beyond the nine volumes of the central saga.
Future works03 · Available now
The Image of Unity
Begin with Chapter I and the first published record from Saeron's story.
Read Chapter I ↗The forces beneath the story
Memory
What survives after witnesses, archives and cities are gone.
Power
Who is permitted to define the past for everyone else.
Witness
What it costs to preserve a truth that should have vanished.
The archive has only begun to open.
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