Michael EidsonAuthor of The Eightfold Covenant
The world beyond the page
Open the map. Follow the roads. Examine the objects people would kill to possess, and meet the travelers caught in their wake.
The known world
Select a marked location to open its field note. Use the controls to examine the original map from The Mercy of Ruin.
Traveling company
Five lives enter the story from different edges of Eladria. None will leave it unchanged.
The former Sentinel
A former Valorran Marine and Triveran lawman who has learned exactly how much justice can cost. Zion's Vale gives him one more choice to make.
He knows how institutions fail—and what remains when they do.Valorra · Anger / Trust
The Dreamer
A scholar of visions raised in the secluded Dreamer's Oasis. A shared darkness calls him beyond the only world he has known.
He can read what the future feels like. Understanding it is harder.The Oasis · Fear / Wonder
The Ranger
A Valorran Ranger with an easy manner, a sharp eye, and a trail of questions leading toward something larger than frontier crime.
He wears humor lightly and duty like an old scar.Valorra · Trust / Anticipation
The historian
A widely traveled scholar whose medallions and languages hint at a life spent gathering more than knowledge.
Every ruin is a record. Every record leaves something out.The road · Curiosity / Grief
The returned soldier
Lorcan's Uhuran half-sister, a soldier declared dead after her company vanished near the Nomadic Wastes. Seven years later, the frontier has not finished with her.
Official records call her dead. Sela has learned not to trust official records.Uhuru · Survival / Loyalty
The archive cabinet
In Eladria, power rarely stays abstract. It becomes crystal, steel, inheritance—and evidence.
Emonantic crystal
Feeling, held.
Crystal capable of storing a single emotional current. It lights lamps, powers engines, serves as currency, and carries a more dangerous purpose inside a charge.
Wellstone attunement
Six choices. Eight emotional currents. Let the wellstone reveal the Emonari branch that most closely matches how you meet the world.
Uncharged
The test begins
There are no wrong answers. Choose the response that feels most instinctive, not the one that sounds most heroic.
The road divides
The stone answers
Your Emonari branch is
The map is only the beginning
The Mercy of Ruin · Book One of The Eightfold Covenant